Since the developer tools for Windows Phone 7 are very easily accessible, a lot of people are making apps for the unreleased platform. Many are also making tutorials to help you learn how to make apps. Here’s one that teaches you how to make a shuffleboard game with Physics Behaviors, Perspective Transforms, Gestures, and Multitargeting. Check out the article by Andy Beaulieu with video tutorials here. You’ll learn about all the programming techniques using Visual …
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T-Mobile’s 4G-like Speeds Covers 75 Million Americans
Here’s a press release from T-Mobile USA showing us how their 3.7G HSPA+ network will be expanding this year. If you’ve seen our article about the T-Mobile HSPA+ USB stick, you should probably be impressed with T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network since it certainly is capable of out-performing Sprint’s 4G WiMax network. If you live in one of the Cities listed below, let us know what kind of speeds you’re seeing on T-Mobile. T-Mobile USA is announcing …
Continue readingVideo: Windows Live Gobbles Up Facebook and MySpace
You may have heard that Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 has started to become available to its users, but you probably haven’t heard about the new Windows Live Home features. Home.Live.com both on the desktop and mobile device are now able to aggregate your social network feeds from both Facebook and MySpace. Previously, it would only show updates from Windows Live users who you were friends with and who chose to share their Facebook/MySpace updates …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Doesn’t Mean Business
eWeek has a different opinion about Windows Phone 7’s business features and points out many places in which they are lacking. At launch, there will be no support for System Center, nor is there Domain Join or Active Directory Group Policy support–although Bryan said Microsoft will look to add System Center support down the road. The lack of System Center support means that third-party mobile management solutions that leverage System Center–such as Odyssey Athena–will needed …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Means Business
Paul Bryan has written an article over at the Windows Phone Blog that highlights many of the business-friendly features that we’ll see in Windows Phone 7. More than 90% of our target customers for Windows Phone use their Smartphone for business purposes and 61% use their phones equally or more for business than personal use. This is why we designed Windows Phone 7 to combine a smart new user interface with familiar tools such as …
Continue readingFree T-Mobile Phones on Saturday!
It turns out the rumor is true! T-Mobile is giving all phones away for free for Father’s Day (with a 2 year contract) on Saturday June 19th. You can even get the awesome HTC HD2 for free that day! Stores will be opening early, so you better plan on waking up and getting in line in order to get the best phones. Use the Store Locator to find the closest ones with the best phones. …
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