Windows Phone | Week in Review | August 19th
Welcome to the Week in Review, where we recap the top stories of the past week.
Steve Ballmer resigning from Microsoft
- Will resign within 12 months, after a successor is chosen
- Reason for leaving is probably just retirement
Rumor: GDR3 might include notification manager
- Apparently Nokia India is testing the update
- Otherwise, notification manager won’t come till WP 8.1
6tag: Excellent new Instagram app with video support
- Released this week, free (ad-supported) and paid version available
- Elegant and quick interface, fully functional experience
- Instagram themselves approved the app
New Facebook Beta adds picture messaging support
- Can finally send/receive pictures
- Also adds multiple pic upload, saving/sharing photos, inline tagging
Blackberry has an impressive number of spam apps
- One developer has over 47,000 apps, nearly half of Blackberry’s 120,000 apps
- The apps are mostly RSS feeds, eBooks, and other forms of spam apps
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