As of today the Nokia Lumia 800 is available in Belgium. This was announced two weeks ago at the special #LumiaBXL event hosted by Nokia Belgium. After the announcement they handed out a Lumia 800 for review purposes to every attending blogger, including myself. So for 2 weeks I set aside my HTC Titan and used the Lumia 800 as my primary phone. Click on read more, to find out what I think of this new Windows Phone.
Nokia announced today that their new Windows Phones, the Lumia 710 and 800 will be coming to Belgium on February 1st. With an ERP of 499€, the Lumia 800 will be available at every major retailer as well as at the three major Belgian mobile operators;Base, Mobistar and Proximus. At launch the Lumia 710 will be available exclusively on Proximus, with an ERP of 299€.
‘Belgian Apps’, an app I created to give users quick and easy access to apps created by Belgian WP7 developers. The crowd sourced database currently holds 178 apps created by over 40 developers. If you are a Belgian developer and would like your name and apps added to this list add the information to the comment section of this blogpost. For Marketplace info and screenshots of the app, click on read more.
With the Marketplace continually growing, it’s becoming more and more difficult to find apps that could provide local information. So I decided to create an app that will give users a list of all apps made by Belgians. Together with a spotlight section, recommending new Belgian apps every week. The list of apps is web based and can be updated separately from the application itself.
If you’re looking for a complete Windows Phone app to track usage of things like electricity, water, fuel. You might want to take a look at ConsoTracker, an app made by Infinite Square, makers of the Google reader client Readiculous. ConsoTracker makes great use of new possibilities introduced with the 7.5 update. Click on read more to find out more about this app. Continue reading
If your an avid reader of this blog you might want to take a look at the wpstories.be app for Windows Phone. The app is designed to closely resemble the lay out and design of this website. It gives you an overview of the 10 most recent blog posts with a short description and image. It’s available for free on the Marketplace. More information is available here.
Another app I recently published is No Agenda Jingles. This app comes preloaded with several of the most popular jingles used on the No Agenda Podcast starring Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak. Also known as “the greatest podcast in the universe”. Currently there are 15 jingles included, but more will be included in coming updates. More information about the app can be found here. More information on the No Agenda podcast can be found here.
About two weeks ago a new app of mine got published on the Marketplace. It’s called Flight instruments. It mimics the gauges found in the cockpit of most General Aviation aircraft. The compass and attitude indicator are driven by the motion API, whilst GPS data is used to get speed and altitude information. The application works best on a second generation Windows Phone, with a gyroscopic sensor. More information is available here
If you’re using an SSD in your system you might’ve noticed that after you install an update on your Windows Phone using Zune, you lost yet another 3GB of super fast storage. For that reason i decided to make a program that should make it easier to move the backup Zune created of your phone to another storage device and back again.
Ongeveer een week geleden werd mijn derde applicatie voor Windows Phone 7 toegelaten in de Marketplace. Deze applicatie draagt de naam “Noodnummers Vlaanderen” en is via deze link gratis te downloaden*. Dankzij deze app is het een kwestie van seconden voordat u de juiste nooddienst aan de lijn hebt. Al wat je in geval van nood moet doen, is de app opstarten, en je krijgt meteen een overzichtelijke lijst van de meest nuttige nooddiensten/ hulpdiensten te zien.** Naast een afbeelding krijg je ook nog de naam van de dienst te zien, zodat het vinden van de juiste dienst zo snel mogelijk kan gebeuren. Je hoeft maar op de gewenste dienst te drukken en je telefoon zal de juiste nummer draaien.