Looking at switching from an IPhone to a Winmo device (Touch Pro 2 to be specific) but need to know if some of the applications i use everyday are available. and at what price (if not free)
Shazam:Music Identification. real simple.
Pandora:found a few Cabs around, but no mention of compatibility with WVGA screens.
Urban Spoon: basically a program that uses your current GPS position to locate nearby restaurants.
Fandango/I.TV: shows local theaters, play times. allows purchase of tickets through the program.
Units: quick and easy unit converter.
now, are all these available with a nice finger friendly interface?
thank's for taking your time to help me figure out what all is available.
crazy talk said:
Looking at switching from an IPhone to a Winmo device (Touch Pro 2 to be specific) but need to know if some of the applications i use everyday are available. and at what price (if not free)
Shazam:Music Identification. real simple.
Pandora:found a few Cabs around, but no mention of compatibility with WVGA screens.
Urban Spoon: basically a program that uses your current GPS position to locate nearby restaurants.
Fandango/I.TV: shows local theaters, play times. allows purchase of tickets through the program.
Units: quick and easy unit converter.
now, are all these available with a nice finger friendly interface?
thank's for taking your time to help me figure out what all is available.
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In my experience with WinMO, simple apps that do only one thing are rare. The iPhone developers are more on that path. With WinMo, you are more likely to find full featured apps. For instance, instead of having an app that will just find the info for a song, you will more likely find a music player with that ability. I think Pocket Music Player (?) can do that. Think more like what kind of apps are out there for windows, you tend to get clones of those for the mobile platform. That is good and bad. For a power user, it is good.
I do know that a good unit converter exists. I for get the name. For a good list of apps, lookup the 2008/2009 smartphone magazine winners and runner-ups for WinMo apps (search google for "best pps apps") and you will find it. It lists a lot of good apps. Also, look up "ppc freeware" for some other good sites.
Shazam exists, do a Google for MusicID, i have a feeling it is only available preinstalled by the carrier but i may well be wrong.
Don't know about the rest.
2- if it is not compatible the graphical layout will be smaller (but in most case it's all right)
3/4- Google maps or the Web do it
5- to many app on the web
D'rath
Yup...
As it's been said, Shazam, and Pandora already exist. I have Shazam MusicID running on my Kaiser on T-Mobile, and it works just fine.
For the other two, why not just use Windows Live (or Bing). Same things all in one app.
http://www.discoverbing.com/mobile/index.html
if you're in love with the iphone UI, then that's one thing. But I'll be real... damn if I understand why one would want to install multiple apps that do simple tasks, when you can have one that does multiple tasks.
To each his own, I s'pose.
Sean D. said:
As it's been said, Shazam, and Pandora already exist. I have Shazam MusicID running on my Kaiser on T-Mobile, and it works just fine.
For the other two, why not just use Windows Live (or Bing). Same things all in one app.
http://www.discoverbing.com/mobile/index.html
if you're in love with the iphone UI, then that's one thing. But I'll be real... damn if I understand why one would want to install multiple apps that do simple tasks, when you can have one that does multiple tasks.
To each his own, I s'pose.
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the Shazam Application is free? i believe i had heard somewhere it was pay per use.
i believe you underestimate the capabilities of both the Movie application and the "where to eat" application i am asking about. unless Bing can make totally random suggestions about restaurants wherever you are by taking your current GPS location and looking around.
i feel like i will get Smited here for posting this, but this is what i am talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTTIpM4L12s
also has reviews, menu, etc. i understand you can find places to eat with a simple google search. but that doesnt work when you have no idea where to start.
with the movie application you have the ability to read reviews, watch trailers, find show times at each theater, location and buy tickets. also has a normal TV guide. but i do not use that often. or can you easily do all this through the internet browser or other means?
i fear i may sound like a "Fanboy" for the IPhone, but i really am tired of the phones lackluster hardware and generally slow performance, and the less then appealing battery life.
but i do like these applications VERY much. they may only do one thing, but they do them extremely well. that's why i want to know if they are available on this platform because i am very interested in getting a Touch Pro2 when they become available.
As is typical with iphone vs WM, the iphone apps are going to look prettier. But the same things do, or can exist on WM.
I got Music ID here in the development & hacking section, for free. And it works fine on my Kaiser.
