Some On The Record Talk About WP7

Paul Thurrott is writing a book about Windows phone 7 secrets and because of that he had access to MS insiders Charlie Kindel and Greg Sullivan. He’s shared a short but very informative article about the conversations that he’s had so far (which were on the record). I thin it’s a nice read for those … Read more

Windows Marketplace Breaks 1,000 App Mark

I just did the math and the current count is 1,011 in the US Marketplace. Not sure if those or tears of joy or shame (oh right, that’s shame). We’re on your heels iPhone – just keep your eye on the rear view mirror before we sneak up on you!:) Actually, if I sign into … Read more

Panther Ate My Landscape

By now you’ve probably seen pictures of the LG Panther that has been shown off to ElectricPig who seemed impressed by the build quality of the device and the progress of WP7, a view shared by CnetUK who stated, “When we took the phone for a spin, we were impressed by how polished the OS … Read more

Resco Announces Support for Windows Phone 7

Resco has announced that their Windows Mobile Phone Controls – Resco MobileForm Toolkit will support WP7. These are a set of components to help developers write apps easier. Here are the complete details: Resco, a leading vendor of advanced developer components and tools for mobile devices, announces that it is working on a new suite … Read more

HTC HD2 Customers, Stay Tuned

Just wanted to share TMobile’s response to the ROM leak that they have since pulled: If it’s hard to read: T-Mobile looks forward to supporting our HTC HD2 customers and continuing to improve the benefits offered to those customers in the near future. At this time, we have not issued an official update for the … Read more

B&N Giving Away Five Free eBooks

Barnes and Noble has an interesting promotion going on now. if you own a device with the BN eReader software (that’s a definite for the HD2 and I presume any WM device with the software will fly cause no one will know if it was officially supported or not) then you just need to go … Read more

Tegra Going Droid

Nvidia’s Tegra chips have been in Zune devices and are featured in Kins as well. But we’ve seen teaser images of Tegra in action and we’ve all been waiting to be blown away by Tegra and to date we haven’t seen that. Well Nvidia’s CEO recently spoke about the future of Tegra. He stated that … Read more

WP7 AP App and XNA Previewed

This is really started to get good. The other day Channel 9 did a 45 minute presentation on the XNA framework and WP7 emulator that I’m sure devs found very useful. But there were two and a half minutes of the emulator in action that are just great – so we snipped them together for … Read more

WP7 PowerPoint Streaming

WMPowerUser posted a video of a recent demo of PowerPoint’s WP7 integration and it’s pretty sick. In the video you can see the presenter play a PowerPoint demo as a moderator, follow it in real time in a web browser and simultaneously watch the same slide show on a WP7 device that also streams in … Read more