Articles Tagged Windows Phone
How to Turn on Your Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot
Turning your phone in to a WiFi hotspot can be incredibly useful. Here's how to turn on your mobile hotspot for iPhones and Android devices.
Nokia Lumia 830 review
The Lumia 830 is an adequate phone for its price, but it has some tough competition from the ranks of Android.
How to set location-based reminders on your cell phone
Your phone can send you a reminder at a certain time or date, but you can also set reminders based on your geographic location. Here's how.
How to set individual ringtones for contacts on iPhone, Android or Windows Phone
Setting a custom ringtone makes it easier to identify important calls without seeing your phone. We'll show you how to do, regardless of which phone platform you are using.
Nokia Lumia 630 review: affordable, but with a few flaws
The Lumia 630 is one of the better phones we've used down the low-price end of the market, although it's not exactly perfect.
How to make personal My Maps with Google Maps
My Maps is a very useful and under-utilized function of Google Maps. Unfortunately, it's recently become harder to access on a phone, but you can still do things via the browser.
Nokia Lumia 1020 review
It’s difficult to tell if Nokia’s latest offering should be considered a flagship, or a niche device. Our expectations were that it would be the latter, based on its bulky size and seemingly narrow target audience. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this wasn’t entirely true.
Steve Ballmer Leaving Microsoft
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced his retirement from the company that has been his home for over 30 years. Ballmer, who has been with Microsoft (MSFT) since 1980 when he joined as the company’s 30th employee, made the announcement on Friday, prompting the creation of a committee whose purpose is to find a suitable replacement.
Windows Phone 8 update protects you from bill shock
Microsoft is rolling out its second official update for Windows Phone 8 with a key ‘new’ feature that can protect users from data bill shock. The update isn’t a huge deal, and it doesn’t seem to address some of the issues we’ve had with the OS such as providing separate volume levels for media playback and phone alerts, but it does have some goodness to offer, especially for Xbox Music users.
YouTube for Windows Phone returns
You may not have noticed it was missing, but YouTube for Windows Phone is back. This after Google pulled its canonical video streaming service from the WP7 and WP8 platforms in May, pointing to a lack of ad support within the YouTube client.
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