Good morning, Happy Sunday and all that stuff! It’s time for the news from around the world, a mixture of everything and anything pretty much! Enjoy!
The Real Story Of The AT&T and MS WP7 Exclusivity
BNet.com was able to uncover a transcript of the conversation between MS and AT&T executives that would lead to AT&T being the exclusive initial seller of WP7 devices. Here’s that transcript: AT&T: So, excited? Windows Phone 7: You mean about the October 11 launch date? Yes … and a little nervous. AT&T: Well, it will … Read more
The Right Way (If There Is One) To Propose With An iPhone
I won’t judge you to your face if you use a cell phone to propose, but if you do this is the right way. make a complete iPhone style video with your real images. Pretty nice editing work actually: Video: Movie Theater Marriage Proposal
A Bunch Of WP7 Games and Apps
OK, instead of hitting you with a bunch of posts, here’s a consolidated post with a bunch of nice games and aps that have been demoed for Windows phone 7 today. Let’s start with a 3D Puzzle Game called SkyBox. it’s a neat concept. You have a 3D image and you need to rotate and … Read more
My iLife: my experiences with Apple
Before I start out on this little adventure, it should be made public that I despise Apple and all things fruit. This profound hatred developed during my high school years. Back in those days I owned a Performa 6200, and let me assure you, this thing was the top of the line! But for some strange reason I just wasn’t happy.
I would always get frustrated when reading Magazines like Game Informer. Seeing all these crazy ads every other page for the latest and greatest video games and couldn’t play them. Why couldn’t I play them? Well, short answer: they all said “PC only.” To add insult to injury, the graphics card in my Apple Performa sucked! So my solution was to simply get a PC. And I haven’t looked back since.
During my college years, I’d find myself arguing with the other geeks as to why Microsoft didn’t suck. It soon turned into some sort of obsession. Seeking out the Linux and Apple fans in the room and picking fights. I couldn’t explain and I still can’t! And even in 2010, I will still hunt down and provoke the “not cool” crowd in the room.
With the introduction of the iPhone, things only got worse. I wasn’t fighting with know it all nerds any more (does that mean I’d be fighting myself?) Now I was fighting with every Tom, Dick and Harry in the street. As it turned out, the average village idiot now owned an iPhone, and they all defended this thing as furiously as I attacked it! I found myself poking fun at people who had no idea they were being made fun of. Hearing things like, “Oh, it can’t do that? Oh well, it does what I want it to do!” was the norm. I constantly found myself beating a dead horse.
R2D2 Droid 2 Wallpapers Find Their Way To XDA
Been eyeing those Droid 2 R2D2 wallpapers? Over at XDA there’s a thread containing the static wallpapers and the following live wallpapers: Millennium Falcon Asteroid Field, Jump to Light Speed, Interactive R2D2 and Space Slug. Now all you need is a copy of Star Wars in 3D to do it right.
No WP7 For TMo US At Launch Either?
I’m filing this under rumor for now but a Wall Street Journal article states “Microsoft will receive the marketing support of AT&T, which will be the initial exclusive U.S. carrier to sell the Windows Phone 7 smartphones.” The article itself is otherwise fluff and doesn’t cite any sources for the news so I’m hoping that … Read more
Bloomberg Releases an Android Application
People in finance love and need Bloomberg on their mobile devices. You’d swear that it was tech news or something important. Anyway, for those of you in finance, Bloomberg has now expanded to Android (so that makes iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Nokia and Android as available mobile platforms). On Android you can have news and stocks … Read more
PSA: Android Apps Collect Your Personal Data – A Must Watch Video
Every time you install an application on Android you’re prompted with a warning about the access that you are granting the application. And from the first app you install on Android you’re conditioned to just hit ‘accept’ because even the must mundane apps provide you with warnings about your location, gps, personal info, etc. You … Read more
New Windows Phone 7 Promo Video
Here’s a new Windows Phone 7 promotional video from Microsoft that shows off WP7 as a whole and re-emphasizes the ‘less stop and stare’ theme. For those of you following WP7 a lot of this is old news, but as an intro to Windows Phone 7, I’m into it. You?
Mobility Digest Writers Wanted
We had a really good turnout for the last Writers Call we did back in June, and I want to thank those of you that send us tips and breaking news. Currently, we are looking for more writers specifically for Android and iPhone. We have always been heavy with Windows Mobile and now Windows Phone, … Read more
HTC Spark (WP7) In The Wild
If you haven’t seen enough already, there’s a whole gallery of HTC Spark images here on XDA. There’s not a lot that’s new here except that the HTC HUB can be a single tile (not just the double wide tile that they often show). So you can show weather in a single tile for example … Read more