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Last.fm Streams music based on your favorite tunes. Free subscription for Windows Phone users. |
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TuneIn Radio 50,000 stations, 1.2 million feeds from around the world on your phone. |
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Podcasts! Bypass Zune by managing and downloading podcasts direct to your handset. |
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Shazam Identify songs, lyrics and bios then buy tracks through Zune. |
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Soundhound An alternative to Shazam, Soundhound also features social sharing. |
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TuneWiki Listen to any music with synced lyrics. Get lyrics instantly translated into 40+ languages. |
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Amazing Music This excellent app lets you find and stream all the best music direct to your phone. |
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Audible Access a huige library of audiobooks from the web’s premium provider of spoken word stories. |
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MetroRadio Stream Pandora radio to your Windows Phone. Limited to North America, supports album art and background playback. |
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MusicTube Enjoy music from YouTube on your phone with this app which downloads videos and rips the soundtrack as MP3 |
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Sleep Trouble sleeping? This tool combines 10 basic sounds to help you to drift away on a night. |
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Spotify browse and play the millions of tracks over WiFi or 3G, supports offline playlists and syncs with your PC. |
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Fastball 2 Guide a perpetually rolling ball across 105 action packed levels. |
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Angry Birds ($0.99) Kill green pigs with catapults, birds and realistic physics. |
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Wordament Find words in random selections of letters, beat online opponents |
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Civilization Revolution ($2.99) Mobile version of Sid Meier’s legendary world conquest game. |
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Max and the Magic Marker ($0.99) Cute platform puzzler, draw solutions for Max to escape. |
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Rocket Riot ($4.99) Frantic retro-themed shooter, great graphics and soundtrack. |
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Taptitude 60 games, all free, with online leaderboards for competitive play. |
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International Snooker ($2.99) Hugely playable snooker game with rich 3D graphics and tournament mode. |
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Armed! ($2.99) Excellent futuristic RTS with solo and online multiplayer options. |
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Doodle God ($0.99) Use fire, water, earth and air to build a civilization from scratch. |
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SurvivalCraft ($3.99) Minecraft-esque sandpit with map editor and sharing tools. |
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Ilomilo ($4.99) Quirky platform/puzzler, striking game design and very playable. |
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Call of Carlos Guide Carlos out of the mine and evade the threat of rising lava! |
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Air Soccer Fever Air hockey game with multiplayer over wifi and 3G |
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Titan Command an awesome upgradeable giant robot investigating a lost space base, taking on a range of enemies. |
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Cracking Sands Off road racing, done brutal. Weapon-equipped vehicles fight to reach the finish line in first place – awesome! ($2.99) |
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Extraction A top down 3D shooter featuring biologically infected soldiers that you must kill as a Private Military Contractor. ($0.99) |
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Gun Bros A free Xbox Live title featuring slick graphics and gun toting gameplay. Lots of bullet-firing fun. |
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Infinite Flight Arguably as good as Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Infinite Flight puts you in the cockpit of 13 planes over 2 regions and includes flight lessons. ($4.99) |
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Final Fantasy ($6.99) The game that started it all, this is a port of the retro RPG classic. |
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Radiant Retro-style space shooter featuring over 100 levels, 6 upgradeable weapons, over 10 bosses and a bucket full of 8-bit affection. ($1.99) |
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Texas Holdem Poker Play cards on your Windows Phone against real players with this free, online club game featuring live chat and fast registration. |
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Xbox SmartGlass A remote device for Xbox 360, enabling you to swipe and tap to navigate the console, use your phone keypad to enter text and enjoy additional content. |
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Angry Birds Star Wars ($0.99) Defeat the Empire of Pigstroopers with lightsabers, blasters, the Force and the usual physics. Also includes R2-D2 and C-3PO bonus levels Download | Full review |
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Word Arena Players around the world compete on 4×4 grids of letters to find the most words. The fun lasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
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Doodle Devil ($2.99) The antithesis to Doodle God, the aim is to work with the Doodle Devil to destroy everything that has been created! |
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Radiant Defense A tower defense take on the popular Radiant shooter, with 9 upgradable weapons and 300 waves of alien attacks over 12 missions. |
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Dredd vs Zombies Pretty much what you would expect – Judge Dredd takes on zombies, with a choice of weapons and various equipment upgrades. Great fun! |
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Contre Jour ($2.99) A fascinating and unusual game, the aim is to guide Petit to safety, using visually stunning landscape features as portals, slingshots and more. |
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Rise of Glory ($2.99) First World War flight simulator pitching you into aerial combat against enemy forces in wooden propeller-driven biplanes. Features a multiplayer mode and storyline. |
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Little Acorns ($0.99) Amusing and charming Xbox Live platformer, the aim being to guide Mr Nibbles as he collects acorns across 80 massive levels. |
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Run the Map Record and analyze outdoor activities such as walking, running and cycling. |
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Weather View Check weather across a 10 day period in many cities around the world. |
