A lot of people think that what Apple is doing with capacitive touch screens and touch-based user interfaces is magical, but what if you could interact with a phone that was just a hologram? A team at Microsoft Research has put together a “Holodesk” which not only displays three dimensional holograms, but also lets you physically interact with them. It uses a Kinect sensor to see your hands or other physical objects within its view …
Continue readingCategory: Windows Phone
Nokia Windows Phones to use “Pure” Font
After Long Zheng saw those first press-shots of the Nokia 800 Windows Phone that is expected to be announced next week, he noticed that the images are using Nokia’s “Pure” font style for the text as opposed to Microsoft’s usual Segoe font originally designed for Windows Phone. As we know, Nokia has special privileges when it comes to modifying the Windows Phone operating system due to their deal with Microsoft. Changing the font to something …
Continue readingJet Car Stunts Xbox LIVE Game for Windows Phone (Video)
This week’s new Windows Phone Xbox LIVE game comes out tomorrow, and it’s called Jet Car Stunts. You may have already heard of this game as it’s pretty popular on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, but now it’s on Windows Phone 7 as well. We’ve got a little demo of the game on our device a few hours before it’s released to everyone else, so check out the video below to see how it works. …
Continue readingFive New Xbox LIVE Windows Phone Games Shown at Comic-Con
At Comic-Con in New York this passed weekend, the Xbox exhibit was extremely popular. There was a 2 hour line if you wanted to try out Mass Effect 3, but while you were waiting in line an Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone representative might have come by and let you play a few new mobile games on his phone while you waited. These were unreleased Windows Phone Xbox games too. I thought that was a …
Continue readingThe Future of Microsoft TellMe on Windows Phone
While Apple’s new “Siri” speech interface on the iPhone 4S may have a few more features and a little more intelligence than Windows Phone’s current speech interface, Microsoft isn’t standing still has been working on similar features for a while now. They put together this video that was released months ago of how a future version of Windows Phone will work with a more natural, personalized, and adaptive speech interface. Microsoft also shows how this …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Mango Lets You Correct Bing (Video)
In our Windows phone Mango preview device there’s a nice new feature in the menu for Bing locations that lets you suggest changes or corrections. It only shows up in searches for locations really, but it’s a good way to easily help Bing fix some of the errors or recent changes to local places that you may come across. When you tap the “suggest changes” command, it will load a webpage with fields relating to …
Continue reading