Shazam is one of my favourite apps, and I always wondered why it didn’t integrate with Nokia Music, specially now that Windows Phone 8 lets apps talk to each other. I tweeted this to the Shazam team, they responded. Fast forward a few months, and the integration is live.
@v4ibhav Good idea. We’ll pass it on to our product team. Check out the new upcoming releases for related updates. #shazamideas
— Shazam Support (@ShazamSupport) February 11, 2013
The brand new Shazam app for Windows Phone 8 now lets you simply tap on the …

While Nokia Maps and Drive (now rebranded as HERE Maps & Drive) have become available to other Windows Phone 8 users, the one location app that’s still a Nokia exclusive is City Lens. HERE City lens is an app that use augmented reality to show users points of interest around them. It uses a live feed from the camera’s viewfinder and places POIs on top of what you’re seeing through it, thus letting you know what is where.

This application has been available for a while, but despite all this time I …

We’ve seen Open Mobile’s implementation of brining Android apps to Tizen before, but that method involves deployment on a platform level. The Open Mobile code needs to be a part of the Tizen code before the Android apps can be run on Tizen. Infraware, the company behind the Polaris App Player has a different approach.

The way this works in that they have a solution called PAG (Polaris App Generator) that lets the developer upload an Android app (APK) and it converts it into a TPK file that can be installed …

Nokia’s Creative Studio has come a long way since it first came out. Its not only much faster, but it pretty much enables you to do anything with photos that you could think of. Earlier it allowed you to the basics – crop, rotate, add filters, adjust the colour balance, brightness, vibrancy, clarity and remove red eyes, quickly and easily. But the new update takes the Creative Studio’s abilities to a new level, enter …

With each passing day, the app situation on Windows Phone seems to get better and better. In the past few weeks seen brand  new Twitter and Facebook apps, a HDFC Bank app, Hulu Plus, Fidelity app, Open Table, better Skype and Viber etc, and today updated versions of the YouTube and Foursquare apps have hit the Windows Phone store.
The YouTube app is now an actual app, as opposed to the mobile website wrapper than the old ‘app’ was. You now have YouTube in the Metro UI, can sign in with your account, …

Just today afternoon I was filling in a survey that Nokia had sent out about which apps I thought were lacking. One such app that I had a lot of say about was Facebook. Microsoft’s all metro Facebook app just wasn’t cutting it, and I always resorted to using Facebook in the browser because of that. Space was wasted, the UI was completely different from Facebook’s other offerings, and using it was otherwise frustrating as well.

Thankfully you do not need to deal with that anymore. A brand new beta has …

It is very seldom that Windows Phone gets apps before iOS and Android, but that seems to be the case here. The Jet Airways app for Windows Phone has just become available, and it is a great 1.0 release. The app is fully featured, and lets you book tickets, check flight status, manage your JetPrivilege account, and avail special offers among other things.

Just like the BA app that was demoed with the Windows Phone 8 release, Jet Airways also lets you pin the booked ticket onto the homescreen for …

Whats App performance on Windows Phone has never been great. It was especially bad on Windows Phone 7.5, but with Windows Phone 8 it became much better. However, its been far from seamless and severely lacking in comparison to its iOS and Android clients. Fortunately, it seems things are about to change. WP Central has news of a major Whats App update thats in the works, and it promises to greatly improve the experience on Windows Phone.

The changelog:

In addition to UI improvements we’ve rewritten our background agent code for increased performance …

In what can only be described as example of extreme out of the box thinking, Nokia’s gone ahead and released a #2InstaWithLove app. The app adds a filter and turns your photo into a Polaroid with the hashtag #2InstaWithLove imprinted, this photo can then be shared on social networks. Instagram has for long been one of the most demanded apps for Windows Phone, and one would have expected Microsoft and Nokia to have engaged the Facebook owned company behind the scenes to get them to do a Windows Phone app, …

Zomato is the go-to app if you’re looking for food. It detects your location and gives you the names, menus, photos and contact details of restaurants around you. You can sort by price, whether they deliver, distance and even search for places to eat in other localities. Recently, Zomato has expanded to other countries apart from India, and covers 70,000 restaurants across India, United Kingdom, UAE and Sri Lanka. If its available in your region I recommend you give it a shot.
Another feature that they’ve recently rolled out is titles. …