Windows Phone 7

equidiawatch – TV Watching App For WP7

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Here’s a demonstration of an app for Windows Phone 7 we won’t see here – cause it’s a French station. But you can easily envision this coming to a US station that we care about. The app lets you watch saved and live streaming videos related to the TV channel. You can check out what’s … Read more

Do you care what your phone manufacturer thinks of you?

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Sitting at work and just got a phone call from someone asking about a television.  We don’t normally deal with televisions here but what the customer said was relevant to me becoming pissed off and writing an article about bad consumerism.  Let me explain.  Customer calls in and has one requirement about the television.  He … Read more

There Are Better Apps Than That!

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Let’s just go ahead and say it, Microsoft’s I Need This App contest turned into a huge snoozefest.  Nothing against a great task organizer but i’m sure we all wanted something that was going to have us running to secure our place in the Windows Phone 7 launch campout line. Lucky for you all there … Read more

Windows Phone 7 Browser Trumps BlackBerry 6’s (update)

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Ok, I didn’t watch the video so I’m not sure how poorly Blackberry’s browser performed, but according to Pocketnow WP7 was the “clear winner”.  WP7 was “was much faster and responsive when zooming, panning, and re-rendering content while the BlackBerry appeared almost unusable”.  For the record, the Blackberry was using 3G while the WP7 device … Read more

My slow dance with Blackberry

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Now, before I get into this, let me make it clear to all. I am no stranger to Blackberries, if anyone should understand their abilities and limitations it would be me. I have used and supported these devices from the very first one in existence. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the pic below, I was able to find almost all blackberries in existence lying around the office. For the most part I have done so in a corporate environment, as it turns out; this plays a huge part in my experience I’ll be talking about here today.

 

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Windows Phone 7 Coming To Europe First In October, US In November Says Microsoft COO

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This is really confusing to us here at Mobility Digest. First, we all know that Windows Phone 7 has a tentative release date of “The Holiday Season”. That’s it. That’s all we had. Now it appears we have a little more information from the Microsoft COO himself, Kevin Turner. He says that: “In the October … Read more

Street Slide: Microsoft innovation or just copy paste?

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Our buddy Wen over at WMPoweruser.com has thrown up some you-tubage of an interesting new street view being developed by Microsoft called Street Slide.  This is really awesome stuff that looks like it’s getting prepped for the mobile world.  The tech is already being ported over to iPhone’s in the video so a Windows Phone future wouldn’t be too far fetched.  The tech ups Google’s street view by leaps and bounds.  This is very obvious.  By lining up contiguous street views for an easy to navigate and consumer relative views of business and addresses being used in the extra space there is massive appeal for navigating in and around unfamiliar streets.

I think this represents a change in Microsoft’s R&D rotation from incubation period with Windows Phone 7 and the surrounding services.  With the release right around the corner, any aces up the mobile teams’ collective sleeves should be dropping anytime now.  This is also represents a big push for Microsoft services over Google on third party OS’s like IOS where Bing and Google are currently jockeying for top spot.  A consistent mapping program between the iPhone and Windows Phone 7 could be the unlikely partnership to dislodge Google from their lofty top spot they’re currently lauding over the rest of the search and mobile industry.  I think this is going to be the beginning of a major services marketing campaign by Microsoft over the next year.  With their “3 screens and a cloud” crap they’ve been spewing all over everyone they have to get their ducks in a row and it’s standout tech like this that can help people make the jump from Googling it to Binging it.  Hit up the source link or head past the break for video evidence of Street Slides incredible awesomeness.

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On the Fence: Limbo making decisions

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So I wake up today and instantly I am not happy.  Friday is the busiest day at work every week and when you work a job where getting yelled at is a large part of your day this is not awesome.  However, this is not a story about how awful my day would be but how it turned around all because of a black and white game for Xbox Live Arcade called Limbo.  Now I know you guys are thinking “WTF?!? I know I didn’t click that other awesome website I have bookmarked!”  But while I was playing this incredibly awesome game I realized something that might influence my handset decision in the next couple of months.  I may already have hundreds of dollars worth of Windows Phone games.  Read on for enlightenment…

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On the Fence: A fragmented future with Windows Phone

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I’m definitely not done making decisions, especially with how awesome and free the Samsung Captivate is probably going to be when I’m ready for my upgrade.  However, in the spirit of this whole me-sharing-my-upgrade-experience thing I wanted to let you in on some of my internal thought process about the long term development of mobile operating systems.  … Read more