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Join site editor Daniel Rubino, Windows Phone developer Jay Bennett and all around computer whiz Rafael Rivera for another exciting podcast. This week we have some surprise Samsung news, Nokia and their exclusive app controversy and more. Plus we take your questions.
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WindowsPhone Central Podcast 142 for May 09th, 2012 - LIVE
The big stories(35)
- Samsung Focus 2 - is Samsung back in the game?
- Exclusive apps on Nokia phones - fragmentation? we don't think so
- Changes to the Marketplace rules and content infringements
- Ridiculous alert: investors suing Nokia for fraud with the Lumia 900
- The cloud's future on Windows
- New Microsoft stores
The apps(15)
- Feed Me Oil! actually don't it might kill me
- Pac-Man Kart Rally
- Nokia City Lens
- Viber
The rest
- Spint exec bullish on Apollo
- Lumia 900 purple screen issue - Identified and to be fixed
- WPBarCamp
Community(10)
- Comments from last time
- Live questions & comments
Credits
You can find us all on Twitter @wpcentral; @daniel_rubino; @coppertop004; @RichEdmonds; @JayTBennett; @segacon; @WithinRafael; @RogueCode; @Big_D5
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