Yesterday signified the end of non Mango devices being able to access Apps from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Microsoft officially announced that they have started requiring Windows Phone 7.5 on phones to download, buy, update, or review apps in Marketplace. The Mango update to Windows Phone came out last September and brought a slew of [...]
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Microsoft’s Channel 9 Launches “Minute Of Mango” Series
Posted by Rob Gordon on February 21st, 2012
Microsoft’s Channel 9 has launched a new “Minute Of Mango” tips series. Hosted by Laura Foy the series is aimed at showing users how to be more productive and do more with Windows Phone Mango in a set of video walkthroughs. The first tip (making custom ringtones) is out now, and Channel 9 will be [...]
Review: Nokia Lumia 800 – The Sexiest Windows Phone To Date
Posted by Rob Gordon on February 7th, 2012
Our friends at Three sent us the Nokia Lumia 800 to review, a phone I’ve been dying to try as my ‘main device’ ever I first held one in my hand. The Lumia 800 was first announced back in October 2011 a mere 8 months after the strategic partnership with Microsoft was confirmed the February before. I’ve [...]
Windows Phone: Twitter Pictures Now Available In People And Pictures Hub
Posted by Admin on December 7th, 2011
After the Twitter integration with the Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) update, you could view Twitter status updates within the People And Pictures Hub and interact with them such as replying or re-tweeting them. However the pictures part of the service failed to work initially, linking out to any image rather than displaying it inline as [...]
Windows Phone INTO Campaign
Posted by Andrew on December 2nd, 2011
Microsoft, in partnership with Alex James, Blur bassist turned cheese maker, has launched “INTO” by Windows Phone, an innovative new social rewards programme for UK Windows Phone owners, their friends and family, and anyone who wants to share and get rewarded. Joining-in is easy, simply like the Windows Phone UK into page on Facebook then [...]
Windows Phone Custom Ringtones – Visual HowTo Guide
Posted by Rob Gordon on November 18th, 2011
Microsoft have created a nice visual guide on setting up custom ringtones on your Windows Phone. You need to be running the Mango update (Windows Phone 7.5) in order to have custom ringtones, but pretty much everyone should have that by now. The ringtone needs to be in MP3 or WMA format, be less than [...]
Windows Phone Updates
Posted by Rob Gordon on November 18th, 2011
Some of us here in the UK found our Mango phones telling up there was a new update available, it wasn’t clear why or what it did initially but now Microsoft have come clean. The 7740 update has been pushed out to customers of Vodafone, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom in Europe (although my O2 HD7 [...]
