Skreeky is an app that is currently available for the iPhone and Windows Mobile that lets you chat with your friends or random people, even walkie talkie style. And by chat I mean your voice…like real chat. The developer has stated that a prototype of Skreeky is implemented for WP7 so expect it to come. … Read more
For a long time Microsoft has been touting their ‘three screens and a cloud’ concept and here’s a picture of it in action today. Joel Ivory Johnson has a WP7 dev device and look what he did…so purdy. As he wrote “Bought a video on Zune and can now play it on my computer, my … Read more
RunningPixel has an Xbox Live Indie Game called The No button Game that they’ve made public is coming to Windows Phone 7. Wait, no buttons? Well check out the video. I have to say, I love the concept. Of course, on a mobile device using an accelerometer is a bit more common but still, when … Read more
Anyone who has used Windows Mobile probably installed the HTC Action Screen. That’s the 9 (sometimes more) button page that launches tasks so from there you can start a new email, toggle bluetooth, compose a text, etc and you could map this to a hardware key. Well with Windows Phone 7 you need to know … Read more
Here’s a preview of an upcoming Windows Phone 7 game called Fierce Game Hunting. This scene shows the opening scene of the game before there’s any firing. Graphics look smooth. It’s XNA which is great for game designing. And I could easily see this game being converted into an alien hunter type game for those … Read more
An MS employee made an awesome golf app for Windows Phone 7. It looks very practical and he set up the controls with a lot of forethought so everything is lined up in a way to choose a course, choose the players and start playing with all players tracking their score. Really great implementation of … Read more
Here’s a simple magic 8 ball application for Windows Phone 7. It looks fairly simple but they have a dev device and watching the 8ball jump around the screen is pretty funny. Here’s the video:
You know you’re devoted to your platform when you do this. This is the license plate of Kevin Wolf a/k/a ByteMaster. Just guessing, but I think he’s a WP7 dev:)
Retroburn has shown off a series of XBLIG that it is (or is likely to) bring to Windows Phone 7 and it’s some impressive stuff. There’s a learning game for kids, a 3D arcade racing game, billiards (more in a second), a tower defense game (that is only ‘likely’ for WP7), a second racing game … Read more
Devisyn has a post about a pretty funny challenge laid down. You have thirty minutes and two cups of coffee – make an app for Windows Phone 7. Between brainstorming and coding it was just over thirty minutes but the developer was able to make a Simon Says clone that works. They need to tweak … Read more