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Windows Phone 7 Bing Maps Demoed In Video

2 September 2010, 8:54 pm by: WenWM
No Voice Navigation Demo? That’s pretty much all I Wanted to See It seems Brandon still has his Windows Phone 7 device in hand because the new video was posted yesterday demoing how Maps behave in WP7. Found on his site Pocketnow, the video shows h...

28 nanometer Cortex-A9 chips running at 2.5 Ghz coming soon

2 September 2010, 2:59 pm by: Surur
WindowsforDevices write that Globalfoundries  has reached a "significant milestone" in its production of 28-nanometer ARM Cortex-A9 processors, with silicon expected in late 2010. The chips could run as fast as 2.5 Ghz, with the company...

Auto-Correction in Windows Phone demoed

2 September 2010, 2:00 pm by: Surur
MobilityDigest has uncovered this video showing the Windows Phone 7 keyboard auto-correction in action. The process appears pretty smooth, and unlike the HTC keyboard the SIP also includes auto-complete, which should help further improve typing speed...

Toshiba Where Are You? We Have Been Missing You

2 September 2010, 11:22 am by: WenWM
Toshiba, one of the least spoken of smart phone market in the US and a Windows Phone only maker. They have not been making devices like HTC, LG, or Samsung but more like Apple with one or two releases a year. The difference between Apple and Toshiba...

Innovation… What Happened To It? (Updated)

2 September 2010, 10:00 am by: WenWM
Now as usual with all my thought I like to keep it in the read more section, so if you want to hear what I have to say about innovation in this day and age… Click the read more link and don’t forget to comment. Remember those days when companies...

Microsoft discontinues Bing for Windows Mobile for QVGA devices

2 September 2010, 8:00 am by: Surur
Microsoft has discontinued support for Bing Mobile on QVGA Windows Mobile devices, apparently in an effort to focus on the Windows Phone 7 version and the higher-end Windows Mobile  6.5 and 6.1 devices, according to Phonenews.com. Users trying t...

Samsung lukewarm on Windows Phone 7

2 September 2010, 5:00 am by: Surur
Unlike LG, is seems Samsung does not have as much high hopes for the success of Windows Phone 7. YH Lee, head of marketing at Samsung Mobile has told Reuters at IFA they will be concentrating on Android and Bada as their main platform, stating: ̶...

An Interview with WP7 Game Developer Jimmy Dickinson

2 September 2010, 4:00 am by: pradeep
1)Have you developed Apps for any other platforms before?If Yes What are they? I have not developed any Apps for any other phone platform.  I have developed many web based applications and games.  At one point I worked building educational flash ba...

Is a Windows Phone 7 version of the HTC Trophy coming?

2 September 2010, 1:54 am by: Surur
One of my most favourite handsets which never made it to market was the HTC Trophy, a smartphone with a front-facing QWERTY and a capacitive VGA screen which was meant to arrive some time this year but but appeared to have been cancelled in the end....

LG E900 passes through FCC with AT&T frequencies

1 September 2010, 11:38 pm by: Surur
More confirmation that the LG Optimus 7 is coming to AT&T has just popped up, with the device successfully navigating the FCC with full AT&T bands. The handset, which is rumoured to have a full metal build (rather than the plastic suggested b...

Rumor: “Tuck and Paste” How Windows phone 7 will tackle copy and paste

1 September 2010, 9:19 pm by: rush24
Remember the Courier, and its ingenious method of copy and paste by “tucking” items to the center spine, or maybe the Kin spot. Well, if blogger msftnerd’s sources are correct, that is the method via which copy and paste will come to Windows ph...

Opinion: Windows Phone 7’s neglected missing feature

1 September 2010, 7:27 pm by: rush24
With the introduction of WP7, Microsoft fixed most of the aspects that made the old Windows mobile powerful yet unusable for average users by creating a new standard UI for the OS, and specifying  a set of minimum hardware specs that are high en...

CloudFiles : Dropbox client for Windows Phone 7

1 September 2010, 3:59 pm by: Surur
Ruttensoft, the company behind the first Windows Mobile Dropbox client, Cloudfiles, is in the process of porting their software to Windows Phone 7. They write: Building on CloudFiles, the very successful Dropbox for Windows Mobile 6.5 Client, we are...

Windows Phone 7 now final, released to manufacturers

1 September 2010, 1:41 pm by: Surur
Terry Myerson has announced on Microsoft’s Windows Team Blog that Windows Phone 7 has now been finalized and released to manufacturers for loading onto devices. Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very...

Windows Phone 7 ahead of iPhone in developer survey

1 September 2010, 11:48 am by: Surur
Now we would be first to admitted we have never heard of i-programmer.info, but that’s not going to stop us from reporting the good news that programmers are more keen to develop on Windows Phone 7 than iPhone, by a narrow margin of 19 to 18%....

HTC HD7 real, coming to O2 soon?

1 September 2010, 9:18 am by: Surur
What have we here?  Apparently a leaked O2 spread sheet shows the mythical HTC HD2 successor arriving on O2 on the 18th October, just in time for the Windows Phone 7 launch. What do our readers expect from this hopefully amazing device, if real?...

Anyone want to help fix the Windows Phone 7 Wikipedia article?

1 September 2010, 9:11 am by: Surur
Wikipedia, the 7th biggest site on the internet and a reference we all use regularly, is an important source of information about any product. It is therefore a great pity that a Linux and Apple troll called Lester has been infesting the Windows Phon...

OAuth kills another Windows Mobile twitter client–HTC Peep is dead

1 September 2010, 6:00 am by: Surur
Twitter has been planning to  change the way users can authenticate themselves via applications for some time now, and the deadline for the change over has finally come today. OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows users to approve appl...

An Interview with WP7 developer Josue Yeray

1 September 2010, 3:00 am by: pradeep
1)Have you developed Apps for any other platforms before?If Yes What are they? Earlier i develop primary Business applications for Windows Mobile 5/6. 2)Why did you choose WP7 as a platform of your choice? I’m already a Windows Desktop develope...

What’s in store for Zune this year?

31 August 2010, 11:37 pm by: Bernard
Today our Cupertino Colleagues are set to unveil their fall 2010 lineup of music and video devices and services, and as always, the tech gossip sites have run amok with rumors and speculation of what’s next for Apple’s biggest cash cows....

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