Windows Phone Summary of the Week: April 23 - 29 2022

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It's Sunday, which ways it'south time for the WPCentral Windows Phone summary of the week. In this weekly recap we embrace the news that matters virtually to y'all and combine all the headlines into 1 digestible commodity. Just earlier we head into the summary itself, we've got a few WPCentral related headlines to advertise. First upwardly is our Windows Phone community. The forums is a superb place to come across other owners and join in the latest hot topics.

After purchasing your shiny new Windows Phone; what apps are worth downloading for photograph editing and whatnot? Our George Ponder takes a look at the tiptop photography apps for your handset. Episode 144 of the WPCentral Podcast has gone live, which has our Daniel Rubino, Jay Bennett, and Rafael Rivera discussing stormtroopers and the cloud. Enough of the states, head on past the pause for the total summary.

Apple'southward CEO, Tim Melt has had a dig at Microsoft'due south platform convergence during the Q2 2022 Apple conference call. He compared the upcoming Windows eight to a "combined toaster and fridge". The Co-founder of Apple tree, Steve Wozniak, decided to apply more conservative words and described Windows Phone as "intuitive and cute". The near positive news to come out this calendar week is some Smoked by Windows Phone information showing over 40,000 wins and a handful of loses.

With the upcoming release of Windows 8, Microsoft's next desktop / tablet Os, the company is gear up to unveil a cross-platform replacement for the Zune music service this year at E3, with a rebrand. There has been some coverage of LG Italian republic'southward statement that the LG Optimus seven will not be receiving the Windows Phone eight "Apollo" update, which has since been retracted. Geekworks, the developers behind Shuriken Ninja is estimated to earn approximately $245 million a year from in-app ad.

A report from research bureau Strategy Analytics shows Samsung jumping in front end of Nokia in the mobile phone race for world domination with the Finnish manufacturer's shipments decreased by 24%. Samsung is rumoured to be basing the next Windows Phone on the Samsung Milky way 3 design, who could mutter? We have received reports that the AT&T $100 telephone bill credit for Lumia 900 issues has began to ringlet out.

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We've been post-obit Wordament since it was announced that the Windows Telephone game would be receiving Xbox Live condition. Now nosotros are pleased to denote that the championship has gone live with the refresh - a day earlier than previously planned. Fruit Ninja has joined the aray of Xbox Live titles that have reduced their pricing, and is now bachelor for just £0.79 / $0.99. This week'southward Xbox Live Deal of the Week is ZOMB1ES on teh ph0ne, so should you desire to slaughter zombies later zombies, and so this game might well exist the quick-set for yous.

Grow, a light petty indie game, has made its mode to Windows Phone and is now available on the Market place. Assassin's Creed has a clone available which is really a higher version leading to the suspicion that an update is on the way. Should yous reside in Europe and wanted to take route on the Oregon Trail, now you can as the popular 'old skool' championship has come up to markets beyond the U.Due south. shores. Glu Mobile is gear up to bring across two freemium Xbox Alive titles to Windows Phone: Gun Bros and Contract Killer.

Microsoft has been changing things around, including the Zune media centre for Windows. You lot can no longer access the Windows Phone Marketplace to download apps using the software suite, unless you hack it of course. The Facebook app evolution team have been taking feedback seriously and have detailed the upcoming version bump to 2.5 The update will bring threaded messaging, tagging, and more than. Nokia has claimed that Skype, which reportedly requires 512MB of RAM, really works on the Lumia 610 - sporting just 256MB. Nosotros've already been aware of this since Justin Angel connected to a recent podcast of ours using his trusty Lumia 610.

The "Instagram of video" aka Viddy, an app available for iOS and before long Android, sport a Windows logo on their website in the list of supported (or upcoming) platforms. As this service is video editing for smartphones, we tin only presume information technology means we should soon encounter a Windows Phone app. Reddit, arguably one of the most oftentimes updated apps, is being updated to version 2.0 with a number of new features. Speaking of Instagram, an culling solution has landed on the Marketplace - EyeEm.

The official Cleverbot app is now available for Windows Telephone, should you lot enjoy conversing with an AI, and an official solution for Crunchyroll has likewise made information technology's way onto the platform. Pandora has fabricated more alterations to the API, which in-plough has a negative impact on the unofficial apps (once more). Amazing Weather v3 is striking the market with new themes available for users. Finally, Ask Ziggy has received a major update that implements a number of interesting features, including Live Agenda back up.

