No Surprises – Sense IS NOT Coming To WP7

There’s this story that is circulating that Sense is coming to Windows Phone 7. The original quote is from Forbes and this is it: But HTC says its custom software, which it calls "Sense", will live on, even on Windows phones. Drew Bamford, who heads HTC’s user experience design team, tells Forbes the manufacturer is … Read more

Mo Words–Scrabble Clone For WP7 Shown Off

Here’s a game called Mo Words that’s still in progress but you can get a sense for the game itself. It’s going to be updated with push notifications for turn by turn play for two players. Anyway, still a cool demo and the dev states that the actual device performance is better than the video … Read more

HTC WP7 Phone Shown In The Wild

So there aren’t a lot of details here but Engadget has photos of an HTC phone with a 3.7” SLCD, 1ghz Snapdragon and an 8mp camera wit a singe LED flash. It’s also noted that the three buttons are touch sensitive (like the Fuze which carried a capacitive DPad) and is CDMA based, Wish we … Read more

Spinner Space Game Demoed For WP7

Here’s a demo of a space shooter game also coded in Silverlight. You need to get to the end point without hitting too many obstacles (your ship has the life meter on it). Looks good so far. Let’s hope that Silverlight can handle this many touch events…if not then it’s headed to XNA world I … Read more

Billiards for Windows Phone 7 Previewed

Here’s a good start to a Silverlight billiards game. Multiplayer would be sweet Another simple game I am building for Windows Phone 7, based on a Silverlight version I created previously. I would like to make a multiplayer version in which players can complete between the web (using Silverlight clients) and a phone.

Microsoft To Employees – Make WP7 Apps (For Free)

So we now have a leaked Microsoft email from Andy Lees to employees which tells them about the free phones they’ll be getting and it also advises them to get to know WP7 and to sell it. And while they’re at it, they should make apps for it. previously there was an internal memo reminding employees that they are employees of a company and essentially to not compete with MS. To employees it’s clearly been taken as a warning that they cannot profit from WP7 apps but we’ll see how it plays out. Anyway, because of the length, hit the break for the complete email to employees and the info we have about the ‘free’ nature of their development.

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iPhone Tower Defense Showdown

The Mobile Spoon has a really neat post with a buttload of tower defense style games for the iPhone and which are the best.  Ok I just counted and 14 is a buttload:) And the 3D sheep one didn’t win – man they really do have an app for everything… Anyway, if you have an … Read more

Check List With Desktop Companion For WM

Dadi68 of XDA has written a simple to use, finger friendly check list application that comes with a PC companion so you can create lists and sync between your phone and PC. It’s relatively simple but because of that it’s also relatively straightforward and it does what it’s supposed to do…makes checklists. You can check … Read more