Its here after a while, Flipboard comes to Windows Phone. Personally, i stick with my NextGen Reader in phone and feedly cloud in desktop. But for the ones who wish to get the latest and greatest via Flipboard, you can do that now 🙂 Update: As i said, i’m not a fan of Flipboard, and hence didn’t install the app myself. Just went through the app reviews and seems like its a fake app published under Flipboard for Windows Phone Publisher name. Still not sure what is going on 🙁 Let me update you once things are sorted out.
Category: Windows Phone
Windows Phone 8.1 Screen Shots and Stuffs
This post is about my random thoughts on Windows Phone 8.1 and what it has to offer in no certain order, its quite like a rant, like i’m writing a diary. If you’re into editorial stuffs, you might like this one 😉 Its image heavy, and the comments are at the bottom of the screenshots. We have a new Downloads folder, sweet! No more searching where the downloads went 🙂 SD has a System Volume Information, oh Windows! Perhaps it has the encrypting the apps part in it and extras. It has an index. Yeah I know 🙂 Okay! …
Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview is now Live
The Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview is live now! Go grab the update, if you are a developer or somehow got access to the Preview for Developers app 🙂 And here is a review round up. Paul from WinSuperSite’s review WPC’s quite detail review ZDNet’s review ARS Technica’s review Engadget
Information on how Windows Phone 8.1 stores apps to the SD Card
We ran through the Windows Phone’s latest security overview PDF provided by Microsoft, and it has few details about how the storing the apps in the SD will work. Remember you need at least Class 6 and Class 10 preferably to use that feature. Let me quote the same now, from the PDF Windows Phone devices have an SD card slot that allows users to store apps and data on an SD card. Windows Phone stores the apps on an encrypted SD card partition that is specifically designated for apps. This feature is always enabled, so there is no need …
Extra column of tiles is now available in any Windows Phone 8.1
Joe just tweeted this, and we at NokiaTips can say that it does indeed work in 4″ or higher, but as Joe said, it should work in any Windows Phone 8.1 device. So extra column of tiles is now available in any Windows Phone 8.1!
Getting Cortana in India
So all around the Internet (or at least in the Windows Phone world) people are saying, If you want Cortana outside of US, change your region to US. This video suggest the same, and it also has a background audio which was used in the commercials for the Apple iPhone, how ironic. We had other ideas, we thought of something else that works for now. I had an idea that Cortana might work if you keep your region unchanged as India and you just change all the language settings into US, at least the Bing services works that way now. But …