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How to Play Unsupported Voicemail Wav files on Windows Phone 8

March 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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One of the biggest issues on Windows Phone 8 has been that many users haven't been able to play certain wav audio files which are their home or office voice mails attached to an email. The issue is that that there are different type of wav files and somehow the codecs of older wav files didn't make it in the chip sets on Windows Phone 8. I will give you two great solutions. One of them requires help from others and can be difficult, but the other solution is easy and you can set it up in a … [Read more...]

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SkyDrive stored documents can be shared and edited without a Microsoft account

February 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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One of the largest complaints with documents shared on SkyDrive was that others couldn't edit collaborated documents if they didn't have a Microsoft account. Well SkyDrive listened and this is now possible. According to the Inside SkyDrive official Blog a billion Office documents on SkyDrive can be collaborated with ease. With a special edit link all recipients (even with a non-Microsoft ) can edit the document. You can even edit this at the same time. Of course you can have more control … [Read more...]

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Review Sonos Play:3 an Amazing first impression

December 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I have heard and read many times about the Sonos speaker system. But I wasn't really familiar with it. After contacting the pr agency for Sonos and seeing them at a Pepcom event in NY City I was given the opportunity to test the Sonos Bridge and the Play:3. And after some small start up issues I am now pretty "Wowed" by Sonos. Why? Let me tell you. If you don't Sonos yet you might want to know a little bit more about their system. The system is a Wireless HiFi system using … [Read more...]

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Video Sample Nokia Lumia 920 versus HTC Titan II

November 8, 2012 By 3 Comments
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With the Nokia Lumia 920 hitting the store shelves some great feedback is hitting all sort of media channels. A good friend of mine and fellow Microsoft MVP Windows Phone Consumer Pino Paparone has made a great comparison video of a Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC Titan II taking a video at the same time  through a window on a moving train. The video below clearly shows that the 8.7 megapixel camera of the Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8 outperforms the 16 megapixel HTC Titan II with … [Read more...]

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The New Features of Windows Phone 8 Listed in Detail

October 29, 2012 By 3 Comments
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Windows Phone 8 has just launched and lets sum up what is new in Windows Phone 8. It doesn't matter what phone you use right now, but you need to take a look at these new features in Windows Phone 8. Between Backup / Recovery and Xbox music this article will list all the new feature in Windows Phone 8. This article will give you a full listing of all the new features in Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 8 is the best Windows Phone yet with dozens of new and improved features. Backup When you … [Read more...]

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How To Hard Reset Windows Phone 8 – In The Rare Case That You Would Need To !

October 29, 2012 By 4 Comments
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Windows Phone 8 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released. The result is a highly responsive, fast and very stable and robust operating system for smartphones. I haven't applied a single hard reset in the past months, despite I'm heavily using the Windows Phone 7 devices like the HTC Titan and Titan II to digg into the various features of Windows Phone 7 and put those to the test. If you run into the rare situation that you need to perform a hard reset to … [Read more...]

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Navigon Navigation for Windows Phone on Sale and will be Windows Phone 8 Compatible

October 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Navigon navigation has been an outstanding application for Windows Phone and Windows Mobile for years. For all non Nokia users this is the best navigation app to have. Heck even for Nokia users it is a great Navigation app to have. We did a video review of Navigon last year on Windows Phone 7.  We just got a notification from them about their future...... And they are here to stay. The NAVIGON for Windows Phone USA app is $20 off until October 31 ($29.99 instead of $49.99). And the next … [Read more...]

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Windows Phone Marketplace updates their Terms of Use adding Personalize my Music

October 12, 2012 By 3 Comments
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If  you have any updates today on your Windows Phone you might get a screen first to accept new Terms of  Use. However a little check box has been added that reads "Personalize my music".  It looks like that these littleu pdates will let us know more about the new features coming to the Microsft eco-system before the Windows Phone  and Windows 8 launch. When you go to the marketplace today to update some pending application you will be surprised with a screen to accept the set up of a … [Read more...]

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New HTC Signature Windows Phone branded as Windows Phone by HTC

September 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Yesterday HTC announced together with Microsoft their new HTC Signature Windows Phone devices. Part of the announcement was that Microsoft and HTC have a special relationship and made this even more evident. The new HTC 8X and HTC 8S are actually not named the way most of us are referring to these devices. The tighter relationship  between HTC and Microsft allowes HTC to call their devices as HTC Signature Windows Phone units. This created yesterday some negative feedback by Nokia who is … [Read more...]

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HTC 8X and HTC 8S Windows Phone First Hands On Impressions

September 20, 2012 By 2 Comments
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Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend the press conference of  HTC launching their new Windows Phone devices the HTC 8X and the HTC 8S in New York City. Let me tell you that it was definitely worth my time and I have to give HTC credit  that they have stepped up their game with these great new Windows Phone devices. With two similar HTC events going on in New York City and London will already tell you that HTC is giving these new Windows Phone Signature device a high priority. Both Peter … [Read more...]

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