During the past month, both NBC News and Tumblr were two examples of official apps hitting the Windows Phone Store for the first time. We’d had a handful of others, like Fidelity and GoComics, join the fray recently. Apps joining the Windows Phone ecosystem are just one sign of the how well the platform is doing. Another sign is how frequently those apps get updated. The forecast? Sunny with a chance of tiles since both NBC News and Tumblr have been updated. Let’s see what’s new.
NBC News
The app now sports a redesigned live tile. The NBC development team tweaked the live tile based on your feedback in the review section of the Store. Spot the differences? Grab NBC News for Windows Phone 8 right here or use the QR code below.
Tumblr
The changes are a little hard to find for the recent Tumblr update. There were a handful of features you guys wanted to see added in future releases of the app, but we’re not seeing them yet. It most likely is just performance/bug fixes in the latest update. Our own Daniel reports that the app would crash when using voice commands and that seems to be fixed. Grab Tumblr for Windows Phone 8 right here or use the QR code below.
Notice anything else for either Tumblr or NBC News? Share with us below, otherwise go update your apps. Wouldn't you say that frequent updates to big apps is a good sign for Windows Phone?
Thanks for the tip Jon D!
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Squatting Hen says: I do like the NBC News app.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:01 pm - 13 hours ago Reply
topleya says: Just wish the UK had an equivalent
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:02 pm - 13 hours ago Reply Heavy Rain says: How about turning off the background task causing it to crash? I only read about this but did experience a crash where it would open the app and I did turn off the background task.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 4:54 pm - 13 hours ago Reply aaa6112 says: I've always had this app blocked in my list of background tasks. Never crashed on me upon opening. L920.
Edit: btw,I was talking about NBC News. Not sure if you were referring to NBC News or Tumblr.
Heavy Rain says: I apologize I meant tumblr
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:35 pm - 12 hours ago Reply mav4life says: Can confirm that it was fixed for me on 920
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:05 pm - 13 hours ago Reply aaa6112 says: I like the new wide tile's look. I'm waiting for another change (something I sent them a feedback about and was told they'd look into): When I pin a particular section (say Tech), and click on its tile to go to that section directly, clicking "back" should exit the app. It shouldn't go to the app's main page, requiring me to click "back" again to exit the app.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 4:59 pm - 13 hours ago Reply apocacrux says: Why not just hit the home button instead. It seems like being able to go back to the main page is pretty logical for people who enjoy more than one section. Just exit by hitting home,it won't slow down your phone by running in the background or anything. This isn't android.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 10:30 pm - 7 hours ago Reply aaa6112 says: I beg to differ. IMO, if I click on the tile of an app, and then click back, I should be back to the start screen. And other news apps have implemented this logic for their secondary tiles, eg. CNN, Al Jazeera for WP8 and USA Today. Even Nextgen Reader secondary tile behaves this way if IIRC.
Moreover, folks who like to read news from multiple sections can have the app's primary tile pinned.
Maybe the behavior can be based on an option in the settings? I can't recollect right now, but I think there is an app that sets this behavior based on an option in the settings.
aaa6112 says: Another change is what their team had informed me when I sent feedback about providing an ad-free version so that I could get rid of that "Join us on Facebook" banner. Their reply was: "We are supposed to get real ads soon, unfortunately we won’t be providing an ads free version"
Looks like this new version does have "real ads" now. I am seeing ads for Fidelity Investments right now. Ugh!
mav4life says: Tumblr does not crash when disabled in background tasks anymore. So good job on that tumblr!
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:04 pm - 13 hours ago Reply link68759 says: I signed up for a tumblr just to try this app and... It seems to largely be for sharing images, yet there is no possible way to save these images from within the app.... Am I missing something?
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:10 pm - 13 hours ago Reply
Aggemam says: Yeah, my thoughts as well. Seems weird.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:20 pm - 13 hours ago Reply SlayerSpecial says: Tumblr id kinda of blog for people who don't have much to say, it's not really to share images per se.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 9:15 pm - 9 hours ago Reply rcasey says: I save them by taking a screenshot.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 9:58 pm - 8 hours ago Reply
Myggen82 says: Tumblr didn't work before on my L920, now it does. Kudos :)
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:13 pm - 13 hours ago Reply Onerunjunior says: The Tumblr app is pretty good, but crashy and can't save images in-app. Hopefully that's changed.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:32 pm - 12 hours ago Reply Memristor says: Add Kayak to that list.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 at 6:10 pm - 12 hours ago Reply jhoff80 says: The NBC News live tile is a million times better now, with the first few words of the headline showing below the picture (for a medium tile at least).
Tumblr I don't see any improvements in though. It still desperately needs support for incoming messages though, whether they're asks or 'fan mail.'
blackhawk556 says: Did anyone else feel like the NBC app drained their battery by having it pinned to their start screen? I noticed a quick drop after pinning it so I removed it two days later. This was before today's update, not sure if it works better now.
Posted on May 1, 2013 at 12:07 am - 6 hours ago Reply aaa6112 says: Did you try "blocking" it from running in the background? That should stop its background agent from trying to update its live tile every 30 minutes or so.
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