Windows Phone users, especially Lumia 920 and 925 users are facing a problem where they experience sudden battery drain for no apparent reason. It is due to stuck process where a process is stuck in the background and continues to use CPU cycles. Using Visual studio to do analysis we see that the phone OS is stuck at 50% and you get a warning of high CPU cycles.
Symptoms of the problem.
Overheating
Hot back plate
Left metal banding gets unbearably hot
Cannot charge phone as fast
Nokia is all set to bring its uber budget Windows Phone to the Australian market. Yes, we are talking about the Lumia 625 windows phone which will be coming to Telstra as-well-as Optus. It will sport a retail price tag of A$ 399 and will be released in August 23, 2013. Virgin Mobile will also be offering it in first week of September.
Continue reading Nokia Lumia 625 Australia: Telstra, Optus Price, Release Date
There was a lot of hype around this game, so I thought I should finally install it on my new Lumia 925 windows phone. Seriously blows my mind they are charging $7 for a phone game that is pretty much just on-par with free or very cheap phone games in the same class, and on top of that have the gall to include microtransactions inside.
I mean, ZombieHQ (link) is basically the same exact game, same exact level of visual fidelity, but involves zombies and not halo and is completely free (with optional micro transactions).
Continue reading Honest Review of Halo: Spartan Assault for Windows Phone
Popular application, InstaWeather Pro is now available for the Windows Phone platform. Earlier it was available only for iOS and Android platform. The Instant Weather Pro lets you put your weather information on pictures stored on your phone and then, allows you to share them via most of the social networks that includes Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Foursquare.
Continue reading Download InstaWeather Pro for Windows Phone
Full Nokia Lumia 925 Specs
Most of the countries will be getting the 16GB version only, which makes it kind of a downgrade when compared to the Lumia 920 windows phone.
GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – all versions
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 – RM-892
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 – RM-910, RM-893
4G Network LTE 800 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 – RM-892
LTE 700 / 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 – RM-893
SIM Micro-SIM
Announced 2013, May
Status Available. Released 2013, June
BODY Dimensions 129 x 70.6 x 8.5 mm, 78 cc (5.08 x 2.78 x 0.33 in)
Weight 139 g (4.90 oz)
DISPLAY Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 768 x 1280 pixels, 4.5 inches (~332 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 2
– PureMotion HD+ ClearBlack display
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
– Dolby Headphone sound enhancement
MEMORY Card slot No
Internal 16 GB/ 32 GB (Vodafone only), 1 GB RAM
DATA GPRS Class B
EDGE Up to 236.8 kbps
Speed HSDPA, 42.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
NFC Yes
Indian Idol is a very popular singing show in India and folks behind it have released a Indian Idol Junior app for the windows phone platform. The application also offers exciting games and can even also questions and get answers from the judges directly. Users can also create an Indian Idol Avataar, just like your Xbox avatar. 
Continue reading Indian Idol Junior App for Windows Phone now Available
