The long awaited, much anticipated T-Mobile HD2 is now available for purchase. You can see it and order it on T-Mobile’s site now! It’ll cost you $199.99 with a 2 year contract and $50/mo (or higher) rate plan. Or you can get it for $449.99 without a contract. The phone comes with a lot of great features and add-ons like Barnes & Noble eReader, Transformers 1 & 2, Blockbuster Movies on Demand, MobiTV (1 month …
Continue readingCategory: Pocketnow
I Touch My Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator
One of the cool things about the Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator is that it supports multi-touch if you’re using a multi-touch screen on Windows. Here we take a look at some of the multi-touch features of the emulator while running on an HP Touchsmart TM2 multi-touch Tablet PC. The emulator is obviously not as responsive as we expect it to be when fully released, but it’s certainly sufficient for testing your multi-touch enabled applications …
Continue readingMotorola Comes Back to Windows Mobile
Remember when Motorola said that it wasn’t going to do any Windows Mobile stuff in 2010? It seemed like they had given up on Windows Mobile and were going to go all Android, at least until Windows Phone 7. Well turns out they’re still going to make some Windows Mobile 6.5 devices after all. On Tuesday Motorola announced the MC75a, an enterprise digital assistant (EDA) with Windows Mobile 6.5. As noted by PCMag: “Windows Mobile …
Continue readingAutomatic Wireless Media Sync in WP7
At around 39 minutes into this MIX session video from Joe Belfiore we learn about a really cool feature in Windows Phone 7 and the Zune desktop software. Of course you have WiFi syncing when you’re on the same network. Yes, that has finally been brought back to Windows Mobile. But the super cool feature is that the Windows Phones can automatically initialize a wireless sync when the device is plugged into a charger and …
Continue readingProgramming Windows Phone 7 Series Free eBook
Are you still looking for more information about developing programs for Windows Phone 7 Series? Charles Petzold has made available a draft preview free eBook 6 chapters from his “Programming Windows Phone 7 Series” book. You can download the ebook in XPS format or PDF format. Originally published on Pocketnow on March 22, 2010. More Deals articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingMissed Out on MIX10? Catch Up Now!
If you missed out on MIX 2010 because you couldn’t make it to Vegas or had other things to do during the live stream, most of the presentations and sessions are available online. Click here to check out all of the Windows Phone related sessions. Other sessions can be found here. There’s a lot of good stuff there, especially if you’re thinking about learning how to make some Windows Phone 7 Series applications… and you …
Continue reading