Keep up on your power with Battery Level for Windows Phone 8

Here'southward an app that should excite some of yous new Windows Telephone 8 owners out at that place: Battery Level for WP8 by Alex Golesh. The first of its kind, as far every bit nosotros know, the app allows y'all to constantly keep abreast of your battery life on your WP8 device with a simple Alive Tile.

Just pin the app to your Start screen and choose one of three sizes (small, medium and doublewide) to suit your needs. The doublewide will even display the charging state (belch or charging) in addition to the battery icon and percentage left. Oh and the app tin also display a bombardment icon and percentage on the Lock screen. Yup, just head to Settings and choose it every bit one of your 5 options and you lot'll be good to go.

The app is completely costless and besides a simple spelling fault within the app, it'southward pretty slick. Even if you lot're not into this, you should be excited to see the kinds of things developers will be releasing shortly to the Windows Phone Store for Microsoft's latest OS. Nosotros should run into some actually creative apps over the side by side few months.

Option up Battery Level for WP8 here in the Store.

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