If you’re like me then when you signed up for your cell plan way back when you went all-in on the unlimited things. Got you data, texts and a fancy plan with more minutes per month than you need in a year but the bundled price was a steal so you went for it. Have … Read more
From time to time I can’t think of anything to write about. Fortunately, we have readers who comment (from time to time). Among those readers is the infamous who dis?!, our resident Apple troll whose mission it seems is to incite flame wars. Because of his relentlessness in posting, his signature insults and clues in … Read more
Just take a look at the videos of the emulator…on the home screen there’s no time, battery or signal indicator. Sort of made me scared for a bit. Then I saw the WPC video and the on stage video showed cell signal strength, battery and clock. So I figured it was just an emulator glitch. … Read more
With the latest Windows Phone 7 emulator release came new alarms and ringtones. They were featured in Long Zheng’s YouTube video. So we did what comes naturally…we extracted the sound file from the video, cut the tones individually and uploaded them to XDA to share. So if you want to get your WP7 sounds on … Read more
You have to give Microsoft credit for their chutzpah. What nerve to think that Googlites would actually deign to use a Microsoft product on their Android phones. But that is exactly what MS is banking on in releasing an Android version of their increasingly popular Bing search client in about six weeks. Or is the … Read more
Looks like MS is pretty happy with the high demand for the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. So much so that it appears as though the numbers will exceed Apple’s SDK when the iPhone launched. Brandon Watson wrote: I wanted to share with the community just how excited the developer community has been. As a … Read more
Here’s another Windows Phone 7 demo of an app that shows you all of the web deals, like Woot! in one place and in an easy to see format. It aggregates them, shows previews of them, keeps history and if you want more detail it opens your browser within the app (so you’re not kicked … Read more
PocketNow has put together a video showing the speech recognition software in WP7. They note: You’ll definitely be able to dial contacts, open programs, and run Bing searches from the speech UI, but I don’t see any options for controlling the music player, asking about upcoming appointments, reading incoming messages aloud, or announcing caller ID … Read more
10% of America sues you. So the deed is now going through. Sorry Android guys but your days of having a monopoly on open platforms may soon be over, muwahahah! Ok so it will probably never be a real open platform (but neither is the Android, so suck it!) but the prospect of the justice … Read more
Thinking about Windows Phone 7 reminds me of this old Ballmer clip…I may have nightmares reliving it.
Good news for Android as Opera Mini 5.1 has been released. Opera Mini, which compresses data by up to 90% makes page loads much faster. Opera Mini 5.1 features include:
Download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone for free from the Android Market, or at m.opera.com.
For more information, visit http://www.opera.com/mobile/.
Press Release can be found after the break.
At WPC10, Microsoft announced that Dell, LG, Samsung, and HTC all plan on releasing WP7 phones sometime this fall. In addition, HP is notably missing from the latest list of official WP7 partners. I hope OEMs will start unveiling more their products soon, I’m getting antsy waiting for some decent hardware to compliment the amazing … Read more