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Last march YouTube delivered their own native player for our Windows Phone® devices. Although many users prefer to use the built-in application provided directly from HTC, this brought us some nice selection to our devices. Thankfully after a long wait, YouTube has been updated to version 2.4.
Engadget has been lucky enough when it comes to Windows Phone 7, but now they got to see a demo of a new 3D XNA game coming to WP7. One of them is called The Harvest, which is a dungeon-type game by Luma Arcade. The second game is called Battle Punks, which is a one-on-one sword fighting Facebook game by Gravity Bear. Development is based on DirectX and can be tested out on a desktop, but emulators will be coming soon. Microsoft has signed up game studios Oberon, Sega, Glu, EA, Popcap, Hudson Entertainment, Namco, Konami.
For the last few years, we’ve seen NFL Mobile available on most Sprint devices, as well as being the focal point of the Sunday Night Football intro video. Times are changing though. Sprint decided not to renew its contract with the NFL to bring exclusive content to its handsets. A Sprint representative has told PhoneScoop that it didn’t renew the contract because they felt they weren’t getting a good return on their investment. Now its Verizon’s turn!
Widgets allow Android smart phone owners to customize their home screens with useful tools and information. Posters on our Android forums have detailed their favorite widgets and we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite free widgets. If you’ve not tried any of these, they are all definitely worth taking a look.
Opera has released a new beta version of its Opera Mini browser. A lot of us tend to use either Opera Mini or Opera Mobile as our primary browser. The big news here though is that you no long need to use Java (and its clunky interface). Opera has rewritten its code to make it a native Windows Mobile app. Opera Mini is supposed to be tighter, faster, and consumes considerably less data than its bigger brother, Opera Mobile.
Microsoft Tag has been around for a while now (although I’ve never seen one in real life). It was the second application available for the iPhone, has been around for Windows Mobile, and also works on J2ME, Blackberry, and Symbian S60 phones. Now its also available for Android phones! Tag is a barcode app where you aim your camera at a tag and get mobile content for videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more (learn more about it here). Download it from the Android Market today!
Apparently Skype has discontinued their version for Windows Mobile, at least for now. Their FAQ says they’ve pulled it because they want to offer their new customers a much improved mobile experience, similar to their iPhone app. Does this mean they will be improving it and releasing a new version down the road? Perhaps.
Recently, at the Mobile World Congress, Dutch analytics company Distimo gave a special presentation called “Mobile Application Stores – State of Play.” Distimo tracks and trends app purchases and downloads from app stores for the six largest mobile operating systems.
Google Shopper is the recently unleashed shopping application from Google Mobile Labs for Android-powered phones. It promises to easily lookup specifications, find reviews and compare prices based on product searches.
Didn’t you hate how the Microsoft Marketplace always forced you to install apps to the internal memory instead of giving you the option to install them to an external storage card? Well now you have the option! Microsoft has updated their Marketplace app to allow SD installation and the ability to select different regions.
In the first week of February, Facebook 1.1.0.14 from the smartphone Marketplace was pulled by a XDA user and made available to us touchscreen users. Well now Microsoft has made this app officially available for touchscreen devices. The blogosphere is calling it v1.2, but its really 1.1.0.17 on the About screen.
Our forum user TMartin has pulled the cab from the T-Mobile HD2 ROM for Slacker Radio.
It should work good on WVGA devices, but please report back how it works on other resolutions (VGA, QVGA, etc).
Also, Slacker is an internet radio service, available in the US and Canada, so we are not sure if users from …
Google Maps for Mobile has been updated to version 4.0. This update includes the newest product from Google, Google Buzz. Buzz is a social integration and messaging tool that allows you to share updates, photos, videos, and more with regards to your location. If you still need further explanation, here is a video by Google …
XDA user maxycy, the one who brought us Max Manila, is working on a new UI for Windows Mobile. Right now its being called Max Sense. It looks similar to the Sense interface from Android, and so far looks very smooth. There’s no ETA yet and its posted in the HTC HD …
Wow…I wish I owned a Nokia N900 right now. Mozilla has just roll out the final, official, polished version of its mobile browser for N900’s. Called Firefox Mobile, it currently only runs on Nokia’s Maemo platform.
Some of the features (you know this list will just grow…)
Awesome Bar – Go to your …
