MLS App and Notifications in WP7

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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

B&N eReader App Coming Soon to WM

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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

Panoramic Navigation on WP7

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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

The WP7 Ringtones and Wallpapers

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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

Hands On: Casio G’zOne Brigade

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So Fedex dropped off a new phone to me yesterday and I figured I’d share it with you guys.. sort of a pictorial unboxing as it were.

Doug says this phone is ugly but I kinda like it. I’m partial to rugged stuff, I’m hard on my gadgets and I always make sure they’re protected with skins, screen protectors and cases. With the cost of phone today, personally I think all phones should be rugged, waterproof and shock proof.

Here’s a snip from the PR:

“The CASIO G’zOne Brigade is available today online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores for $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.”

  • Tough Technology Design – Horizontal clamshell with QWERTY keypad

  • 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, video capture and LED light

  • Clear Talk for superior sound quality

  • Water, shock, dust, immersion, vibration, humidity, salt fog, altitude, high and low temperature storage, and solar radiation resistant conforming to MIL-STD-810F

  • Field Force Manager capable – A resource management tool that provides businesses with the ability to locate and communicate with their mobile field workers

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Microsoft Nosediving

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They’re not quite zero-day figures but I’ve got some intriguing statistics for you in case you’re in the mood, courtesy of comScore. I’ll let the numbers do most of the talking, though not all of it. Microsoft’s mobile market share in the States as of the end of January 2010 fell 4% from its 2009 August … Read more

The New WM Keyboard

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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

S2U2 2.33 Hotfix

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Tags: S2U2, lock, slide If you have already switched to the latest version of S2U2, you might have faced some issues with this release.  A_C has just released a hotfix to fix a couple of issues user reported on xda. To be on the safer side, you should apply this fix as well.   In order … Read more

Sudoku Battle: WP7 v iPhone

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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

WP7 Is Serious About Aesthetics and Consistency

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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

Now What?

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According to FedEx I’ll be getting my new Nexus One sometime tomorrow. Psyched. I’ve spent maybe six minutes of my life total fiddling with Android phones, none of them being a Nexus One, so this is new to me. I want to hit the ground running on making myself feel like I didn’t just waste … Read more

Samsung To Announce Its Upgraded Smartphone ‘Galaxy Spica’

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Samsung Electronics today announced it has upgraded its powerful Smartphone ‘Galaxy Spica(model: I5700)’ to harness the power of the latest version of Android, Android 2.1. The Smartphone now offers users a galaxy of new features and an unrivalled mobile experience. The Galaxy Spica retains all the features inherent in the successful Galaxy Spica (I5700), such … Read more