Author: Adam Z. Lein

The HTC 7 Pro is the latest in keyboard sliders with tilting screens. The HTC TyTN II (Kaiser) was the first keyboard slider with a tilting screen. How do they compare? Check out the video below to find out. Obviously, the HTC 7 Pro is not remotely designed to work well with a landscape-style keyboard. Many parts of the Windows Phone 7 operating system don’t even rotate to landscape mode. The old HTC TyTN II …

We’ve got some more news from the Nokia Windows Phone deal. This time Elop is saying that Nokia expects to be able to lower the price point for Windows Phones very quickly once production gets up to speed. Here in the States you can already get some good deals on Windows Phones from other manufacturers for $99 on contract, so I’m not sure how much lower than that they expect to go. However, inexpensive Windows …

Members of Nokia’s Launchpad Developer Program may have felt a little shafted with the news that Nokia will be switching their platform to Windows Phone 7. After all, I’m sure they’ve put a lot of work into their applications using Nokia’s development tools. Of course, Nokia wants to make sure their developers are happy so today members of their Launchpad developer program recieved an email saying that they will get a Nokia E7 phone in …

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer, Rich Greene, answered a few questions from Matthew Bencke, General Manager Windows Phone as well as audience members. A user interface manipulation question came up since it does seem Nokia’s special relationship with Microsoft may allow them to mess with the UI if they wanted to, but Greene responded with: We certainly do, in the context of this agreement, have the right to manipulate the …

You’ve already heard that Internet Explorer 9 is coming to Windows Phone 7 this year, but now we’ve got some video demos of it working at Mobile World Congress. Microsoft’s Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager, Windows Phone did a presentation at a developer’s day seminar that dealt with IE9 on Windows Phone. As you’ll see in the videos below, the big deal with IE9 is its much-improved standards support as well as HTML5 and CSS3. …

Microsoft has released a new Windows Phone 7 app called MSN Video. It looks and works exactly the same as MSN Movies except instead of movie trailers and showtime information, you get videos and clips from special events, MSN original programming, programming by 40+ first level providers and many other sources. The content is similar to what you might find at Bing Videos. You’ve got some settings for video display quality, a whole slew of …