Final Fantasy and Super Monkey Ball 2 coming to Windows Phone as Xbox Live titles

Games, especially those with Xbox Live branding are the most popular among Windows Phone users.Now two more  titles are coming to Windows Phone : Final Fantasy and Super Monkey Ball 2.

Nokia Reading is now available for the Nokia Windows Phones,US users are excluded

Nokia Reading, the reader of audio books and eBooks that will allow you to view and download eBooks directly on our smartphone and read them later offline is finally arrived for the Nokia Lumia phones.

Undead Carnage: Redemption - The full version of the hack `n` slash zombie Mayhem is now available

We introduced Undead Carnage a few months ago while the game was in demo version.The game was a huge success having 358 reviews in the US marketplace and scoring 4.5 stars. Now after few months the game developer PixelsFURYGames   and DevRain Solutions published a full version of ‘Undead Carnage' game for Windows Phone 7.

Kantar - Windows Phone market shares continues to grown reaching 3-6% in major markets

According to the results of a consumer survey conducted by the company Kantar , the  Windows Phone market share has exceeded 3% - 4% share in key markets 

The best numbers were obtained in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France and the United States where in the last 12 weeks the percentage of penetration of the Microsoft operating system has grown from less than 2% (January 2012) to over 3%, increments up to 6% (in Germany).

In USA even seems that sales of Windows Phone device may have equaled or exceeded the market share from RIM, thanks to the excellent sales result of Nokia Lumia devices 

Kantar provides the market share of Windows Phone in Europe could reach 10% in the second half of 2012, a forecast rather credible if you think the advertisements of new devices of various manufacturers, primarily Nokia, which has recently given way to the start of the sales of its entry level smartphone the Lumia 610 .

Via WMPU

According to Siri the Nokia Lumia 900 is the best phone on the market

From this night on twitter appeared curious picture starring Siri, built-in voice recognition software from Apple for its iPhone 4S. The personal assistant developed by Cupertino house answering rather truthfully that the best cellphone ever is of course the Cyan Nokia Lumia 900.

As we know Siri uses the excellent analytical engine Wolfram Alpha and from that we can see this answer is due to the high customer satisfaction and ratings Lumia 900 Cyan has received from its owners.

Via Twitter

Nokia City Lens Augmented Reality App Now Available For Nokia Lumia Devices

Initially known as Live View and then renamed City Lens, the application that transforms the view finder of the camera in a Nokia augmented reality tool, was recently released by the Finnish manufacturer in Beta version for all Windows Phone Lumia smartphones.

Viber finally arrived on Windows Phone

After much anticipation and many requests for information from you on the arrival of Viber for Windows Phone, here is the good news you have expected for long time,Viber finally has released their official application for Windows Phone!

Viber is a multiplatform application that allows you to send messages or make calls to users who have installed the same app on their devices; Viber is already widely used in the iOS and Android.

Samsung Focus 2 - New Windows Phone smartphone from Samsung coming to AT&T

AT&T introduced its third Microsoft Windows Phone handset with LTE on Monday. The Samsung Focus 2 launches on May 20 for $49 with new two-year contract, which is priced lower than the $99 Lumia 900 and $199 HTC Titan II. The handset uses a 4-inch Samsung Super AMOLED display and comes in a glossy white finish.

Nokia will release an update to fix purple-hue screen issue for Lumia 900

After only a few weeks but it seems that Nokia has already identified the bug that have caused purple-hue problem for some Nokia Lumia 900s.

"We have identified the problem, we will be able to solve it via a future software update."

AT&T: Lumia Nokia 900 is the second best selling smartphone in April!

It seems that the new Windows Phone  flagship from Nokia  has intrigued the smartphone customers so much to achieve sales podium, according to rankings from Amazon and the  AT & T.


In our first article that we have posted  a few days after the official launch of the Nokia 900 Lumia in the United States, we reported that the smartphone  has been highly appreciated by users so much to achieve good sales results, unexpected winning the first and third place in the Amazon sales charts.


Regarding last month, the Nokia Lumia 900 has reached second place among the bestselling smartphones sold by AT&T, bypassing the notorious Samsung Galaxy SII and immediately after Apple's iPhone 4s who is still in first place with 70% at AT & T. This is good news for Microsoft and for the Finnish company, engaged in the development and support of all Windows Phone.


We hope that the flagship of the Finnish company can defend itself from attack by Samsung with the latest addition the Samsung Galaxy S3 presented a few days ago and that of the newest HTC Android flagship phone HTC One X.

Via WMPU

Here comes the first unboxing of the European Lumia 900 (video)

Between courts, ratings and good results in the USA market, Nokia is now close to bringing the Lumia 900  in Europe. The arrival of this new Windows Phone in Europe is now a matter of days and we are pretty sure that are many people here in Europe are eager to get their hands on Nokia's flagship phone.

And now here is the first unboxing of the European Nokia Lumia 900, enjoy!!!

Windows Phone Marketplace extends to 22 new countries

Although, Microsoft’s Windows Phone marketplace is far from the likes of the gigantic Apple app store and the Google Play store, in terms of both the number of apps and its reach, the latest news from the Windows Phone makers reveal that their marketplace is now available across 22 new countries. The web-based marketplace has now been made available for Windows phone users across Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam. 

