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Nope, it’s not going to be required for a device to have a gyroscope. Brandon Watson, speaking on Channel9 says it’s a great idea but it’s not there at launch and an accelerometer is very robust. This is in response to the iPhone 4 having it since it provides greater sensitivity to movement so it’s … Read more
We’ve known that Flash was coming to WP7 but what we heard today from WMExperts is that both Flash (in web) and AIR (non-browser flash) will be coming to WP7 months after WP7 is launched – in fact within 6 months or less. Good news that it’s coming – bad news it takes so long:) … Read more
Good news/bad news time. Dev devices are still salted to go out next month, but they are not going to be final builds of WP7 devices so these are not the phones that will ultimately be sold in stores. Brandon Watson clarified these points reminding people that the emulator suits most peoples needs for testing … Read more
There are two competing buzzwords – fragmentation and integration. Fortunately, MS (finally recovering from those pesky anti-trust suits) is back into the world of integration. The Xbox and Windows Phone 7 integration got a bit of a boost today. Zune music is on its way to the Xbox (so it counts as one of the … Read more
Man the devs are really shining on WP7 already. Here’s an app from Nowsci that’s in final form (we just need phones:)). It’s a Goog RSS reader but it focuses on aesthetics and pre-caches data so there are no delays to pull data as you go through the app. Here’s the feature list: Full access … Read more
Just a reminder that if you have any questions that you want to ask MS about WP7 (and actually get answered) make sure to post them today to this thread.
From a cold start (after a battery pull) it takes 30 seconds for WP7 to be on and fully functional. And this isn’t the final build of the OS. With WM6.5 you have to wait for it to boot and then another 30 seconds as the device initializes so this is a marked improvement and … Read more
Pretty neat little app here. It’s a diary. Go to the date and you get some options. You start by creating an image (if you want) with drawing tools and some preset icons and emoticons to insert and the like. It all seems easy to use. And once your done move on down and you … Read more
Long Zheng was just getting started. He’s also shown a little more on what trials will look like on actual phones. And more importantly, this resolves a gripe people have. The WM marketplace will not be filled with free apps. They want developers to make good apps and not have a race to the bottom. … Read more
Long Zheng has reported that at TechEd today they went into more details on unlocking. And folks, you may not want to hear all of it. Here’s the deal – for $99 a developer can unlock 3 phones (more may be considered on request). That was known already. The new news is the method to … Read more
longzheng posted a pic of the newest build of WP7 and look at that – the icons in the lower menu bar have words now. So if you’re not good at deciphering pictures but you can read, you’re in luck:) You need to slide the app bar up to see it, but it takes the … Read more
Saw an interesting slide from a TechEd presentation today that I decided to play with a drop. It shows the stock UIs of smartphones today…and they’re all the same for the most part – just app launchers. A grid of shortcuts. That is except WP7 which is an actual UI. Anyway, I dropped in one … Read more