Windows Phone

[Anirask]

Let's start one of these..  We have great apps too!!

Weather -

For inormation completeness, Accuweather is pretty great however the app performance is pretty sub-par and it loads really slowly.

As far as a mix of good looks, great performance and even better Live Tile, I have to give it to WeatherFlow.   Now it isn't free for about 15-20 seconds with it and you'll want to pay the cost of it.

Twitter - Rowi - 'nuff said.  Fast, fluid, great.  Rowi [lite] for those of you who enjoy free with ads.

Games - There's a bunch of Xbox Live games on the platform.   A number of decent ones have had price drops to 0.99$ recently.  You can find em listed here -  http://www.wpcentral.com/angry-birds-and-six-other-xbox-live-games-windows-phone-get-permanent-price...

[John555]

Some of my personal favorites

APPS

Parcel Tracker

Supports every courier under the sun. Very handy when you're shipping/receiving a package and want to track it.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c941a95c-8de7-df11-9524-00237de2dca0

NextGen Reader

Excellent News Reader with a very responsive developer to new features

http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=643381de-4724-e011-854c-00237de2db9e

Timer

Handy for countdown time

http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=38ac6043-0d3e-471a-9527-a20d1ef8521b

Number Guru

Great for finding out info about Phone Solicitors

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/90519e35-46b2-453d-9f2b-9e1276eb3aa5

Remote Desktop 7

Excellent Remote Desktop Client for Windows Phone 7, worth the cost if you need it

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/5f1b2f5c-7caa-48a2-b360-eb3bc91cfee8

Sky Wallet

Keep Sensitive Data Encrypted and Password Protected

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c3d7045c-4f0d-e011-9264-00237de2db9e

My Starbucks Card

For the odd times I get a Starbucks card

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/10e5eee6-1169-445a-aaef-81bc3200fea7

Skype

It's in Beta so you want see it in the Marketplace but here is the link

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c3f8e570-68b3-4d6a-bdbb-c0a3f4360a51

WeatherMaster

Not as pretty as Weather Flow but has lots of info on one two pages, fast syncing

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/d47287b9-391f-44c7-9a3c-299b4bca5991

Shazam

I'm sure everyone knows this, for finding that song you are hearing

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/2f8d5271-2b81-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8

[John555]

Some Games

Dragon's Blade

Old School RPG, lots of phone, there is a free/paid version

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/0eae3549-b8c7-4d76-bf91-df322a9c10af

geoDefense

If you like Tower Defense games, it's awesome!

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/20867249-9772-e011-81d2-78e7d1fa76f8

Sid Meier's Pirates

One of my all time favorates but they have to fix load times....Worth checking the trial

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/6ef687d5-e3b0-4ab8-b768-109fe50fa133

vNESLight

NES Emulator, needs work but it's free and it can play games

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/3d8e51b8-1884-4aa7-bb2c-2eda47745a27

Street Basket

For those brain dead subway ride homes

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/bb91a39f-9225-44fa-b0c7-0456c1df04b3

The Harvest

Good RPG Action style game

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/35323b0f-84d8-df11-a844-00237de2db9e

Rise of Glory

Arcade Flight Simulator style combat

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c623f41b-af04-e011-9264-00237de2db9e

[SCHUEY]

Apps I like:

WeatherFlow, WeatherLive - both have nice live tiles.

BBC Mobile - Also a nice live tile

Prime TV - Keep track of your favorite TV shows

Fuse - RSS reader

Sports Now - Get your NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL scores, works very fast

WP Central - Windows Phone news

Executive Caddie - Golf app

MetrofaceLift - get nice wallpapers

MyEncyclopedia - nice wiki app

PrimeTube - great YouTube app

SkyMap

SkyScanner - get flight prices

Translator - excellent language translator from MS

WP Shortcut Tile - ex: add a tile to get to your Bluetooth and Wifi settings quickly

Games: (I noticed a nice performance bump going from Focus to Lumia)

Fruit Ninja

Fable Coin Golf

ilomilo

iStund 2

Tentacles

Pirates

Alchemic Phone 7

Bouncy Mouse

Words by Post - Plays cross-platform

[dr_fowler]

Some of my apps will echo those already listed, but my most used apps are:

Weave - News/RSS reader, very quick to update even with hundreds of unread news items and formatting of articles is generally very good

ESPN - Not much to say, great sports app for checking scores and game highlights.  My only wish is that they can add a Live tile/notifications or the ability to pin our favorite teams.

PrimeTV - Nice TV app to keep track of your favourite shows.  Good Live tile which updates to your next episode throughout the week.

Carbon - Twitter client.  I've used Birdsong and Mehdoh and found both nice as well, but I like Carbon the best for it's speed and features (in line images are cool).

4th & Mayor - Foursquare app, made by a MS employee and has better performance that the official app (although arguably not as nice looking).

WeatherMaster - Nice weather app.  As far as I know it is the only app which has a GPS location that can follow you on the Live tile which is handy during the week where it will switch from my home to work locations automatically.

Parcel Tracker - Track delivery of packages from any shipping service with live tile and notifications.

MyStocks Portfolio - Stock tracking app with Live tile for my employers stock price (Free version).

Also, a few of my favorite games at the moment:

AlphaJax

Wordament - Highly recommended, free and soon to be Live enabled as well

Rocket Riot

Orb

Trine's Hangman

Tentacles