Will the WP8 Nokia “Phi” have a Pureview camera?

Nokia is expected to unveil its new Windows Phone 8 devices on September 5th, at a press event in New York, and we’ve seen bits of leaked information on the at least two expected devices, including the Nokia Phi.  Now word coming to us from Australia, specifically from WPDownUnder.com, run by Windows Phone enthusiast “Sheeds“, indicates that the Phi may indeed include Nokia’s 40MP super phone camera, the PureView.Recent leaks have confirmed...

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New Windows 8 tablets, phones at IFA

IFA, the consumer electronics show in Berlin, apparently is setting up as the de-facto unveiling for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices, with a number of manufacturers showing off devices this week.  While the show is decidedly Android focused, Sony and Samsung have both announced new Windows 8 tablets, and Microsoft, via its Windows Phone blog, is touting Samsung’s new “Ativ S” Windows Phone 8 device, a super thin (and super big) phone...

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Zune. Still dead.

Zune users received an email from the “Zune Music Team” today informing them of a number of changes coming to the Zune Music services as Microsoft prepares to transition from Zune to Xbox Music.Here’s the email:As we prepare for the exciting launch of Xbox Music later this fall, we want to make you aware of some pending changes to the Zune Music service that will be made on August 31st.Specifically, the following features will no longer be available:Sending...

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Is this the Nokia “Arrow” Windows Phone 8 device?

Just earlier this week we reported that a mid-ranged Nokia Windows Phone 8 device, codenamed Nokia “Arrow” (or “Atlas” for its CDMA variant), might be announced during Nokia World 2012, scheduled to be held in Helsinki, Finland on September 5. Today, a user had posted an image of the alleged Nokia Windows Phone 8 device on Chinese micro-blogging website Sina Weibo (via WeLoveWP.hk), which had been speculated to be the Nokia “Arrow”. Check it out...

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Mary Jo Foley: Windows Phone 8 launch date revealed

A few weeks ago, we reported a rough timeline regarding the launch of Windows Phone 8. We saw Samsung kicking off the wave of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 news by announcing their ATIV line of tablets and phones. Next week we also expect Microsoft to be announcing more details about the consumer features of Windows Phone 8 on September 5, with Nokia also revealing their much awaited Lumia range of devices on the same date. HTC is also rumored to...

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SkyDrive for Android released

In mid August, SkyDrive updated its look, added features, upgraded its apps for PC and Mac, and announced that a SkyDrive for Android app was coming to complement the apps for iOS and Windows Phone:Today, Microsoft is making that Android app available for download from the Android Marketplace, announcing the new app in a blog on the Inside SkyDrive blog*.  According to the post, the app is designed to work best with Android 4.0 (ICS, or Ice...

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Use WP8 SDK to build “Modern apps” beginning September 12?

A new site devoted to the “virtual launch” of Visual Studio 2012 seems to be answering a couple of Windows development questions at once: apparently we’ll be able to build what www.visualstudiolaunch.com calls (6 times on the home page!) “Modern apps” for Windows 8, and according to a tweet by @VisualStudio, that means, or implies to WMPowerUser.com that the Windows Phone 8 SDK will be launched by then, too (we posted on earlier speculation that...

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Get Back the Sidebar Gadgets in Windows 8

Windows used to have a long sidebar which is a vertical bar that is displayed on the side of your desktop. It contains mini-programs called gadgets, which offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools. These gadgets were available in Windows 7 and Vista. But with the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has completely removed the concept of gadgets and sidebar.Now if you were using gadgets in Windows 7 and want to get...

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Start8 Brings the Original Start Menu in Windows 8

Windows 8, which is expected for final release on October 26th and one of the major change is the start screen. While many users accepted the new change, a majority of users were not happy with the implementation of it saying that it is suited only for touch screen tablets. In case you are not happy using the start screen on Windows 8, we had covered Start Menu X, a free app to get back the Windows 7 style start menu. Here is another freeware tool,...

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Facebook Offering 2GB to Store your Photos Privately

There has been several issues regarding the privacy of photos and updates of users in Facebook. But now, Facebook is rolling out a new feature called Photo syncing, which lets you store your mobile photos privately, then choose which ones to share. As of now this feature is not available to all users but only available for some people using the newest Facebook for Android app. This feature currently under testing and should be available soon.You...

