David Pogue has a review of the HTC EVO 4G in the New York Times now and he is not impressed. Unfortunately he was seeing very poor battery life, and wasn’t able to visit any areas with 4G coverage. He had a lot of difficulty getting video calling to work, which is understandable since Sprint couldn’t even get it to work during their launch event. Even his collegue who had access to an area with …
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Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’
Ever wonder what it might be like to be part of the team tasked with developing Windows Phone 7? CNET’s Ina Fried was able to get a very intimate behind the scenes look at what’s going into the new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system and how Microsoft is planning to reverse their declining smartphone marketshare despite essentially inventing the category years ago. The first part of this Behind-the-Scenes look is available on CNET Originally …
Continue readingT-Mobile’s 4G-like Speeds Covers 75 Million Americans
Here’s a press release from T-Mobile USA showing us how their 3.7G HSPA+ network will be expanding this year. If you’ve seen our article about the T-Mobile HSPA+ USB stick, you should probably be impressed with T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network since it certainly is capable of out-performing Sprint’s 4G WiMax network. If you live in one of the Cities listed below, let us know what kind of speeds you’re seeing on T-Mobile. T-Mobile USA is announcing …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Doesn’t Mean Business
eWeek has a different opinion about Windows Phone 7’s business features and points out many places in which they are lacking. At launch, there will be no support for System Center, nor is there Domain Join or Active Directory Group Policy support–although Bryan said Microsoft will look to add System Center support down the road. The lack of System Center support means that third-party mobile management solutions that leverage System Center–such as Odyssey Athena–will needed …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Means Business
Paul Bryan has written an article over at the Windows Phone Blog that highlights many of the business-friendly features that we’ll see in Windows Phone 7. More than 90% of our target customers for Windows Phone use their Smartphone for business purposes and 61% use their phones equally or more for business than personal use. This is why we designed Windows Phone 7 to combine a smart new user interface with familiar tools such as …
Continue readingVideo Kinect To Work With Windows Phone 7
Well it sounds like the extremely awesome Video Kinect feature on Xbox might be compatible with Windows Live Messenger on Windows Phone 7. Video Kinect is a feature for Xbox 360 with the Kinect attachment that will allow video calls to be made between other Xbox Kinect users as well as Windows Live Messenger. The Kinect system even has face tracking so that it can point the camera at you no matter where you are …
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