Last night in New York City T-Mobile threw a pretty nice launch party for the new “T-Mobile G2x with Google by LG” phone as well as the G-Slate Honeycomb Android tablet. We got to meet up with Stephanie Duchaine, also known as the LG Girl, and were able to convince her to make an appearance on our own Pocketnow YouTube channel. You’ll see her demonstrate some of the cool things that come with the G2x. …
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Multitasking Differences: WP7, Android, and iOS
Everybody wants a smartphone that multitasks, but multitasking can have different meanings and certainly different methods and implementations. We’ve recently learned that Windows Phone 7’s Mango update will enable multitasking for the new OS, but it’s definitely not going to be the same as the way Windows Mobile did it back around the turn of the century between 2000 and 2010. Back then multitasking was implemented in a similar way to how desktop computers do …
Continue readingNoDo Updates Now Available for Focus and Quantum
If you plugged your Samsung Focus or LG Quantum into Zune this afternoon, you may have noticed a couple updates are now available. That’s right, both the February update and the March update which includes Copy/Paste are being pushed out to the two AT&T Windows Phone 7’s. Unfortunately the HTC Surround is still going through some tests before it will get the update, but Focus and Quantum users will be happy today. Once you plug …
Continue readingFacebook for Windows Phone Updated to Version 1.5
If you’ve got the Windows Phone Marketplace pinned to your start screen as a live tile, you may have noticed this morning that an update is available for the Facebook for Windows Phone app. The update brings the version number to 1.5, but does not add the features you were really looking for such as a Live Tile, Push notifications, or Facebook chat capabilities. The new changes are minor beginning with a renaming of the …
Continue readingWindows Phone Prototype Has Great HTML5 Performance
During the MIX 11 keynote this morning, Joe Belfiore showed off the “Mango” update’s HTML5 rendering speed and Internet Explorer 9. He used a standard test from the IE Test Drive site to show how quickly the new IE9 on Windows Phone will render HTML5 when compared to a current iPhone 4 and Nexus S. In the Speed Reading test, the iPhone rendered about 2 frames per second, while the Nexus S Android phone handled …
Continue readingMultitasking, Deeper Integration, and More Coming to WP7
Microsoft announced a few new and extremely welcome features and API’s for developers to use in their Windows Phone 7 applications that will run on the “Mango” update that should be arriving this Fall. Developers will be able to take advantage of multitasking for background processing, audio and file transfer, and fast app switching, including background audio playback for HTML5 webpages, which is extremely cool. This will be done using “Background Agents” which can also …
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