Author: Adam Z. Lein

The HD7S is running the NoDo version of Windows Phone 7 right out of the box and of course it comes with some AT&T branded bundled apps. They’re all the same ones that you’d find on any other AT&T branded Windows Phone 7, and include things like Uverse Mobile, AT&T Navigator, AT&T Family Map, AT&T Radio and AT&T MyWireless. The AT&T Code scanner was not included by default, but that’s an easy download from the …

This is our unboxing video of the newest Windows Phone for AT&T; the HTC HD7S. That’s AT&T’s fourth Windows Phone! It’s a minor upgrade from the HD7 that we’ve already seen on T-Mobile, but there are still some interesting differences. Inside the box, we’ve got the usual headphones, MicroUSB cable, and charging adapter… nothing special like a case or coupon codes or anything like that. The box is heavily AT&T branded and it was nice …

With all the doom and gloom stories about Microsoft, you’d think everyone hated Windows Phone 7. Kind of surprisingly, it turns out the 8 month old operating system has scored quite highly in PC Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards. The Samsung Focus even beat out the Apple iPhone 4 for the top spot as best smartphone on the AT&T network with an overall score of 8.7 versus the iPhone’s 8.4. The only other smartphone that got …

For a long time, if you wanted a turn-by-turn GPS navigation program on your Windows Phone 7, you were stuck with the Telenav GPS app that some carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint would bundle with the device often for a monthly fee. Now there’s a new program from GPS Tuner called “Turn by Turn Navigation” which should fill the void for those who either had no GPS navigation program at all, or didn’t …

Lately there’s been a lot of interest in cloud-based music streaming services. You’ve got Amazon’s Cloud Player and Google Music Beta as well as rumors of an Apple iTunes cloud music streaming service. Yesterday, when we asked about SkyDrive support in Mango, Pocketnow alumn, Derek Snyder showed us how you could access multiple folders in your SkyDrive account and easily open a 3rd party file type like PDF. He also showed us a folder with …

Here’s some good news for registered Windows Phone developers. It sounds like you’ll be able to load the new “Mango” update code on developer devices in about 4 weeks or so. Speaking informally at a Windows Phone Mango VIP event in London on Tuesday, Achim Berg, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Phone marketing told WinRumors that the company would release the bits in around four weeks time. Microsoft’s Brandon Watson previously revealed, at MIX …