TrueCaller Adding Realtime Caller ID Support With Mango

You know about True Caller, right ? That cool app which allows you to look up phone numbers from anywhere in the world, is on Windows Phone 7. You can search for a number and the app returns the name and address(when available) as results. You can search...

By Akshay Bakshi

4Lyrics app does music playback & automatically syncs lyrics with music on your Windows Phone device

I have been waiting for an application that could play music and show me synchronised lyrics on my Windows Phone device. I had this application caled Lyrics which fetched lyrics from some lyrics database online but it wasn't synchronized with...

By Rahul Mathur

Microsoft Releases Developer Tool To Port iOS Applications To Windows Phone

There's no doubt that Apple currently leads the appstore race, atleast in terms of numbers, but Microsoft seems to be determined to do everything they can to woo developers for their WP7 platform. They have announced an API mapping tool : iPhone/iOS...

By Akshay Bakshi

Zune services to be renamed ' Xbox Live Music ' ?

An anonymous tipper sent us a link which turned out to be job posting for ' Xbox live Music Marketplace ' which is totally unheard of. The listing is embedded below : Job Category: Services & Consulting Location: United States, WA, Redmond Job ID: 754083 Division: Interactive Entertainment Business Are you interested in working in one of the most dynamic areas of the digital entertainment...

By Rahul Mathur

Visual Voicemail for Windows Phone 7

TheBeO, a member of the SmartFrance.Info forum has developed, Visual Voicemail, an application for Windows Phone 7 for people who want to add a graphical element to their voicemails. Right now, the app is only available to people with dev access to their...

By Akshay Bakshi

Stephen Elop talks about Possibility of releasing Nokia WP7 device in Q4 2011, adopting Windows for tablets & more(Video)

Stephen Elop in a TV interview to a Finnish channel today made some interesting points. He talked about the recent decision to outsource all Symbian devlopment related activity to Accenture, about brain drain from nokia, concern that Nokia will become just another hardware manufacturer, Finland specific issues and most importantly about the Nokia Windows Phone 7 device and Windows based tablet possibility. Watch...

By Rahul Mathur

A Microsoft Case Study on Windows Phone 7 adoption by an enterprise (Video)

We all are pretty much familiar of how consumers ( which are you and me ) respond to WP7 but we tend to forget how big and important the enterprise segment is for Microsoft. Now with Office  / Sharepoint integration in Windows Phone 7 - they have covered the needs of the enterprise user. But I personally have not come across a feedback article from an enterprise perspective. I stumbled upon this...

By Rahul Mathur

Windows Phone Mango Update Will Bring Facebook Video Uploads and Places Check-In

The next Windows Phone update, codenamed Mango, just seems to be getting better and better. WMPoweruser is reporting that the Mango will bring the ability to upload videos to Facebook and check-in using Facebook places. It seems the VIP members have...

By Akshay Bakshi

TinyGrab for Windows Phone 7 under development, will be available soon.

Good news for TinyGrab users, TinyGrab is coming soon to Windows Phone 7. TinyGrab founder ( @leydon )  tweeted a few moments back that a WP7 application is under development : @lee_stott We'd never considered @TinyGrab for BlackBerry, it would...

By Rahul Mathur

Appcelerator / IDC Quarterly Mobile Developers survey released, Windows Phone 7 beats Blackberry to third place

Appcelerator and IDC have released their Quarterly  Mobile developers survey report. This report will give you an idea of developer's willingness to work on particular platform, their concerns and faith in the platform. Here is a quick summary...

By Rahul Mathur

Microsoft : Windows Phone 7 devices don't store your location history unlike Android and iPhone

The internet is filled with rumors suggesting that iPhone and Android devices tracking user location via your mobile devices. Imagine somebody following you all the time, it's just these companies are your virtual stalkers that store your location data i.e. tracks you everywhere which is a serious privacy concern. PCMag inquired Microsoft about this issue and they have cleared that Windows Phone...

By Rahul Mathur

Senova Phone Marketplace : Visual Search Engine for Windows Phone 7 Apps

Bored of the default Windows Marketplace ? Want better sorting options ? Wanna try a different, more visual way to discover apps ? Then, Senova Phone Marketplace is what you are looking for.Though, Microsoft already has it's own visual search for apps...

