The new Spotify unlimited music service is all over the news for being available in the U.S. right now, but many of you Windows Phone users probably already know about how much more you get with a Zune Pass. We just noticed that you can even get up to 4 months of free Zune Pass usage for free just by using Bing. First off, you’ve got to sign up for the Bing Rewards Program with …
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Samsung, Fujitsu, Acer and ZTE Mango Phones Appear at WPC11
Today at the WPC 2011 2nd day keynote, Microsoft unveiled four new Samsung, Fujitsu, Acer and ZTE Windows Phones that will be shipping later this year with the Mango update. The Samsung SGH-i937 seems to be most impressive with it’s extremely thin and light design and what would appear to be a front facing camera(?) You’ve also got a cool waterproof model from Fujitsu, and a couple of average black slab style devices from Acer …
Continue readingLync for Windows Phone Demoed at WPC 11
If you were watching the WPC 2011 keynotes this morning, you may have seen a few nice demos of what Microsoft has been working on with their Lync communications software. One new thing that’s looking pretty good is the new Lync client for Windows Phone 7. The demo was pretty brief and only really showed how you could do instant message chats and see which of your colleagues were online and available. It’s important to …
Continue readingLook Who’s Got Twitter Integration in his Windows Phone
One of our readers, Lukas Gräfe, noticed something interesting about a recent tweet by Joe Belfiore, the guy in charge of Windows Phone 7 product definition & design. Yes, he did link to one of our articles, but the even more interesting thing is that he tweeted from a twitter client that lists itself as “Windows Phone (via Windows Live)”. Unfortunately, the Windows Phone Mango twitter integration didn’t make it into our preview device or …
Continue readingIndoor Maps on Windows Phone Mango (Video)
When we first did our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we weren’t able to find any indoor maps to show off. Even the Manhattan Mall that we had previously seen demoed wasn’t working. Luckily today we noticed some indoor maps have begun to appear in the Windows Phone Mango Maps application. A few places are actually listed as having indoor maps (such as FAO Schwartz), but when tapping them indoor maps would not appear …
Continue readingHow to Sync Multiple Google Calendars in WP7 Mango Beta
In our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we were unable to get multiple Google calendars to show up in the new Windows Phonen Calendar app. Since Google uses Exchange Activesync for their push calendar, contacts, and email features on mobile devices, and since Microsoft has broadly enabled multiple calendar syncing on Windows Phone Mango, you would think that it would just work in the same way that it does with Windows Live and regular …
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