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Windows Live Messenger for Zune HD (Video)

On October 2, 2010 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Software

With nearly 300 million active users, Windows Live Messenger is the largest instant messenger network in the world. Some of our readers were pretty excited the other day when we saw a few leaked images of Windows Live Messenger for Windows Phone 7. Well, Microsoft just released a version of Windows Live Messenger for the Zune HD. As you know, the Zune HD was the pioneer for the Metro style interface, so we can probably …

ActiveSync for Hotmail is Now Official

On August 30, 2010 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Software

If you’re a Hotmail user who’s always been jealous of Exchange ActiveSync’s great support for push sync of email, contacts, calendar, and tasks, then we’ve got good news. Hotmail has now been enabled for direct-push ActiveSync! The official instructions for setting this up are available here. Supported devices and operating systems include: Windows Mobile 6.x, Windows Phone 7, Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Nokia E-Series, Nokia S-Series, and Nokia N-Series with the Mail for Exchange …

Windows Phone 7 Will Support Some Advanced Bing Features

On July 22, 2010 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Software

There are a lot of extremely cool features in the desktop browser version of Bing. Unfortunately most of those cool features have never made it to mobil devices. It looks like Microsoft is working on changing that for Windows Phone 7’s Bing integration. The Bing Community Blog has posted some screenshots of a few of the cool features you’ll see on upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices. One that I love is “weather”. Simply type (or …

Windows Phone 7’s Speech Interface Preview

On July 14, 2010 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Software

You’ve probably already seen a few video’s of the latest Windows Phone 7 emulator that was released a few days ago. You might not have noticed the speech interface though since it can only be activated by the secret press-and-hold of the Start menu button. We imagine that the speech interface would also usable via a Bluetooth headset voice dialing button. UPDATE: Microsoft has asked us to remove the video as they will be revealing …

Media Player Access from WP7 Start Screen

On July 13, 2010 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Software

While you’re listening to music on a Windows Phone 7 device, you might be wondering how easy it is to get to the next track. It turns out there’s a mini-player that you can access from the Start screen for your music controlling ease of use. Check out this screen capture from Long Zheng’s walkthrough. It reminds me a bit of the Web OS notification area that also included media player controls. This should be …

Windows Phone Live Announced