Windows Phone 7 News

Scan to OneNote with Office Lens for Windows Phone

Today, the Office Team has announced Office Lens. Office Lens is essentially a scanner in your pocket that uses your Windows Phone’s camera to take pictures of things like business cards, restaurant menus, and notes on whiteboards or blackboards – and scans them to OneNote. Download Office Lens today from the Windows Phone Store. Office Lens: Before and afterYou can use Office Lens to scan almost anything you want into OneNote. When you scan something in using Office Lens, it will make...

03-17-2014, 19:14 by Windows Team Blog

NCAA March Madness Live now available in the Windows Phone Store

I just posted that NCAA March Madness Live is now available in the Windows Store for Windows PCs and Tablets but it also available for your Windows Phone too! Download NCAA March Madness Live from the Windows Phone Store!  NCAA tournament games start next week and with NCAA March Madness Live, fans can participate in the Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge, enjoy Live Tile updates right on their Start screen with the latest scores, news and video highlights, and also watch...

03-13-2014, 20:32 by Windows Team Blog

Windows Phone, KEXP and SXSW—three things that are better together

It’s that time of the year when it seems like everybody’s heading to Austin, Texas. South by Southwest is one of the nation’s premier festivals featuring music, film and interactive. But to call it a mere “festival” doesn’t really do it justice—to fully grasp this extravaganza, you need to be there. But if you’re not among the masses, Windows Phone is teaming up with KEXP to bring you the next best thing. From March 12th to 14th you’ll get ultimate access to a free all-ages...

03-12-2014, 20:37 by Windows Team Blog

Windows Phone heads to the North Pole with adventurer Eric Larsen

Starting tomorrow, Eric Larsen and his 3-person team of adventurers will start off on an epic journey to traverse the Arctic Ocean from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. The goal: break the current expedition speed record that was set in 2006 by a Norwegian team to cover the nearly 500-mile distance to the North Pole in less than 49 days. To break the record, the expedition will travel across dangerous terrain that will be an increasingly unstable ice pack and shifting...

03-06-2014, 22:41 by Windows Team Blog

Race The Stig from BBC’s Top Gear! #RaceStig

I love show Top Gear. So when I saw that BBC had released the game Race The Stig today, I quickly downloaded it from the Windows Phone Store. It was the reason why I was late coming into work this morning (woops!). The game is super fun. You essentially go head-to-head with Top Gear’s very own tame racing driver - The Stig! As you play, you speed through iconic Top Gear locations driving the series’ most recognizable cars like Richard Hammond’s beloved Oliver, Jeremy Clarkson’s...

03-06-2014, 20:59 by Windows Team Blog

8 year old kid builds Windows Phone app using App Studio

Last night, an article written by Cal Borchers at BetaBoston was sent to me that was too awesome to pass up doing a short blog post about and linking to. Cal recently stopped by Microsoft in Cambridge and met one of Boston’s newest developers: 8 year old Mohamed Tariq Jaffar Ali (he goes by Tariq). You can read Tariq’s story here but he essentially followed his father to a Nokia DVLUP Day back in November and joined a class they had on Windows Phone App Studio (currently in beta). His app...

03-05-2014, 22:18 by Windows Team Blog

Facebook Messenger arrives in the Windows Phone Store

Last week at Mobile World Congress, it was announced that Facebook Messenger was coming to Windows Phone. And today it’s here! You can now download Facebook Messenger from the Windows Phone Store.  With Facebook Messenger, you will be able to see who’s online for a private or group chat, send a private message, and bring messages to life with pictures and stickers. You can also share your location so people can know if you are nearby. All your Facebook friends are automatically adder...

03-05-2014, 3:16 by Windows Team Blog

FIFA 14 now available in the Windows Phone Store

One of the most authentic football games is now available for download in the Windows Phone Store: FIFA 14. FIFA 14 brings real players, real teams, and real leagues right to your Windows Phone where you can use touch controls to pass, shoot, and tackle right on the field in stadiums from around the world. Featuring 33 leagues, more than 600 licensed teams and more than 16,000 players, from the English Premier League and La Liga to the German Bundesliga and more - it’s the ultimate football...

