Smoked By Windows Phone: Good concept, failed execution

If you are active on Twitter or Facebook and follow some tech blogs, Microsoft or Nokia you must have seen the hashtag #SmokedByWindowsPhone. It is a campaign by Microsoft to promote their Windows phone lineup. Nokia is conducting a similar campaign in India. Nothing wrong in that.

The rules are simple. You are given a random challenge from a set of…

Tutorial: Use Otixo to sync pictures and other content between your WP7 device and PC

You already know that SkyDrive is deeply integrated into WP7. If you are using Skydrive to backup pictures or any other content on your WP7 device there is good news for you. You can now move one step ahead and integrate SkyDrive into your Windows PC or Mac and automatically access the content you have backed up using windows explorer. Confused? In this tutorial. you’ll learn how to map SkyDrive…

Windows Phone 8 detailed, includes support for MicroSD card, NFC and multi-core processors

PocketNow managed to grab a video by Senior Vice President and Windows Phone manager Joe Belfiore, that was meant for partners at Nokia. He reveals some of the features that will be included in Windows Phone 8 aka Apollo. Have a look

Say Goodbye to WVGA Screens : Windows Phone 8 will support a total of 4 screen resolutions. Joe did not mention the…

Lumia 900 press shots leak, Front Facing camera included

Pocketnow (as always) managed to grab the press shots of Nokia Lumia 900. The flagship WP7 device is all set to set the stage on fire for Nokia at CES 2012. The device will most probably be announced 4-5 hours from now. From the image we can conclude that the display is somewhat larger. Also there is a front camera in the top left corner for video…

ChevronWP7 Labs discontinues $9 Unlock Tool

The world is sure coming to an end, atleast for WP7. After MetroTube ( one of the best youtube client) and Mehdoh ( one of most popular Twitter client), ChevronWP7 has decided to discontinue its $9 unlock tool. New developers and users will now have to shed $99 to unlock their devices. ChevronWP7 had agreed with Microsoft to sell 10,000 tokens…

Custom themes now available for WP7

Bored of solid colors in WP7? Famous developer Jaxbot has made a tool to customize tiles. The tool is very easy to use for first time users. It also provides various advanced options for custom theme makers. Here is a small video tutorial from WindowsPhoneHacker.

To apply custom themes, you’ll need a developer unlocked phone and “Themes for WP7″ tool

Still not sure? Have a look at these beautiful screenshots.

Nokia Champagne and Lumia 900 appear again, this time in TOI app stats

Remember we reported about the Nokia Champagne earlier? It was spotted in the stats of a popular WP7 app. This time the culprit is Times of India app for WP7. The stats show two unannounced devices – Lumia 900 and Champagne.

I am expecting Lumia 900 to be a…

Symbian Belle gets delayed to 2012, Software update coming to Lumia in two weeks

Nokia UK tweeted today that

So it is official. If you have a N8 or any other Symbian^3 device that is still on Anna, stop waiting now. Go home and start decorating the Christmas tree and wait for Santa to bring a Lumia 800 for you. We have seen Belle on navifirm. We have reports that the new belle is much faster than the previous leaks. Still Nokia is…

PC File Download: Transfer files, stream music and videos wirelessly from your PC to WP7

PC file download is a cool app for WP7 that lets you transfer files, stram music and videos flawlessly from your pc to your WP7 device. You can also transfer using a USB cable but I hate wires . It is quite easy to set-up and I’ll try to keep this tutorial as short as possible.

Step 1 : Downloading the tools Download PC file download from marketplace. Download…

Unannounced Nokia Windows Phone appears in dev promo video

An unannounced Windows phone was spotted in a Nokia developer video. It seems to have a larger screen than Lumia 800 but that could just be my imagination

 

As you may have already noticed, the design is heavily inspired from Nokia…

First Pics Of The HTC Mazaa Get Leaked, Headed To Sprint

A generous tipster has sent in what turn out to be the first pics of the HTC Mazaa, a Windows Phone 7 device. According to the leak over at XDA, the Mazaa (codename) features a 3.7″ touchscreen, an LED Flashlight and a speaker to the camera’s right. Also, the tipster says that the type of RAM used is DDR2. There’s the IMEI number printed on the phone (not…

HTC Prime Images And Specs Leaked, Is Based On Windows Phone

Looks like Windows Phone 7 is finally getting some attention. A new device, rumoured to be the HTC Prime has been leaked, packing in a 3.7″ WVGA touchscreen, along with 512 MB RAM, a 5 MP camera and a quite obvious slideout Qwerty keyboard. Sounds good for a business oriented device and coupled with the entire business suite that…