We’ve reported quite a bit on Nokia’s Glance screen in the past but we also know some of you are new to Windows Phone and may have picked up a Lumia 925 this week or a Lumia 1020 next. If that’s the case, you may not be familiar with how to enable Glance (or even what it is) and all the options that it has available to you. So we whipped up a little tutorial video to show you how to...
Last night in the heart of New York City, Nokia co-sponsored the world-premiere of Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel”. We, along with the usual Manhattan glitterati, we lucky enough to attend the red-carpet gala on a rain-soaked Monday. Yeah, this job has its privileges sometimes, we’ll admit it. Nokia is one of many companies that have a sponsorship deal with the movie, though they are cited...
We recently looked at Nokia’s double tap to awake and on-screen clock, features that are coming to the Lumia 920 (PR2.0). But what if you happen to be using a Windows Phone from HTC, Samsung or other Lumia phones? An app is available on the Windows Phone Store that emulates the on-screen clock and while it's not the full solution, it's a cool effect to see how the clock looks. Here's...
It was reported a few weeks ago that Nokia was preparing a firmware revision for the Lumia 920 (and other Windows Phone 8 Lumias) that would continue to bring Nokia’s vision of how a Windows Phone should be to fruition. That update is now being referred to as PR2.0 and we have an exclusive quick glimpse of some of those new features for you. One of those new additions was a ‘double...
Here's a simple alarm app for your Windows Phone that has plenty of options to help you avoid oversleeping. Clever Alarm has three preset alarm sounds plus the ability to use music files. Plus a pesky set of challenges to prevent the alarm from being shut off too easily. Clever Alarm's main page displays an analog clock, buttons to nap and set an alarm, as well as a button to access...
One thing people love doing is turning their phones into virtual Swiss Army knives and one way of doing that is making it an bedside alarm clock. Nite Buddy caught our attention because it's free (ad supported), automatically fetches weather (GPS), has adjustable brightness, colors and overall looks pretty nice. Plus it just works so well with the HD7 or Surround's kick-stand feature....
Here's a cool trick: if you want either a dual clock or just an analog clock, download this .cab at XDA by ancola66.First disable your TouchFLO under Today --> Settings, install the .cab, restart device and then re-enable TouchFLO.To toggle between the 3 screens (regular clock, analog-only or both), simply tap the area below the HTC Task Manager.I'm running it on my own custom ROM (...
One thing that’s nice about having a Windows Mobile Device is that (ironically) Microsoft offers one of the more open mobile operating systems on the market. The ability to choose your hardware form factor, and then customize your device with applications and settings gives you more flexibility than any competitor. The best applications (particularly for the mobile environment) are...