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The Nokia Lumia 900 has beaten the dual-core HTC 1 10 Android smartphone in a HTML5 reading test. Though browser tests don't peculiarly hateful much, it's certainly interesting to see a higher specification-boasting handset lose out. The Lumia 900 itself has been in the news for the by weeks for all the right / wrong reasons (depending how you look at it), regarding availability and stock levels. Even countries in Europe, most notably the UK, are experiencing delays due to "overwhelming demand" in the states.

U.k. retailer Phones4U, which is fix to stock the white version of the Lumia 900 exclusively, has confirmed the delays and is offer early ordering customers a free pair of Nokia Purity headphones to recoup. AT&T is reportedly planning to step up the advertising level for the Lumia 900 in May and June with "Operation Rolling Thunder" gaining speed. The U.S. carrier is also making update notifications more obvious to customers by sending SMS messages when a software update is available.

The Nokia Windows Phone is at present listed on Amazon for £479, while Clove UK has reduced the set toll from £486 to a more than attractive £458 with availability dates still pointing to May 16th. An employee at a Norwegian Elkjøp retail chain store has sent us a photo of the store ordering a couple of Lumia 900s for what we assume to be demo units - two of each colour (cyan, black and white). Could the Nokia flagship Windows Phone be heading for Norway?

Nokia has antiseptic the firmware issue with the Lumia 900 (don't worry -- not all of this summary is tied to this handset) with two versions beingness available in the wild for customers. Should you have either 12082 or 12084 and then yous should exist good to become without any connectivity issues that were previously bugging the device. The magenta version of the Lumia 900 really exists, thanks to Finnish retail site Gigantti, and could possibly exist heading to AT&T for Mother's 24-hour interval as previously rumoured?

While delays are hitting a number of countries in Europe, the Philippines are having problem with launching the Lumia 610, 710, 800 and 900. Basically every Nokia Windows Phone. Carriers are being blamed due to Nokia having an agreement with both World and Smart for the carriers to push the handsets themselves, leaving the manufacturer powerless when information technology comes to bringing in their ain stock and selling Windows Phones straight to customers. All four Windows Phones accept been put on hold "indefinitely", merely word on the street is they accept most sorted out issue nowadays.

Are you interested in the HTC TITAN? With the release of MK II, it makes sense for the first version to come down in price, so we've taken a look at where you could pick upwards ane and non blow your bank balance into oblivion. Closing up the hardware section is the news of Huawei waiting for Windows Telephone 8 "Apollo" to roll out new hardware for the platform. The OEM was originally supposed to exist supporting Windows Telephone with handsets being released for Communist china early this twelvemonth, but it seems the manufacturer has other plans.

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Microsoft has gone into item about the origins of the Metro UI design and how it all came to be, while AT&T'southward Ralph de la Vega shows off his shiny Lumia 900 on CNBC instead of talking iPhone 5. British Scientists from the University of Southampton have literally taken the Lumia 800 out of this world past attaching it to a balloon and sending information technology upward into the stratosphere. The Australian carrier Telstra has kicked off the promotion for their "Lumia Quest" events that volition have place in a number of major cities. At the end of these treasure hunts are brand new Lumia Windows Phones up for grabs.

Ben (the "PC Guy") Rudolph returned over the weekend with a new promotion for Windows Telephone - a Twitter caption contest. But there are many means the public can get their easily on a gratuitous Lumia smartphone, including a new Lumia 900 sweepstake on Facebook. A Skype giveaway is also taking place where entrants could win one of ten Nokia Lumia 900s or HTC TITAN IIs, only again is restricted to the states.

Strategy Analytics is fix to study on developer involvement for Windows Telephone depending on how survey forms expect like, then should you lot enjoy developing apps for the platform yous'll want to have 10 minutes of your time to fill in the survey to build back up. The Buddy platform, which provides developers on all major mobile platforms with cloud functionality, has gone gratis until August. Exist certain to check out this offer out if you're wanting to go notifications and alive tiles fix for apps. The final known Your App Here campaign has closed its submission doors today. The marketing helps developers who can't afford constructive promotion or possess the knowledge and contacts.

