CyclyHubs WP7 Preview

Here’s an app that won’t make it to this side of the pond but it does show the ease and power of Windows Phone 7. This app shows cycle stations in London and their availability and location relative to you. Take this one slight step to this side of the world and this would work … Read more

Marathon Training App–From Windows Mobile To WP7

A year ago (almost to the day) we talked about a Windows Mobile app called Marathon that was an impressive GPS training app including spoken real time stats, ability to compete against your former results, record the track and upload results. Well the author has ported it to Windows Phone 7 and it’s looking nice.  … Read more

YouTube and Some Other Apps Confirmed For WP7

Man it was getting scary there for a minute. We know WP7 lacks HTML5 and Flash is 6 months off. Well a YouTube app is now confirmed. Also confirmed: An AT&T Uverse apps, NYTimes Reader, Yelp, Free Throw Challenge, BobbleHead (make yourself into a bobblehead). Here’s a picture that Justin Angel from Vertigo put together … Read more

A Bunch Of XNA Samples With Code

The other day Microsoft showed off some simple apps and mentioned that source code would be coming for them. We now have some additional XNA source code for the devs out there to play with. Accelerometer This sample for Windows Phone demonstrates using the Accelerometer sensor in XNA Game Studio 4.o as well as supplies … Read more

iPhone Destroyer – The Windows Phone 7 Game

OK this game isn’t going to prove why the iPhone will be killed by WP7 but you do get to kill iPhones and that’s worth something: It’s a game that appeared on FaceBook by Developpeurs and we’re sharing here to get them some more exposure. I like the premise:) via Charlie Kindel

New York Times App Confirmed For WP7

If you show your phone off on video then expect me to look through each frame: Now it could be that they used the New York Times Silverlight API we mentioned a while back, but it’s good to see there are apps out there that they aren’t (intentionally) showing us.

The Apps Currently In WP7’s Market

So Channel 9 showed off the apps that MS has provided (which are really partially intended for developers since the source code is available so they can see how they were done). The video was 20 minutes and filled with witty banter…so I cut that down and now it’s 10 minutes so you can just … Read more

Riddle Me This iUsers

So there’s this survey that talks about how much iPhone 4 user love their iPhones. Of course they do…they’re in lala land. Check this: Owners of the iPhone 4 also “report experiencing fewer dropped calls” than owners of the previous model, the iPhone 3GS Reconcile that with Steve Jobs who himself acknowledged that the “iPhone … Read more

WP7 Lacks HTML5 – NOT NEWS

Did you hear that Windows Phone 7 will not have HTML5? Holy no-shit Batman! It’s circulating like it is news but if any of the writers were paying attention they’d know that Internet Explorer in WP7 is based on a mix of IE7 and IE8 (desktop). Which of those browsers supports HTML5? Right – neither. … Read more