Welcome to an additional monthly payment of the Weekly Wrap, the demeanour behind at the week’s many fun and engaging Windows Phone headlines from around the web. Did I skip your the a single preferred story? Share it in comments.
Welcome back, Foursquare!
The much-missed central Foursquare app has checked in to Marketplace again, sporting a snazzy ultimate demeanour and a little good ultimate facilities in the 2.0 incarnation similar to endorsed places, many explored, and check in history. Foursquare, in box we haven’t heard, is a location-based amicable app that helps we find ultimate places to go and things to do around town. See where your friends have been and what they like, whilst “checking in” to share your own travels, earning points and prizes along the way. Download it now
Engadget goes in-depth with Mango
As we mentioned, we not long ago gave reviewers a little hands on time with an early chronicle of Mango, the subsequent Windows Phone release. Now the Engadget organisation has posted a single of the many minute previews we’ve seen to date. If we unequivocally wish to penetrate your teeth in to Mango, check it out. “Overall, we’ve come divided with a certain opinion on Windows Phone’s newest iteration, and have been really fervent to see the accomplished result,” they conclude.
The Windows Phone apps everybody should have
Who can get sufficient of lists? I can’t. Luckily, there were 2 good ones this week. First Personal Computer World published their list of “essential” WP7 apps, that we should really check out. Then Gizmodo supposing their take on the most appropriate of the most appropriate apps for Windows Phone. Curious what they picked—and either you’re regulating them yet? Read on
Tips & tricks: Importing contacts, download history
I speckled 2 good tip posts this week. 1800PocketPC suggested where we can find a jot down of all the apps you’ve ever downloaded for your phone—handy of we ever need to reinstall something. See how they did it. WP Central, meanwhile, showed how to import Outlook contacts on your Personal Computer to a Windows Phone if we do not have an Exchange comment or contacts stored in the cloud. Check it out
Office 365 and Windows Phone
This week Microsoft launched the much-anticipated ultimate cloud-based chronicle of the renouned commercial operation capability suite, dubbed Office 365. What we competence not know is how easily Windows Phone 7 functions with it. This reduced video, excerpted from the Office 365 launch-day demo by the folks at WMPU, provides a good overview. Take a peek.
Ford previews the Focus on Focus app
This is approach cool: Ford is operative on a Windows Phone messenger app for the stirring Ford Focus Electric vehicle. Here’s a demo they gave this week to the organisation at IntoMobile. The app—MyFord Mobile—can can fix up your car, clear your doors, and even pre-heat your automobile during the winter. It displays the volume of CO2 emissions you’ve prevented—and even has the own Xbox-style feat system. And the phone used in the demo? A Focus, of course.
Amazon gets uninformed with the phone
The online tradesman launched a ultimate app this week for it’s Seattle-only grocery smoothness service, AmazonFresh, and the app is disdainful to Windows Phone. Yep, nothing of the alternative guys have it yet. The app lets we emporium for groceries, report smoothness times, and conduct your account. Download it now
TV app avalanche
Four prohibited TV headlines apps strike the Marketplace during the week. NBC’s Nightly News app lets we watch full broadcasts of the dusk headlines and share them on Facebook. The ultimate Fox News app, meanwhile, showcases the renouned stories and video clips. The MTV News app brings we the ultimate on pop-culture. And fright not adults of the Colbert Nation: The Colbert Report’s The Word App streams the show’s renouned “The Word” segments to your phone and has a Live Tile too. Which ones do we devise on downloading?
Download NBC Nightly News | Download Fox News | Download MTV News | Download The Word
And finally…
Our friends at Windows Phone UK only kicked off a ultimate competition to applaud the culmination of the renouned Must Have Games module and the attainment of Angry Birds in Marketplace this week. The prize: a ultimate Windows Phone 7 and an Xbox 360 with Kinect. To win, examination any of the 6 Must Have Games and post your write up on Facebook or your the a single preferred blog. Entries will be judged on criteria together with newness and humor. Hurry since the contest, that is open only to UK residents, ends on Jul 7. Check out the details
