I Love Windows Phone!

The leading food and restaurant discovery service, Zomato, has arrived on Windows Phone. Zomato has had an exhaustive mobile presence as yet (critical for a service in this genre) with iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android apps as well as a fine mobile web edition.

Few would argue that moneycontrol.com is amongst the best, if not the best, financial and business portals in India. The umbrella group, Network18, also runs two leading financial news channels – CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. All that goodness has now arrived on Windows Phone.

Flipkart, the leading online store from India has released a Windows Phone app last week amongst the burst of local applications from India. The app offers shopping for a wide variety of products across several categories including movies, music, games, mobiles, cameras, computers, and electronics.

Finally! After several teasers of apps from Indian content publishers and services (including The Times of India), Network 18 (the umbrella owner of the popular English news channel, CNN-IBN) has released the first official Windows Phone news app in India.

Looks like Microsoft Research is the one playing Santa this holiday season, at least for the Windows Phone users. After releasing Face Swap a few days back and including a teaser of another facial-recognition app in Face Swap, they’ve delivered another one in quick time – Face Mask!

Nokia’s fun Amazing Everyday commercial for Nokia Lumia 800 has has now arrived for India with an auto-rickshaw ride and sadhus playing soccer. I’ve always been fan of Nokia commercials with subtle background score and inspirations drawn from life’s everyday moments.

This would be filed under the category of useless apps that provide endless fun. Microsoft Research has released a new Windows Phone app – Face Swap – that allows you to swap your face with other people.

Nokia launched Lumia Windows Phones in India last month at a press event in New Delhi. While, Nokia, and Microsoft, talked about the device and Nokia’s marketing and sales roadmap, Nokia strangely did not announce the prices. [My live blog coverage] [Photos]

The Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 phones have launched and Nokia is working on an unprecedented retail support and an aggressive consumer marketing campaign along with the rollout. Apart from the consumer engagement, Nokia is also focusing on the developer engagement.