This should not come as a shock to anyone, Blackberry is holding on and WP7 is gaining quickly. It is only a matter of time. What is interesting is who said it! I could have sworn a few months ago the very same person said he was not interested in WP7. here is what Verizon’s … Read more
“The new TouchXperience will of course take benefit from Mango API f.e. you can pin whatever you want on start screen (folders, shortcuts, custom tiles,…) or you can get it running in background without using any hack… I’m still working on it, no release date at the moment, and a new version of WP Device … Read more
If you go to Bing on an HTML5 browser today you’ll see there’s a video instead of a photo as the background. Pretty neat actually. Of course, the next logical step is to fire it up on my Windows Phone. No dice. Even though IE9 on the phone should render HTML5 video, it doesn’t. So … Read more
The HTC Radar is the lower spec’d Windows Phone coming in a Mango flavor. It was a 1gz processor, 5mp camera and 8gb storage. But it’s also coming to T-Mobile (US) as these shots from TMoNews show. It’s got 4G and based on the specs you can expect this to be a well priced device. … Read more
This is a first for me. Browsed our site then clicked on our forums and bam! Look at that message (ignore the typo). It launches Marketplace and brings you to Board Express Pro.What’s interesting about that is that Windows Phones are actually following the sites you visit and comparing them to Marketplace. I want to … Read more
Early fall is just days off and it seems like Microsoft is delivering Mangos for the Fall as they said they would. In their latest blog post they note “For months, we and dozens of our partner companies have been laying the groundwork for the Windows Phone 7.5 update—and making solid progress. As a result, … Read more
Julien Schapman (TouchXperience) is at it again. In his latest release he’s gone forward and provided the ability to tweak Windows Phones that are running Mango: New Mango versions of Advanced Config & Registry Editor available (launch from system settings). Of course you still need an unlocked phone since MS forbid installation of homebrew apps. … Read more
If you are a T-Mobile customer or you are looking to switch over to T-Mobile then Saturday September 24th is shaping up to be a great day to do it and save on all smartphone and tablets. Announced today as the “Yes, Every Smartphone Is on Sale, Sale”, T-Mobile will put all their smartphones on … Read more
So much noise about Bing today. It has been losing money for Microsoft and to date is about a $9b loss, with an additional $1b per quarter. Microsoft has the money to lose, don’t worry. But unless you haven’t been paying attention you’ll also know that Bing is part of their future strategy and Bing … Read more
One of the hitches to updating to Mango apps is that once you do it you freeze the non-Mango version o the app and it’s not then upgradable. That’s a bummer because it means you’ve left people behind in updates and as a developer you need to time your Mango updates for when enough people … Read more