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 …
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Windows Phone Already Does Play Music From The Cloud
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 …
Continue readingWindows Phone Developers Will Get Mango in About 4 Weeks
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 …
Continue readingTurn-by-Turn Navigation in Windows Phone Mango
One of the features we did not hear about yesterday at the Windows Phone Mango announcement was turn-by-turn GPS navigation support in Bing Maps. Luckily a developer named SharpGIS has discovered the feature in the new developer tools and has posted a YouTube video of the feature as seen below. Without real WP7 hardware to provide a GPS fix, the Windows Phone Developer Tools let the user manually feed the Bing navigation app coordinates. As …
Continue readingHuge Phone Displays: the Pros & Cons (Video)
There are a lot of people who have varying opinions about what screen size is best on their smartphones. This is absolutely understandable since there should not be a “one size fits all” mentality toward phones or anything for that matter, but what are some of the advantages and disadvantages that come with larger or smaller screen sizes? Back in 2003, the early days of the smartphone, we had some very big devices with large …
Continue readingUsing Office 365 with Windows Phone (Video)
Right now, Microsoft’s new business subscription cloud service called Office 365 is in beta. You can sign up for a free test account right now and try it out. In this video we’ll take a look at what Office 365 offers and how it works with Windows Phone 7. Office 365 pricing plans will start at around $6 per user per month but you’ll get a lot for that price. It includes Exchange 2010, Office …
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