There have a bunch of apps released for Windows Phone.
Waze has launched a Windows Phone app. It crowd-sourced real-time traffic data that alerts about accidents, road closings and sends data to the cloud. Users report police, accidents, cheapest gas prices and other data.
Nokia announced two new larger format Windows phone the Nokia Lumia 1520. The Enhanced Windows Phone Start screen and three columns for Live tiles.
The Lumia 1520 features a 6 inch 1080p full HD screen and 1520 offers 20MP PureView camera with optical image stabilization (OIS) enabling sharp images even in the dark as well as oversampling and zooming technology similar to the Lumia 1020.
Kantar Worldpanel announced its smartphone figures for the three months ending in July.
Apple continued to sell well in the US where it was 43.4% of sales an increase of 7.8% over last year for the three months ending in July and that was even with iPhone 5S anticipation in full swing. Android lost -7.6% of market share from 2012 for the same period.
When the hip iPhone guy bashed the Windows guy, it worked. Now Microsoft is fighting back with ads that point out the foibles of iPhone/Android camera, iPads vs notebooks, and iPad's Siri vs Windows RT.
A YouTube user concluded, "Windows beats Mac. Surface beats iPad. Windows Phone beats iPhone. Windows is the best!"
Nokia is pushed out an update to Lumia Windows Phones with improvements and new features. The Lumia Amber update begins rolling out in August. Users will get a notification on on their Lumias when it is available for Nokia Lumia 920, 820, 720, 620, 520, 928, 822, 521 and 810.