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ICQ Brings Its Official Messenger To Windows Phone 7

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There was a time when Facebook didn’t exist, and the internet was ruled by the likes of Orkut, mIRC and ICQ. Times have changed, and those services are still around, although they are nowhere near as popular as they once were. It’s still nice though, whenever you see those services doing something new, as is the case with the recent release of the official ICQ client for Windows Phone 7. Admittedly, not many people use the service now, but to be fair to the app, the Mango client looks pretty decent and can hold its own against most messenger apps available in the WP7 Marketplace. The best thing about the app is its integration with the People hub, and thanks to that feature, it is possible to chat with your Facebook, GTalk and Mail.Ru friends as well as the ones you have got in your ICQ messenger list. Read More

PrimeTube: A Beautiful YouTube Client For Windows Phone 7

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The official YouTube client for Windows Phone 7 has come under heavy fire from users due to its lackluster interface and the missing features, which can be easily accessed from even the mobile web version of the video hosting service. This has lead to the release of a number of third-party YouTube clients for WP7, and with the release of Mango, the number of such apps increased exponentially. We have covered many YouTube clients for WP7 like YouTube Pro but none has been as gorgeous and beautiful as PrimeTube. The app is a pinnacle of metro interface, and has all the features which account for a good YouTube client on any platform. You can know more about the app by heading past the break. Read More

Join Chat Communities, Text Your Friends & Groups With Text+ For WP7

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TextPlus is one of the most popular messengers for smartphones, with iOS and Android versions of the app around for quite a while. It seems that after those two platforms have been covered by most developers, they invariably turn to Windows Phone 7, and that has been the case with TextPlus. The famous messaging app just became available for Mango users, and it brings all the features to the Metro platform which have made it a hit on other platforms. If you download this free app, you can send free SMS to friends (US & Canada only), join communities of like-minded people and chat with them, and there are a few bonus features as well, like the push-to-talk options and the ability to add multiple contacts to a single conversation. Read More

Speak To Hear A Sentence’s Translation With VoiceTranslator [WP7]

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Most of us have used Google Translate at some point in time, or maybe you got the prompt pushed by the search giant automatically when you are on a webpage which is in any foreign language. Similar apps exist for Windows Phone 7 as well, like the recently covered Babylon Translator for Mango phones, but VoiceTranslator is so much more than a mere translation app. To get a word or phrase translated to any language, you just have to speak it to the app, and you will get the desired conversion. Not only that, VoiceTranslator will even speak the translated text out loud for you, so that your pronunciation of the foreign language is correct. To learn more about this awesome app, read on. Read More

Custom Slideshows & Dynamic Bing Wallpapers For WP7 Lockscreen [Homebrew]

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On the surface, it might seem like developers are not really interested in Windows Phone 7, but the truth of the matter is that the Mango platform does have its band of dedicated developers, not the least of whom is Jaxbot from Windows Phone Hacker. The WP7 wizard has done it again, and after Orientation Lock, Folders, Windows Break and various other groundbreaking homebrews, now you can apply dynamic images as the wallpaper of your Windows Phone. I am a big fan of new wallpapers personally, and that’s why I like to change the background of my phone’s lockscreen daily (computer as well). With the new homebrew (Dynamic Background), however, that problem has been solved, and I won’t have to change the wallpapers manually again. Dynamic Background can be used to set up a slideshow for the lockscreen, and it also comes with the option to tap into the dynamic Bing wallpapers, and your lockscreen will reflect the search engine’s background automatically. Read More

DS Marketplace: Get Homebrews, Wallpapers, & Games For Unlocked WP7

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Despite its being rather new to the Windows Phone 7 development scene, Bazaar has become a fairly popular homebrew store for Mango phones running custom ROMs. It even has a desktop version, letting users manage their homebrew collection on a PC. However, it is always nice to see some competition, and it’s good to see that Bazaar isn’t going to monopolize the WP7 jailbreak scenario like Cydia does for iOS. This is owing to the fact that an alternative homebrew app store has been launched, titled DS Marketplace. The functionality offered by the store is almost identical to Bazaar, but with a few welcome additions. In addition to homebrews and tweaks, DeepShining Marketplace also features a lot of exclusive wallpapers, games and even a few rare apps. Read More

