The Lumia 1020 is still pretty new and, arguably, something of a niche device, but there have still been some decent case designs for it. After all, if you're going to spend £500 on a smartphone and carry it to the ends of the earth, it would be nice to keep it protected as much as possible, and in a premium way that enhances the phone hardware rather than gets in the way. Noreve's Tradition case is just such an accessory, with only a couple of small quirks to complain about.
Sparkle 2, from 10tons, naturally enough, is the sequel to Sparkle. Playing very much like the Zuma games, is this the colour orb matching game that will be crowned king of the genre? I'm not so sure, but it is a satisfying slice of arcade fun.
Last week's Xbox Live release gave us The Sims: FreePlay, a freemium version of Electronic Arts popular people management franchise. Is it worth the investment of time (and some money) to play? I think it is, and here's why.
NewsSpot is an RSS-based application that offers you content from your favourite website, letting you know what you have read, what you still have to read, and allowing you to share those stories with friends, the social web, and other online services. There's still a need for a solid RSS reader in 2013, can NewsSpot fill that gap?
Depending on who you talk to, the Nokia PD-95G, otherwise known as the Lumia 1020 Camera Grip (or, hereafter in this review, just the 'grip'), is either a plastic monstrosity or a slice of engineering genius. As usual with these affairs, reality is somewhere in between. The grip is expensive, large, plastic and unwieldy, but at the same time there are some advantages and nice functionality bumps. Read on for my full review.
10tons undertook a little gaming spree at the start of the year with a number of new titles for Windows Phone. They've surfaced again with a new title, following up on the success of the puzzle game Joining Hands.
Get a business card, wave your smartphone's camera over it, and have all the contact info digitised and available on your phone. That's the promise of CamCard, and it gets pretty close to achieving it.
Saddle up, as all the cliches would say, it's time to take yourself to the Wild West, to seek your fame and fortune. But in the case of the latest Xbox Live title, Six Guns, the fortune is going to be earned by Gameloft, through a rather punishing freemum system.
If the internet is good for one thing, it's good for humour. There are countless sites out there, all with their own mix of humour. 9gag has been around for five years, racks up over a billion page views a month, and is generally seen by many as one of the drivers of many popular 'memes'. And now you can browse it through a new Windows Phone app by Rudy Huyn.
If it's all about getting to your information quickly, then diary hounds will want to check out MyWeek, a lock screen application that will give you an overview of your appointments for the next week.
