Well this is quite a surprise! I just plugged in my Windows Phone to Zune in order to charge up the battery a bit, and low-and-behold an update to the Windows Phone Mango beta build is available! The update brings your developer provisioned Windows Phone up to build 7712 of the highly-anticipated Windows Phone update. While this is not the final RTM gold master version of Mango, it is pretty close. The Windows Phone SDK …
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MyTouch 4G Slide Hardware Tour (Video)
The HTC MyTouch 4G Slide is the latest in the line of MyTouch devices on T-Mobile and it’s kind of an expected upgrade. In terms of hardware you’ve got a nice dual core 1.2 Ghz Snapdragon processor, a 3.7 inch WVGA Super LCD display with a 4 row slide out QWERTY keyboard, 768Mb RAM, an 8Gb MicroSD storage card preinstalled, and support for T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ 21Mb/s network. You’ve also got HTC’s Sense 3.0 on …
Continue readingHTC Pushing Update to the HD7 Today
Some of you with HTC HD7 Windows Phones may have noticed an update has become available in Zune today. No, it is not the final version of Mango. It’s called “HTC Update for Windows Phone” and you probably won’t notice much of a differnce after the update, but this does apply to T-Mobile USA and International versions of the HTC HD7. The update does not seem to be being pushed to the HTC HD7S at …
Continue readingWindows Phone Mango RTM’d For Real This Time
A few days ago we had heard that Windows Phone Mango had been released to manufacturing so that OEM’s could start producing final versions of their new phones. That turned out to be inaccurate, however today we do have real confirmation that Windows Phone’s Mango update has been released to manufacturing as you can see by Terry Myerson’s blog post on the Windows Phone Blog. That means now we have to wait for mobile operators …
Continue readingMyTouch 4G Slide Unboxing (Video)
Here’s the unboxing for the HTC MyTouch 4G Slide. The device includes the usual USB/AC adapter and Micro USB cable but that’s all. The battery and 8Gb MicroSD card seem to be pre-installed, but no headphones or anything else was included. The box is very similar to most phones released on T-Mobile since the HTC HD2. This one has some cool shiny camera setting icons surrounding the phone’s cut-out spot on the inside as well …
Continue readingSpeech Interface: Windows Phone Mango Preview (Video)
While you may have already seen some of the new speech interface features in our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we thought it would be fun to give you an even more in-depth demonstration of what exactly you can do without having to touch or look at your phone. While you may have already seen some of the new speech interface features in our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we thought it would …
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