Windows Phone Summary of the Week: November 1 - 6, 2022

It's that fourth dimension everyone, time for your Windows Telephone weekly summary. To boot the states off, Dave Blake gives us the latest discussions from our forum. Should an audible breakdown of this calendar week'south news be for yous, and so episode 128 of the WPCentral podcast volition be right up your street. Speed on by the pause for this week's summary.

Making a start on the highlights of the final vi days, Nokia has tripled marketing expenditures for Windows Phone with the recently announced Lumia family of handsets. In London, the manufacturer has teamed up with Spectrum to offer gratis WiFi across selected boroughs, and if you're not aware, Duudle is the projection that won the Nokia World 'xi Hackathon. According to the "...I'm a WP7!" app, almost 50% of owners have been updated to Mango. Our Daniel Rubino takes a look at RIM'southward woes providing Microsoft'south platform with ample room for motility upwardly to third position, behind the iPhone.

Nosotros've received word that Microsoft is rejecting some social apps in Nihon due to links being spotted connecting to websites such as 2ch/Futaba (Japanese 4chan equivalent). To liven things up, nosotros have a prepaid app advantage program (courtesy of Microsoft) starting up that will see $25 prepaid cards beingness handed out for purchasing apps from the Market. Fancy unlocking your handset for a minor fee? You lot tin with the opening of ChevronWP7 Labs. Endmost up the highlights is comScore with their September '11 report, which shows Windows Telephone still hovering in marketshare... for now.

Fusion: Sentient is to arrive onto the Marketplace soon, which volition be connected to the Xbox 360 version, Fusion: Genesis. Monopoly, the household archetype, has fabricated its fashion onto the Xbox Live Deal of the Calendar week list one time again. If yous oasis't already noticed, Kinectimals for Xbox Live has returned to the Market, fix for download. Tails, the flying fox, has joined Sonic in his Sonic CD adventures, which is an upcoming Xbox Live title, nifty! Rise of Glory has been updated to Mango, bringing fancy features and a ringtone.

Have you noticed a modify in colour for two accents on your Windows Phone since updating to Mango? You're not alone, and don't fear that information technology's your eyesight, there has been a slight alteration. Rogers, the Canadian carrier, has made their account app bachelor to customers, which volition make keeping track of usage etc. much easier. Nokia is set to release their Maps app to everyone on the platform, opening up the globe to all devices. Keeping up support for customers on Symbian, the manufacturer has also made bachelor an app that allows Symbian users to transfer contacts - via Bluetooth - to whatever Nokia Windows Phone.

Microsoft has added Market Extras to the web Market place that helps consumers find apps with staff picks etc. If you're within the homebrew customs and utilize the screen capturing app, would you exist interested in taking screen shots of games too? Should you lot reside in Australia, New Zealand or Europe, nosotros have some good news for you with offline navigation beingness made available with Turn-past-Plow.

Bing Mobile is going HTML five and is bringing new features across the board. This new implementation will make it possible for the team to curl out updates cross-platform without requiring any action from the user. Fuse news reader finally hits v1.iii and receives Mango treatment, Weave has been updated to v3.5, Facebook bumped to v2.2, and Prime Television goes Mango with v2.0.

The recently launched, every bit in today, Samsung Focus S and Flash will both support WiFi tethering from the off, something we institute the Nokia Lumia 800 to lack. We've got our hands on the Focus S and Wink, with reviews coming up soon. If you're waiting for our views, check out our first impressions of the Flash for at present (or the HTC Titan if y'all're feeling almighty). Since nosotros got a Nokia Lumia 800, we decided to take it for a spin and write upwards an insightful review, should you be deciding whether or not to brand the purchase, bank check our write up. Some features of the 800 include the ability to use the handset finer in sunlight, but some drawbacks are present with the lack of FF photographic camera, gyroscope and Dolby Digital Plus.

The Nokia Lumia 800 volition be available (delivered from carriers/stores besides) from Nov 16th onwards, and has topped the sales charts in French republic. Merely should you be wandering what the "Lumia" branding is all nearly, nosotros take a look into how Nokia is naming handsets for the platform. The HTC Radar 4G is now available to purchase from T-Mobile, and is offering $100 guaranteed for whatsoever old telephone traded in. Should you lot non exist familiar with the HTC Radar, bank check out our showtime impressions.

According to Samsung Belgium, the Samsung Omnia W is prepare to arrive in December while the Focus S will be U.S. only. But good news for those who wish to meet the Nokia Lumia 710 in united states, it could be all packaged and gear up to head for T-Mobile equally the "Sword". Nokia and ST-Ericsson have signed a deal which sees the hold on Windows Telephone held by Qualcomm shatter into pieces.

The fun this week includes a lot of media and promotion, particularly from Nokia. Nosotros've seen them take over London Heathrow Airport with huge platforms hanging from the roof, set upward their Arch in the recently opened Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, and join Microsoft at the Gamex event in Paris. T-Mobile has also kicked off advertising with a new HTC Radar 4G advert. And if you weren't aware already, Metro is taking over public send, while Guy Fawkes chills out at the Occupy Wall Street with his Focus.

