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Seven Disney Games are free on Windows Phone Store for a limited time

Disney games have been popular on the Windows Phone platform and just after the New Year, the company has made seven of its games free for a limited time on the Windows Phone store. The Windows Phone store definitely isn’t the most popular platform for developers or consumers, but is catching up pretty fast. In what seems like a strategy to boost the downloads, Disney are giving away seven games for free(only for a limited time).

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The following games are free for a limited time on the Windows Phone Store

The total worth of these games is around 15 bucks and today is your lucky day – go download them all for free.

Among the games that are on sale, the physics based puzzle games – Where’s My Water?, Where’s My Mickey? and Where’s My Perry? are usually available for USD$0.99. The other games Monsters University and Wreck-It Ralph are also usually priced at USD$0.99. The other two games – Avenger’s Initiative and Toy Story: Smash It! are priced at USD$4.99 and now are completely free. For the folks envying about offers in both Play Store and App Store, this is a great time to go download some cool games for free.

Windows Phone outshipped iPhone in 24 emerging markets, according to Microsoft

We’ve been hearing how the Nokia Lumia 520 has been the best selling Windows Phone of all time, but if Microsoft’s recent words are to be believed, Windows Phone, as a platform, is now outshipping iPhone in 24 markets. Before you jump to conclusions, the iPhone is not doomed, because it’s the emerging markets where the 3rd ecosystem is cementing its place, most likely behind Android in the first place. This is a decent achievement for the platform, but tells us more about Nokia rather than Windows Phone, because these markets are clearly influenced by their legacy supply chain, and hence the obvious sales. Microsoft recently floated this fact with TechRadar claiming that it is the fastest growing mobile platform right now.

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Screenshot of Nokia’s Moneypenny Windows Phone leaked online

For quite sometime now, rumors have been floating around that Nokia is working on a dual SIM Windows Phone device. According to earlier leaks and rumors, Nokia Moneypenny is expected to be a dual SIM smartphone running Windows Phone 8.1 and is will be launched either as Lumia 630/Lumia 635.

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Windows Phone users to get 20 GB of free SkyDrive storage for an year thanks to Microsoft

Windows Phone users have something to be extra happy about this Christmas. Microsoft is spreading around some festive cheer in the form of 20GB of free SkyDrive storage. Microsoft says that the free storage is valid for 1 year after which we presume you’ll have to pay for it. Continue reading “Windows Phone users to get 20 GB of free SkyDrive storage for an year thanks to Microsoft”

500px Official app comes to Windows Phone

The Windows Phone App store is finally catching up with iOS and Android apps, recently we saw Instagram come to Windows Phone followed by the popular game, Subway Surfers. The next app to join the Windows Phone store, which now boasts more than 200,000 apps is the official app of 500px. 500px is easily one of the most popular photography social networks and there were numerous third party applications on the Windows Phone store but not the official app. That hole has been plugged as 500px have finally launched a Windows Phone application.

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Windows Phone 8.1 leak suggests incoming on-screen controls

Rumors have been going around for a while that Microsoft might drop the hardware buttons requirement for their mobile operating system. This first leak by the infamous Evleaks seems to reaffirm this. Continue reading “Windows Phone 8.1 leak suggests incoming on-screen controls”

Nokia MixRadio – A new refreshed Nokia Music Service

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Nokia is still one of the most loved brands in India, and Indians are quite music loving people. Nokia understood that massive business opportunity few years back and before the competition, launched Nokia OVI Music services globally and in India. Back then Nokia was the only mobile manufacturer invested heavily in Entertainment and Music services in India. Yes, world had Apple iTunes but in India Nokia Ovi Music was the only service with massive tie-ups with majority of Music Labels, Artists, Copyright Owners, etc. Nokia Dropped the OVI branding and their Music services renamed to Nokia Music. Continue reading “Nokia MixRadio – A new refreshed Nokia Music Service”

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas heading to Android, iOS and Windows Phone this December

