Whoa, better late than never! Hey everyone, join us for the previous Windows Phone Central podcast, episode 161, which we've finally managed to pull the audio from August 21st. Our apologies on that as we transition over to a new format.
Oh and if you're looking for today's Microsoft-Nokia special podcast, that too is coming up later this evening (or you can watch the replay here). Stay tuned.
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Conversation this week
- Summer hiatus is hopefully over
- How is the world of Windows Phone looking since we last broadcast?
- We catch up on the Lumia 1020 and the Lumia 625
- Nokia Tablet rumours
- The YouTube scandal
The news you care about
- GDR2 continues to roll out: http://www.windowscentral.com/amber-and-gdr-verizon-nokia-lumia-822-coming-soon-early-23rd
- How GDR2 fixes Xbox Music: http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-clarifies-whats-new-xbox-music-gdr2
- New Nokia codenames: http://www.windowscentral.com/nokia-product-codenames-reveal-little-latest-leak
- Pepper is coming to the US: http://www.windowscentral.com/music-discovery-service-pepper-needs-your-help
- App studio looks to be very popular, what does this mean? http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-phone-app-studio-has-over-50000-active-projects-adds-new-features
Apps worth your attention
- Facebook Beta: http://www.windowscentral.com/facebook-beta-updated-brings-inline-tagging-photo-attachments-messaging-and-much-more
- Also coming for WP7: http://www.windowscentral.com/belfiore-working-facebook-notification-issues-wp7-due
- Tile Me: http://www.windowscentral.com/tip-how-get-animated-me-tile-your-twitter-profile
- Tetris Blitz (Jay’s Dad will be pleased): http://www.windowscentral.com/tetris-blitz-wp-announced
- Hipstamatic Oggl + our impressions http://www.windowscentral.com/hipstamatic-oggl-wp8-gets-speed-boost-latest-update
- What to expect from 6tag: http://www.windowscentral.com/6tagram-gets-renamed-6tag-instagram-cracks-down
- Bing apps
Community
- Comments from last time:http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-phone-central-160
- Live Q&A
Credits
You can find us all on Twitter @wpcentral, @daniel_rubino, @coppertop004, @RichEdmonds, @JayTBennett, @PaulRAcevedo, @Big_D5, @samsabri
This has been a Mobile Nations podcast, go to Mobilenations.com for more great shows covering everything mobile, or head over to the WPCentral Forums if you'd like to get involved with our community in discussing more about Windows Phone news, devices and apps.
Thanks to the WPCentral Store for sponsoring the podcast. Thanks also to these great artists for the music and to CCMixter.org for offering a great database of Creative Commons music!
Daniel Rubino is the Executive Editor of Windows Central, head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft here since 2007, back when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, Microsoft Surface, laptops, next-gen computing, and arguing with people on the internet.