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Microsoft Weather Default choice for Windows Phone will city-centric Live tile updates. |
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Where Is My Car Mark your parking location with GPS to find your way back. |
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Compass Uses gyroscope for motion detection, displays direction and degrees. |
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Weather Stats Provides monthly weather stats 26,820 cities in 250 countries worldwide. |
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Skymap Augmented reality planetarium app, displays planet and constellation names. |
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Weather Flow ($1.99) Combines typical weather options with predictive feature based on previous day. |
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WeatherLive ($0.99) useful Bing-integrated weather app with comprehensive data and radar. |
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Endomondo Sports Tracker Measure duration, distance, speed and calories for any outdoor activity. |
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Amazing Weather HD ($1.99) Up-to-date weather produced with style, includes live HD animations, a 7 day overview and location options. Also includes 5 live tile options. Download |
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Runtastic Excellent personal fitness app for outdoor and indoor activities. Enables you to track activities, uses GPS to record time, distance, burned calories, speed and more. |
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Total C25K Aims to get you off the couch and running 5 kilometres in just 30 minutes with a 9 week program of training. |
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Image Map Plus ($1.99) Recall where you snapped your photos using GPS and localization options. |
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Fhotoroom 130 HQ filters on this camera app with editing and social sharing. |
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Pictures Lab ($2.99) Add filters, effects crop and rotate photos for the best results. |
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Draw Free! Finger drawing app, can also edit/manipulate existing images. |
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Flickr Snap and share images with your Flickr account, browse feeds. |
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Fantasia Painter ($1.99) Enables subtle image editing, touchups and merges. Powerful. |
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Morfo ($1.99) Morph photos into objects, animate and add amusing voices. |
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PhotoTimer Adds timed delay to camera so you can appear in your own photos! |
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Photobucket Snap, upload and browse and download images from Photobucket with your WP. |
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Turbo Camera ($0.99) Burst camera app, take as many as 30 fps with each single shot. |
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Phototastic Free Collect your favourite images in stylish collages, with a selection of templates and effects to choose from! |
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Blink If snapping photos is a problem for you, this app records what happens before you press the camera button and removes camera shake! |
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Lomogram With 42 filters, 72 lighting effects and 49 borders, crop, rotate and flip tools and social sharing, this is the closest you’ll get to Instagram on Windows Phone. |
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Super Camera Create GIFs, add filters and share the results with this versatile app. Includes a range of editing and social sharing options. |
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TurnMe Panorama If you have any panorama images saved to your phone, TurnMe Panorama uses motion detection allowing you to view the photo as your move around. |
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Camera Roll Sync Overcome the shortcomings of Windows Phone photo uploads to SkyDrive and make sure your snaps are permanently uploaded as and when they’re taken. |
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Ztitch Providing the ability to create 360 degree panoramas from a series of photos, results can be shared and uploaded to Bing Maps. |
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Handyscan ($2.99) Scan documents and save as PDF for cloud storage/emailing. |
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ToDo Free Task list management with Windows Phone Live Tile support |
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NanoMemo Adds super-fast memo live tiles to your Start screen. |
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My Expenses Expenses and account management app, Dropbox and XLS files support. |
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BookMyShow Movie and cinema listings can be checked and booked with this app. |
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1App Budget Free budget management software, supports import/export to Google Docs. |
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Tasks Task management with Outlook/MS Exchange support. Unmissable. |
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Evernote Ultimate note-taking app, voice, text and photo support. |
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Stock Analysis Real-time updates on stocks and quotes with this mashup app. |
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Prime TV ($0.99) Never miss a broadcast of your favourite TV show with this tracker. |
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MoBudget Designed to handle the most simple or the most complex finances, moBudget is scalable but also provides hints as to where you might make savings. Download |
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Top Task List Attach your tasks to the Start screen and assign colours and priorities with this elegant task organizer. |
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[+]Note Plus Free Easy to use memo app, notes can be locked with a password to deter prying eyes. [+]Note Plus Free also has SkyDrive sync support. |
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Stock & Options Lite Offering multiple views and the facility to call and put options, built-in intelligence aids in making the right choice with your stock transactions. |
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Moneycontrol Provides real-time stock quotes, this app is India-centric but provides international markets and live financial TV news. |
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Can I Stream It? Been wondering if you can watch a particular TV show or movie on Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc? Can I Stream It? searches and tells you when it is available. |
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Dictionary.com Ultimate lexicon reference, includes content from Thesaurus.com. |
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Fox News Read news, view video clips and get breaking news on your phone. |
