Windows phone gets best apps iOS and android have to offer

Mass Effect, NBA Jam, Real Racing 2 and Tiger Woods on windows mobile? Yes! Yes! Yes!
Windows Phone is catching up in titles, but if you ask phone manufacturers who support Microsoft’s system - it’s not really catching up quick enough.Mass effectReal racing 2Tiger Woods Pga tourNba jam Nokia is the one company most dependant on Windows Phone and Microsoft for its future and that’s why it’s been pushing for more better apps quicker.

And now it gets them. Coming exclusively for Nokia Lumia Windows Phones are four of the best games available on mobile - Mass Effect Infiltrator, NBA Jam, Real Racing 2 and Tiger Wood PGA Tour 12. All games are made by Electronic Arts.

Mass Effect Infiltrator first launched on Xbox and now comes on WP. It’s a pure third-person shooter with controls optimized for touch so that tapping on an opponent locks the fire on them. The game costs $6.99.

NBA Jam brings a dose of basketball fantasy in just the right time as the NBA enters its finals phase. The game lets you play your team of two against another one and costs $2.99. Real Racing 2 is one of the best racing games bringing jaw dropping graphics and realistic physics. The game is available for $4.99. Finally, there is Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 allowing you to create a custom golfer with a neat system allowing you to better gauge your shot.These are some of the most anticipated games and getting them exclusively on Lumia would be something that might push gamers into buying a Nokia device. And N.O.V.A. 3 for Windows Phone is just around the corner. Exciting times, aren’t they?

source: WPCentral

Intelligent 4.7 inch windows 8 phone: runs the same operating system as your computer

Intelligent: runs the same operating system as your laptop

A small 4.7 inch device running windows 8 and capable of  replacing your computer. Well . . .Remember i-mate? The company used to make aluminum-clad, fairly compact smartphones in the dawn days of Windows Mobile, harking back to the early 2000s even.

Then its partnership with HTC fell flat, board members were accused of fraud, and we haven't seen anything from it for a few years already, just knew it relocated to Redmond, WA. That's until Microsoft came out with Windows 8. Although it said its new touch-oriented OS is not to be shoehorned in a phone, at least not yet, as it is not optimized for the smaller screens, i-mate went ahead and did just that.

The first phone running Windows 8 (not WP8) is apparently going by the clever codename Intelegent, and will be sold later this year at a $750 price point without any carrier subsidies, with GSM and CDMA radios inside.

With a 4.7" 1280x768 pixels HD screen, Intel Atom processor inside, 2 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, and an 8 MP camera, it will certainly be a very interesting proposition, be it only to see how i-mate solved the puzzle to fit the Win 8 interface on display of this size. Well, tiles are tiles, we guess, and Win 8 certainly supports that resolution, plus a 3000 mAh battery is going to back up the show, so endurance should be on par with modern smartphones, considering the frugal Atom CPU, which Intel said it provided know-how for when i-mate approached it 18 months ago. The CEO Morrison claims 10 hours of talk time and 6 hours of video playback, which is about the smartphone norm these days.

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They did have to build their own cellular connectivity interface, complete with a dialer and backend APIs, as Win 8 isn't meant for phone calls, so they get routed through the Lync communication software, but the system i-mate built goes around the wake-up times needs of the full desktop OS, and takes just 45 milliseconds to respond and pick up an incoming call.

Another interesting detail, however, is that the Intelegent will have a docking system, similar to the Asus Padfone franchise, with a tablet screen option to which the phone can beam videos wirelessly, for example. That whole kit is expected to cost $1600, but hasn't been demonstrated in the videos the company showed. Now all that is left is for i-mate to iron out the kinks and put the Intelegent on sale for a pretty interesting experiment. Its CEO Jim Morrison thinks that with the upcoming Windows Blue update, which is scaled for smaller screens, the task will be even easier.

source: PCWorld

More Women own smartphones than men do

The smartphone market is quickly moving towards maturity and this latest infographic summarizing stats from the United Kingdom is a good illustration. Smartphones are penetrating people of all demographics and age, with more women owning a smartphone in the UK and more people in their mid forties to seventies owning a smart handset.

In only a couple of years smartphone penetration surged from 38% in 2010 to 60% in 2013. Interestingly, while in 2010 the survey showed that 63% of smartphone owners were men, now that has changed and there are more women owning a smartphone, 58%, according to eDigitalResearch and IMRG.

There is a lot of other interesting facts showing how smartphones become truly universal and widespread among all kinds of people in theworld