Category: Windows Phone 7

Zune Music Pass Finally Coming to Australia

I don’t know how I missed this but I am really excited that Microsoft is releasing its Zune Music Pass in Australia for $11.99 a month starting on Wednesday 16th November, 2011. At long last, this missing piece of the Windows Phone ecosystem is enabled for us users down under so that we can have …

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Windows Phone 7 Gets Internet Sharing

Just a quick update for tonight. For owners of the Samsung Omnia 7 on Optus (at least) an update has been released today that enabled internet sharing on your Mango upgraded phone. It works as well as other wireless hotspot solutions on mobile phones. Once you have upgraded you will find the setting to enable internet …

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Reset a Windows Phone Device to Factory Default

Here’s a tip for the Windows Phone users out there. There are two ways to reset your phone to factory default, one through the operating system itself and another with a button combination when you start up the phone. This might be handy if you are going to sell your phone and want to quickly …

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Samsung “Now” App Update Broken on Windows Phone

I thought I would write about this after my experience over the last few days after resetting my Samsung Omnia 7 on the weekend. After getting my phone back up and running there appeared to be an update for the “Now” app on the phone. This app is specific to Samsung Windows Phone devices and …

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Samsung Unveils its Music Hub Subscription Service

It looks like Aussies will start to get more of a taste of subscription music to go head to head with Sony’s offering, Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity. This comes in the absence of an offering from Microsoft and its Zune service and Google preventing people from outside the USA from signing up to its …

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Access Non-Standard Keyboard Characters on Windows Phone

Here’s a quick tip for Windows Phone users tonight. Similar to my tip for getting access to non-standard characters in Mac OS X 10.7 sometimes you want to access those special accented characters or other symbols (like the copyright symbol) on occasion. On Windows Phone, all you need to do is hold down a key on …

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Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and Internet Sharing

I guess one of the big features that Windows Phone users have been hanging out for is a friendlier solution for internet sharing. Since the initial release, you could make it work by dialling a string of numbers into the phone and manually assigning the APN but it was hardly an elegant and easily invoked …

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Why I Reckon There Will Never Be a Facebook Phone

I have been sitting on this one for a while to allow appropriate time for stewing but I think it’s about time for it to come out out of the oven. I don’t think we’ll ever see a Facebook phone. There has been recurring speculation in the media about a Facebook phone and while Mark …

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Mango for Windows Phone Coming in the Next Fortnight

Well, here’s some good news for the Windows Phone users out there – Mango is set to start rolling out in the next couple of weeks. In a blog by Eric Hautala it has been announced that the latest update for Microsoft’s latest mobile OS will soon be upon us. If you are keen to follow …

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Unlimited Photos and Documents for Windows Live SkyDrive

Here’s a quick update for those users of SkyDrive out there (and that includes you too Windows Phone folk). It seems that Microsoft will be uncapping the allowed storage for photos and documents for its SkyDrive cloud storage service. This could be seen as a form of response to Apple’s forthcoming iCloud service (which uses …

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