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Economic Times Mobile business news latest with stock market recommendations and social sharing. |
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Amazon Kindle Access Kindle account, sync books and read on your Windows Phone |
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Weave Slick newsreader with 180 pre-loaded sources and social sharing options. |
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Nextgen Reader ($1.99) Google Reader client with social sharing and pin feeds to Start screen. |
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Periodic Table Pro Images and details of all elements, plus a training game. |
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WPCentral ($0.99) Official app of go-to Windows Phone website with news, tips, reviews. |
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Allrecipes Official app of popular food site with thousands of recipes to use. |
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Geek Library ($3.99) Manages cloud syncronization of eBooks, movies, music and games on your WP. |
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IMDb Probably the best mobile app for IMDb, slick presentation. |
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USA Today Latest news, sport and weather from the popular network. |
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WikiPanda Browse and share Wikipedia articles in all popular languages. |
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Wonder Reader ($1.99) Enables reading of Google Reader feeds from your Windows Phone. |
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Lindy Comics ($0.99) Read comic files in CBR/CBZ format stored in your Dropbox account. |
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PDF Reader Microsoft’s replacement for Adobe Reader, this is the best of a bad bunch of PDF readers on Windows Phone. Download |
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BBC News Mobile Provides fast, Metro-style access to BBC News, includes sharing options and voice for listening to the news as you travel. |
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Location Alarm Prone to sleeping on trains? Use this to set “wake up points.” |
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SBSH SafeWallet Manages passwords and account data, with Dropbox sync and 256 bit encryption. |
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IP Camera Viewer Access any IP camera in the world, great for home security. |
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Burglar Alarm Sentry Bot Detects motion or sound, alarm activated by proximity when armed. |
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Baby Monitor Use Windows Phone to monitor baby with your PC mic and webcam. |
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eBay Search, bid, and win auctions or check progress of items you’re selling. |
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Amazon Mobile Search Amazon and shop with your phone. Includes barcode price comparison. |
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Shopping List Create checklists for shopping, marking off items as you pick them up. |
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RedLaser Scan barcodes and find the best deals on Google, eBay and beyond. |
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Newegg Search the Newegg service, read reviews and shop with confidence. |
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Groupon Find great deals in your local area with phone-based discount coupons. |
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DiscountCalc If you’re shopping online or off and multiple discounts are offered, use this calculator to work out your savings. |
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Liquor Run Thirsty? You needn’t be with this app, designed to help you find the nearest liquor stores and off licences to get that party started. |
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Shared Shopping List Intelligent shopping list app that can be shared between Windows Phone devices, with support for Live Tiles. |
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Gadget Junkie Find and purchase tech, electronics and the coolest gadgets from this curated collection from sources such as ThinkGeek. |
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Amazon Fresh Order fresh fruit with your new books thanks to Amazon Fresh, which enables you to place orders and check past purchases wherever you are. |
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The Home Depot Browse and shop online at The Home Depot without risking that Sunday morning car parking nightmare. |
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Whatsapp Cross platform messenger similar to BBM, send text, images, audio and video. |
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MyTextTwister Text message fun, incorporates and ASCII art generator. |
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IM+ Cross-network IM with Skype chat, Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo! and more. |
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Poynt Local search app ideal for finding restaurants, events, people and gas prices |
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Twitter Official app is the most reliable despite strong competition. |
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Link2in ($0.99) Comprehensive LinkedIn options available, status updates, profiles and messaging. |
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Skype Text, voice and video calling over 3G or Wi-Fi.Rear-facing camera ideal. |
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4th & Mayor Foursquare client to aid in discovering highlights in a new city. |
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GoVoice Google Voice app with text and voicemail options for long distance communication. |
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UC Browser A great browser that supports text splicing, file uploads and faster browsing speeds via Thunder mode. |
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Talkbox TalkBox sends messages with your voice or with text input. Features PTT, photo and location sharing, group chats. |
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LinkedIn Official app for the popular professional social networking service, offering extended features beyond the native integration. |
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MeTweets ($1.49) An extremely easy to use Twitter app, with all of the features you would expect. |
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Facebook for WP8 The official Facebook app sucks. This one doesn’t. Provides access to profiles, pictures, apps and pages. |
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Facebook+ Another alternative, this app offers fluid, desktop-like access to the popular social network, and includes access to chat/messaging. |
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Tweeter Provides access to the mobile version of Twitter. Slightly smaller text than usual, ignores Metro styling but versatile. |
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Rowi ($1.49) Arguably the best Twitter app for Windows Phone, supports photos, multiple accounts, sharing with email and text and much more. |
