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Top 3 WP7 Apps for April 2011

Which was the top Windows Phone 7 app in April?
Well here are our top three… which one is your favorite?

The Home Depot: another great WP7 shopping app

The Home Depot app was released last week on the Windows Phone 7 Apps Marketplace. This is quite an impressive app, clean, fast, and complete, with a great metro integration, it rivals with Amazon for the best shopping app on the WP7 marketplace.

Kids TV: want to entertain your kids on WP7?

Kids TV: want to entertain your kids on WP7?

Need some TV for your kids on the go? Kids TV for Windows Phone 7 is there to help you. This snappy free WP7 app is a portal to kids’ favorite cartoons available online using WP7 You Tube app.

Speed for WP7: a fun and fast paced card game.

Speed for WP7: a fun and fast paced card game.

Speed is a simple card game also known as Slam: move adjacent cards from your hands to on one of the two piles in the center, if you and your opponent can make the same move, the fastest one places the card. Continue until your deck is over and you placed all the cards.

Groupon for WP7: get your screaming deals on the go

Groupon for WP7: get your screaming deals on the go

Groupon is joining the Windows Phone 7 world. With this fresh new fancy app you can get the deal of the moment while on the go with your WP7 – discount on!

The app will work very much like groupon.com: check out the deal of the day or the others available in your area.

Urban Dictionary 7: get your slang up to speed with WP7

Urban Dictionary 7: get your slang up to speed with WP7

Do you have Googleheimer? Are you gone postal? Ahhh … neologasmic . You have no idea what we are talking about? Neither did we, before using Urban Dictionary, a handy slang translator for Windows Phone 7.

Shuriken Ninja: master the art of ninja stars on WP7

Shuriken Ninja is a intriguing but simple ability game: tap your phone screen to throw Ninja stars at the targets; get all the targets in a level using the set of stars assigned and you are done. Stars ricochet on metal but stick on wood or similar material, so be careful!

TuneIn Radio: the best radio experience on WP7, or… ever!

Get ready for Radio experience version 2. TuneIn Radio is a global radio service available also at TuneIn.com that allows you to access thousands of radio stations worldwide.
Access local radio and remote stations wherever you are and with a modern user interface. TuneIn does a great job in integrating the Radio, the Internet and Social Networks to bring you the next level radio surfing.

NoDo update being rolled out by AT&T

NoDo update being rolled out by AT&T

As reported by Engadget, and confirmed by the Windows Phone team, NoDo will start rolling out today to selected Samsung Focus and LG Quantum phones. The long awaited update is finally been rolled out by AT&T to add Copy and Paste as well as faster app startup and some bugfixes.

Word Search for Windows Phone 7: king of word games.

Word Search is growing…growing…grown! It is number 12 in the top Windows Phone 7 apps, and it is a deserved spot.
This is a simple app… Search the words in the letter grid: up, down or diagonal, left to right or right to left.

Windows Phone 7 System Information

Windows Phone 7 System Information

Just launched last week, System Information is climbing the WP7 like the Space Shuttle on its last trip to orbit! This simple app is just returning a lot of basic technical details like Model, Version, and Language…

Windows Phone Mango features previewed at MIX11 (video)

Engadget captured the juice of Mango straight from MIX11 keynotes for us. Joe Belfiore and Scott Guthrie show fruity features from the upcoming version of Windows Phone, codenamed Mango, expected later this year. Check out IE9 speed test vs iPhone and Android.

Awesome WP7 fan-mande commercial: help it get to your TV…

The video below, created by Brandon Foy, a Florida fan of Windows Phone 7, will become an official Microsoft TV commercial if it gets over 200,000 views. It is so cool that it has been used at the MIX11 as keynote introduction. We just think it’s awesome and have been watching it over and over again… Check it…

Coding fun with WP7: Pex4Fun and TouchStudio

Coding fun with WP7: Pex4Fun and TouchStudio

Want to learn coding? Know how to code and want to sharpen your skills? Used to know how to write code but forgot? You are the best coder ever and want to prove it? WP7 can help!

Harbor Master and Centipede are Xbox Live Games of the Week on WP7

Just released hot off the press: Harbor Master is the Xbox Live game of the week on WP7. This is an addicting top-seller game on other platforms and one of the first to really nail down touch-based gaming, showing what can be done on a touch-enabled phone.

Doodle Devil: the dark side of gaming on WP7

Doodle Devil: the dark side of gaming on WP7

Come back to the Doodle world of creation through combining. After Doodle God gained the graces of Windows Phone 7 users, the developers Avalon/JoyBits come back with the evil version of the creation game.

Dude, where is my Windows Phone 7 Update?

Dude, where is my Windows Phone 7 Update?

If you want to know where your NoDo update is, you don’t need to go to the web page that the Windows Phone 7 team put together. Now you have a handy app that can tell you straight from your phone.

Alphajax: multiplayer word game climbing the WP7 charts

Alphajax: multiplayer word game climbing the WP7 charts

AlphaJax is climbing the charts and receiving great reviews as it stands out as one of the best examples of multiplayer games on Windows Phone 7 today.

Super Monkey Ball for WP7 Review

Super Monkey Ball for WP7 Review

For this week, the Xbox Live Arcade game released on Windows Phone 7 is Super Monkey Ball.
The idea is to drive a monkey inside a ball to collect bananas and get to a goal on a floating slide-like course in between jumps and obstacles trying to avoid falling and getting in time to the goal.

Super Monkey Ball is the Xbox Live game of the week on WP7

Just released minutes ago, Super Monkey Ball is the weekly Xbox Live game for your Windows Phone 7…

ESPN Score Center for Windows Phone 7

ESPN Score Center for Windows Phone 7

Just a few days ago, we reviewed ScoreMobile as one of the best mobile scoring apps on WP7; but the phone app world is awesome because there are always new apps coming out that match or top the existing ones. Well, this is an example: ESPN ScoreCenter for WP7 is awesome.

4th and Mayor: Foursquare on steroids for WP7

4th and Mayor: Foursquare on steroids for WP7

The world of Foursquare has a new great client for WP7: 4th and Major. Released a few days ago, this clever app is taking the marketplace by storm with more than 600 reviews and a 4.5 stars average, it is the top rated WP7 app at the time of writing.

Top 3 WP7 Apps for March 2011

Top 3 WP7 Apps for March 2011

Which was the top Windows Phone 7 app in March?
Well here are our top three… which one is your favorite?

PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) 2011: another AAA game for WP7

Another triple-A title has hit the shelves of the Windows Phone 7 Xbox Live Games Marketplace. Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) 2011 has been released last week and has immediately sky-rocketed to the top of the taps (#1 paid app as we write)…