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Apps? Windows Phone Has Them

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

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St. Louis Post Dispatch Launches a Windows Phone App

  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

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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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