Windows Phone
The All New Droplr
Last week, the folks at Droplr announced big changes to the service. Along with a major overhaul of the Droplr branding, they also announced a new pricing model, big update to the iPhone app and a “40% OFF” launch promotion for its Pro accounts. We’re big fans of Droplr here at Beautiful Pixels, especially thanks to the incredible Mac [...]
Lyne — A Zen Puzzle Experience
In a time when the makers of Candy Crush Saga file for an IPO and sue developers who use Candy in their name, mobile gaming is seen in quite the poor light. This is where puzzle games like Lyne come into the picture. Lyne is a great example of mobile gaming done right. The fact that features of a game list things like “no ads or in [...]
musiXmatch Makes You Want to Sing to Your Favourite Tracks
You may be aware of an app called Tunewiki that shut down citing lack of sufficient ad revenues to sustain their business. I for one was very saddened to hear the news. Though the app wasn’t oozing with beauty, it did this one thing right for me — pull out lyrics over the internet for the song that was playing, with a karaoke-like [...]
THE Football App
I try my best to keep up with the latest games and news in the world of football(soccer), but there are times when I miss out. Until last week, I was using Yahoo! Sports on my iPhone to follow football related news, but everything changed when THE Football App (henceforth TFA) was updated to version 6.0 last week. TFA is a Universal iOS [...]
Tide Is an Awesome Surfing Forecast App for Windows Phone
Back in March I watched a concept video of a surf guide app called Tide. It looked amazing and fitted perfectly on the platform shown in the video, Windows Phone. While Microsoft is paying developers for app numbers, the store is getting loads of garbage in the name of apps. Luckily there are gems like Tide that make the platform shine. [...]
627.AM – An Intuitive and Gorgeous Metro Alarm Clock App
I really love apps that completely embrace the platform they are on and 627.AM by Justin Liu is a perfect example of how even something as menial as an alarm clock app can be done brilliantly. It should be a showcase app for Windows Phone. The app has 6 main sections on its home screen. It has a ‘Things To Remember’ section [...]