Month: March 2014

Best News Apps for Windows Phone

The Windows Store has a good collection of news apps that can bring you the latest headlines and stories, as well as offer you enough options to customize the app to suit your reading tastes.

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Office Lens Turns Your Windows Phone Into a Mobile Scanner

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It sounds like something out of the future…having your phone actually scan things in real life and turning them into digital files. To be honest things like this have been out for a while in some form or another but today Microsoft has published the final version of Office Lens for Windows Phone that does exactly this. Now, Office Lens has been in beta for a while so you may already have been using it but it is great that it is finalized now.

Waning iPhone Market Share Could Provide Opportunities for a Windows Phone Surge

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When you’re contemplating buying a new smartphone, Windows Phone is not an option that immediately springs to mind. However, going by a statement from Microsoft as early as this Jan, it seems the device has been steadily making its way into more and more hands in as many as 24 different markets worldwide with over 14 markets claiming it to be the #2 smartphone operating system used. With flagship devices like the Nokia Lumia 928, 1020, and 1520, as well as affordable ones such as the Lumia 520, 625, and 1320, the prospects for Windows Phone to provide a stiff challenge to the superior iPhone certainly seems brighter.