Windows Phone 7 Series has a kind of strange way of multi-tasking that is a bit like the iPhone method. There’s “smart multi-tasking” where programs can perform certain tasks in the background. For example, the browser can supposedly download a web page while you’re doing something else. Music can play and Live Tile applications can perform certain actions in the background as well. This is not the traditional sense of multi-tasking where full applications remain …
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Music Monday: The Community’s Favorite Metal Songs
Since Windows Phone 7 Series is going to have some excellent integration with the Zune service, we thought it would be fun to talk a little bit about some of our favorite music that you can easily sample for yourself in the free Zune desktop software. If you’re excited about Windows Phone 7 Series or even the rumored Pink Project phones, you’re probably going to want to check out the Zune services. Of course, Zune …
Continue readingWhat if Tablet PCs Ran the Metro UI?
Taimur Asad of RedmondPie recently expressed his hope for a Metro UI add-on for Windows 7 Tablet PCs. As you know, the Metro UI is featured in the Windows Phone 7 Series devices as shown at Mobile World Congress. This user interface design was created to be completely touch friendly, while also being something totally different from the other touch UI’s out there. It’s already been implemented in the Zune HD and works very nicely. …
Continue readingWill Windows Phones Sync with Outlook in the Future?
There’s a little line in this “known issues” page about the Microsoft Office 2010 beta that should strike a bit of a nerve for anyone who syncs their Windows Phones with Outlook. Here it is: The WMDC will not be upgraded to work on 64-bit Windows when 64-bit Outlook 2010 is installed. Now, to be fair, that is the Office 2010 Beta known issues page, so there is a chance that maybe once Outlook 2010 …
Continue readingWhat if the HD2 ran Android?
There are a lot of people out there looking at the great hardware design and capabilities of the HTC HD2, and wishing that it shipped with Android instead of Windows Mobile. This is likely due to the popular perception that Windows Mobile is no good and Android is so much better despite actual functionality that may suggest otherwise. Of course, the advantages or disadvantages of Windows Mobile and Android depend on your specific needs and …
Continue readingAndroid’s Success Comes From Copying Windows Mobile
An interesting blog post from Andrew Burst points out that just about everything that the Android platform is being praised for, is exactly the same as what Windows Mobile has been doing for 10 years. And Andrew is only talking about the methodology. Android and Windows Mobile are both designed to run on a wide variety of hardware and are both managed by entities completely separate from the hardware manufacturers. Application development is open to …
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