Windows Phone Mobile Apps
Vimeo app launches on Windows Phone Marketplace
3 days ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Online video service for the cool kids Vimeo, has officially launched an app for Windows Phone. The app allows users to upload, including in HD, and manage their videos via their phone, whilst of course also watching videos uploaded to the service. The app is set out to allow users to search for videos and view a list of featured videos to promote new discoveries. Fans can also cue up videos to watch later, check out their inbox and show appreciation for your fellow Vimeo users by liking and...
Sorry YouTube
Ask Ziggy Siri-alike hits Windows Phone Marketplace, the ultimate pub quiz companion
1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Just as Apple made everyone think that videocalling on phones was cool again with Facetime, it seems to have inspired everyone to crack on with Siri-alike voice activated services. We’re all for seeing voice recognition improving - Google Voice Actions was anything but polished when it first landed - so we’re excited to see Ask Ziggy arriving for Windows Phone phones. Available to download from the Marketplace now for free, Ask Ziggy works like a charm and, amazingly, doens't...
Gettin’ Ziggy with it
Metro newspaper app launches on Windows Phone
1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Windows Phone users will now be able to catch up with free newspaper Metro via their handsets as Associated Newspapers launches an official app for Windows Phone handsets. Metro is available free in many cities around the UK, but the free app enables you to catch-up on news on your Windows handset, including the HTC Titan and Nokia Lumia 800, without having the pick up a paper. As well as news and photographs from the paper, there’s also extra video content. The app uses the same vertical...
Get the Metro
Fun Face Swap app hits Windows Marketplace, we get deja vu
1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
There’s nothing like that feeling of being ahead of the curve, only to see someone else months later doing what you did and passing it off as ‘new’. It’s like that time when you had a Green Day CD before anyone else at school, thought you were hardcore and then bitched when other kids started listening to ‘Good Riddance’. Anyway... Microsoft has released the new Face Swap app to the Windows Marketplace. As its name suggests, it allows you to take a snapshot...
Face/Off
Microsoft SkyDrive app: iOS and Windows Phone
1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Microsoft's answer to Dropbox, SkyDrive is a free utility that offers users 25GB of free storage, and if it was good before, it just got much better with a mobile app for Windows Phone 7.5 and iPhone. The Windows Phone app will be available in the next few days and the iPhone app is available right now in 32 languages worldwide. Acting as a beautified file explorer, the SkyDrive app will bring huge amount of functionality for Windows Live account holders. With an attractive user interface...
SkyDrive lands on iOS & WP7
TV planning for Christmas on your phone: Catch up apps and TV guides
1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Hands up if you plan out your Christmas TV viewing with a kind of military precision that would make Patton blush? Yep, us too. We’ve already had Elf and Scrooged! on our screens this weekend just gone. Our foray into festive viewing has well and truly begun. But we’ve got eleven more days to get through yet. And then there’s the big day itself, not counting Boxing Day and assorted post-Christmas Day programming. Channel 4 is showing Big on Chrimbo Day (classic Tom Hanks) which...
TVOD
Nokia Lumia 800: Our top 10 free apps
2 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
You’ve just bagged yourself a brand new Nokia Lumia 800 with its shiny bevelled display and elegant matte finish. While powering it up, you salivate at the prospect of all the goodies Nokia have crammed inside, Mix Radio, Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, oh the excitement. As your mind wanders into the Windows Phone Marketplace beyond your standard Facebook and Twitter apps, you start to blank. What apps are available? What apps are good? More to the point, what are the first ten apps you should...
Love your Lumia with apps
Amazon.co.uk launches Kindle Daily Deal for Kindle and Kindle app users
2 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Amazon’s offer of free Android apps might not be something we’re able to enjoy here in the UK (not yet anyway). But we can at least find solace in the offer of a new Kindle Daily Deal. Launched today, the Kindle Daily Deal sees you able to buy a heavily discounted title on your Kindle or via any of the existing Kindle mobile apps every day. Michael Ridpath’s Where The Shadows Lie has the honour of being the inaugural title to be featured as the Kindle Daily Deal. It’s...
Our interest Kindled
Tango videocalling app arrives for all Mango Windows Phones with front cameras
2 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Ever since the Microsoft buyout of Skype and the reveal that Mango would support videocalling, we at some point put 2 and 2 together and got excited about Skype arriving Windows Phone. Turns out that Skype has been beaten to the Mango punch by none other than Tango. Hey Skype, you know when you've been Tango'ed... The videocalling service that’s rolled out iOS and Android apps in the past last night posted a link to it’s Windows Phone app on its blog. It’s available to...
Tango Mango
Spotify for Windows Phone 7 finally launches, music to our ears
3 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
We love a bit of Spotify on our phones at Recombu. When we’re not busy compiling Will Smith and Six Finger Satellite playlists on the desktop app, we’re busy syncing them to our iPhones and Android phones. Now we’ll be prepping our Windows Phone 7 devices as well; Spotify has announced over on its blog that its latest app is now available to download from the Windows Marketplace now. What’s great is that it brings all of the main features of the iOS and Android apps that...
7potify
Kinectimals heads to Windows Marketplace: £2.29 for Tamagotchi 2.0
3 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Ever wanted a little tiger cub or baby panther to play with but don’t like the idea that it’ll exponentially get bigger, become less cute and become more dangerous? That’s where Kinectimals for Windows Phone comes in. You can play with, feed and pet a ferocious carnivorous but incredibly cute predator from the safety of your Windows Phone’s circa 4-inch screen. The main thrust of getting Kinectimals on your phone of course is that if you’ve got Kinectimals on your...
Kinexcellent
Sky News app launches on Windows Phone 7
4 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Sky News has announced that it’s app will be available on Windows Phone handsets, so WP7 users can catch up on the latest news, including videos on their mobile phones. Currently over 4 million people have download the Sky News app, which is already available for Android and iOS. The app includes the same content as rival operating systems, including selection of news feeds, Live TV, Video and Radio bulletins and Your Report. However Sky has worked with Microsoft to ensure the interface...
Mango Sky
Back to School: Get your learn on with your smartphone, tablet and these apps
5 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
If you were among those who recently received the A-Level results you wanted and are heading off to your University of choice after summer, or you’re a returning mature student about to embark on an MA or PhD, then you may be thinking about how you can use your smartphone to make life easier for yourself. Provided you’ve been able to stump up the required funds for your course and still afford an iPad or high end Android phone then read on... iStudiez Pro - £1.99 (iPhone, iPad)...
Study buddies
The best translation apps
6 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
Getting ready for holiday. Hideously poor at foreign languages? Take a look at our favourite mobile translation apps. We've covered both reading and speaking, and have tried to find the best translation apps across all phones. Sadly, you'll find most of the best ones are all on the iPhone or Android. Word Lens (iPhone) is one of those augmented apps that screams: “This is the future!” Currently only available for Spanish to English, and the reverse, Word Lens uses the...
A very smart phone
How to watch TV on your smartphone or tablet
6 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone
If you are heading on holiday soon and can’t bear the thought of missing the latest episode of Top Gear, or simply need some entertainment to while away the hours there are a range of TV catch-up services worth considering. Modern, more powerful devices make is easier than ever to stream video, couple this with industry wide increase in screen sizes to 4.3-inches and smartphones now are just about the right size for watching TV. The introduction of the iPad produced a mass-market gadget...
TV a gogo
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