Product Reviews Net » windows live http://www.product-reviews.net Information on the latest gadgets, technology, news and product reviews Sun, 27 May 2012 15:14:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Windows Phone 7: Round-Up of Games and Apps http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/10/11/windows-phone-7-round-up-of-games-and-apps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=windows-phone-7-round-up-of-games-and-apps http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/10/11/windows-phone-7-round-up-of-games-and-apps/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:50:07 +0000 Jamie Pert http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=110885 Let’s just take a little breather from the snowball of information that we have had concerning Windows Phone 7 devices today, and concentrate more on what to expect with all the launch day apps and games that Microsoft and its partners have been talking about besides the phones themsevles.

Games – As ever, games will play an important role for the Windows Phone 7 platform and what better way to kickstart things with the release of the classic Tetris. EA’s popular franchise The Sims 3 will also be available this fall, and is expected to replicate that of the iPhone version complete with Xbox Live support. Another EA classic – Need for Speed: Undercover will appeal to the driving and racing fuel-heads, but if that is too much you can always wheel and deal with Monopoly. For those of you venturing into the realm of the unknown, you can always check out Ilomilo, a basic puzzle game that will be downloadable for free from the Windows Phone marketplace by the end of the year. Screenshots look impressive might I add.

Media – AT&T release U-verse Mobile for $9.99 per month, considerably cheaper than the iPhone version. Slacker is a HTC HD7 app on T-Mobile USA which is a subtitute for anyone not interested in Zune Pass and will integrate with the native’s Music hub. Netflix, T-Mobile TV and everyone’s favourite movie database IMDB makes an appearence (and it looks 10x better than the web version!).

Commerce – Microsoft and its partners are expected to shake things up a little when all the WP7 phones go live, with the iPhone and Android based handsets having to give up some marketshare in favour of the WP7 devices. eBay will potentially be a big part of that with their specially tailored app aswell as another movie-based app called Fandango. Expect more commerce apps to come in the near future.

Social Networking – The world of social networking is always going to be a major part of any smartphone, with Windows Live, Facebook and Twitter all making a stamp on the WP7 market. Twitter though, does look impressive and will no doubt be hugely popular.

Any applications or games that you are especially looking forward to using on your shiny new Windows Phone?

Source: Engadget

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Straight from the Spotify blog, Spotify have released a new update for the service that includes a number of updates, but most importantly playlist folders.

Playlist folders make it much easier for you to organise your music. This can be done by arranging all your favorite music from a selected playlist into folders of your choice. For instance, I would create folders depending on genre and make them folders by going to ‘File -> New playlist folder.’

Spotify has also updated the application to show official Spotify Twitter updates in the feed.

Other new features included are a new look and feel for the search view, that brings album art to the search feature — making searching for music all the much better, plus a newly-added picture of playlist subscribers to the header of each playlist.

There is also support for Windows 7 Snap, and a “Send to Windows Live” option.

Source: Spotify

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