A number of top tier apps have finally found their way to Windows Phone 7. This week the popular Angry Birds game flew into the Windows Phone Marketplace, along with mobile check-in app Gowalla, cross-platform messaging service Kik, and cooking app Epicurious. The sudden rush of apps from big-name developers could be a sign that […]
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ChevronWP7 prepares an official jailbreak utility for Windows Phone 7
The folks at ChevronWP7 introduced the first tool for jailbreaking Windows Phone 7 a while back, allowing users to install third party apps that weren’t available from the Windows Phone Marketplace. But the app was killed last year at Microsoft’s request. Now it looks like jailbreaking days may be here again soon. The team has […]
Who needs iCloud? Microsoft outlines SkyDrive features in Windows Phone Mango update
Apple introduced its new iCloud service to much fanfare yesterday, offering a way to synchronize your music, documents, photos, contacts, and apps across multiple devices. The full iCloud service goes live this fall, but some portions are already working. But Apple is hardly the first company to bring cloud-based services to mobile devices. Google Android […]
Windows Phone 7.5 to get turn-by-turn directions, speech to text, more
Microsoft has unveiled new details about the next big update for Windows Phone 7. When Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named Mango) is released later this year, it will include new Live Tiles features, better multitasking and an improved web browsing experience. But we already knew that. Now thanks to a podcast interview with Microsoft’s Brandon Watson, […]
ChevronWP7 Windows Phone 7 updater pulled
A few days ago developer Chris Walsh released a tool to let Windows Phone 7 users apply the latest software update bringing support for copy and paste and other new features to their phones without waiting for Microsoft to push the software to their phones and wireless carriers. Today the ChevronWP7 Updater is no longer […]