David K Nasdaq is reporting “ T-Mobile USA will sell a device made by Taiwan-based HTC Corp., a person familiar with the plans said. T-Mobile USA may sell a more business-oriented Windows Phone 7 device later.” Further, AT&T remains the marquee partner in pushing Windows Phone 7 and will launch with the devices initially…The timing of [T-Mobile’s]phone … Read more
CNet was given access to more war rooms and interviews regarding Windows Phone 7 and have some interesting new details that are here. Here are some quotes to highlight the highs and lows of WP7 from a developer perspective: For the top handful of "must-have" apps, Microsoft has been pulling out all the stops, offering … Read more
Developers have been asking when they can submit apps to the Marketplace for WP7. MS is taking a unique approach here and setting up triages. Oct 4: All registered developers have been contacted and invited to request early submission to the Marketplace certification process. Oct 6: Deadline for registered developers to respond to the invitation … Read more
The streaming music app Spotify is not available for Windows Mobile 6.x (in the past there were third party clients but nothing official) and it’s also been announced for Windows Phone 7. The features are: · Search, browse and play millions of tracks · Stream over WiFi or 2.5/3G – All your existing playlists are … Read more
If you’re a news site and want to create a custom Windows Phone 7 app it’s just gotten a lot lot easier offline news reading news by category text size adjustment save for later share through email or sms rotation support search with the news theme support (so if the WP7 theme colors are changed … Read more
BNet.com was able to uncover a transcript of the conversation between MS and AT&T executives that would lead to AT&T being the exclusive initial seller of WP7 devices. Here’s that transcript: AT&T: So, excited? Windows Phone 7: You mean about the October 11 launch date? Yes … and a little nervous. AT&T: Well, it will … Read more
I won’t judge you to your face if you use a cell phone to propose, but if you do this is the right way. make a complete iPhone style video with your real images. Pretty nice editing work actually: Video: Movie Theater Marriage Proposal
OK, instead of hitting you with a bunch of posts, here’s a consolidated post with a bunch of nice games and aps that have been demoed for Windows phone 7 today. Let’s start with a 3D Puzzle Game called SkyBox. it’s a neat concept. You have a 3D image and you need to rotate and … Read more
Been eyeing those Droid 2 R2D2 wallpapers? Over at XDA there’s a thread containing the static wallpapers and the following live wallpapers: Millennium Falcon Asteroid Field, Jump to Light Speed, Interactive R2D2 and Space Slug. Now all you need is a copy of Star Wars in 3D to do it right.
I’m filing this under rumor for now but a Wall Street Journal article states “Microsoft will receive the marketing support of AT&T, which will be the initial exclusive U.S. carrier to sell the Windows Phone 7 smartphones.” The article itself is otherwise fluff and doesn’t cite any sources for the news so I’m hoping that … Read more
People in finance love and need Bloomberg on their mobile devices. You’d swear that it was tech news or something important. Anyway, for those of you in finance, Bloomberg has now expanded to Android (so that makes iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Nokia and Android as available mobile platforms). On Android you can have news and stocks … Read more
Every time you install an application on Android you’re prompted with a warning about the access that you are granting the application. And from the first app you install on Android you’re conditioned to just hit ‘accept’ because even the must mundane apps provide you with warnings about your location, gps, personal info, etc. You … Read more