It turns out there’s a bit of a secret to getting custom ringtones to sync over to Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. The Windows Team Blog has just posted about it, and it’s certainly not intuitive, but at least it will work. What you have to do is make a small WMA/MP3 file that’s less than 1Mb, and less than 39 seconds long with no DRM. Then in Zune on the desktop, you have right-click the …
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Landscape Support (Video)
Back when the original Windows Phone 7 was released, one of the most annoying things about it was the lack of landscape view support especially on devices like the HTC Pro 7, HTC Arrive, and LG Quantum which included a landscape sliding keyboard. Unfortunately landscape support was very inconsistent. What has changed in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango? Well, it turns out, not so much. We’ve been told that Mango will include enhanced landscape support, but …
Continue readingGPS Tuner’s Navigation App Now With Offline Maps
We were pretty impressed with GPS Tuner’s original Turn-by-Turn Navigation app for Windows Phone 7 which nicely gave us voice prompts while driving to a destination. Today the app was updated in the Marketplace with some excellent new features. The big one is support for downloading offline maps! If you set a destination, then go to the menu at the bottom and tap “Download Map”, you’ll see a nice little interface that will allow you …
Continue readingRemap Your Windows Phone 7 Hard Keys
Being able to remap hardware keys to perform functions that are more important to your personally has been something that Windows Mobile was capable of since the last decade. It was great for having easy tactile-access to applications and functions without having to look at the device’s screen. These days, customizable hardware keys have become practically extinct, however YukiXDA from XDA-Developers has discovered a way to edit the keybdpdd_htc.dll file on HTC Windows Phone ROMs …
Continue readingNokia Maps APIs Will Work in Windows Phone Mango
There’s some good news for Nokia developers who use Ovi Maps that was recently posted in the Nokia Developer Forums. It sounds like the APIs used to interface with Nokia Ovi Maps will be supported on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. Some code changes may be required, but still this should make it easy for developers to port their Ovi Maps dependent applications to Windows Phone. Also in the Nokia Developer Forum, we hear that Nokia’s …
Continue readingTwin Blades Updated, Returns to Windows Phone
One of the early Xbox Live games to make it to Windows Phone was actually removed from the Marketplace due to its violent nature. “Twin Blades” was never removed from the iPhone App Store even though the Windows Phone version is basically the same game. I’ve had the original game on my Windows Phone for a while and have been very careful not to do any hard resets since that would mean losing the game. …
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