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B&N Giving Away Five Free eBooks

October 7, 2025May 17, 2010 by David K

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

Windows Phone 7 ROM leaks the Mondrian.

October 7, 2025May 17, 2010 by Matt Anderson

So that black slabby sexiness to the left is what appears to be HTC’s new Windows Phone 7 device called the Mondrian. This has all been beaten out of a leaked ROM version that’s currently being sliced up over on XDA. The ROM doesn’t boot, but few do on first try and it certainly doesn’t mean we can’t learn anything from it. The picture was found inside a .cab file in the ROM and some spec’s were also referenced in some of the registry entries. So far, we’ve heard this thing may have a 4.3″ screen, like the HD2 at WVGA resolution. There is also mention of a 1.3ghz Qualcomm processor, which is apparently going to be the successor to the Snapdragon that is currently occupying the top of the heap. The most recent pictures that have leaked have been sent to pocketnow which show a slightly different device render. I, along with a few other members are going to have to call bullshit on this for now. Hit the read link for more pictures and why I’m calling this one foul.

SPB Mobile Shell Gets Updated To 3.5.4

October 7, 2025May 16, 2010 by Doug Smith

Looks like SPB dropped this one on us Friday but forgot to let the “press” know about it which they are generally really good at. Anyway, SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 gets an update and goes to a version 3.5.4. Here is the update release notes: Version 3.5.4 (May 14, 2010): Changes in the Internet search … Read more

Mobility Digest Request For Ruben

May 15, 2010 by Doug Smith

I would like to take a second and and send our thoughts and prayers to Ruben van Assouw who was the only survivor among the 103 passengers killed on Afriqiyah Airways flight Wednesday in Tripoli. Ruben, who is only 9 lost his Mother, Father, and 11 year old Brother on this flight. This will be a very … Read more

Google closes up cell shop.

October 7, 2025May 15, 2010 by Matt Anderson

I’m not one for saying I told you so, therefore I’ll just get right into it. Google has officially decided to stop selling the Nexus One online and move distribution into retail and carrier outlets. Cited reasons were customer’s desires to log some hands-on time before dropping 500+ bones on this thing, as well as … Read more

News for May 14th 2010

October 7, 2025May 14, 2010 by Kristofer Brozio

Happy Friday all! I’m back with the news for you from around the world, and I’ll have another GPS review up in the next couple days as well.

Dolby Surround Sound on phones… really?

October 7, 2025May 14, 2010 by Matt Anderson

I work around a lot of bad ass audio products at Best Buy. This has the effect of giving me quite of bit of skepticism toward products with “simulated surround sound.” For the uninitiated, Simulated surround sound is based off the idea that sound waves coming from different directions are changed by the shape of our ear and the waves path into it. By placing a microphone inside a model of human ear, researchers are able to measure what changes are made by the shape of our ear and create those changes at the speaker or headphone and “tricking” the brain into believing it has come from a particular direction. This has obvious unintended consequences when the sound wave travels through the ear “again” and is changed a second time creating wholly unnatural sounds that don’t trick your brain into crap. It does have some advantages, but for most it just doesn’t matter.

WP7 AP App and XNA Previewed

June 14, 2012May 14, 2010 by David K

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

February 28, 2013May 14, 2010 by David K

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

The Best Phone To Get

April 7, 2016May 13, 2010 by David K

I’m sure you hear people talk about the phone they are planning on getting and you probably chime in. Well we thought it may be time to openly have this discussion. This isn’t the best phone for you. This is for your co-worker, friend, spouse etc. They’re not going to jailbreak, root or unlock. They … Read more

Let’s Do Some More WP7 Apps

April 7, 2016May 13, 2010 by David K

These things are coming fast and furious. This time we have a weather app, world clock, solitaire and coverflow. All written for WP7. The source code is provided as well. These were Silverlight projects designed for web use and converted to WP7. Keep em coming!