If you’ve plugged your Developer Preview Windows Phone Mango beta device into Zune this afternoon, you may have noticed that you’ve got a bunch of updates available. The first one installs the full RTM build 7720 version of Mango, then it will look for and install a “Beta Bundle Cleanup” update which will get your phone back on track for the official updates from your carrier and original equipment manufacturer. After that little update cleans …
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Foursquare Live Tiles and Deep Linking (Video)
The new Foursquare app for Windows Phone makes use of some of the cool new features and API’s available in the coming “Mango” update, and some of them are very useful. The one I like the best is the deep-linking feature. Say you’re using Bing’s local search, or Bing maps, or the Local Scout and you tap on a location to see more details. Swiping the screen to the left will show the “Apps” tab …
Continue readingOpenTable Deep-Linking (Video)
OpenTable was recently updated with some new Windows Phone Mango features and the app deep-linking is proving to be very useful. If you’re searching for a nearby restaurant using Bing or the new Local Scout feature and tap on a restaurant’s location card, you still get the usual address, phone number, and hours kind of information. You can swipe to the right and see some reviews, but with another swipe you’ll get to the Apps …
Continue readingWindows Phone Mango is Coming in a Week or Two
Everyone’s anxiously waiting for the huge Windows Phone 7 upgrade to arrive, both in terms of the upgrade to existing phones as well as new phones with new hardware features. Eric Hautala just posted to the Windows Phone blog that it will be coming in the next week or so. That’s kind of vague because it sounds like it will be the same kind of thing where certain carriers and certain devices will get the …
Continue readingImplode! for Windows Phone (Video)
This week’s new Xbox LIVE game for Windows Phone 7 is “Implode!” It’s a chalkboard-drawing-style physics puzzle game where you have to drag and drop little bundles of dynamite onto certain areas of a stacked structure in order to make the whole thing crash into a pile that sits below the dotted line. It’s a simple concept, but of course the structures get more complicated as you progress through the levels. The game also has …
Continue readingWhy Doesn’t Windows Phone 7 Support Dual-Core CPUs?
When some one says their phone has a dual-core processor, that sounds very impressive. It means one side of the processor can be doing one thing while the other side is doing another. It’s very advantageous to multitasking scenarios, provided the operating system is designed to handle the two processors well enough to take full advantage of them. Windows Phone 7 is not designed to take full advantage of multiple processors or multi-threaded applications at …
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