Despite being announced in March 2013, the CC-3061 shell has only just made its way in the last month or so, to online retailers to be made available for sale to the public. Let us delve into this newest of products from Nokia for one of the lower profile heroes from the Lumia range of Windows Phones.
If 90s animated films have taught us anything, it is not easy being a colony of ants. The peaceful little insects just want to live together in harmony but instead always find themselves tormented by bigger and badder bugs. Another fact that animated children's films have shown is that humans are always the bad guys. These two life lessons have combined to make the premise of Ant Raid; an opening sequence sees an ill-fated attempt at pest control turn the game's other insects from happy bugs to mutant ant-killers.
Taking a new look at an arcade classic, Crumble Zone brings cool graphics, fluid movement, and a little bit of gravity to Windows Phone in this smart and impressive shooter for Microsoft's mobile platform.
"I can feel a great disturbance in the freemium Force", I thought as I opened up the Windows Store last night. And the wallpaper in the app confirmed it. A familiar blocky face, a stylised logo... Nimblebit has finally arrived as a Windows Phone developer, and brought their management apps to the platform. But hold on, Tiny Death Star?
Amazingly, Asphalt 7 has slipped under our collective reviewing radars... until now. Gameloft's second Asphalt game on Windows Phone and the Xbox Live banner (after Asphalt 5 - for some reason Asphalt 6 has been skipped over) is a stunning tour de force of fast graphics, accurate controls, and rather a lot of adrenaline.
While Windows Phone has a functional Twitter component through the People hub, the majority of tweeters will want something with more functionality. As Twitter continues to lock down the ecosystem and pull everyone into their website and official apps, there is still a place for a well put together third party client. Could that be Tweet It?
How about a platform game that's trapped inside a technical drawing? A game that is as challenging as it is artistic? And a game that the iOS and Android clans would love to have on their platform. Well tough, 'The Machine' is ours!
Now we finally have the official word on an Instagram app (thanks to Stephen Elop's keynote at Nokia World this week), we know we only have to wait 'a few weeks' to have the client from Facebook's social network for images. But Instagram fans on Windows Phone have long known that Rudy Huyn's third party client, 6tag, is the way to go to interact with Instagram on your handset.
I don't think I've ever had to review an accessory that's so well built, so effective and yet.... so inelegant. This is Mugen's extended battery solution for the Nokia Lumia 920 - you'll recognise the company's name from a hundred other (equally bulbous) extended batteries for a hundred other phones over the years. However, what makes the '3000mAh Battery Case' so inelegant isn't the heft or thicker lines, unusually. And it's not exactly Mugen's fault. Nor is it, surprisingly, a complete showstopper, as I'll explain.
Since it was reviewed around this time last year, MetroSpec has continued to be improved, with new code asked for by interested parties, bug fixes for the countless options and configurations available to the app, and of course the addition of elements that developer Glenn Edwards has added to the app, a labour of love and one of the best ZX Spectrum emulators for Windows Phone.
