It has been a long time coming but the first cross platform messaging application is part of the first 25,000 applications in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. For those who are unfamiliar with Kik Messenger it is an application that allows for real time communication, giving the user the feel of a Blackberry Messenger application of sorts. In short: It’s pretty awesome. Hop on past the break for the full review… The most useful real-time feature of Kik...
First it was people complaining of slow update rollouts for Windows Phone 7. Then people took matters into their own hands only to have the unknown effects turn out to be less than pleasant. And now once again NoDo is back in the news. Apparently, the WP7 update is causing color depth to revert back to a lesser desirable 16-bit which results in unsightly color banding. The fix is isolated and relegated to developer devices mainly, preventing the general public from...
Microsoft may have left a slew of important features out of Windows Phone 7 initially, though slowly but surely hackers and devs are adding them back in. First it was tethering. Now — USB Mass Storage Mode. The lack of said feature is pretty mind boggling. It’s an extremely basic feature that is immensely useful, and one that we’ve given plenty of other software and hardware developers/manufacturers flack for. With that said, how exactly can you turn...
If you’re the type that quickly and easily gets tired of the at times boring, and “normal” drab that ships as the Windows 7 UI, Rainmeter has something for you — A Windows Phone 7 complete UI skin for Windows on the desktop. The skin is quite complete with over 30 different panels to interact with, giving the normal desktop Windows a complete overhaul. How well will a mostly finger-based UI handle your standard keyboard and mouse? That I will...
The hands down best WinMo phone out there is the HTC HD2. With it’s massive screen and blazing fast 1GHz Snapdragon processor means even lowly WinMo 6.x runs like a dream (most of the time). With Windows Phone 7 on the map now however, the HD2 has lost some luster, especially considering the hardware that’s in the pipeline that will showcase WinPhone 7. And then, rumors of a WinPhone 7 upgrade for the HD2 made it’s rounds to the relief of many HD2...