For developers; Jeff Blankenburg has started a new projection - 31 Days of Mango. Bookmark it for tutorials on developing on Mango. You may (or may non exist) enlightened of Microsoft giving out free phones to developers, only now we've got photos of the shipping. Got to honey Microsoft'due south back up for developers. Finally, to shut united states off, MS_Nerd spotted on the Windows Phone hardware requirements page that light and proximity sensors are not available to developers "yet".

Highlights

Nokia tripled normal marketing expenditures with Lumia Windows Phones
Nearly l% of users on "...I'm a WP7!" have been updated to Mango
RIM'southward woes gives Windows Phone the chance for third
Nokia and Spectrum Interactive offering gratis WiFi in London
Duudle: Nokia-Windows Telephone Hackathon winner
Microsoft rejecting social apps in Japan
The Prepaid App Card program
Windows Phone unlocker ChevronWP7 Labs is now live
Comscore September '11 Report: Windows Phone withal hovering

Gaming

Fusion: Sentient comes to Xbox Alive on November 9 alongside Fusion: Genesis on Xbox 360
Monopoly rolls a double, lands in the Xbox Live Bargain of the Week position again
Kinectimals for Xbox Live on Windows Phone roars back into the Marketplace
A flying fox joins the bandage of Sonic CD
Rise of Glory gets a ringtone and other fancy Mango features

Software

Accent color changes in Mango. No your eyes aren't playing tricks.
Rogers My Business relationship app now available for the Focus
Nokia Maps coming to all Windows Phone devices in coming weeks
Transfer contacts from Symbian to Nokia Windows Phone via Bluetooth
Market Extras: Helping you lot detect just the right app
Have screen captures of Windows Phone games
Offline navigation comes to Australia, New Zealand and Europe with Turn-by-Plough
Bing Mobile shows what Hybrids are really capable of
Fuse news reader finally goes Mango with v1.3
Weave updated to v3.five adds YouTube, mp4, and podcast back up
Facebook updated to v2.2 and spooks us all with Mango
Prime Idiot box finally gets a Mango refresh with v2.0

Hardware

Samsung Focus S shown at Microsoft Inner Circumvolve event --> --> --> -->
AT&T Focus Southward and Flash to take Cyberspace Sharing
AT&T Focus S and Wink now available for online ordering
Samsung Focus S - Did you become yours nevertheless?
Samsung Focus S - 1st Impressions --> --> --> -->
Nokia Lumia 800 Review
Nokia Lumia 800 display survives sunlight --> --> --> -->
No more than Dolby Digital Plus for the Lumia 800
Nokia Lumia 800 available from 16th onwards depending on colour
Nokia Lumia 800 tops the sales charts in French republic
What'south in a name? Nokia Lumia explained
HTC Radar 4G at present bachelor to purchase from T-Mobile
Make $100 by ownership T-Mo Radar?
T-Mobile HTC Radar 4G - 1st Impressions --> --> --> -->
HTC Radar available for purchase in Republic of india
Samsung Omnia W in December, Focus Due south a U.Due south. only release?
Toshiba TG01 Tsunagi getting Windows Phone 7 [Hack]
Nokia Lumia 710 heading to T-Mobile as the Sword?
ST-Ericsson gets bargain with Nokia to supply chipsets, breaks Qualcomm'due south agree on Windows Phone
HTC Titan - 1st Impressions --> --> --> -->
Official: AT&T Samsung Focus S has 16GB of non-expandable storage

Fun

New Nokia Lumia 800 ad shows upwardly in London's Heathrow Airport
The Nokia Arch at Westfield, Stratford
T-Mobile kicks off Radar 4G launch with new advertizement
Advertsing Nokia versus Apple at Phones 4U
Nokia Lumia 800 design story
Nokia and Microsoft at Gamex with Lumia Windows Phones
Guy Fawkes uses a Samsung Focus
Metro bus? Metro UI!
Quick Windows Phone Tease for Monday

Developers

31 Days of Mango [Developers]
Microsoft readies programmer phones for distribution
More on Windows Telephone hardware--devs to get access to proximity and calorie-free sensors?

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Microsoft looks to be bringing tabs to File Explorer on Windows 11

It's finally happening! Microsoft appears to be adding a tabbed interface to the top of File Explorer, equally Insiders testing the latest preview build have discovered the characteristic in a hidden state. In one case enabled, tabs will appear forth the summit of the File Explorer app window, assuasive users to have multiple folders open in 1 window.

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Messages in Elden Ring offer assist and humor

Elden Band's messaging system is an extension of a staple Night Souls characteristic that lets players transport asynchronous notes across to other game worlds. Despite the limited vocabulary, players are able to offer help, humor, and hilarity, offering strangely poignant insights into the human heed.