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Windows Phone's Cloud Companion Services

2011-10-04
hey guys this is adam lay with pocket now calm and with the new windows phone 7.5 upgrade we also saw a an upgrade to the Windows Phone calm website so we're going to take a look at that and we'll see some new features in there some pretty cool let's check it out so first off here's the Windows Phone calm website we got a little ad but we have some funds up here and if you signed in these buttons become more useful first up there's marketplace so we can switch that and this is the new web-based marketplace you can still do it through zune but this is a pretty nice you don't have to install zune and we can just browse through all sorts of apps available for Windows Phone we can easily buy it I can see some screenshots you can see the reviews and if you already own one of these you can actually make a review right here so that's pretty nice and it we can send a link strike your phone for easy download now here's the other one my phone is a good one so if i switch to that this is what you get in the my phone section so there's the phone you can click that to show other phones if you own more than one here's our pictures those are automatically uploaded to SkyDrive if you have that feature turned on there's the location of your phone if you have that feature turned on as well you can ring it lock it same features as before but here's a new one see your recent check-ins so if i switch to this window this is what you get when i click on that it's an ice beam map and it's called scrapbook so here's the settings i'll just show you that if i clicked it correctly there we can delete the history so this is keeping track of all this all check-ins that I might have done with Windows Phone mango from my meat aisle so there's a check in and this will post a facebook and windows live if I choose it and since my windows live ID is connected to my facebook account it can remember the use chickens as well so if I click on one there we are that's where i was on october first at 146 p.m. i set a restaurant and we can zoom and there's that your normal bing stuff and some zoom buttons but we have multi touch and I can go to the previous one there's another check-in there's another one with the picture so pretty nice little scrapbook of places that you checked in pretty cool now another thing we got pictures so this is pretty nice you can real easily see pictures from your phone and we can fade through to the mall pretty neat and i will show you this you got links to office so if i go there i can see all the documents then it switches over to SkyDrive so I can see all the documents that are going to show up in my office Huglin so there's SkyDrive and here they are see the same files so easy access both of those we can also edit stuff on your phone on the website so this is a OneNote notebook and we can see all that information it's like a pretty close to full OneNote application actually it's missing a lot features but still very usable so you have easy access to those both on the phone and on the web and what else we have we got xbox live I can see achievements play games really should say play game because there's only one here this is the two-player chess game you can play it on the browser against the phone against somebody else either using the phone or using the browser and you can switch between taking turns on the web or on the phone and we can do customized this is going to log me into xbox live load some silverlight application stuff and then from here i can customize my xbox live gamer avatar so let's try i think i want now it's loading still can switch to a different prop help save that and now he's going to have that crop on my phone and on xbox so that's pretty nice and finally we have quick access to your contacts your calendar as well as your to do's if you have a mango device and the inbox this is just the windows live account if you have exchanged or gmail account those are not going to show up here but you can access those from gmail com or whatever and at the bottom we have some little ads get your zoom path so that I'll tell you how to get unlimited music on your phone and also a suggestion to install zoom so you can sync other stuff so that's new Windows Phone com website some cool additions good useful features for interacting with your Windows Phone that's it for now
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