Yesterday, the boys from Redmond sent out request for a developer occasion called Windows Phone Developer Summit.

Microsoft proclaims Windows Phone developer top, could proclaim Windows Phone 8

Curiously, the folks at Pocket Now are contemplate that Microsoft could perhaps reveal Windows Phone 8 at this extremely event. This in our summary is not a very passionate thought consider it approaches from the guys who disclose internal Microsoft information in observe to Windows Phone 8.

Furthermore, their report notices the dissimilar font on the word ‘apps’ in a faux Window Phone gadget shown in the invite. This hub on apps leads them to consider, that Redmond might perhaps be courting developers for Windows Phone 8.

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Nokia has unveiled the beta edition of its latest “Play To app”, which will permit its Windows handset users to stream content from their mobile phone to other DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) connected gadgets.

Nokia Releases Play To Beta App for DLNA Streaming

Recently DLNA streaming is set up in nearly all mid and high-end smartphones, with both Android and iPhone handsets offering a range of ways to share content with other gadgets.

However, with the Windows Phone mobile OS DLNA functionality is sorely absent, until now. Nokia has developed its simply named Play To app, which permit Windows Phone users to stream photos and videos to devices such as TVs, game consoles and laptops from their Lumia handsets.

In addition, music streaming is now not supported by Play To, but Nokia has announced that this feature will be included in a future edition of the app.

If you think to download the beta edition of Play To, just visit the Nokia Beta Labs site, where you’ll be able to download the application.

Nokia has also made a small update to its music app, now called Nokia Music 2.0. Early signs indicate that the upgrade mainly consists of wording changes within the app – with no new features added.

We expect Nokia add its intended DNLA music streaming service into a future upgrade for Nokia Music 2.0.

Via: techradar

Around 1000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace that apply latest features in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango there’s abundance to decide from.Here are some of the good that make the mainly of background tasks, secondary live tiles, contact to the camera and other Mango enhancement, or apps that make the latest features in Mango more helpful or easier to use – and they’re all free.

Spotify App

Spotify

It’s not now a spot of a landmark app for the Windows Phone platform; theSpotify app is outstanding in its own way.Enjoy playlists you’ve previously situated up, search for tracks to snoop to or put them to an exact playlist, or snoop to friends’ playlists.You can stream tracks or keep playlists to your mobile phone to listen offline, you can depart rear and see what you’ve listened to freshly, and while Spotify has its individual player with alternative for allotment and starring tracks you can too utilize the normal Windows Phone volume and play controls without switching back to the app.What’s a latest album aren’t inadequate to the six tiles you can see on screen; keep striking refresh for another selection. About the simply alternative from the desktop client we can’t discover is person able to rename a playlist; new playlists obtain the name of the first track, album or artist you add.

Evernote

Evernote App

If you favor Evernote to One Note, the Mango update is crowded with enhancement to compose iPhone users envious, including Wi-Fi background sync of your notes; you can pin precise notes, notebooks, tags or searches to the Start screen.You can pin templates which can comprise responsibilities like taking a photo and saving it as a note with various boilerplate text – perfect for recording receipts, business cards, wine labels or everything alike. And when you look for on Bing, you can take across for a record of identical notes in Evernote.

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Tango Chat

Tango Chat App

Until the Skype and Lync apps come out, Tango Chat is the merely video chat for Windows Phone and it’s obtainable on a lot of other platforms previously so you possibly have friends using it.It’s simple to find out as someone in your address book by means of Tango shows up in your contact list repeatedly. Call excellence is good; it works greatest with a front-facing camera but it still works without one.

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EasyRing

EasyRing App

Now lets you contain your own music as ringtones. moderately than cutting MP3s down to 50 seconds and copying them throughout Zune by hand, use EasyRingto find free ringtones online, try them out and save them to your phone (two separate steps, by the way).You will be able to download any MP3 file you can discover on the Web and crop that to length on the phone. while this app has a price tag, the free trial has all the features and the developers encourage you to utilize and pay if you like it.

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Flickr

Flickr App

Being able to upload snaps straight to Flickr is helpful (although this can be annoyingly slow) but what’s mainly helpful in the Mango update of the official Flickr app is being capable to pin live tiles for your photostream and for updates from friends who haven’t associated their Flickr account to Windows Messenger.

Nine months following Microsoft proclaim it was obtained Skype, the voice above IP provider proclaimed its entrance on Windows Phone. The declaration makes Skype accessible on nearly all the main mobile smartphone operating systems. The gold description of the app will be accessible in April, but preliminary this week, users will be able to download the beta version to test drive Skype for Windows Phone and allocate feedback with the company.

Skype for Windows Phone Beta App Launches in MWC 2012

With Skype for Windows Phone Beta, abusers  can compose free audio and video calls to their Skype contacts over 3G and 4G or WiFi, compose calls to landlines and mobile phones using Skype Credit, generate and grasp one-to-one and group chats, and update profile and account information, among others features.

Users can download the beta version of the Skype for Windows Phone app for free through the Windows Phone. The app need a smartphone running Windows Phone 7.5. The company has previously experienced and proficient a number of devices for the greatest performance of Skype for Windows Phone, counting the Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, the HTC Titan and HTC Radar, and the Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash.

Tony Cripps, main analyst at Ovum, said he deem the open of the app fills one of the clear application gaps on Microsoft’s newest smartphone platform. “At least in its preliminary appearance, Skype for Windows Phone presents a quite classic Skype experience on smartphones running as a separate application,” he said. “We imagine this to modify in future iterations with Skype flattering a more persistent part of the Windows Phone software platform and experience, with its functionality included strongly with applications and services diagonally the phone raising its value.”

Moreover, Cripps said this is an significant step in Microsoft’s plan to make Skype a omnipresent—and obvious—part of its produce portfolio, included anywhere it makes intellect to do so. He said an invasive Skype has greatly superior probable to interrupt offered models of communication than one that is deprived on users proactively choosing to ascertain it.

“In this ability, it might initiate to operate as social “glue” helping to drive practice of the service and furthering sales of Skype-enabled Microsoft products significantly in future,” he said. “It might ultimately help blur the lines among business users and consumers with Skype progressively more seen as simply a suitable tool to communication accessible everywhere.”