David K 
If you have Wednesday circled on your calendar in anticipation of the TMo HD2 release and were getting ready to stand in line at a TMo store you may be able to snag one a little easier. Just hit up the Shack who will have it available on 3/24. Not only are they selling it, … Read more
Over at the Windows Phone 7 Series website they hosted a Q&A from Gian Wilson, product manager, mobile communications business regarding the game hub experience. Here are some of the most interesting Q&A’s that come out of it which talk in terms of Xbox integration, turn-by-turn games and point systems. But first up, how many games will be on a WP7 out of the box? Zero…really? Not even solitaire:) ?
There’s a lot more after the break…I wish the word ‘yes’ appeared a bit more:)
So as expected the WP7 theme for ThrottleLauncher has been released in beta and is available here from 1800PocketPC. I have tested it out on my Fuze and it’s very smooth. It is a beta though and I don’t see it replacing TF3D but nonetheless, if you want to get the WP7 look it’s certainly … Read more
From Bbonzz comes another classic. This one is called PocketRunner. You need to run as fast as you can using your fingers. The track moves with you in real time (and graphically it’s smooth as butter). And because of the engine used to create the game, you don’t have to worry about lifting one finger … Read more
The UI ThrottleLauncher just got an update release with a nice set of features intended to speed it up among other things. But with this release we should also be expecting the release of the WP7 theme shortly, since the dev stated that he was waiting for 1.0.1 to be released. This theme appears to … Read more
Channel9 has added a video from Mix10 that shows a new Silverlight based Major League Soccer application for WP7. It also shows you how notifications on WP7 work. So when a goal is scored a notification pops up and if you press it the app opens to the appropriate page. From there, video of the … Read more
Looks like the Barnes & Noble eReader app is going to launch shortly for WM. If we had to guess an exact date it would be March 24…the day the TMo HD2 is released since that’s where the app is extracted from. Don’t worry, we’ll give you a link to the cab as soon as … Read more
The UI for WP7 isn’t actually written in Silverlight (even though devs will be using Silverlight for their apps). So when it comes to panoramic applications, developers still have some work to do on their own and MS has yet to provide a template. Aimee Gurl has demonstrated a way to create a panoramic application … Read more
Since releasing the WP7 emulator the packages have been slowly taken apart. The wallpapers and the tones have been separately extracted. As expected, the wallpapers are in 480×800 and the ringtones are in wma format. There are 6 wallpapers and 23 sounds (not all are ringtones). And many of them are duplicates of existing ringtones … Read more
I just installed NRGZ latest and greatest and with it came a new onscreen keyboard. This is the stock MS keyboard (not HTC’s). We’ve seen pics of it in the past but I hadn’t seen it implemented in a ROM. It’s pretty WP7 looking but it’s far less advanced. It doesn’t smart detect text entries … Read more
Here’s a pretty neat article about writing a sudoko app in Silverlight and theming it for both the iPhone and WP7. As the dev notes: Couple of weeks ago I had created a Sudoku Game in Silverlight and dressed it up in iPhone’s theme, I even posted the code on Codeplex. Now, yesterday with some … Read more
The Windows Phone Developer Blog has posted “Windows Phone 7 Series UI Design and Interaction Guide”. It’s a 69 page pdf that contains a ton of information on aesthetics and continuity within applications and gives details on how apps must be written…and how friendly they must be. This includes things like the minimum size between … Read more