Yesterday, the Facebook application for the Zune HD was released. Unfortunately there was a bug that didn’t allow it to work properly for most people. That bug has quickly been fixed, and now we’re able to show you how the Facebook app actually works. It has most of the basic functions you’d expect in a Facebook app. There’s no Photo/Video upload, and you can’t tag photos from here, but there is one extremely cool new …
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7 Series Development Secrets
Charlie Kindel, the “Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience”, has a new blog about Windows Phone 7 Series Development. His first post details some of the strategies that went behind the Windows Phone 7 Series creation and developer story. A big part of the procedure was the Five P’s: Purpose, Principles, Priorities, Plan, People. Be sure to check out his article as it’s well worth a read. If …
Continue readingWhat if Tablet PCs Ran the Metro UI?
Taimur Asad of RedmondPie recently expressed his hope for a Metro UI add-on for Windows 7 Tablet PCs. As you know, the Metro UI is featured in the Windows Phone 7 Series devices as shown at Mobile World Congress. This user interface design was created to be completely touch friendly, while also being something totally different from the other touch UI’s out there. It’s already been implemented in the Zune HD and works very nicely. …
Continue readingMeeting Locations are Mappable Again!
Back in the days of Windows CE 2.1 for Palm Sized PCs, the “Pocket Streets” mapping program at the time was able to map addresses and locations saved in your appointments’ locations fields. This made perfect sense since if you needed to go to a location for a meeting, chances are you might need to figure out where that location is on a map. That feature disappeared from the planet about 10 years ago, but …
Continue readingWindows Mobile 6.5.3 SDK Re-Released
You may remember a while back the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 SDK was release, and then pulled. Some thought this was because it was posted by accident. Actually there was a problem with the installation. The problem is now fixed and you can download the updated SDK files here. Originally published on Pocketnow on February 18, 2010. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Series Q&A on Twitter
Michael Chang, Product Manager, Windows Phones will be hosting a live Q & A on Twitter at 7:30pm CET/10:30am Pacific/1:30pm EST using #wp7QA. This may be a good time to get your Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered. Originally published on Pocketnow on February 15, 2010. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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