MobilityMinded
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...]
My fellow Microsoft MVP Windows Phone Consumer Pino Paparone has done it again. Last time he made a comparison video of the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC Titan II. But now he has made a comparison video of the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Apple iPhone 5. The video below was taken like last time on a moving train. However this time it was raining outside. But you can clearly see that the iPhone 5 video quality is losing all the colors you actually want to see. The Nokia Lumia 920 has gotten … [Read more...]
To my surprise this morning on windowsphone.com I noticed that a new feature was visible in my account. besides Account settings, Find My Phone and Purchase History we now have also My Family. It looks like Microsoft is getting ready to give control to the parents for their kids using Windows Phone 8. But there are already many different family control systems in place. Is Microsoft gearing up to launch "My Family" across all their services? If you log on to your Windows Phone account on … [Read more...]
This article will explain to you the benefits of an automatic backup your Windows Phone 8 and how to recover if something happens to your phone. The backup and recovery was something missing in Windows Phone 7 after 3rd party applications were able to do so on Windows Mobile and Phone 6.x. Now Microsoft has a great backup and recover feature built into Windows Phone 8. Between settings and personal information and app data this backup recovery feature is a must. Benefits of Automatic … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
T-Mobile just launched their "available soon" page for their new Windows Phone 8X by HTC. The page doesn't indicate any dates yet but you can add you email to the notification list. The new Windows Phone 8X and 8S by HTC were launched last week and at the press conference they announced at that time it would be available for T-Mobile as well as for Verizon and AT&T in the United States. If you are a T-Mobile subscriber make sure you get yourself on the notification list here ,so you … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
We all have those days where you just don't have enough power in your mobile device to last that long day that is coming up. If you are driving a lot you will have options to re-charge your device in the car. But what about those days where you get up early in the morning and won't be back till close to midnight. With Windows Phone there is an easy way to make your battery last much longer. You will save battery and still be connected when you want. Smart Phones these days are part … [Read more...]
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