Avid gamers will be well aware of the extremely popular Grand Theft Auto franchise. GTA San Andreas is considered as one of the best games in the series and now you get to replay it on your smartphone. Rockstar Games, the developers behind the franchise are bringing the very popular game set in the fictional city of Los Santos to all major platforms. Continue reading “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas heading to Android, iOS and Windows Phone this December”

Waze – crowd sourced traffic and navigation app now available for Windows Phone

Waze, the crowd sourced traffic navigation app, was recently bought by Google for its own mapping data. The Waze team however had launched their Beta testing well before the acquisition, so as a result, we now have a fully featured and bug-fixed Waze navigation app for Windows Phone. Waze works best by crowd sourcing real time traffic data to provide you the best navigation routes, which will save time as well as contribute your data to the community for better results for all. The app which can run in the background on Windows Phone will constantly collect traffic data when in the navigation mode, and will also report on speed traps and accident zones.

Download Waze for Windows Phone 8 here

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Instagram BETA now available for Windows Phone 8 devices, no video support yet

Easily the most awaited app launch for Windows Phone is here. Yes, Instagram is now available for download on the Windows Phone 8 platform. It has been conveniently labeled a “BETA” as it most definitely lacks video support at launch, but if the developers at Instagram are to be believed, the new feature are coming in fast, so there’s no reason to worry. Just ahead of the holiday season, it’s good that Windows Phone finally has the most wanted app, even though in a public BETA, on it’s store.

Download Instagram BETA for Windows Phone 8 here

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Google Search update for Windows Phone brings improved voice search, image viewing

Given the strained relationship between Google and Microsoft’s Windows Phone smartphone OS, we’re pleasantly surprised to report that the official search app on the platform just got a pretty major update. The search app which till now essentially let you use Google Search on a Windows Phone device has been updated to support sign ins with your Google account. More importantly, voice commands are now instantly displayed on the screen. Continue reading “Google Search update for Windows Phone brings improved voice search, image viewing”

Nokia Camera App gets DNG support in the latest update

When Nokia unveiled the Nokia Lumia 1520 at the Abu Dhabi event a month ago, some of the important features of Lumia 1520 were its PureView camera and Lumia Black software update. Today, Nokia has updated its Nokia Camera app and the update v4.4.0.8 brings along with it, support for DNG capture (Digital Negative Format) for Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1020 which are running on Lumia Black update.

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Nokia’s Refocus app now available for download on Lumia PureView Smartphones

Nokia Refocus, the app that lets you focus your photo AFTER you take it, is now available for download on all Nokia Lumia PureView devices. Demoed back at the Nokia event in Abu Dhabi, the app grabbed some major eyeballs when other companies are looking for a hardware implementation of this on their phones. But this is not a hardware solution, it’s just computational photography which uses neat tricks and the immense know-how from Scalado to work some Lytro-like magic and that too, using just an app for Lumia PureView devices. It is now available for download at the Windows Phone Store for the Lumia 920, Lumia 925, Lumia 928 and the Lumia 1020 running the Windows Phone 8 Amber update.

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Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone Manager at Microsoft to head Internet Explorer app development

Via a blog post on the official Internet Explorer Blog, Dean Hachamovitch who previously headed Internet Explorer development detailed that he will be switching over to a new team at Microsoft. What is even more interesting is that Joe Belfiore will now be taking over some of the responsibilities previously handled by Dean. Joe Belfiore who is well known for his work on Windows Phone will be leading a team focussed on the app side of Internet Explorer as well as the user experience development. Continue reading “Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone Manager at Microsoft to head Internet Explorer app development”

Vine for Windows Phone 8 now available for download

Vine, the highly popular video-based social network, finally has made available its app for the Windows Phone platform. Announced back at the Build conference, the app was shown off recently at the Lumia 1520 and 2520 launch event by Nokia, and it was promised that the app will be arriving soon to the platform, someday. Well, that day is today, and the app is finally live on the Windows Phone Store.

Download Vine for Windows Phone here

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