Tag: Windows Phone

  • What is Microsoft doing right, and wrong for Windows Phone?

    Well to those who know me, I am an Windows Phone fan, so much so that my entire family now has windows phone (I bought them). But off late, I am unhappy about a few things that I need to voice it out.

    Windows Phone 8 showed immense promise to the world, with its Metro UI and 8.1 just enhanced it. But since then, Microsoft has been pretty much playing catch up with iOS and Google’s Android. Last it was known, Android had pretty much of 80% market share which is rather impressive if you also know that it is the newest software platform here. iOS, when launched, was based on Mac OS X and Microsoft always made its mobile OS and had often positioned it as the Business Phone. But Microsoft being the most experienced has had not been able to transform it all to this new OS.

    The Apps of the Ecosystem (more…)

  • Windows Phone 8.1 Backgrounds

    Well I know for those who are regular here (hardly, after I stopped posting regularly), I have been busy with tons and tons of work to complete. But in all this, one thing that kept me busy in this busy time of mine was the Windows Phone 8.1 Update. It has got tons of new features and in all probability should have been called Windows Phone 9! That is the huge upgrade.

    One of the many things that I found myself really hooked onto was the transparent tiles. So I decided to design a few of my own backgrounds for my phone. You can find all the 60 I made at following link. (more…)