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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.