PAC-MAN Kart Rally arrives on Windows Phone and is the first Xbox Live wireless multiplayer game

Another new game on Xbox Live for owners of Windows Phone. This week the title presented to the store for Microsoft's video game stars a real milestone in the history of video games, that is none other than Pac-Man. 

In reality, however, this time the cute yellow ball-eating ghosts back in a form different from the usual one: Pac-Man Rally Kart , in fact, is a racing game in go-kart on the style of famous titles such as Mario Kart.

Nokia Lumia 800 modified to support wireless charging (video)

The Nokia 800 Lumia has become the protagonist of a hardware change, which introduced the possibility of wireless charging the battery . How to make this course interesting modification requires expert knowledge of electronics and a certain dexterity.Although not accessible to all users, the model provides an integrated feature that would not mind seeing in the future in the next Lumia smartphones.

Your Manga Reader - Free app dedicated for all manga lovers

Lovers of manga here is the application for you: Your Manga Reader. The world of Japanese comics in fact landed on Phone with Windows application that connects to various free servers containing scans of manga such as Naruto, Bleach, One Piece and many more.

In addition to the usual options of search filters categories and description of these various series, Your Manga Reader lets you choose among the various chapters available, save our manga and read in landscape mode.

Compal expects a further increase in shipments of Lumia for Q2 of 2012

The Compal Communications continues to provide increases for shipments of Lumia Windows Phone. In fact, when I reported to expect a 20% increase in shipments of mobile devices between Q1 2012 and Q2 2012 , with the consequent 4 million Lumia 610 for the second quarter , the ODM based in Taiwan would have expected this second quarter of 2012, an increase of shipments of Lumia of 30-40%, for a total 2.5-3 million smartphones.

Needless to say, the demand has increased for the arrival of Lumia 610 and Lumia 800 in the markets of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Via Digitimes

Smoked by Windows Phone: Windows Phone won 40,522 times (99% success rate)

Despite the few borderline cases that have seen Microsoft involved in disputes with some users during the event by Smoked Windows Phone, the contest created by the software giant has had good success and now, come to an end in the U.S., it's time to give numbers.

The information came directly from the official Facebook image that shows the results of the contest, the results show that the dominance of Windows Phone with 40,522 wins or 99% success rate

They are, provided that the data are correct, only 462 users who have beaten Microsoft in smartphones speed through your challenges proposals that ranged from the weather to try two different cities to take and upload a photo on Facebook.

The numbers should be based only on the issue of USA contest, leaving out all the actions of other countries. So it seems that Microsoft has succeeded in demonstrating how their OS is better and faster to perform with the utmost simplicity, the main daily operations have just come out of the box, without optimizations, cooked ROM or custom settings.

Analysts predict that AT&T will sale one million Nokia Lumia 900's in Q2 of 2012

Starting from a study performed by Aapo Markkanen, senior analyst for ABI Research, based on the statistics of the software house FourBros Studio, the analyst Jamie Townsend (the Town Hall Investment Research) has announced that the Lumia 900 AT&T could achieve sale of a million units in this second quarter of 2012

Several days ago Nokia was considered to be very satisfied by the sales Lumia phones in the States and the analyst believes that these numbers can be a good starting point for the return of the Finnish manufacturer in this key market.

Do not forget, however, the massive economic effort made to publicize this smartphone from Nokia, presented and marketed at a time when competition has not yet brought significant innovations.

Via Barrons

Facebook soon will update its Windows Phone app to version 2.5 with many major improvements

Facebook has announced the pending release of a major update of their Windows Phone app.The Facebook team say they have been hard at work to get the new features implemented, and it looks like all the missing features we have longed for are finally coming with the next update.


Facebook say version 2.5 will have the following improvements:

• Threaded messaging
• Full Facebook threaded messaging including group messaging, all in a beautiful Metro style design.
• Tagging
• Now you can tag friends and locations in your posts in the ‘with’ and ‘at’ format.
• Delete posts and comments
• Use the tap and hold context menu to delete posts and comments from your wall.
• Active links in posts
• Tap on links in posts to go directly to the content.
• Updates to the photo comments and likes page
• The photo comments and likes page has been updated to match the posts comments and likes page. You can see a hint of the image at the top of the page, pull down and you can see the whole thing.
• And finally, by popular demand…
• …you can now ‘like’ comments!

Source: Facebook

Rogers Nokia Lumia 900 getting software fix update

It seems that the connectivity problems for Nokia Lumia 900 problems in Canada are over. Rogers Canada is pushing out the Nokia Lumia 900 update. The update is designed to address the loss of data connectivity that was big problem for many Lumia 900 owners.

If an update notification hasn’t hit your handset yet, you can manually apply the update via your PC by connecting to the Zune desktop app. Mac users can use Windows Phone 7 Connector

Also a reminder, if you purchased your Lumia 900 on or before April 21st, Nokia will credit your Rogers wireless bill $100.

Via WPCentral