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Connection Tiles Create Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity shortcuts on the Start screen. |
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Wiztiles Pro ($1.29) Create colourful and themed tiles to customize your Start screen. |
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WP Shortcut Tiles Range of preset shortcut Start screen tiles for connectivity, messaging and more. |
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Connectivity shortcuts More Start screen connectivity toggle tiles. |
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RapDialer Rapid dialling for Windows Phone, avoid using People Hub to call contacts. |
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7Dialer Predictive search tool to quickly find contacts and call them. |
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Easy Connect Enables the addition of connectivity shortcuts to your Start screen as tiles. |
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SkyDrive Enhances native functionality, adds browsable interface to default cloud storage service. |
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BoxFiles for Dropbox Access Dropbox data, share with SkyDrive, share snaps from Pictures Hub. |
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Lindybox ($0.99) Displays Dropbox folders, enables reading of PDFs and Office docs. |
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FileBox The most complete access you will get to Dropbox on a Windows Phone, offering view, move, copy and edit, uploading and downloading from and to your handset. |
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Box For many, Box is the ultimate cloud storage solution and this official app for Windows Phone offers comprehensive access to your data. |
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AppDeals Save money on apps with notifications of developer discounts and free promotions. |
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Store Deals Find free and discount apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace |
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Ask Ziggy Brings Siri-like functionality, integrates with Yelp and native calendar. |
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VoiceTranslator Uses the cloud to translate spoken phrases. Several languages supported. |
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Translator Translates speech, input text and any text captured from photographing documents. |
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Flashlight-X Uses camera LED flash to provide instant-on lamp with SOS mode. |
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Calculator Toolbox Useful collection of calculators, tips, mortgage, loan, calendar – 32 in total. |
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Measure Note ($1.99) Use your camera to measure length and distance, integrates with Bing Maps. |
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Reinstaller PC-free reinstallation of all apps and games on your Windows Phone |
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PC Remote Control mouse and keyboard, media services and PowerPoint from your phone. |
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OverDrive Media Console Download EPUB-format ebooks and audiobooks from local libraries. |
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Calculator² The smart calculator for Windows Phone. Includes 5 unique calculators: Basic, Scientific, Programmer, Currency Converter, and Unit Converter. |
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Carpenter’s Friend Unit converter, protractor, spirit level, even a plumb bob are included in this amazing free Windows Phone app. |
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Netflix Use your subscription to access TV shows and movies on your phone. |
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easyTube ($0.99) All-round YouTube app, remote control, account access, viewing and download. |
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MSN Video Video content from the MSN homepage, including news, sport, tutorials and more. |
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Vimeo Upload videos, browse your account and view clips from other users. |
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FlashVideo+TubeMusic ($3.99) Downloads videos in Flash format from many popular websites. br> Download |
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PrimeTube The most elegant way to access YouTube from your Windows Phone device. |
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Flash Videos ($0.99) Brings Adobe Flash support to Windows Phone, enabling the viewing of streamed video media at last! |
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myVideos 3D+ Free Think Instragram for videos – adds filters, allows viewing of your SkyDrive video content in 3D and much more. |
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Crackle Enjoy movies and TV shows on your Windows Phone for free with 20 new titles added each month. |
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Video Diary Supporting Dropbox and SkyDrive, this app allows you to record, organise and set reminders for your personal video diary! |
Disclaimer: All apps listed were thoroughly reviewed. MakeUseOf is not responsible for any damage and/or data loss
that might result from use of any of the above mentioned extensions.
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Hmm… This thing could be added somewhere: http://bit.ly/WPSolarCharger
And this to productivity: http://bit.ly/LinuxCheatsheet
Some apps that are missing are:
WhatsApp
YouTube
TuneWiki
Foursquare
Viber
Google Maps
eBuddy
Nimbuzz
fring
Socially
Opera
Any GPS apps?
I am happy to see most of my most-often-used apps are on here!
I would like to say, however, that after trying around a dozen calculator apps, I like Calculator2 http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/b7b925e4-1c74-4c2b-8751-0cc6cf8eee6e
(Pro version: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/80ab181f-e01b-483c-8bca-66b302a77df6 )
Anyway, try it out; explore it!
You should definitely check out Photosynth by Microsoft. It is one of the best panorama and possibly only 360 degree photo applications.
furthermore it is free!
No books for kids or grown ups on this site. Why? Windows phone does fantastic audio books. Check out polar fish books http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=polar+fish on the marketplace. Some are free with audio and pictures too. You kind of follow the story along like a karaoke thing only it’s being read to you.
There isn’t as well the most beautiful app of the moment http://www.windowsphone.com/it-IT/apps/319fc48e-80b9-4fa1-b70c-4360cc395cb1
The best organization and note tool, Memo Complete, is not on the list. However it looks to be newer than when this list was created. Check it out at: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/e82a77cf-fab5-425f-acf2-cdfc9b3ee7e0
The free (Lite) version is at: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/10566030-d585-46ee-acc0-3e6734d36f86.
Captures everything I need and it’s fast and easy to use.
amazing games !!!
fabulous !!!
thnx
MakeUseOf !!
I loved the games u hv chose here
You could add games Ricochet kills and shuriken ninja, great games!