Wow Wow Wow! Engadget has a leak of the Dell Lightning Windows Phone 7! The renders on these slides look slick as hell, but they’re no match for the spec sheet, which looks even better: 1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor, WVGA 4.1-inch OLED display, AT&T and T-Mobile 3G, five megapixel autofocus camera, 1GB of flash with 512MB RAM plus 8GB of storage on a MicroSD card (non-user-replaceable, we’re assuming), GPS, accelerometer, compass, FM radio, and full …
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Will Live Messenger Get Video Messaging on Windows Phones?
We have not heard ANYTHING about Windows Live Messenger for Windows Phone 7 Series yet. We don’t even know if there is going to be an instant messenger on that platform. Over at Liveside.net we’re seeing some leaks of the new Windows Live Wave 4 features in Windows Live Messenger, and one of the extremely cool new features is Video Message integration. Will this feature also come to Windows Phone 7 Series? We hope so! …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Series Has Copy & Paste?
MSmobiles recently showed how copy & paste functions are possible within the Windows Phone 7 Series emulator… if you have a keyboard with Ctrl, Shift, and arrow keys. Obviously a hardware manufacturer could pretty easily add those to a slide-out keyboard. However, we’re sure that Microsoft is waiting to implement a much more user-friendly method of copying and pasting text between programs. MSmobiles suggests that this is a feature of Windows, not Windows Phone 7 …
Continue readingProject Pink’s Pure Danger Phone Blurry Cam
It looks like Engadget and Gizmodo have found some more info and blurry cam pictures of the “Pure” phone said to be one of the results of Microsoft’s Danger aquisition. There are also a few screenshots on Engadget courtesy of Conflipper on Twitter. Also rumored: The UI is “hectic and colorful.” There’s still some serious cloud backup reliance, along with some desktop software to sync up with the cloud, and data plans that including a …
Continue readingUpdated SPB Mobile Shell Coming to the SE Aspen
If you saw our earlier post about the Sony Ericsson announcement of the “Aspen” qwerty-board Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone, you may have noticed something interesting on the screen. First of all, that bottom bar looks pretty good! At first I thought it might be a special theme. Turns out, that looks a lot like a new version of SPB Mobile Shell, and it most likely is. Obviously you can expect a nice update to take …
Continue readingXNA Game Studio 3.2 to Support Windows Mobile 7
One of our readers mentioned that the next version of XNA Game Studio for Xbox will support Windows Mobile 7. XNA game developers have been looking for Windows Mobile support for a while now. When we heard rumors of Xbox Live coming to Windows Mobile 7, we kind of thought it would just be something simple like game card sharing and score tracking. On the other hand, back in March of 2004, Microsoft had a …
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