By Akshay Bakshi

Gowalla client MacroPod for Windows Phone 7 coming soon, first screenshot published !

We have had considerable knowledge (thanks to constant twitter interaction with the developers) about the third party Gowalla app being under development for a few months now. Developers of the third party gowalla app, MacroPod, tweeted that they are...

By Rahul Mathur

NoDo update causing a touchscreen bug in Windows Phone 7 devices?

Youtube user and Windows Phone 7 app developer kotsoft is reporting some serious issues with the multi touch input on WP7 devices. Watch the video embedded below where he explains the bug in detail : His application ( Grantophone) utilizes the multi touch input so he is rightly concerned.I couldn't replicate his experience while using the Grantophone application since I could sustain with 3 or...

By Rahul Mathur

IM+ for Windows Phone 7 coming soon, pre-release screenshots published !

One thing that really is a matter of concern for the most number of WP7 users is the lack of multi protocol IM apps on the marketplace. IM+, a popular Multi protocol IM application which is avialable on most of the mobile operating system, announced...

By Rahul Mathur

Nokia, Microsoft finalize Partnership Agreement For Windows Phone 7

About 10 weeks after Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership, which had fans whooping with joy, the Redmond and Finland based giants have inked their deal in paper today. After the joint announcement, people from both companies have been collaborating intensively and have finalized the deal well ahead of schedule.Hundreds of employees of both companies are already making joint engineering...

By Akshay Bakshi

Microsoft : Used Chris Walshie's method to force Nodo update? You are screwed.

Remember Chris Walshie 's infamous hack that let users force update to Nodo update? Read more about it here. Well, it's become a serious issue now for users who applied the hack. The aftereffects of the hack? Well, the users got what they want, their wait was over, but Microsoft wasn't too happy with this. Chris ended up apologizing for this ( which is ridiculous, IMO - Microsoft failed to deliver...

By Rahul Mathur

Fling Soft Releases Movie-streaming App Movie Vault for Windows Phone 7

Movie Vault was launched today by Fling Soft for Windows Phone 7. The app can stream over one thousand classic movies over Wi-Fi and 3G without additional charges. Initially released in Fall 2010 for iOS where it was listed in the 'New And Noteworthy'...

By Akshay Bakshi

Details for 4 Nokia's Windows Phones Spilled

After we reported that Nokia was working on the W7 and W8 based on the X7 and N8 hardware, Eldar Murtazin has detailed them plus 2 more Nokia handsets running Microsoft's Windows Phone OS. Nokia has dived straight into development of 'Chassis 2' type...

By Akshay Bakshi

Stephen Elop caught using a Nokia ' Concept ' Windows Phone 7 device !

Twitter user @TimoRonkainen apparently was sitting next to Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, at an ice hockey event today and noticed him playing with a Nokia device running..surprise surprise.. Windows Phone 7.  Timo when asked to describe how the...

By Rahul Mathur

HTC's 16 MegaPixel Windows Phone 7 device coming soon? (Video)

Pocketnow has posted a video on it's Youtube channel which is some sort of a sneak peak at the upcoming WP7 HTC device. We already know that HTC is coming up with a HD7S with improved screen, SLCD,  but the one mentioned ( nameless ) in the video...

By Rahul Mathur

Windows Phone Must Have Games video showcases the best and upcoming games in Marketplace !

You guys probably remember the ' Must have games on WP7 video ' where 6 games were supposed to release within 6 weeks but turns out - that isn't happening soon. Now we have another video from Windows Phone UK showcasing the best Windows Phone 7 games available on the marketplace and showed us a glimpses of what's coming new. Check out the video : Yes, Asphalt 5 is coming to Windows Phone...

By Rahul Mathur

First Nokia WP7 Phones to be named W7 & W8

People following technology news are all aware of the deal that Nokia & Microsoft announced. Well we are hearing that the first fruits of this deal is taking shape. Nokia is reportedly working on W7 based on X7 hardware and W8 based on the N8 hardware. I wish these phones could hit the market late this year, as per Industry rumours though Nokia plans to release their first WP7 phones in First...