I *think* you can get movie reviews on Bing... I THINK! But I know you can find them, and get info about them, and where they're playing.
But it can get you random restaraunts from around you based on your gps, or cell tower location. You can find "restaurant" by typing, or speaking it.
for movie showtimes at nearby theateres, you can lookinto "flix" or "cinemo." flix is for the uk, franc, germany and soon to be for italy and spain too. Cinemo is for the US and Canada. They don't let you buy tickets, but they provide useful info. Both are hosted on this site, so look for it in the development and hacking forum.
orlandojumpoff said:
for movie showtimes at nearby theateres, you can lookinto "flix" or "cinemo." flix is for the uk, franc, germany and soon to be for italy and spain too. Cinemo is for the US and Canada. They don't let you buy tickets, but they provide useful info. Both are hosted on this site, so look for it in the development and hacking forum.
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thanks for the info!
finger friendly is rare in winmo as of now...
one more question, when using google maps, (or TomTom, etc) can the program pull address information from contacts?
say im in google maps can i just start typing "current location" in the "start" and have it figure out i mean where i am now? and for the "End" can i just start typing my contacts name and have it automatically enter my contacts address?
and when viewing a contact, can i just click their address and have it automatically pull up Google maps (or any other navigation application) and show me that location?
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one more question, when using google maps, (or TomTom, etc) can the program pull address information from contacts?
say im in google maps can i just start typing "current location" in the "start" and have it figure out i mean where i am now? and for the "End" can i just start typing my contacts name and have it automatically enter my contacts address?
and when viewing a contact, can i just click their address and have it automatically pull up Google maps (or any other navigation application) and show me that location?
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You can do the former, though not quite as you describe. You click the menu, go to Options and choose "Look up Contact". It then lists your contacts that have address info and will pop up the map to them and give you several options.
The latter you can't do with the built in Windows contact manager, but their might be a 3rd party one that can interface with Google Maps, I don't know.
crazy talk said:
i believe you underestimate the capabilities of both the Movie application and the "where to eat" application i am asking about. unless Bing can make totally random suggestions about restaurants wherever you are by taking your current GPS location and looking around.
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I think you're underestimating the Bing app. It's not just a web search. The Bing mobile app uses GPS or cell towers to locate you, and then offers local search for restaurants, gas prices, theatre / showtime listings, local businesses. It also gives local weather and traffic reports, AND has a GPS mapping app to give you directions to anywhere you find. And it can even do location-based web searches, pulling up wikipedia articles or news items about places you're near. And the whole thing is built with a finger-friendly interface (although it's still rough around some edges). Heck, it's even got voice-command -- click the "speak" button, say "sushi," and it'll list the nearest sushi places.
Bing might not have every last feature of Urban Spoon or the showtimes app you're talking about, but it certainly has a lot of power of its own.
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You can do the former, though not quite as you describe. You click the menu, go to Options and choose "Look up Contact". It then lists your contacts that have address info and will pop up the map to them and give you several options.
The latter you can't do with the built in Windows contact manager, but their might be a 3rd party one that can interface with Google Maps, I don't know.
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I am using the standard contacts app and have options for locating in Google maps, Bing (formerly live search), and Garmin XT. Garmin has a sub menu with locate and route to.
If you are running Google maps and you don't have 'locate in Google maps' in the menu for contacts let me know. I would like to find out what put it there.
By the way, as floatingfatman said, you can look up conacts in your mapping app. I can do this in Google maps, Bing, Garmin XT and Destinator.
Midomi is alot easier on the eyes than Musicid. As far as UrbanSpoon I wish there was an app for Winmo, but Bing is the next best thing. With emulators and all is there anyway to get it working on Winmo devices?
I have the touchpro2
midomi is a seems to be a really good app and it's free. it gives you the option to listen to a sample of the song, search youtube or buy the song. you could also hum or sing the song to start the search.
This is much more finger friendly than past versions of winmo. I'm sure it's still not up there with the iphone as far as that goes but it's getting a lot closer.
Hi,
I own a Nexus One and.. I love it. Though, I'd like more control; I don't like the regular home, widgets, apps and icons. So while I'm typing this I thought; why not create a list of the best apps/home/widgets/icons, except games, out there on the market.
If you like the idea, please send me a pm with a list of the apps/home/themes etc you think are good.
