Remember when we said that Microsoft should consider airing some of those really cool fan-made Windows Phone 7 commercials? Well, it’s on! Except it’s not really a contest. Brandon Foy made a new super cool 2 minute long animated ad for Windows Phone, and Microsoft said that if/when it gets 200,000 views, they’ll air it on national television. We’ve posted the video below, so if you’d like to see that on TV, all you have …
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Angry Birds Coming to Windows Phone 7 on May 25th
A lot of people have been waiting for Angry Birds to show up for Windows Phone 7. This morning it was announced at MIX 11 that the extremely popular game will be available on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace on May 25th. That’s still over a month away, and we’ve been hearing rumors of the game’s release for a long time, but at least now we finally have an actual date to look forward to. …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Mango to Support Programs Searching
A few cool features coming to Windows Phone later this were were shown at the MIX 2011 keynote this morning. One of them is the new jump lists for finding applications in your programs list, as well as the auto-searching feature. You’ll see the new search button in the programs list and this will let you start typing the name of an app you want to find and jump straight to it. What else is …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 App Showcase: Fable Coin Golf
Fable Coin Golf has been out on Windows Phone 7 for a couple weeks now and we’ve been very impressed with it. The game is kind of a cross between shuffleboard, pinball, and miniature golf. The object is to push the puck into the hole at the end of the board, but what makes it interesting is that sometimes there are different powers that you can apply to the puck and sometimes there are enemies …
Continue readingEditorial: Sales Predictions and Mishandling Windows Phone 7
There have been a few predictions going on by both IDC and Gartner that Windows Phone will reach 2nd place in smartphone market share by 2015, just behind Android, but above iPhone and anything else that’s still around by then. You’ll see what IDC predicts here and Gartner’s predictions here. A lot of people laughed at this prediction since Windows Phone 7 is such a new platform that lacks some of the features smartphone users …
Continue readingCopy/Paste: Multiple Mobile Device Comparison (Video)
Everybody wants the Copy & Paste feature on their smartphones these days, even if they never use it, but how exactly has this feature been implemented on the wide array of mobile device operating systems available today? We’ll take a look at how Copy & Paste works on Windows Phone 7, Apple’s iOS 4, Android 2.2, Symbian S^3, Blackberry 6, and even the extremely old Windows Mobile 5.0. Naturally some designs may make it easier …
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