The interwebs are going crazy right now – and for good reason! Nokia and Microsoft have just announced that they will be forming a strategic alliance which will result in Nokia incorporating Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operation system in all new Nokia high-end devices. People keep asking me why this is such a big deal… so I’ll explain. Apple’s iPhone is quite clearly the undisputed king of the new smartphone era. Google’s Android devices […]

If you’re in Canada (or anywhere else outside USA), and have been trying to use Bing Maps to return local listings of businesses – you might have been wondering why Bing Maps seems to be broken. And by broken, I mean that searching for local businesses doesn’t seem to be working. If so, you need to read on! I actually found this bug (or limitation by-design) by accident one day when I was playing around […]

Alright, so maybe it’s not the “best” Google Reader App in the world – but it definitely does the job, and does it surprisingly well. Anyway, let me explain. A quick search in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace tells me there’s about 10-15 different Google Reader Apps. The first problem – is that the Marketplace doesn’t tell you which ones are free in the search results (ugh). So I ended up going through each and […]

And, there you have it – my beautiful Super AMOLED screen, with a tiny little scratch on it. Nothing to cry home about, but definitely noticeable to the trained eye. To be honest, it’s not a really big deal – and it’s not like I didn’t entirely expect it to happen – but it’s still a sad day when it does. Anyway – I had the phone in my jacket pocket, and accidently put my […]

It bugged me on day one with my phone – and it’s still bugging me 2 months later. Why do I not get a fancy little dropdown or toast notification when I get a new email? WHY? Okay, I admit – I was a little bit of a BlackBerry addict before I made the switch over to WP7. But seriously – does no one else think that email notifications are important? I already feel lost […]

Oddly enough – when I first got my Windows Phone 7  – I was mind boggled by the lack (or so I thought) of a simple notepad/tasks lists/todo list! Every other smartphone I’ve used came with some sort of notepad (BlackBerry – Tasks List, iPhone – Notepad) – but I couldn’t seem to find the equivalent on my Windows Phone 7. Regardless – it took me a month with the phone until I figured out […]

Just saw this trailer up on GameTrailers from the Windows Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 presentation if I’m not mistaken. Pretty cool!

Well it had to be done sooner or later – and I figured there’s no better time than now to pit my slick new Windows Phone 7 against an iPhone 3GS and BlackBerry’s all new Torch 9800! I decided to take the casual, non-scientific approach to this speed test – just to see how the different browsers stack up to one another. The iPhone has always had a really solid browser, and there’s no denying […]

Click here for the WINDOWS Version of this guide. If all this news about lack of tethering on your shiny new Windows Phone 7 made you sad – this post might make you really happy! Unfortunately, tethering is severely limited to only *one* Windows Phone 7 device right now – the Samsung Focus! So if you really wanted tethering, and somehow made the right choice and picked up a Samsung Focus – you’re in luck. […]

Click here for the MAC Version of this guide. If all this news about lack of tethering on your shiny new Windows Phone 7 made you sad – this post might make you really happy! Unfortunately, tethering is severely limited to only *one* Windows Phone 7 device right now – the Samsung Focus! So if you really wanted tethering, and somehow made the right choice and picked up a Samsung Focus – you’re in luck. […]