If you were watching the WPC 2011 keynotes this morning, you may have seen a few nice demos of what Microsoft has been working on with their Lync communications software. One new thing that’s looking pretty good is the new Lync client for Windows Phone 7. The demo was pretty brief and only really showed how you could do instant message chats and see which of your colleagues were online and available. It’s important to …
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Look Who’s Got Twitter Integration in his Windows Phone
One of our readers, Lukas Gräfe, noticed something interesting about a recent tweet by Joe Belfiore, the guy in charge of Windows Phone 7 product definition & design. Yes, he did link to one of our articles, but the even more interesting thing is that he tweeted from a twitter client that lists itself as “Windows Phone (via Windows Live)”. Unfortunately, the Windows Phone Mango twitter integration didn’t make it into our preview device or …
Continue readingIndoor Maps on Windows Phone Mango (Video)
When we first did our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we weren’t able to find any indoor maps to show off. Even the Manhattan Mall that we had previously seen demoed wasn’t working. Luckily today we noticed some indoor maps have begun to appear in the Windows Phone Mango Maps application. A few places are actually listed as having indoor maps (such as FAO Schwartz), but when tapping them indoor maps would not appear …
Continue readingHow to Sync Multiple Google Calendars in WP7 Mango Beta
In our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we were unable to get multiple Google calendars to show up in the new Windows Phonen Calendar app. Since Google uses Exchange Activesync for their push calendar, contacts, and email features on mobile devices, and since Microsoft has broadly enabled multiple calendar syncing on Windows Phone Mango, you would think that it would just work in the same way that it does with Windows Live and regular …
Continue readingVisual Voicemail in Windows Phone Mango (Video)
One of the things that we didn’t get to see in our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview was the visual voicemail enhancements since I don’t think it was set up on the AT&T account we were using. As it turns out, when you have voicemail messages waiting and you tap your “phone” live tile, you’ll see a “Voicemail” pivot along the same axis as the call history. In the Voicemail section you’ll see the …
Continue readingKik Messenger Now Available for Windows Phone
Kik is one of those cross platform propietary instant messaging applications that is an attempt at giving the Blackberry Messenger experience to a wider audience. In addition to offering your standard instant messaging features, Kik will show you when the person you’re talking to is typing a message, when they’ve recieved a message, and when they’ve read a message. Kik also nicely supports pop-up push notifications as well as a live tile so that you’ll …
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