UPDATE: Now with video via WindowsPhone7PR. If you’re watching the Office 2010 launch you may have noticed a cool demo of Windows Phone 7 and Office 2010. It turns out, when some one is doing a live broadcast from PowerPoint 2010, you can actually watch it on a Windows Phone 7 simply by clicking the link in your email. Now that’s an extremely cool feature! Originally published on Pocketnow on May 12, 2010. More Software …
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Video: Bing Navigation in Action
A new Bing for Windows Mobile application was released this morning and now we’ve had the chance to test it out on the road. The big new feature is full voice-prompt text-to-speech navigation. Yes it tells you the names of the roads you should turn on and even tells you which side of the street your destination is on (sometimes). The full-screen large graphic of your next turn is a welcome feature, but mainly we’re …
Continue readingBing for Windows Mobile Now Has Real Navigation Features!
Wow! Bing for Windows Mobile was updated this morning (to version 5.1) with some great new features. Turn by Turn voice prompting navigation is probably the big one. Oh, and it’s free of course. Does that make up for Bing’s removal of all the cool features from Live Search Mobile? Well, they’ve also finally brought back the ability to load contact addresses from your address book. Hurray! If you’ve got the Bing Beta on your …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Supports iCal Meeting Requests
In the Windows Phone 7 chat with Microsoft Sr. Product Manager, Augusto Valdez we learn that the email and calendar programs will support the standard iCal format. While older versions of Windows Mobile always supported the ability to send meeting requests and manage attendees, they generally only worked with Exchange users in your domain. With the standard iCal format, meeting requests should now work across all of the different email and calendar programs that support …
Continue readingVideo: New Apps for the Zune HD
A few new apps for the Zune HD were released last night. They’re now available in the Zune Marketplace. The coolest one is called Labyrinth. This game is similar to Teeter that comes with most HTC devices except the graphics are much more complex. Instead of simply tilting the device to roll a marble through a maze, Labyrinth also adds cool environment graphics and other goals that you have to accomplish within the maze before …
Continue readingGorgeous Hulu App for Windows Phone 7
A company called Clarity Consulting is showing off an image of a very nice looking Hulu application for Windows Phone 7 to illustrate some of the things they can do. The image seems to be just a concept according to the website, but if it comes to real life later this year when Windows Phone 7 devices are released, it could be pretty awesome. Clarity Consulting’s Yelp app concept looks pretty nice, too. (via Ulmasov …
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