Windows Phone announced a competition some time back in conjunction with Imagine Cup 2010 for student teams to submit their Windows Phone 7 applications for a chance to win $8000 for the team and Windows Phone each. Today the winners, runners up and notable entries have been announced with some showing really good use of [...]

A very useful application for anyone who lives or visits London, as we all know how reliable the Tube network can be, will be this London Tube Companion. A good feature of this app is that it will provide push notifications so wherever the user might be on the device they can still be informed [...]

I’m not a big fan of “tip calculators” as they are only a very, very simple calculator however some people seem to really like those and they wont be disappointed with Windows Phone 7. There appears to be at least one tip calculator in the works, this one from Jason Zanders. One nice design aspect [...]

Ahead is an app for Windows Phone 7 that “lets you manage your projects on-the-go”. There aren’t really any wow factors to this application but I can see practical uses for it. Ahead — Manage your projects on-the-go. from Ahead App on Vimeo. The team sum up the app as being able to: Get tasks [...]

Mobility Digest have shown off a new app for Windows Phone 7 that will allow users to control Windows Media Center on their PC with a mobile device. The application looks very good, conforming to many of the Metro design rules and looks to be very functional. I do find it odd that Microsoft don’t [...]

Here’s an app for all you comic book lovers out there, you’re probably best off watching the video below than me trying to describe it to you. However if you don’t have time to watch the video or are on a platform that doesn’t support Flash then just imagine it as being the 21st century [...]

This application is open-source which helps to track the medications of friends and family to ensure they are being taken and any medical worries can be resolved quickly and efficiently. This app is designed to make use of user’s data from Microsoft HealthVault and can allow direct interaction between patients, their doctors and their friends [...]

Clarity Consulting have another application concept which comes from a blog post looking at how best to build an application that has been successful on the iPhone for Windows Phone 7. This app is for Comcast’s Xfinity service of entertainment distribution. Being a Brit this app doesn’t mean a huge amount to me but does [...]

Clarity Consulting have another Windows Phone 7 app concept which they showed off yesterday for Microsoft’s Hohm; Hohm is Microsoft’s energy management/monitoring web service that is currently in beta in the US. This concept would make use of Microsoft service to monitor and control various aspects of electricity, gas and water consumption within a user’s [...]

Here’s a Metro inspired concept from MicrosoftFeed.com for Windows Phone 7 devices which is a weather app that seems to offer a lot of information fro just glancing at the screen. I quite like the design of this app however I am not sure about the high and low temperature being coloured, I think they [...]