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Take a Full Backup of Android Phone without Rooting

Generally when you want to take a complete backup of your Android phone, you will need to make sure that the phone has root access or in other words the phone is rooted. But not all users might be interesting in rooting their phones as it might void the warranty. But now you can take a complete backup of your phone using the Ultimate Backup Tool developed by a member of XDA Developers forum.Ultimate Backup Tool is a free app for taking a full backup...

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A Powerful iTunes Alternative- iTools for iPad, iPhone and iPod

When it comes to managing files in your iOS devices- iPad, iPhone or iPod, you need to connect your iOS device to PC and then use iTunes to transfer files. But iTunes isn’t probably the best designed tools and its often confusing for average users. Although there are many tools like PhoneTrans Pro, SynciOS which we have covered on this blog, iTools is a very powerful app to manage your files on iOS devices.It comes with all the standard features...

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How to Pin a Folder, File, Shell Location or Library in Windows 8

Ever since the release of Windows 7, the taskbar has been made more functional with jumplists and app pinning. You can pin any application on to the taskbar for quick access. There were many limitations for this pinning as you cannot pin a file or folder or a shell location. Taskbar Pinner is a new freeware tool for Windows which allows you to pin any folder, file, shell location like recycle bin or hard drives or even libraries. The portable app...

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SkyDrive for Android Released

SkyDrive is a popular file sharing service from Microsoft which provides around 25GB free space (7GB to new users). The mobile app for SkyDrive was available for Windows Phone, iOS and also Windows. Microsoft has now released the official SkyDrive app for Android phones. The app is now available for download from Google Play and is supported on Android 2.3 and up.Although the app works with GingerBread (Android 2.3), it is designed to work best...

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4 Ways to Delete All your Tweets

Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most popular micro blogging platforms with millions of tweet published every day. Twitter was started way back in 2006 and if your account is pretty old you might have hundreds of tweets on your account. If you want to delete these tweets any time, there is no direct option in Twitter web or mobile apps.In such cases, you will have to rely on third party web services which are free. These services connect to Twitter...

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Get the Start Menu and Start Button in Windows 8 RTM

One of the main changes in Windows 8 is the new metro UI or the modern UI start screen and it completely replaces the old classic style start menu. While many like the new start screen, there has been constant complaints from people that the new start screen is best only on touch screen tablets and not suitable for desktop. While many developers created apps to skip the start screen, most of them do not work on Windows 8 RTM.Start Menu X is a nice...

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Droid Manager- Android File Backup and App Manager

Since Android phones are developed by multiple vendors, they provide their own tool to connect your Android phone to PC. The problem with these application suites is that they provide only basic functions like copying or transferring multimedia files. Droid Manager is an excellent all-in-one Android file and app manager that can manage any task, files, and apps in your android mobile phone.You can backup your files and apps using this powerful tool....

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How to Delete Location Information from Previous Tweets

Twitter had long back enabled location sharing feature for Tweets where you could add you location and coordinates along with Tweets. While some people found it useful other found privacy concerns with it. If you have enabled location sharing on any of your previous tweets and want to delete them now, then Twitter offers a quick way to delete all location information from previous tweets in one go.To delete your location information, you need to...

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HP Envy x2 Convertible Windows 8 Tablet Has Optional Keyboard Dock, Premium Feeling (Video)

The convertible tablet format has been trendy lately, especially for Windows 8 devices. We’ve seen ASUS adopting it, Samsung too and even Lenovo and Acer tried it. Now HP does the same thing, but they have a more premium approach through the HP Envy x2 convertible slate model. Envy x2 comes with an optional keyboard dock, that turns the tablet into a laptop or ultrabook.We get a device with a thin design, aluminum build quality (both the keyboard...

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IFA 2012: Lenovo IdeaTab A2109 Is Now Official, With 9 Inch HD Display, Tegra 3 CPU (Video)

Lenovo has leaked the IdeaTab A2109 tablet long before IFA 2012 and now here it is officially handled by Engadget and exposed in a video and photo selection. Showcased in Berlin, this device packs a 9 inch display with a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, a Tegra 3 quad core CPU and Android 4.0 ICS as the OS.Below you can watch a hands-on of the device, that also comes with 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and the screen on board is apparently an LED one. Micro USB and...

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