Over the weekend Microsoft launched their all new, responsive and modern looking homepage to the world. The update to the corporate homepage isn’t anything new. Microsoft, it seems, goes through some sort of homepage shift every few months from a design and look-and-feel perspective. This one however feels much more modern and I suspect (rather hope) that this one sticks around a while.
AT&T has updated their smartphone section of their website to show that the all new Lumia 640XL is “coming soon” to the carrier. While there is no date associated with the update on their page, it is generally believed that the Lumia 640XL and the Lumia 640 will both be available around mid-April with pre-orders possibly happening as soon as this week. You might remember that AT&T will have the exclusive on the Lumia 640XL in the United States – at least for now – with T-Mobile and MetroPCS picking up the Lumia 640 along with AT&T.
With Mobile World Congress wrapped up for 2015, Microsoft has created and shared a quick video highlighting the big announcements from the company this year. The video is just over a minute long and available on the Microsoft Lumia channel on YouTube. You can watch it here after the break.
The big highlights from MWC 2015 for Microsoft circled around the all new Lumia 640, Lumia 640XL, more information shared about Windows 10 for Phones and Windows 10 as a whole while even the Surface Hub got a bit of attention as did Universal apps. While Microsoft clearly didn’t have a huge presence at Mobile World Congress this year, the announcements were important and I think gave a good indication of where Redmond is going to be focused in 2015.
Every once in a while I see a beta version of an app that is so much better – so dramatically improved over the current production app – that I actually recommend it be installed. The new Audible for Windows Phone beta is one of those. If you have read this site any amount of time you know that I warn against installing beta software. It tends to be buggy, do strange and often unexplained things, and it often is just not ready for primetime. I’m not suggesting you won’t run into these issues with the new Audible beta. What I am suggesting however is that it is so much better and more stable than the production version, even if you see a bug pop up it’ll be less than what you get today.
Yes, it’s that much better.
Last month I reviewed the great Readly/RSS reader NextGen Reader which is my personal favorite reader available for both Windows and Windows Phone. You can read that review here and in that review I point out that the app is a Universal app. That means if you buy it for Windows or for Windows Phone, you get the counterpart as part of the license. Normally this is $2.99 but this weekend you can pick up Nextgen Reader for both Windows and Windows Phone for only $2.49. Do yourself a favor and get this great app if you read a lot of RSS news and have a Feedly account.
NextGen Reader for Windows Phone – $2.99 (Universal App) – Download Now
NextGen Reader for Windows – $2.99 (Universal App) – Download Now