02-28-2014, 17:10 by Windows Team Blog

Here’s the latest Next Big Thing – our latest collection of amazing new apps and games

We’re always watching to see what independent developers are going to come up with for Windows Phone. And every month, we add our favorites to The Next Big Thing Collection. Here are a few new games we’ve added for this month we think you should check out: Finding TeddyA little girl’s teddy bear was stolen as she slept, and now you’re following her into a dark cupboard to find the monster who took it. It’s a mysterious, magical world of pixilated fun, with monsters, oddities and...

02-27-2014, 20:06 by Windows Team Blog

Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8

A lot of you folks know me as “the Windows Phone guy.” Over the past five years I’ve been co-managing the Windows Phone product team on a mission to make Windows Phone a delightful and successful platform. Recently my job changed to focus not just on Windows Phone but also on the user experience of Windows 8 and future versions of Windows. Today Nick Parker and I had a chance to talk to media and analysts from around the world attending Mobile World Congress in...

02-23-2014, 14:30 by Windows Team Blog

Update from SkyDrive to OneDrive now live for Windows Phone 8

If you’ve installed the SkyDrive app on your Windows Phone, head on over to the Windows Phone Store and get the update for OneDrive. SkyDrive is now OneDrive! The update also brings along a new thumbnail view, improved view of shared files, the ability to share multiple items at once, the ability to pin folders to your Start screen, open your OneDrive files in other apps, and bug fixes and performance improvements.   And if you don’t have the OneDrive app installed, get it...

02-19-2014, 21:52 by Windows Team Blog

Keep track of your valuables with Nokia Treasure Tag

Today, Nokia has announced Treasure Tag to help you keep track of valuable things like your car keys, wallet, or even your bag. Treasure Tag is a small 30 x 30 x 10mm device that gets paired to your Lumia Windows Phone via NFC or Bluetooth. Once you do that, you’ll be asked to download the Nokia Treasure Tag app from the Windows Phone Store. Once you get out of range of whatever you have “tagged”, both your Lumia Windows Phone and the Treasure Tag will emit a loud tone to alert you. If...

02-19-2014, 20:30 by Windows Team Blog

New and Updated Bing Apps for Windows Phone

Today, the Bing Team is announcing a comprehensive update for their existing Bing apps on Windows Phone (Bing News, Bing Finance, Bing Weather, and Bing Sports) and introducing 3 brand new apps: Bing Food & Drink, Bing Health & Fitness, and Bing Travel. Along with fresh features, your personalized content from all 7 of the Bing apps will now roam across all your Windows devices. For example: any places you’ve added in the Bing Weather app will now roam and sync between your Windows...

02-18-2014, 18:11 by Windows Team Blog

Marvel Run Jump Smash! comes to Windows Phone

As I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, I’m a huge fan of Marvel and Marvel games. So whenever there is an opportunity to promote a new Marvel game, I’ll take it. Marvel Run Jump Smash! is now available in the Windows Phone Store for $.99 (U.S) ( the game is listed in the Windows Phone Store as “RJS!”). In Marvel Run Jump Smash!, you play as superhero characters like Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, or super spy Black Widow and you run, jump, and smash your way...

02-17-2014, 19:42 by Windows Team Blog

Nokia Lumia Icon, a video star with Windows Phone 8, comes to Verizon Wireless Feb 20

Verizon Wireless has a big red valentine for anybody who loves to take and share mobile video: The new $199 Nokia Lumia Icon, which goes on sale Feb. 20 and sports some of the best recording technology packed into any smartphone. The phone, which comes in black or white, is available for preorder starting today from any brick-and-mortar Microsoft Store, and if you grab one from Microsoft before March 16, you’ll get a free Nokia Wireless charger. What’s so awesome about Nokia’s latest...

02-12-2014, 18:55 by Windows Team Blog