On October 24th, Brian Seitz announced on the Windows Phone Blog that an event called the Windows Phone Inner Circle would be coming to multiple cities in the United States. I was happy to see many smaller markets including places like St. Louis and Nashville. MWGEEK is based in St. Louis, so there was no [...]
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St. Louis Windows Phone Inner Circle Event
Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, tagged Inner Circle, St. Louis, WP, WP7 on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First Nokia Windows Phones Officially Announced
Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, tagged Mango, Nokia, WP7 on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Well Nokia lived up to their promise by having Windows Phones out by the end of the year. They did so via the announcement today of the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. These will only be released overseas by year end. Reviews around the web so far are positive. I’m excited that the Windows Phone [...]
Mango Moments: Favorite Features
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, tagged Mango, WP7 on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Having used Mango (beta) for a few months there were many features that immediately made a positive impact on my day to day usage. I’ve picked some of my favorites from the official list from Microsoft (this post will be updated over time). Speech Commands: text messages – Depending on your settings if you have [...]
Mango Moments: Little surprises
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, tagged Mango, WP7 on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had been using Windows Phone Mango for a few months prior to the official update today. I had expected to find a few surprises once I had updated, and I have. Below are the little things that I’ve come across. These may or may not be new for the official Mango release, but I [...]
Impatient? Try to force the Windows Phone Mango update.
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, tagged Mango, WP7, Zune on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is being shared all over the internet, but for my loyal readers I thought I would let you know that it appears you can trick Zune into giving you the Mango update even if it says it is not available yet. The folks over at wpcentral have put together these steps and I can [...]
Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), Where’s my phone update? Web Marketplace & More
Posted in Apps, Microsoft, Mobile, tagged Mango, Marketplace, WP7 on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: 9/27 If you have a Windows Phone, you no doubt have been asking yourself this question. Well today, we have an answer…sort of. It has been rumored over the last few days that Mango would be released today. According to Microsoft’s Where’s My Phone Update? website (updated 9/27) Mango is in the scheduling ”delivering update” [...]
Let your fantasies come true. Yahoo fantasy sports on WP7 is here.
Posted in Apps, Mobile, tagged sports, WP7, yahoo on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you are a Windows Phone user and have a Yahoo fantasy sports team, I’m sure you’ve been looking, and probably unsuccessfully, for a WP7 app that will let you manage your teams. Well the wait is over. The folks at Bushwood Studios have released an oddly named app called Fantasy Ferret that lets you [...]
Windows Phone 7 Mango: It really is incredible
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, tagged Mango, WP7 on July 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As a registered developer I’ve been lucky enough to have Mango installed on my Samsung Focus for nearly a month. This week Microsoft officially released the “Beta 2 Refresh” of Mango to registered developers. This “Beta 2 Refresh” release is obviously much more refined, with the noticeable improvements being Twitter and LinkedIn integration over its [...]
Windows Phone Facebook Findings: Shake it/ pages
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, tagged FACEBOOK, WP7 on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I came across two Facebook related items I thought it would be worth posting. The first I came across by accident. In the official Facebook app for Windows Phone if Facebook cannot connect to content the application tells you to shake the phone to reload content. Granted this isn’t exactly a breakthrough feature, but I [...]
One week without donuts. My experience post NoDo on the Focus
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile, tagged NoDo, WP7 on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been nearly a week since I successfully updated my Samsung Focus with the Windows Phone NoDo update. My impressions thus far are positive. Since the time the update was released wpcentral has become aware of some additional items that were included in the new Focus firmware. Those include updates to the capacitive buttons, camera [...]
