This morning a live stream of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference was broadcasted over the internets. If you missed it, now it’s available to watch again whenever you feel like it. Click on over to DigitalWPC to see the keynote video. If you skip to the 52 minute time area, you’ll see the start of a Windows Phone 7 presentation. You won’t see a whole lot of new stuff, but it’s always fun to see …
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What’s the Fastest Mobile Network in New York City?
Everybody’s seen all of those ATT commercials where they’re bragging about having the fastest 3G network around. Then you’ve got Sprint bragging about the first 4G network which is supposed to be really fast too. Well, ATT recently announced that they’ve completely upgraded their 3G network in New York City. So, CNET took a little tour around New York with devices from ATT, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile in order to test out the real speeds. …
Continue readingMedia Player Access from WP7 Start Screen
While you’re listening to music on a Windows Phone 7 device, you might be wondering how easy it is to get to the next track. It turns out there’s a mini-player that you can access from the Start screen for your music controlling ease of use. Check out this screen capture from Long Zheng’s walkthrough. It reminds me a bit of the Web OS notification area that also included media player controls. This should be …
Continue readingWindows Phone Live Announced
Microsoft just announced the Windows Phone Live service that will be available for Windows Phone 7 devices. This Live service is basically an upgraded version of Microsoft’s existing MyPhone service but now integrates with Windows Live Skydrive. The premium MyPhone services such as device location and remote wipe will be free now where as they used to be a pay-per-use feature (in case you lost your phone way too often.) It sounds like you’ll eventually …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 SDK beta emulator walkthrough
Long Zheng has recorded some video walk-throughs of the new Windows Phone 7 emulator (build 6414) released yesterday. Actually, this is the unlocked emulator which shows other applications that will be included with the OS. Right off the bat you’ll notice performance and responsiveness has been improved several folds. Although some of that might be attributed to improvements in hardware acceleration for the emulator itself, I’m sure for the most part this is also the …
Continue readingWhy You’ll Want a Windows Phone
It turns out iPhone loyalist, Ben Gracewood, has been very impressed with Windows Phone 7. He’s written an article that lists and explains a number of things that make him very confident of Windows Phone’s impending superiority. We’re talking about Windows Phone’s seamless convergence of social networking and communications accounts, the pure joy of developing Windows Phone 7 applications, and a Marketplace that offers trial version and beta distribution capabilities. The best is the user …
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