For those of you who are following Windows phone 7, you’re in the clear minority. And that’s coming from me…the person already waiting outside the AT&T store for them to sell me one. Aside from the fact that technology makes up less than 1.6% of the total news coverage, and Microsoft gets 1/5th the amount … Read more
I’ll avoid making any off color jokes about MS needing to pray that their OS sells (I’ve gone far enough already) but I know for some of you having a copy of the Bible on your phone is a big deal. Well no worries, as that’s covered. Steve Starck has provided a version of the … Read more
Paul Thurrott is an insider when it comes to Windows Phone 7. He’s not an employee of MS but was granted early access to WP7 information and is writing a book about WP7. So when he says he has a reliable source, that has a lot of credence to it. And here’s what he has … Read more
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
“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
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
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