Eldar Murtazin Hands-On With Windows Phone Mango

Even after all the news and features about Mango announced at Microsoft's event, you want more ? Official demos not good enough, and you are craving some proper insider hands-on of Windows Phone Mango ? Well, your wish can easily be fulfilled thanks to Eldar Murtazin. The awesome Russian got his hands on a Mango build even before the devs and we have embedded the video below for your viewing pleasure....

By Akshay Bakshi

Acer's First Windows Phone With Mango : Acer W4

After Microsoft announced at the Mango event about the new OEMs - Acer , ZTE and Fujitsu , we already have the first device from Acer's stables at Computex, the W4. Its a Chassis One device, nothing about NFC support or dual-cores for now, but don't...

By Akshay Bakshi

Windows Phone Marketplace crosses 20,000 apps, faster than competitors

Just two months after crossing the 10,000 mark, Windows Phone Marketplace has crossed the 20,000 app mark and is now the fastest growing platform. Its taken roughly the same time as iOS to reach this milestone. Apple's App Store took 215 days, while...

By Akshay Bakshi

Microsoft earns 5 times more from Android than it does from Windows phone !

Pretty sure you read this somewhat hilarious yet fact filled report which said that HTC pays Microsoft $5 for every Android device, yes - 5 dollars for every device. Why in the world is Microsoft getting paid for a device manufactured by HTC and running Android? Patent settlement. Microsoft and HTC reached patent settlement over intellectual property infringement. Now the patent settlement...

By Rahul Mathur

Ska Studios upcoming Windows Phone game to be unveiled at E3

The makers of Dishwasher : Dead Samurai , Ska Studios have recently unveiled a teaser site for their upcoming game for the Windows Phone platform. The site features a generic Window Phone, but hovering the cursor over the live tiles does show some pixelated...

By Akshay Bakshi

Customize and share your Windows Phone Online with MyWindowsPhone

Somehow still on the fence and not jumped to Windows Phone 7 ? Wanna check out the Metro UI from your browser ? Well, the awesomeness of the guys at XDA just keeps bursting forth. XDA member NePheus has developed a web-based app called 'myWindowsPhone'...

By Akshay Bakshi

On Device screenshot on Windows Phone now a reality (HomeBrew)

How hard is to to take a screen shot on your device? iOS - feature is built in, painless process. Android - you have to root your device and then use shady app (via @sunnychl although it it built in some devices(!) and finally Windows Phone- there is...

By Rahul Mathur

SPB TV 2.0 app let's you stream live TV on your Windows Phone

I am a big fan of live streaming on my portable device. I have had several streaming applications on my iPod but never actually had a live streaming application for Windows Phone. I plan to fix that. In comes the SPB TV 2.0 application for Windows Phone,...

By Rahul Mathur

ZTE bringing Mango powered Windows Phone devices to Europe in Q3

According to Reuters, ZTE Corp, one of the three new OEMs for Windows Phone, plans to launch Mango powered Windows Phone devices in Third quarter of this year. Mango was officially unveiled last night at a VIP conference. Complete coverage here. ZTE is China's no.2 handset maker and 4th largest in the world hence ZTE's push is extremely essential for Windows phone growth. Currently, ZTE...

By Rahul Mathur

Hydro Thunder Go now available in the Marketplace

Microsoft released the date and pricing of much awaited games from the original ' Six Games in Six Weeks ' pack some time back. Now, just as they promised - Hydro Thunder Go, XBL Title,  in now available in the marketplace. Official app description : This all-new addition to the legendary arcade hit series, Hydro Thunder GO for Windows Phone 7, features amazing dynamic water physics, transformable...

By Rahul Mathur

Microsoft working to bring Mango to developers before consumers

This has to be the best news of the day! Joe belfiore just tweeted : @0xMW We are working on a plan for DEVELOPERs to be able to get Mango for phones before we launch -- but for end-users: this fall.Yes, Microsoft is working to provide Developers an early access to Mango, which is a great idea since developers know their tech well and can act as great testers resulting in ironing out issues before...

By Rahul Mathur

Windows Phone 7.1 beta developer tools now available for download

This must be an exciting time to be a Windows Phone developers. Mango update gives developers tons of new opportunities to target a large audience in coming months. Before you begin exploring the Mango SDK, make sure you take a look at updated Windows Phone development Docs. Contents of  developer tool kit :  The Windows Phone Developer Tools includes the following Microsoft Windows Phone...

By Rahul Mathur

Bing's Local Scout feature currently limited to US and UK

Among several features, Bing Local scout is one of the most interesting feature. Local scout is a hyperlocal search service with recommendation for nearby places like restaurants, shops,etc and it's powered by Bing, of course. Now here's the...

By Rahul Mathur

More languages to be supported in Mango update, marketplace will expand to 35 countries

Mango update is bringing a lot of new features to the table. But what about support for new languages and marketplace in absence is majority of the countries? Well, Microsoft seems to have sort it out now. Mango update is bringing support for more languages after a long wait : Mango will support languages including Brazilian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek,...

