Tracking down the best Windows Phone 7 apps is often akin to riffling through someone’s draws. Such is the amateur status of many of the titles on offer – amateur in terms of the person writing the code, rather than the end result – that the apps served up often come with a distinctly home grown feel.

As our summary of the best Windows Phone 7 apps on offer for March proves, however, that’s not always a bad thing. By thinking of the user instead of setting out to push a specific product, those bedroom coders often produce the goods.

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If you thought finding the best Windows Phone 7 apps was a tricky enough task as things stand, wait until the Ovi Store comes on board. The finer points of Nokia’s recently announced alliance with Microsoft might still be under wraps, but if the proposed app store merger comes to pass, Windows Phone 7 could be party to a veritable app explosion – or, at the very least, a mild bit of turbulence, akin to the morning after a dodgy takeaway.

Even on its own, Windows Phone Marketplace now boasts a total of 8,000 apps, which just might explain where all our spare cash has gone this month. Read on and take a look at our top picks for February.

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On the hunt for the best Windows Phone 7 apps? Then you’ll know that Microsoft’s app store is no easy beast to navigate. With everything from apps, games and even MP3s popping up in an especially jumbled up fashion in any search results, even trying to find a Twitter app can bring up everything from the genuine article to obscure album tracks by random artists you’ve never heard of.

Until Microsoft comes to its senses and partitions Windows Marketplace a little more ruthlessly, however, Electricpig’s monthly rundown of the best Windows Phone 7 apps does the hard work for you, separating the wheat from the chaff and keeping any tracks by unsung bands firmly off the radar.

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