David K 
Just take a look at the videos of the emulator…on the home screen there’s no time, battery or signal indicator. Sort of made me scared for a bit. Then I saw the WPC video and the on stage video showed cell signal strength, battery and clock. So I figured it was just an emulator glitch. … Read more
With the latest Windows Phone 7 emulator release came new alarms and ringtones. They were featured in Long Zheng’s YouTube video. So we did what comes naturally…we extracted the sound file from the video, cut the tones individually and uploaded them to XDA to share. So if you want to get your WP7 sounds on … Read more
Looks like MS is pretty happy with the high demand for the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. So much so that it appears as though the numbers will exceed Apple’s SDK when the iPhone launched. Brandon Watson wrote: I wanted to share with the community just how excited the developer community has been. As a … Read more
Here’s another Windows Phone 7 demo of an app that shows you all of the web deals, like Woot! in one place and in an easy to see format. It aggregates them, shows previews of them, keeps history and if you want more detail it opens your browser within the app (so you’re not kicked … Read more
PocketNow has put together a video showing the speech recognition software in WP7. They note: You’ll definitely be able to dial contacts, open programs, and run Bing searches from the speech UI, but I don’t see any options for controlling the music player, asking about upcoming appointments, reading incoming messages aloud, or announcing caller ID … Read more
Thinking about Windows Phone 7 reminds me of this old Ballmer clip…I may have nightmares reliving it.
This is looking sweet (humming along at 30fps): And you can see accelerometer support in the settings. I like it.
Today MS said “The Windows Phone Marketplace will support the buying and selling of applications in 17 countries; Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK and United States.” Not exactly world domination but I figured I’d make a little map to get a sense … Read more
So it looks like the latest version of the WP7 emulator not only has voice search enabled, but all of the work is being done on the phone side. In the past, TellMe (the app that powers voice search and was available on 6.5 and earlier) would work by you talking, it sending that info … Read more
By now you probably saw the release from Google talking about Android App Inventor. If you don’t know, this lets anyone write an ‘app’ for Android. Essentially you have a simple program that you can use to drop in text boxes, sound clips and even gain access to the GPS and accelerometer. There’s no programming … Read more
Check it out. The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes the following Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Beta Windows Phone Emulator Beta Silverlight for Windows Phone Beta XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta This Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Tools is compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010.
Here’s the winning pitch for the Medialab (of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) Windows Phone 7 / Nu.nl / MobileLayers Design Contest. Nu.nl is one of the biggest news sites in the Netherlands. I don’t know a lot about the background here but the video shows the iPhone app which looks like a mobile … Read more