We try to cover all platforms here but obviously WP7 has taken center stage in the last few days because of the launch and the strong advertising push. So we’ve all learned a lot lately about the operating system as a whole and the actual devices that are coming out. We’ve said a lot about … Read more
Seems like the rumors keep coming tonight including turn-by-turn directions, Skydrive, clipboard and app-switching (almost multitasking). See the Tweets. Man, all the copy and paste stuff made me forget that we were missing turn by turn directions…dang. Anyone want to spin this for the team?
Since Neowin saw a Tweet by Microsoft’s Oded Ran confirming Zune of Macs everyone is celebrating. And if it’s true, they should be. In fact, our Twitter followers know that we went fishing for answers Monday after we were unable to get anyone to confirm Zune syncing for Mac during Monday’s launch and inquiries to … Read more
Hey guys. Just wanted to follow up with you on the hardware information concerning the screen size of the pimpest AT&T branded Windows Phones to hit the interwebs. There was some confusion Monday about whether this guy had a 3.6″ or 3.8″ SLCD Screen. I am happy to report that it is, in fact, the … Read more
Down Under’s very own Optus Mobile announced today that it will be giving future Australian Windows Phone 7 (WP7) adopters the chance to experience Microsoft’s two newest products together. The $79 Kinect plan will be $0 at time of purchase and give customers the choice between an Omnia 7 or LG Optimus 7 WP7 powered … Read more
Roger Peters (of smartypantscoding) submitted his game Matchingo to the Marketplace for approval and just 18 hours later it was approved. That’s pretty impressive for Microsoft whose Windows Mobile 6.5 Marketplace got hammered by developers who complained about time delays as well as a lack of information about the submission process. Of course, submissions are … Read more
Pretty neat deal MS is setting up. If you ‘sign up’ (which is just submitting your email address) then when you buy a WP7 phone you get 3 months of Zune Pass for free. You’re not preordering or committing to buy now so this is pretty risk free so if WP7 is a possibility for … Read more
Channel9 took a look at the AT&T WP7 devices and we get a look at the LG Quantum in landscape mode. Now, if you saw Ramon’s videos earlier today you may have noticed that when the Quantum keyboard slides open, the MS UI does not rotate so the home screen remains the same regardless of … Read more
if you updated to the latest version of Zune (4.7) today then you can go to Marketplace- Apps and you can see what’s in the Windows Phone 7 app catalogue. Of course, if you’re lazy here’s what’s in it now: They’ve got a lot to go. For example, there are two Google Voice apps: one … Read more
Here’s a pretty neat Facebook demo. You login to Facebook and it loads your content into a WP7 embedded (in browser) emulator and you can see how your contacts would look when loaded. Here’s the link: http://apps.facebook.com/meetnewwpdemo/ Once you load it you’ll see your picture become the “Me” tile and then in People you’ll see … Read more