Engadget grabbed some pics of the Dell Lightning for WP7. Just look at her…so pretty:) Specs are everything you would want (with a slide-out QWERTY added). Snapdragon processor at 1ghz, 4.1” OLED WVGA, 5mp camera, 1gb flash, 512 RAM, 8gb storage on SD, GPS, accelerometer, GPS, compass, radio “full Flash support” (interesting) and both AT&T [...]

Anaadoul wanted to show how easy it was to make a simple RSS reader for WP7 so he did just that. He mentions how simple it is to get an optimized app using the WP7 tools. He notes “Instead of writing lots of code to parse and loop through the XML document, you can simply [...]

Microsoft’s WindowsPhone7.com site has unfortunately been put to the side by MS since they announced WP7. There is an area of ‘exclusive content’ for people that have registered and they recently posted a video explaining why copy and paste is not needed in WP7. It shows a few scenarios where copy and paste would traditionally [...]

Windows Mobile got a facelift and was rebranded as Windows Phone. And then Windows Phone 7 Series was renamed to Windows Phone 7. All of this rebranding has not ended the fragmentation of Windows Phone. See, that little word ‘Series’ was dropped but it unfortunately is applicable. There are currently 3 distinct lines of Windows [...]

If you’re planning on developing for WP7 check out Clarity Consulting’s blog. They’ve provided a template for Illustrator which is useful for visualizing designs before you build them. The template was created in CS4 and covers a lot, but not all of WP7 so they’re asking if you add to the template to share. And [...]

If you were thinking of getting Visual Studio 2010,  which was just released, and using it for WP7 development you may want to hold off. “We need to highlight that the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP (WPDT CTP) released last month is not compatible with the retail (RTM) release of Visual Studio 2010.” MS says [...]

We’ve heard the term 3 Screens and The Cloud from Microsoft for a while but an announcement from the other day is starting to finally paint a cohesive picture of where this is headed. To recap where things stand, 60% of PC’s have Silverlight loaded on them (including Macs) and WP7 is highly Silverlight dependant [...]

So iPhone OS 4.0 was released today…yup still generations behind WP which is up to 7 (yes, I joke). With it comes things like multitasking, ability to set your own background and some other gap fillers that make up for what it’s been missing for years. Engadget put together a great tale of the tape [...]

As we all know, WP7 is based on Silverlight and if there’s a standalone Silverlight app you can pretty much drag and drop it to create a WP7 app with just a few sizing and control changes. Well, it stands to reason that if Microsoft has a Silverlight Facebook application that it will find its [...]

Channel 9 has posted this video with Richard Costall who is a Microsoft and Silverlight MVP who was showing off a simple Silverlight game called Manic Miner. The game won’t blow you away. The impressive part (around the 7 minute mark) is how easy it was for him to convert the Silverlight to WP7 and [...]