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Skype for Windows Phone: Beta Released

Joe Belfiore tweeted early this morning about the availability of a Skype beta for Windows Phone. Obviously this news is spreading fast so I had to try it out on the HTC Titan I’m currently reviewing (as it has a

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What does Windows Phone look like?

The Windows Phone Blog recently posted an animated GIF representation of Windows Phone 7.5 start screen. If you haven’t seen what live tiles look like check it out.

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St. Louis Windows Phone Inner Circle Event

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

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First Nokia Windows Phones Officially Announced

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

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Pin It: Local Scout

Local scout is one of the nicest features of Windows Phone 7.5. Newer Windows Phone device have a live tile Local Scout on the start screen right out of the box. If you updated a gen 1 Windows Phone to

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Mango Moments: Favorite Features

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

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Mango Moments: Little surprises

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

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Impatient? Try to force the Windows Phone Mango update.

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

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Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), Where’s my phone update? Web Marketplace & More

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

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Let your fantasies come true. Yahoo fantasy sports on WP7 is here.

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

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