Microsoft has published a new update for Skype in the Windows Phone app store. The new version is 2.24, and it debuts an interesting feature: drawing. It’s just as it sounds, basically. You can tap the “+” icon in any chat and then select “drawing” to, well, draw – a picture, or whatever else your…
Minecraft: Pocket Edition is in development for Windows Phone, Minecraft lead developer Jens Bergensten has confirmed on Twitter. “Yes, Minecraft: Pocket Edition *is* coming to the Windows Phone! The port runs already, but there’s still much to do before any release,” Tweeted Bergensten. There had been a suggestion that the port is a result of…
Gameloft has released its newest game in the Asphalt series, called the Asphalt Overdrive. Overdrive is a spinoff of the successful Asphalt series. This isn’t exactly Asphalt 9 that you may have been waiting for and features a different gameplay mechanic. Asphalt Overdrive is essentially like an endless runner game but with cars. You drive…
Just two days separate us from the next release in Gameloft’s Asphalt series of games. It’s going to be called Asphalt Overdrive (and not Asphalt 9, as you may have expected), and it will be out this Thursday, September 25, on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. It will be free to download, but…
Microsoft is currently in the process of scrapping the ‘Windows Phone’ name in favor of the simpler ‘Windows’. Leaked documents that surfaced earlier stated this but leaked images of an upcoming device confirms this. An upcoming device by the name of My Go GoFone GF47W comes with just the Windows name printed on the back,…
This will probably not surprise many, but it looks like Microsoft is seriously planning on ‘sunsetting’ the Nokia brand. The software giant has so far continued to use the Nokia name for phones, most recently with the Lumia 830 and Lumia 730 that were officially unveiled last week. However, a new rumor claims these two will be the last…
Are you a UK Windows Phone developer who has been waiting for some Cortana love on your side of the pond?Well you won’t have to wait much longer, as the Windows Phone team has revealed that the Cortana developer preview will be released within two weeks. The information was released via twitter by Marcus Ash,…
Microsoft has been working on incorporating academic materials and research into Bing’s search results. The educational data that you find on Bing will work closely with Cortana, the Windows Phone voice assistant. The update will be available this fall, and when it drops, you’ll be able to speak into your Windows Phone whenever you hit…
Move over, iPhone 6 . Sure, your rumored sapphire display can withstand pretty much anything one throws at it ( except a car running it over, as it turns out), but in this regard the Nokia Lumia 930 is no slouch either.Its super-sensitive touchscreen adorned with Gorilla Glass 3 has in fact wonderfully survived an…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, which decided to forego separating its applications intofolders as part of its “Metro” UI, is apparently willing to reconsider this decision.Information has surfaced that an upcoming WP8.1 update will add this functionality, which will create a folder tile that can have anunspecified number of apps shortcuts inside.Microsoft had initially listed this…
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