Readit brings you the same feature set as you would find on Reddit (reddit.com), but wraps it up inside an application instead of an HTML-based page. That allows the Readit designers to work with Windows Phone 8 and create a much richer experience to read, navigate, and interact with. It's one of the best looking Reddit clients on Windows Phone, but are these good looks backed up by smart and usable code?
Here's a nice 'grower' for you. Steve popped in Mobot Studio's latest platform game Paper Monsters into the flow of short stories here on All About Windows Phone, and after that popped over a note to me saying that I really should review it because I would like it. He was right, and you know what? I think the majority of our readers will like it too.
And so, one month after iOS and Android, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas arrives on Windows Phone. It's a stupidly big title, and Rockstar's vision in getting this on a mobile device should be commended. They've made all the code work, but does it still feel like a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) title?
Let's get the jokes out-of-the-way now, because I'm not going to check every single word in this review with the app (and in any case I would blame it on transcription errors if you found a mistake), but Dictionary.com is a handy app to have on your phone. It's not just for writers, thanks to the inclusion of some cool connected features. It's nowhere close to being an application that you would buy a Windows Phone for, but it is an app that you can keep coming back to, day after day.
Tower defense games are rather popular on smartphones. There's a lot of room to innovate new ideas, or to implement the classic ideas very well. Zero Defense focuses entirely on the latter angle, and this title shows that you can put together a great game by covering all the bases and not adding in anything stupid. This is tower defense as you would expect it, but done with enough style and passion to make it enjoyable.
How do you get music onto your device? You could use the Windows 8 software, the Mac OSX client, or drag and drop over the USB cable. Codeceptive Studios has another solution. Open up the Windows Phone 8 client on your smartphone when connected to a network, point an HTML5 browser at the address, and you can upload to your phone from any desktop. It's an elegant solution, and even with the rough edges on show here it's a winning idea and a workable implementation.
Thousands of years ago, someone looked up in the night sky and created the constellations, joining up stars to make arbitrary shapes and implying that a 'w' was really a woman called Cassiopeia. Now you too can join up stars with 'Galaxy' on your Windows Phone, but you have to join up all the stars with a single line in order to pass through each level in this brightly coloured puzzle game from Magma Mobile.
Popular on iOS for years, Flower Garden - yes, yes, it's a simulation of growing flowers in plant pots - has now come to Windows Phone. Is it likely to satisfy your green fingers? Is its freemium nature likely to hit your wallet harder than an Autumn storm on your precious pots? I don my gardening gloves and investigate...
Get the cars through, don't cause an accident, and if all else fails, call up a B2 bomber. Managing the traffic in LA is as boring and as death-defying as it sounds, but here comes Traffic Frenzy to turn municipal management into a tasty little game.
Phonos offers a third party client for Sonos music systems, designed to spread your music throughout your house, but how does Phonos fare compared to the official clients on other platforms - read on to find out!