By Anonymous

Connect to Hidden WiFi networks on Windows Phone 7 with HTC's Hidden Wi-Fi application

Well it's a know problem that your Windows Phone 7 device cannot connect to hidden networks, which is a huge problem for several people. HTC has just released an application called ' Hidden Wifi ' that let's you add 3 Wifi access points with hidden network...

By Rahul Mathur

Exclusive preview of upcoming Rowi app update with Live tiles and Toast notifications!

We enlisted three best Twitter clients for Windows Phone 7. Rowi was one of them. Today I'll be telling more about it and what's in the next update of the app. The update will be live in day or two (already submitted and is being tested by Microsoft),...

By Nirmit Kavaiya

All you need to know about the Windows Phone 7 Mango Update!

Much awaited Mango update has been announced by Microsoft today at their annual Mix event. The update is so overwhelming, it's hard to comprehend if this should be Windows 7.5 or Windows 8. Microsoft has definitely worked really hard on this to provide both users and developers optimal experience. For users, there are so many things to look forward to, we have listed some of them below : Jump lists...

By Rahul Mathur

Microsoft might give developers early access to Mango !

Brandon Watson during a Q&A round on #ch9live  made a lot of developers happy. Today, Mango update was announced which included a lot of stuff for developer ( 1500 + APIs, profilers, etc ) and now Brandon has stated that ' Microsoft is working hard to release Mango update for the developers early for testing '  which is a similar approach to what Apple does. Giving developers to test...

By Rahul Mathur

Zune marketplace to officially launch this fall in India [ Mix11 ]

#Mix11 is going on and we have some exciting news to share. Joe Belfiore has announced the expansion of marketplace to several countries including India and China. More details coming soon. Stay tuned for more on Mango.&nb...

By Rahul Mathur

Run your C# code on Windows Phone 7 with Pocket C#

C# programmers, this is something you might wanna download now. Being a ( C# newbie ) programmer myself, I often come up with ideas that might make my code better or sometimes I want to test a piece of code quickly, but sadly I can't carry my laptop...

By Rahul Mathur

Three Best Twitter Applications for Windows Phone 7

Life without Twitter is hard to imagine these days. If you are new to Windows Phone 7, you'd be surprised to see a half baked application from Twitter since they have fantastic applications on competing platforms likes iOS and Android. Fear...

By Rahul Mathur

iPhone theme for Windows Phone 7 emulator

Tired of the plain and dull looking emulator ? Wish to change the look of  your emulator to resemble any mobile device ? No problem. Jeff Wilcox recently released his Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 emulator theme. It gets you closer to the experience...

By Rahul Mathur

Super Monkey Ball is now available on Xbox Live

It's been a long time coming, isn't it? Rumors and news about Super Monkey Ball coming to Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7. Well, it's finally here. With brands like Namco Bandai coming up with their own Xbox Live titles, SEGA certainly didn't want to be...

By Sunny Chahal

NoDo update for Windows Phone 7 finally pushed to Indian devices!

I have this habit of clicking the update button on the Zune software on my PC every couple of hours whenever I'm at home. Unlike other cruel days, tonight, at this ungodly hour, I have been treated with this message:We recently reported Zune marketplace...

By Rahul Mathur

6 New XBL Games Coming within Six Weeks to Windows Phone 7 ( Includes Angry birds, Doodle Jump, Plants v/s Zombies and more! )

A twitter user ( @dsettinelli )  stumbled upon and shared this page titled 'Must Have Games for Windows Phone 7 ' via an email from Microsoft Australia. Before we begin, I have to say that after reading the line up of XBL titles - you will be pleasantly...

By Rahul Mathur

WP7 Game Review: Fable: Coin Golf

The continent of Albion, the Hero of Oakvale, the Heroes' Guild. Ring any bells? Yeah, that's right! We are talking about the immensely popular medieval fantasy RPG video game franchise 'Fable' from Microsoft Game Studios developed by Lionhead Studios....

By Sunny Chahal