There’s some good news for Nokia developers who use Ovi Maps that was recently posted in the Nokia Developer Forums. It sounds like the APIs used to interface with Nokia Ovi Maps will be supported on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. Some code changes may be required, but still this should make it easy for developers to port their Ovi Maps dependent applications to Windows Phone. Also in the Nokia Developer Forum, we hear that Nokia’s …
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Twin Blades Updated, Returns to Windows Phone
One of the early Xbox Live games to make it to Windows Phone was actually removed from the Marketplace due to its violent nature. “Twin Blades” was never removed from the iPhone App Store even though the Windows Phone version is basically the same game. I’ve had the original game on my Windows Phone for a while and have been very careful not to do any hard resets since that would mean losing the game. …
Continue readingAT&T HTC HD7S Review
The HTC HD7S is very similar to the HD7 on T-Mobile USA and other networks in Europe. There are only a few differences and improvements from the older HD7, but the biggest difference is that this model is available on AT&T with AT&T 3G bands. There were a few other things about the older HD7 that we really didn’t like. For example, the hardware buttons were difficult to use, the screen’s color was a bit …
Continue readingAT&T HTC HD7S Hardware Tour & HD7 Comparison
The HTC HD7S on AT&T is very similar to the older HD7 on T-Mobile, however there are some significant differences and improvements. As with most Windows Phone 7 devices, the HTC HD7S is running a 1Ghz Snapdragon QSD8250 processor with 576Mb RAM, 512MB ROM, and 16Gb of storage. The 4.3″ Super LCD screen has a 480×800 pixel resolution and 4 point multi-touch. You’ve also got the usual WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, Assisted GPS, 5Mp camera …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Mango Will Support IPv6
Yesterday there was some news about Windows Phone 7 not supporting the new networking protocol called IPv6. IPv6 is the next version of the Internet Protocol to come after Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has ran out of addresses. A global test flight of IPv6 sponsored by the Internet Society was launched a couple days ago and some noticed that the current Windows Phone 7 devices were not able to connect to IPv6 routers. Today …
Continue readingAT&T HTC HD7S Software Tour (Video)
The HD7S is running the NoDo version of Windows Phone 7 right out of the box and of course it comes with some AT&T branded bundled apps. They’re all the same ones that you’d find on any other AT&T branded Windows Phone 7, and include things like Uverse Mobile, AT&T Navigator, AT&T Family Map, AT&T Radio and AT&T MyWireless. The AT&T Code scanner was not included by default, but that’s an easy download from the …
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