- Please send either a link with it or the complete name so I can find it and link it.
If this idea gets shot down, close the thread. If it doesn't, I think we can create a good list of apps for people that can't filter out the better apps on the market.
As you can see, I have put the focus on Home; it's where everything starts.
......Queue Crickets
I too would like to see a compiled list of the best-
Touchdown
Doplhin browser
Gdocs
Goggles
MixZing lite
Spare parts
Ultrasound (for driving my teenagers insane)
search for android network awards on google
Thei Title pretty much sums it up.
What I am looking for (with no result so far) is a site that has reviews of Market Apps, but with a twist.
Instead of looking at a few apps and rating them, I think it would be helpful if the reviewers went out and started to evaluate apps by genre. TO make my point clearer: when you are a newbie and you start looking around for common, everyday use tools like a Tasks Manager, Battery Widgets, RSS Feed Readers, etc the Market confronts you with a a sh*tload of Apps.
It sometimes looks as if every second active developer wrote one, and not they all clutter the Market. Of course you can go by the ratings, either the Market ones or ones supplied by like AppBrain, or you can go by download numbers. Still it comes down to painstakingly installing loads of different kinds to see which one suits you the most.
If anyone here knows about some blog or even threads on some forum where useful side-by-side comparisions can be found, reviews that list pros and cons of each App, maybe even show a feature matrix it sure would be a one hell of a simplifications for newbies as it would not require wading throuhg dozens of apps to find the one that does what you want it to do.
So does anyone know something? Or would maybe xda-developers offer a subforum dedicated to this, so a collaboration of this indeed time-consuming testing can be started? I would sure as hell be happy to help with it.
What do you guys think? Is trying out dozens of apps just a rite of passage? Or do you feel checking a matrix of features and a few screenshots in ONE place would make selectionf of your favorite RSS App easier as well?
I have a question: How can I make an app like those you can make with MakeMyApp by thirdlabs?
I want a panoramic app (you can choose this in Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone) and one page for every single thing. One page should access a Twitter Account, one should access a YouTube channel, one page for a Facebook account, one page for a Flickr account and one page for RSS News. And I want to have a Background picture in the app. How can I make such an app? Please help me I wanna learn how to program apps for WP7.
Sounds like you haven't done any development before. I don't know what MakeMyApp is, but if you're really interested in developing for Windows Phone, here are some places to check out.
This is the main developer hub. Register here, find educational resources, check on your apps ... Everything. http://create.msdn.com
These are the quickstart guides that got me through my very first app. You'll also want to check out msdn's Channel 9 for more education. http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/quickstarts
And get used to going here when you need to know how to use a certain method or class. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library
Good luck!
No, I haven't. I developed some apps for Android but I'm new to developing for Windows Phone 7
MakeMyApp is a place where you can make a WP7 app online and then use it on your phone for 72 hours through their own app. But their app doesn't work on Mango and the limitation to 72 hours is really annoying. You can check out their website here. It's very easy. All you have to do is upload a .png file for the tile, a bigger .png file for the background, give your App a name and then you can choose if you want to get news through RSS, videos from a certain YT channel, photos from Flickr or updates from FB and Twitter. And for all those things you can specify an "account" to get them from. E.g. you wanna have YT-Videos from the Annoying Orange you can choose YouTube, then type in YT-Acc or whatever and then you can type in realannoyingorange as YT-Username. And voilà, you've got an app with the YT vids from the realannoyingorange channel.
I just thought that that would be kinda easy to program...'Cause the only thing my app has to do is access a certain account from Twitter, FB, YT...
But thanks for those pages. I already know them and I have read a little bit, too. But it's a LOT to read
Hoing mods won't ban me/delete this post but I did a review of the Any.DO to do list app and just thought I should let you know if you want to check it out
Comments also welcome here and will take reviews if people have been looking at an app but are not sure about it, or want comparisons between certain apps. Hoping to give unbiased views but I cannot promise anything! Much love.
LINK: http://siloworks.tumblr.com/post/18799908602/anydoappreview
I've tried it and personally think that it's lacking a lot of options that I need. Options like reminders, lists etc... All in all, app is visually very appealing however it's too basic, so I've decided to stick with Astrid.
It has reminders on there, I even had one pop us this morning And how do you mean lists?