Windows Phone Weekly Digest: July 26, 2022

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At that place's a lot going on in the earth of Windows Telephone. So much, in fact, that it is sometimes tough to catch every important story. Device rumors come and become.

New apps join the Windows Phone Store, and your favorite app can become a big update with a new await or new features.

Therefore, every calendar week we will compile a list of the Windows Telephone news that you just shouldn't miss. Welcome to the "Windows Phone Weekly Assimilate."

Windows Phone

It looks like Mainland china volition soon exist getting one big mamma-jamma of a phone. The seven-inch Q7 Windows Phone made by Ramos was approved by TENNA, Cathay's version of the FCC. There was some positive news regarding sales of Windows phones. Microsoft saw more than than a x% bump in Lumia sales, with over 8.4 million sold this twelvemonth.

Slow ring members got treated to Windows 10 Mobile build 10166 this week.

And Microsoft confirmed the minimum requirements that phones will need to run Windows 10 Mobile. All information technology will take is a 800 10 480 display, 512MB RAM, 4GB of storage, and a VGA rear camera.

But it wasn't depression-end phones that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was concerned about this week. In a conference telephone call on Wednesday, Nadella acknowledge the lack of skillful flagship phones and said that the goal was to alter that with Windows 10.

"Nosotros're going to have great flagship phones for Windows fans. That'due south actually a segment we don't today have skillful devices and we promise to alter that with Windows ten."

Our Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Rubino gave Windows Primal readers a rundown of Microsoft's two upcoming flagship devices, "Cityman" and "Talkman."

Based on what we know, we put together our own renders of the Cityman, which will likely be dubbed the Lumia 950 Twoscore.

Other notable items:

Microsoft Lumia 435, 640, and 640XL now available in Ireland at Argos
Lumia 640 and 640 XL evidently becoming big sellers in United states, Russia, and India
AT&T quietly begins selling Microsoft Lumia 640 as a pre-paid GoPhone for $79
Four code-execution bugs publicly revealed in IE11 for Windows Phone
Purchase an O2 Lumia 535 or 635 in August and score £xxx Microsoft voucher and free portable speaker

Apps

Microsoft pushed out an unspecified update to its Windows Insider app for phones, equally well as to some of its core Windows 10 Mobile apps. Outlook Mail and Calendar, Windows Photographic camera and Calculator all got patches with no change logs, and then we presume they were just tune-ups.

Spotify volition exist adding a new feature to its music service. Detect Weekly volition aid listeners notice new music by creating a two-hour playlist based on their listening habits.

Buckstar, ane of the concluding third-party Starbucks apps that let users log into their Starbucks accounts, has discontinued that characteristic and looks like information technology will exist retired. The change came when Starbucks enabled a security characteristic chosen "snooping" or device fingerprinting, which causes the account login characteristic to stop working.

Microsoft is going to be retiring one of their apps. Lumia Camera will somewhen exist discontinued in favor of Windows Camera on Windows 10 Mobile. The good news is that all of the functionality yous know and love in Lumia Photographic camera will make its way to its successor.

Microsoft besides launched their new Send e-mail app. Unfortunately, information technology was for iPhone. The Microsoft Garage projection will be coming to Windows Phone soon, though.

Finally, we took a look at the new Opera Mini for Windows Phone. Check out our total review of the mobile browser.

Other notable items:

Skyscanner app for Windows Phone pulled from the store in the U.Southward.
Hyperlapse for Windows Phone updated to work on more than Lumia devices
NFL Game Laissez passer volition allow y'all watch the whole football season on-need
Gloomlogue is this week's myAppFree Windows Telephone deal
Saavn for Windows is coming soon with an official proclamation on July 29th
DailyMotion for Windows Phone adds a video mini-role player and design improvements
Lumia Artistic Studio Beta brings support for editing Living Images
File-sharing service Xender is coming to Windows Telephone
Zomato Society launched for Windows Phone; available across fourteen cities in Bharat
10Calc – a sleek, feature rich Windows Phone reckoner
Lumia Camera adds transparent tile and icon support with latest update
Calculator² for Windows Telephone gets a huge upgrade, Windows 10 version coming presently

Games

The fact that the striking game Minecraft is being turned into a movie is non news, every bit it has been in the works for some time. What is news is that Rob McElhenney, the co-creator and co-star of the off-the-wall series "Information technology'south Always Sunny In Philadelphia," has been tagged as the movie'southward director.

Mojang, the studio that created Minecraft and is now owned by Microsoft, made the annunciation and posted a picture of McElhenney at their Minecon effect. Given his track tape, the Micecraft movie should prove to exist both odd and hilarious.

Subway Surfers has once once again taken on a new world metropolis. This time, they travel downwardly under to Sydney, Commonwealth of australia. The update brings with it new scenery, new rewards, and new outfits.

Game Troopers is at it again. They released a teaser trailer for Completeness, their next Xbox Live game for Windows Phone. There isn't an official release date for the deep bounding main exploration adventure, but it could country in the shop "as soon as side by side week".