Tripwolf, a popular travel guide app for iOS and Android has now joined us on Windows and Windows Phone. It’s the travel guide for all your devices, whether in your pocket or your bag.

It’s a universal app, which we love to see, meaning that you’re getting the experience on all your Windows devices. It’s free to download and might be one to pack for your upcoming vacation.

Earlier this week, PayPal finally released their Windows Phone app for Here payments after a soft-launch of their Windows 8.1 version just a few weeks ago.

Today, the app the Windows Phone app is unpublished. However, before people start sounding alarms, this is a planned downtime for the company and app. In an email sent to a reader from PayPal, the company explains the situation.

With the ever-growing number of apps and games in the Windows Store, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with what’s out there.
For that reason, every Friday we showcase some apps that have piqued our interest.

They may have been in the news recently, they may be new to the Windows Store, or they could simply be old apps that we just stumbled upon.

They are the 5 Intriguing Apps of the Week.

The Surface 3 will be on store shelves in early May. But is it worth upgrading to if you’re already the owner of a Surface 2?

There are a few key points worth considering before making any final decisions. Let’s break it down.

We’ve been playing with Project Spartan that was introduced in Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10049 and we think one feature that many people are going to like is Reading View. It takes away all the distractions like ads and fancy CSS styling to show you the important content. Keep in mind that Project Spartan is still a work in progress; so expect many changes to come before the final release. In this post, we show you how to use Reading View in the new browser.

A Microsoft executive brought up the possiblity that the company could eventually turn Windows into an open source product. However, that is not likely to happen anytime soon, and if it does it may only be parts of the OS that will be available as open source.

Amazon has released an update to the Amazon Prime Video app which introduces support for playback on Android tablets.

Previously the Amazon Prime Video app only worked on Android phones, but Amazon has been expanding compatibility and now Android tablets will work as well. Recently Amazon expanded playback to the Fire tablet as well as iOS devices, but Android tablet users were still not able to play videos on their devices.

Pre-orders for the Apple Watch will begin at 12:01 a.m. PDT on April 10.

Apple has updated their Online Store to announce the pre-order time, just a week from today. A 12:01 a.m. PDT/3:01 a.m. EDT start time would be in line with pre-orders for past product launches.

April 10 is also the date that in-store previews of the Apple Watch will begin. Previews are said to be a limited to 15 minutes, during which customers will be able to try on different models of the Sport and stainless steel watches. The gold Editions, already limited to select stores, will reportedly have their own try-on rules. Customers will be able to pre-order their watches during their preview appointment.

Following pre-orders on April 10, the Apple Watch will formally release to customers in the first-wave launch countries on April 24.

Source: Apple, via 9to5Mac

Our journey through the new crop of Android phones — specifically the Galaxy S6 and HTC One M9 — continues today, now that devices are shipping. Plus, you can now (relatively) easily run Android apps in Chrome thanks to ARC Welder, we’re about to unleash Jerry and Russell on Washington, D.C., for the Big Android Meat and Greet, and we’ll answer more of your questions live!

Join us at this link at 4 p.m. EDT — that’s 9 p.m. in London — as we do this thing we call the Android Central Podcast!

This afternoon, the Microsoft Surface team took to Reddit to do another ‘Ask Me Anything’ session. Users put questions to the Microsoft engineers about the recently announced Surface 3, due to hit store shelves in early May.

As usual, the Surface developers revealed a few interesting tidbits about the latest hardware from Microsoft. We have rounded up the most exciting questions and the answers for you to read below. Here are some highlights!