Here’s a preview of GPS Golf for Windows Phone 7 called mobitree. It contains all of the courses to act like a personal caddy. it includes 5,000 courses in 50 countries. You can even fly over the course, see the distance between your location and the hole, get help selecting clubs and it keep track … Read more
If you’ve been paying attention you know that sometime between the beginning of October and November that Windows Phone 7 will officially launch. Well WMPoweruser has unearthed and graced us with the first two commercials for ATT and they are featuring the HTC Mondrian. Personally the phone the way it looks at the end of … Read more
I’ve got a bunch of WP7 preview apps today so let’s just do it in one post. First up is Robot Strike, an XNA 3D bowling game. You play as a robot and each has its own strength. There’s a physics engine behind the pins falling that works well and there’s universal rankings. Here it … Read more
MSNBC has one of those ‘tech myths debunked’ articles and there’s one that’s pretty interesting to me. It’s the link between the number of bars you see and the service you receive. We typically think that if you have five bars that means you have a strong signal and if a call drops, well it … Read more
“Windows Phone 7 Doesn’t Need Tethering"”. That’s the title of a PCWorld blog entry posted today. Essentially, the argument is that carriers are shunning tethering through excessive pricing that’s tiered. So on AT&T, for example, the privilege to tether is $20 plus $25 per 2gb/month. Meanwhile you can get a cheaper portable WiFi hotspot (like … Read more
Augmented reality is all over the place but on Windows Phone 7 there have been some questions about how it would translate. Well, here’s a preview of Wizup which is in the Developpeurs competition. This is a lot like the app Scan Search we talked about previously. Take a snippet of life and the app … Read more
Well hopefully that picture got your attention. It sure did for me. Now this phone which is just a concept at the moment “could” have so many uses it is unbelievable. A Mozilla community member by the name of Billy May came up with the concept. In essence this phone works by using projectors to … Read more
I decided to try my first after-market keyboard for my Nexus One. I’ve been reasonably pleased with the built-in Android Keyboard, since the upgrade to Froyo, but after reading about Swiftkey I figured it was worth a test run. Swiftkey uses Artificial Intelligence to predict your text. It’s the first keyboard of its kind. Yeah, … Read more
So Microsoft reached out to BGR to tell them that Brandon Watson misspoke the other day and WP7 does NOT support tethering. We didn’t carry the original story that it could tether because, quite frankly, we took it for granted so it didn’t seem like news. But not tethering is news. Apparently MS doesn’t realize … Read more
Hello people, it’s time for the news once again from sites all over the world! Enjoy…
On September 21, 2010, Cervantes Mobile announced that their new Jorno keyboard will be shipping in 2011. The small 3.5” x 3.5” x .9”, 8.8 ounce box unfolds to reveal a rigid 3.5” x 8.5” x .3” keyboard with keys that are 85% the size of a standard keyboard. It is compatible with the iPhone, … Read more
This is great on a Friday. It’s a game for Windows Phone 7 that’s geared towards kids. So you have to match the letter the game presents against one of three letters, or tell them which equation has a sum of 10 for example. The time restraint to answer the question is the amount of … Read more