By Rahul Mathur

First Nokia Windows phone devices will run Mango not Windows Phone 8

Microsoft in the VIP mango unveiling event suggested that the first Nokia WP7 devices will run Mango update not Windows Phone 8, which was suggested in the Forbes article which was later contradicted by our own report. Oh, and Nokia is currently running...

By Rahul Mathur

Windows Live Messenger Integrated Into Windows Phone, Brings Together Text , IM , Facebook and Yahoo

In the deluge of Mango announcements coming out today, don't miss the Windows Live Messenger which has been deeply integrated into Windows Phone, as we covered earlier. Not an app, it is a part of the messaging hub itself. From the Windows Team Blog...

By Akshay Bakshi

Mango update officially unveiled, coming to devices this fall!

Mango has been officially unveiled at a VIP event today held today. Tons of features were revealed, most of them have been covered here. More from the Windows Phone Blog : Hundreds of new featuresMango, which will be available this fall, includes...

By Rahul Mathur

Windows phone marketplace coming to India this fall along with mango update

Finally, we have something official for marketplace launch in India. Microsoft has revealed that Marketplace in India will be available this fall along with the Mango update. Good news for both developers and consumers. Now all you gotta do is wait.  via...

By Rahul Mathur

Joe belfiore takes you through new features in Windows phone Mango update

The official Mango event unveiling is underway. In the meantime, care to watch Joe belfiore take you through most of the new features in Windows Phone mango update? Joe showing Mango internet features : Joe showing off application features : ..And finally showing the communication features : Official PR release coming, keep watching the live stream here . Stay tuned for list of...

By Rahul Mathur

7 New Features Announced At The Windows Phone Mango Event

Just announced via Microsoft's PR channels, the Mango update is official now and has brought a host of new amazing features with it. Here's a quick look :Fully integrated messaging alternating seamlessly between Windows Live messenger , SMS and Facebook...

By Akshay Bakshi

Three new OEMs leaked, Mango SDK beta to be made available to developers today

Microsoft Romania seems to have released PR a bit too early. I'll just quickly paste some relevant stuff before it get's removed : In case you didn't read the PR - There are three new hardware partners Acer, Fujitsue and ZTE Corp. Also, big news for developers. The beta version for Mango SDK will be made available for free today itself ( in less than 24 hours, keep checking this link for update...

By Rahul Mathur

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Message App For Windows Phone

So what if Bill Gates has pretty much left Microsoft ? He is the guy who got made the Redmond company into a giant. And he is also using the Windows Phone 7 platform for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's internal messaging system. The description...

By Akshay Bakshi

Watch the live stream of official Mango unveiling event today at 7:30 PM IST

Finally, the day of official mango unveiling has come and  we at WPSauce are excited to report in detail everything that takes place in the event tonight, so stay tuned. Well, we won't be actually present at the event but virtually all of us can be a part of this, let me say, game changing event. I specifically used ' game changing ' because this can make or break the OS,...

By Rahul Mathur

See what's new in the upcoming update v1.6 of Feed Me for Windows Phone

Feed Me, mentioned in the list of Top RSS readers for Windows Phone, is one of the best reader available on the marketplace. Necessity is the mother of invention, they say and necessity is what urged developer to create this RSS reader. Today, it's one of the best and continues to improve. Oh, one more thing - it has live tiles. Nuff ' said. See what's coming in the new update i.e version 1.6 : Post...

By Rahul Mathur

500 new features coming in the Mango update, more to be announced in detail tomorrow

Steve Ballmer was present today at the Japanese Microsoft Developer Conference 2011 and was doing what he does best - motivating developers, speak about various servcies and of course the hope topic, the most crucial element of their hand held strategy - Windows Phone OS. Steve Ballmer, during the presentation, suggested that there will be 500(+) new features in the upcoming Mango update, which will...

By Rahul Mathur

Zune services to be split up and renamed on May 24th?

Twitter user, MS_Nerd, has leaked some juicy information regarding Zune for the May 24th event. According to him, Zune services will be split up into Xbox mobile, Xbox Live and Xbox Live Zune. So in other words, this is it for Zune. They are re-branding a somewhat unpopular brand which, in my opinion, isn't such a bad strategy at all. Oh, also - it is consistent with what we reported...

By Rahul Mathur

Windows Phone 7 can control a robotic arm! (Video)

Regular readers might remember the cannon firing robotic tank controlled by Windows phone 7. There's a whole lot of possibilities when robots and windows phone 7 join hands. Youtube user, alanbeech1, knows just what I am talking about. He managed to control a robotic arm using a custom software on his Windows Phone 7. You can move every *movable* part of the robotic hand - from base to wrist, everything...

By Rahul Mathur

Windows Phone To Get Better Bluetooth Support Soon ?

Job listings are usually major indicators of future plans for a company. So, we can surely look at this listing on Microsoft Careers and hope for some changes in Windows Phone's current (limited) bluetooth profile support which primarily consists of...

By Akshay Bakshi