Windows Phone. Features | Windows Phone Features. Siri can’t do this! “Feed Reader” is Windows Phone 8′s killer speech app! The latest “Feed Reader” update is now live with a few special new Windows Phone 8 Speech features. Feed Reader is a Google Reader RSS news client app, with a built in Twitter Client and Podcast app. You can now launch the hands free saying either “Feed Reader read news” or “Feed Reader read starred items”. The app will automatically launch into your “all unread” news page and start reading your news. Each title will be audibly read to you, it will then wait on you to give it a command such as saying “next” to go to the next item, “details” to read you the full article you are on, “star” to star an item, “mark unread”, “pocket” to send to Pocket, “Instapaper” to send the article to Instapaper or “help” to get a list of available commands.
This is great for hands free interaction especially in the car. Check out this video of the app in action inside a car using Bluetooth above. Future updates planned with more speech support coming. Verizon Said To Be Getting A Flagship Nokia Windows Phone (Codenamed “Laser”) Of Its Own. Don’t get me wrong, HTC’s Windows Phone 8X is great and all, but the rest of Verizon Wireless’ Windows Phone lineup (think the Nokia Lumia 822 and Samsung’s ATIV Odyssey) is a bit lacking in the oomph department.
If a new report from The Verge’s Tom Warren holds true though, that may not be the case for too much longer. According to sources within Verizon, the carrier is gearing up to release a flagship Nokia Windows Phone with a spec sheet similar to the Lumia 920. There’s precious little other information about this device aside from the fact that it’s apparently codenamed “Laser,” and that Verizon reportedly plans to throw its considerable weight behind the device (unlike the case with the ATIV Odyssey, the poor thing). What exactly that means for Verizon is still unclear, but I can hazard a guess or two.
Oh, and just in case you were hoping against hope that the Laser name actually sticks, you can probably stop now.