Bill Organizer Manages Your Bills & Gives Reminders About Them [WP7]

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No one likes missing the due date of an important bill, but in today’s world, we are swamped with so many of them that it is getting harder to keep track of all your financial responsibilities. If you pay your credit card bill, you might forget the mortgage money, and if you also manage to remember that, there is always your child’s school fee or other similar dues. That’s where smartphones get the chance to flaunt their smartness. Bill Organizer is an app for Windows Phone 7 which will do all the remembering for you, and also ensures that you know all about the money you owe to different people or services. The app is a combination of financial manager and a reminder service. You can learn more about it by reading on. Read More

MyFitnessPal For WP7: Lose Weight By Tracking Your Calorie Intake

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A smartphone is meant to help you in  just about all areas of your routine life. This is why there are so many apps for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone 7. When it comes to health and fitness, WP7 has got a pretty impressive array of apps, designed to let you shed those extra pounds. Some of the best fitness apps for WP7 include Live Strong’s Calorie Tracker and Nokia’s Sports Tracker, but now you can add another app to this list; MyFitnessPal. It is a great fitness-oriented app which lets you log all your food consumption, and using the app you can also find out your target calorie intake, as well as the amount of calories you are gaining and burning each day. Read More

GroupMe Brings Group SMS & Chat To Windows Phone 7

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There are many messenger apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, and a lot of good ones at that, but with every new release, something fresh comes to the Mango platform. GroupMe is not a new app for WP7 by any means, but it was taken off the Marketplace some time back. The good news is that it’s back, and better than ever. For those who are not familiar with GroupMe, the app lets users define groups, and then you can chat with all your contacts in those groups. If you are living in the US, the app will even let you send group text messages, increasing its usefulness. Read on to know more about GroupMe for WP7. Read More

Goal.com: Live Scores, Fixture Details & News From Soccer Leagues [WP7]

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Being a sports fan, there are some Windows Phone 7 apps without which I just can’t imagine my Mango phone, like ESPN ScoreCenter, NFL Pro ‘12 and ScoreMobile FC. These are only those apps which I use regularly; apart from these, WP7 has many other good sports apps as well, and the list is always growing. Goal.com is an app which has been released just a few days ago, and in that short span of time, it has become pretty popular among fans of the beautiful game, soccer (or football, if you prefer to call it that). The Goal.com app has the latest news, analysis, scores and fixture lists from popular soccer leagues all over the world. In addition to that, no matter if you are a fan of Arsenal or Schalke, or any other popular team, you can pin their app page to your Start screen and stay up to date with the latest happenings regarding that club. Read More

Amazing Weather Has Live Tile Support & A Beautiful Interface [WP7]

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A weather app can not be very different from its competitors, no matter to which platform it belongs to. So, only a few areas remain where an app can excel and bring something new to the mix. Although Windows Phone 7 has no shortage of weather apps, Amazing Weather is an app which is sure to attract many people, owing to the fact that the interface and graphics it boasts of, are unparalleled, and you are sure to be sucked in by the brilliance of this app. The live tile sported by Amazing Weather is pretty awesome as well, and you can learn about more of its features by heading past the break. Read More

Skype Brings Its Free Video & Voice Calling Mobile App To Windows Phone 7

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Finally! The official Skype client is now available for Windows Phone 7. Ever since WP7 was released by Microsoft, people have been clamoring for the popular video and voice calling service to be brought to the platform. Although the guys over at Redmond had acquired Skype, the WP7 client remained elusive even after Mango was released. Even now, the app is in its beta testing phase, but no need to worry; it has all the core features that Skype is known for, and can easily be used as a replacement for the desktop client. Read More

360 Fashion: Newsreader For The Latest From The Fashion World [WP7]

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At any given period of time, there is so much going on in the fashion industry all over the world, that you can not hope to stay up to date with everything if you scour through multiple sources. Thus arises the need for a single place where you can find everything related to what’s in vogue these days. If you have a Windows Phone 7 device, the official 360 Fashion app is here, which aggregates fashion news from all over the world. Not only does the app cover news stories, you also get to see backstage videos and photos from various shows and fashion weeks. The app also ensures that you always know when and where an event is planned. Read on to discover more. Read More