Highlights

Co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak chooses the Lumia 900 over Android, calls Windows Phone "intuitive and beautiful"
The Windows Phone Challenge racks up 40,522 wins for Microsoft and very few losses
Apple tree'southward CEO Tim Cook has a dig at Microsoft'southward Windows eight PC and tablet convergence
Microsoft to unveil cross-platform Zune successor at E3 this year
Shuriken Ninja devs bring in $245K a year in another Windows Phone success story
LG confirms no Windows Telephone 8 upgrade? Not quite
Samsung leapfrogs Nokia to get globe'southward #1 handset vendor
Rumor: Samsung basing side by side Windows Phone eight device off of Galaxy S3 design
Nokia'due south Lumia 900 $100 credit rolling out

Gaming

Windows Telephone sectional Wordament goes Xbox Alive a day early
Fruit Ninja for Windows Phone's toll slashed to 99 cents
Zombies are on the Phone and the Xbox Live Deal of the Calendar week too
Grow makes information technology to the Windows Telephone Marketplace, makes a nice first impression
Xbox Live: Assassin's Creed for Windows Telephone update may be forthcoming
Xbox Live:The Oregon Trail for Windows Phone makes the trip to Europe at last
Upcoming Windows Phone game Grow see price driblet, stays in line with other markets
Another Sectional Xbox Alive announcement: Gun Bros coming to Windows Phone
Xbox 360 Impressions: Bloodforge
Exclusive: Freemium shooter Contract Killer coming to Xbox Live on Windows Phone

Software

Microsoft removing Windows Phone Market place from Zune Desktop
Do you miss the Windows Phone Marketplace from Zune Desktop? Hack it dorsum.
Windows Phone Facebook squad taking feedback seriously, detail upcoming version ii.5
Nokia at present challenge Skype works on the Lumia 610 simply nosotros already knew that, right?
Chase app for Windows Phone in the works?
Popular video sharing app Viddy coming to Windows Phone?
Release the narwhals! Reddit client Baconit gets upwardly voted to 2.0 with loads of new features
Xbox Live Extras and Netflix for Windows Telephone become minor updates
Instagram alternative EyeEm hits the Marketplace
Official Cleverbot app arrives for Windows Telephone. Ask information technology empty-headed things.
Official Crunchyroll app for anime fans arrives on Windows Telephone
NBA Game Time Lite adds League Laissez passer back up
Pandora makes changes breaking unofficial Windows Phone apps (again)
Amazing Weather v3.0 with new themes is now available for download on Windows Telephone
Siri-like app for Windows Telephone, Ask Ziggy, gets another major update
Palringo going solo and dropping tertiary party IM services

Hardware

Nokia Lumia 900 trounces dual-core HTC I X in HTML5 Speed Reading
White Lumia 900 joins the Cyan equally beingness "Temporarily Out of Stock"
Cyan Nokia Lumia 900 back in stock at AT&T. Well sort of...
AT&T reportedly stepping upward advertising in May and June for Lumia 900
Uk Lumia 900 delayed due to 'overwhelming need' in the U.S.?
Phones 4u confirms Lumia 900 Uk delay, offers early orders a free pair of Nokia Purity headphones
AT&T sending out text reminders on the Lumia 900 Update
Nokia Lumia 900 listed on Amazon.com Britain, Clove drops their cost a bit
Lumia 900 on its manner to Norwegian retailer Elkjøp?
Nokia clarifies firmware effect on Glossy-white Lumia 900s
Magenta Nokia Lumia 900 exists, coming to Finland via Gigantti. Is AT&T next?
Nokia Lumia 800 now available in Panama via Movistar
Vodafone rolling out Nokia Lumia 800 update
First batch of Nokia Lumia 610s proceed sale in the Philippines
Lumia 610, 900 launch and 710, 800 release delayed indefinitely in the Philippines
HTC Titan Windows Phone, any deals out there?
Huawei ready to expect for Apollo and push out Windows Telephone eight hardware?

Media

The origin of the Metro UI blueprint linguistic communication
AT&T's Ralph de la Vega shows off white Lumia 900 instead of talking iPhone v
UK scientists literally take the Lumia 800 out of this globe
The Wordament Tournament is now alive at the Bellevue, WA Microsoft Store
Australian carrier Telstra hosting "The Lumia Quest" with Lumia 800 giveaway
[NSFW-L] Who needs Android? Not anyone who's used a Lumia 900.
Win a Lumia 900 Windows Phone by captioning this photograph
Nokia Lumia 900 Smarter Apps Sweepstakes launches on Facebook
Skype Giveaway could state you a Titan II or Lumia 900

Developers

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is at present getting Android 11

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