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Compass is a Nokia Developer Windows Phone application that has been ported from Qt to Windows Phone 8. This application combines Nokia Maps with compass sensor. It also allows user to determine the bearing to the desired direction.
This application has been tested on Nokia Lumia 920 and developed using Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone 8. To learn more on the project follow up on the wiki page.
– Somnath Banik (on behalf of the Projects Moderation team)
By Tomi Paananen
The Windows Phone 8 Wiki Competition is now over and we have selected the winners. The top four competitors will each be getting a Nokia Lumia 920, and the runners up will be getting Nokia Lumia 820s or Lumia 620s.
Protractor is a HTML5 application for Windows Phone. As the name suggest this application allows the device screen to be used as a protractor to measure length and angles of a geometric object. It also has the option to change the measuring units to Inch and mm.
HTML5 Canvas is used to perform all the drawing in the application which runs on Silverlight WebBrowser element. This project could be a nice example for newbie to have a hands on experience on HTML5.
– Somnath Banik (on behalf of the Projects Moderation team)
