Judging by how quickly Microsoft has been adding the major features that most people have been complaining were missing in Windows Phone 7, I think we can all agree that Microsoft is listening. After only 4 months in the market, Microsoft is set to update Windows Phone 7 with the much-discussed/seldom-used Copy/Paste feature. At MWC, we’ve already heard about a few features that Microsoft intends to add to their “Mango” update which is expected to …
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Bing for iOS Adds Microsoft Tag and QR Code Scanning
While the Bing integration on Windows Phone 7 is still stuck with just a basic search field and a simple mapping application, Microsoft’s Bing team is still hard at work on adding some fantastic features to the Bing applications on other mobile platforms. The Bing App for Apple’s iOS was recently updated with a very cool new feature enhancement to the “Bing Vision” function. Normally the Bing Vision feature is able to run searches based …
Continue readingWP7 Marketplace Hits 10K Apps Faster Than Anyone
The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has just surpassed the 10,000 app count. Within the last couple weeks, the app approval process has actually sped up from about 1000 per week to 1200 per week. Windows Phone 7 met this 10,000 app milestone in only 4.5 months where as the iPhone took around 4.7 months (142 days) to reach 10,000 apps. Android, on the other hand, took 11 months to reach 10,000 apps and Palm’s Web …
Continue readingMicrosoft Should Air Some Fan-Made WP7 Commercials
An interesting phenomenon has started happening with Windows Phone 7 that usually only happens with Apple products… creative people want to promote it for fun! We’ve already seen a couple fan-made commercials for Windows Phone 7 on Youtube, and they are pretty nice. Below you’ll see one by Brandon Foy and a new one by Mark Nadolski. Paul Thurott says that fans think Microsoft isn’t stepping up enough to promote Windows Phone 7, and that …
Continue readingThe Truth About WP7 Updates and The NoDo Mess
Eric Hautala, General Manager Customer Experience Engineering for Windows Phone has posted a lengthy note on the Windows Team Blog about the Windows Phone update process and timing. Eric also admits that the February update which was supposed to make the NoDo update go more smoothly, ended up being a bit of a mess, but in reality only very few devices were affected. Microsoft also clears up the issue about carriers blocking updates and assures …
Continue readingMessenger by Miyowa Now Has Live Tile
Messenger by Miyowa is one of your only choices for Windows Live Messenger instant messaging on the Windows Phone 7 platform since Microsoft did not take it upon themselves to integrate their own client with the new operating system. At first it wasn’t so great, but today we see yet another update that brings some great new features. In addition to the push toast pop-ups that arrived in the previous update, now we’ve got a …
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