You may have heard that Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 has started to become available to its users, but you probably haven’t heard about the new Windows Live Home features. Home.Live.com both on the desktop and mobile device are now able to aggregate your social network feeds from both Facebook and MySpace. Previously, it would only show updates from Windows Live users who you were friends with and who chose to share their Facebook/MySpace updates …
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No More Ambiguous Icons in Windows Phone 7!
Thank Goodness! The latest build of Windows Phone 7 adds little text descriptions for the bottom bar icons when the bar is expanded with a swipe. This makes it MUCH easier for you to figure out what those icon buttons mean while maintaining the clean/simple design when the application bar is collapsed. I don’t know about you, but I was certainly looking at some of those icons wondering how I was going to decifer what …
Continue readingLatest TechEd Windows Phone 7 Build
Long Zheng has taken some photos of the latest Windows Phone 7 builds showing up at TechEd 2010. You’ll notice a few minor changes, such as smaller type on the lock screen in order to accomodate longer dates as well as some new icons in the live tiles to go along with the Metro theme a little better. Long Zheng also notes that the builds appear to be very responsive and complete, implying a release …
Continue readingAnd the Windows Phone 7 Rockstar is
Over the past few months, several hundred student teams from around the world were building Windows Phone 7 applications in order to win the “Rockstar” award. Today the winners were announced on the Windows Phone 7 Blog. Winner: Beastware – This team of 2 from the Advanced Technology Academy in the United States have built a game using the XNA framework called “Droid”. This game leveraged the use of the accelerometer on the device unlike …
Continue readingBing Mobile on Windows Mobile Standard Edition
Windows Mobile Standard (non-touchscreen) Edition doesn’t get much love these days despite being a great little operating system. Sometimes it’s difficult to find a good GPS Navigation program for these non-touchscreen devices, but luckily the latest Bing Mobile beta supports Standard Edition and includes free text-to-speech turn-by-turn GPS Navigation instructions as well as voice recognition for search. Originally published on Pocketnow on June 7, 2010. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingPhoneScoop Agrees: T-Mobile’s 3G is Better than Sprint’s 4G
While we pretty much called it before the official launch of the EVO 4G, PhoneScoop has done some more extensive tests and comparisons between T-Mobile’s 3.75G HSPA+ network, and Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network. Be sure to check out PhoneScoop’s article. (via TMoNews) Originally published on Pocketnow on June 7, 2010. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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