Share Files via Bluetooth On Your Unlocked Windows Phone 7 [Homebrew]

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The Dark Force Team has really taken it upon itself to make Windows Phone 7 the platform it should have been all along. After their release of the awesome custom Mango ROMs, they have brought one of the most wanted feature to WP7; Bluetooth file transfer. Whenever you introduce WP7 to a new user, one of the first missing features they comment on is file sharing via Bluetooth. Microsoft might have enhanced the Mango platform’s security by taking this measure, but it proves to be a huge drawback for an average user. Fortunately, if you have a fully unlocked device (that is, if your phone has a custom ROM on it), now it is possible to send and receive any type of data on your device. Read on to know more about this useful homebrew. Read More

Calculator Safe For WP7: Disguise/ Password Protect Photos & Notes

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The most-used way of protecting your personal data on your Windows Phone 7 is setting up the universal password, but that might not always be the thing you need. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to have an extra layer of protection for your privacy, specially for sensitive data like photos and notes. There are many apps which let you do that, like the previously covered Private Video for letting users hide the videos on their device, but what if you don’t want to make it too obvious that you are trying to hide something? Luckily, there’s an app for that, named Calculator Safe. Using this app, you can protect your photos and notes, and anyone who launches the app will see nothing but a simple calculator. What's more, this novelty is not the app's only feature and it does take your privacy pretty seriously, ensuring that your password is safe and no one can crack it with ease. Read More

Messaging Emoticons: Send SMS Using The Full Range Of WP7 Emoticons

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Mango is pretty old now, but you might recall that Windows Phone 7’s fruity update caused quite a stir when it was released. In addition to some major changes in Mango, a few minor, but equally welcome, features were introduced as well. Once such feature was the introduction of graphical emoticons to WP7. There is a minor problem though, the stock keyboard does not list all the available emoticons, and it is almost impossible to memorize all of them (despite Microsoft’s release of WP7 emoticon cheat sheet). That’s where an app like Messaging Emoticons can prove to be really useful. Using this free app you can copy all Mango-supported smileys, and the app also has the option to let its users compose their SMS within it and then export to the Messaging hub. Read More

Bazaar For PC: Manage & Get Windows Phone 7 Homebrews From Your Desktop

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If you have a Windows Phone 7 device, and you like to stay up to date with the latest developments going on for Mango, then you must be aware of Bazaar, the Cydia store for WP7. Bazaar is the app which lets users having a fully unlocked device to install homebrews to their phone. It is a Marketplace for XAPs, and replicated the official Marketplace’s features pretty accurately. However, if your device is not fully unlocked, i.e. you don’t have a custom ROM, then Bazaar is of no use to you. That situation has just changed, with the release of the desktop client for the homebrew store, titled Bazaar for PC. Using the application you can manage, browse, share and download XAP files available in the Bazaar store. Read More

HeyTell Brings Cross-Platform Push-To-Talk Voice Chat To Windows Phone 7

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There are many messenger apps available for Windows Phone 7, but not all of them are cross-platform, and even fewer let users communicate via voice messages. HeyTell is a popular messenger app that has been around for iOS and Android for quite a while, and now it has made its way to the Metro platform as well. Using the app, you can stay in touch with your friends, regardless of the platform they are on. Not only that, the app also finds users near your current location, and lets you send them recorded voice messages (via push-to-talk). The app comes with all the usual messenger options, and you can share your location with messages as well as managing attachments and conversations in distinct threads. Read More

Voice Share For WP7: Record & Share Sound Clips To Earn Achievements

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At times, the simplest of apps could prove to be really popular among users, as they provide just the right balance between fun and usefulness. Voice Share for Windows Phone 7 just might be one such app. The concept behind the app is nothing really new, but the developer has combined a lot of different features to create a pretty neat product. The app lets users record voice clips, and then share them with friends via SMS or on Facebook. This might sound a bit boring, as there are many other voice recorders available for Mango as well, but Voice Share has the edge over them in the sense that it lets you add graphical badges to your shares, and has an achievements system of its own, giving it a game-like feel as well. Read More