After receiving my Nokia Lumia 900 I immediately became interested in the Nokia specific apps available. They are all quite good, but was disappointed to find that Nokia Transit did not support the St. Louis area. Nokia Transit (or Nokia Transport in some mentions) is a public transportation app that is meant to help you [...]
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Nokia Transit Beta 2.0 Available, Supports St. Louis Metro Transit
Posted in Apps, Nokia, software, tagged Nokia, public transit, STL, WP on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Skype for Windows Phone Out of Beta & Available in Marketplace
Posted in Apps, software, tagged Skype on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We wrote about the Skype beta for Windows Phone a while ago. Today, the Skype 1.0 became available on the Windows Phone Marketplace. There are few updates and some features that are still missing but if you need your Skype fix go and download the app for free here! Source: Windows Phone Blog
St. Louis Area Windows Phone Twitter List
Posted in Community, Mobile, tagged STL, WP7, wpmeetup on April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started a twitter list bringing together folks in the St. Louis area or Midwest that are Windows Phone influencers. A link to the list is at https://twitter.com/mwgeek/stlwindowsphone If you know of others that should be added please contact us.
First St. Louis Windows Phone Meet Up A Success
Posted in Community, Microsoft, Mobile, tagged STL, WP7, wpmeetup on April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today I joined other Windows Phone enthusiasts in St. Louis at Triumph to talk Windows Phone. I apologize to the group for not doing more than a single tweet to promote the event. There was a wide array of devices including unlocked first gen phones to freshly updated Lumia 900’s in both cyan and black. [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 Data Connectivity Fix/Update Available Now–4/13
Posted in Microsoft, Gadgets, Mobile, Nokia, Network, software, tagged Nokia, update, WP, WP7, Zune on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Nokia just tweeted via their @NokiaUS twitter handle that the update is available now (4/13), 3 days ahead of schedule. To get your update simply plug your Lumia 900 into a PC running the Zune software and you will be informed of the update. For Nokia’s official statement about the fix check out this page. [...]
Get a Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone For Free!!!
Posted in Gadgets, Microsoft, Nokia, tagged ATT, Nokia, WP7 on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Two days after the launch of the Lumia 900, Nokia acknowledged what some early adopters were experiencing, a glitch that could cause the data connection to drop unexpectedly. Bad news right? Maybe not. Within hours Nokia posted the following not only acknowledging the issue but confirming a software fix coming in the next week and [...]
Nokia & Microsoft built a Time Machine
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, tagged Lumia, Nokia on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To celebrate the launch of the Lumia 900 Nokia and Microsoft had a “Free Time Machine” event in select cities to show how you can take advantage of the time Windows Phone saves you. Don’t fret if you’re not in New York, Chicago or San Francisco, you can partake in the fun by navigating to [...]
Graffiti–Windows Phone Draw Something Clone
Posted in Apps, tagged Apps, WP, WP7 on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
No this isn’t an announcement that Draw Something is out on Windows Phone. That hasn’t happened…yet. But, as usual the development community and stepped up and created an app called “Graffiti”. It’s version 1 and has some bugs, but it’s fun and it’s free. Check it out for yourself here.
Apps? Windows Phone Has Them
Posted in Apps, tagged Apps, Developer, WP, WP7 on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post is to make you aware of two new pages on mwgeek. Want to find apps that are made by developers in the Midwest or focus on our area? I’ve linked to some of the best that on our Support Midwest Developers page. Please contact us if there are others that should be [...]
St. Louis Post Dispatch Launches a Windows Phone App
Posted in Apps, tagged News, STL, WP, WP7 on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Incredibly customizable, the amazingly speedy and full featured initial version of the STL Post Dispatch Windows Phone app may be the best news app I’ve ever used. Firstly, let me start by saying the app is incredibly speedy. Within seconds of opening the app for the first time the panorama control loads with content [...]
