With Windows Phone 7.5, application developers can make it so that you can pin practically any kind of content directly to your Start screen for easy access. The operating system itself offers lots of options for pinning live tiles to your start screen, too. With the iPhone, you’ve basically got two options for content on your home screen; application icons and web page icons. With Android, your options are a bit more flexibile since you …
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Is Your Keyboard Disappearing Because of Background Agents?
After updating to Windows Phone 7.5, have you noticed the on-screen keyboard randomly collapsing itself as if you had pressed the back button? Some users (such as Branislav Hupka) believe that this is due to a specific line of code that may have made it into certain apps by accident. The code: “ScheduledActionService.LaunchForTest” is used only for testing purposes and should not be included in the final release of your Mango-compatible app. A developer named …
Continue readingMicrosoft Research is using Holographic Windows Phones
A lot of people think that what Apple is doing with capacitive touch screens and touch-based user interfaces is magical, but what if you could interact with a phone that was just a hologram? A team at Microsoft Research has put together a “Holodesk” which not only displays three dimensional holograms, but also lets you physically interact with them. It uses a Kinect sensor to see your hands or other physical objects within its view …
Continue readingNokia Windows Phones to use “Pure” Font
After Long Zheng saw those first press-shots of the Nokia 800 Windows Phone that is expected to be announced next week, he noticed that the images are using Nokia’s “Pure” font style for the text as opposed to Microsoft’s usual Segoe font originally designed for Windows Phone. As we know, Nokia has special privileges when it comes to modifying the Windows Phone operating system due to their deal with Microsoft. Changing the font to something …
Continue readingJet Car Stunts Xbox LIVE Game for Windows Phone (Video)
This week’s new Windows Phone Xbox LIVE game comes out tomorrow, and it’s called Jet Car Stunts. You may have already heard of this game as it’s pretty popular on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, but now it’s on Windows Phone 7 as well. We’ve got a little demo of the game on our device a few hours before it’s released to everyone else, so check out the video below to see how it works. …
Continue readingFive New Xbox LIVE Windows Phone Games Shown at Comic-Con
At Comic-Con in New York this passed weekend, the Xbox exhibit was extremely popular. There was a 2 hour line if you wanted to try out Mass Effect 3, but while you were waiting in line an Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone representative might have come by and let you play a few new mobile games on his phone while you waited. These were unreleased Windows Phone Xbox games too. I thought that was a …
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