This is our unboxing video of the newest Windows Phone for AT&T; the HTC HD7S. That’s AT&T’s fourth Windows Phone! It’s a minor upgrade from the HD7 that we’ve already seen on T-Mobile, but there are still some interesting differences. Inside the box, we’ve got the usual headphones, MicroUSB cable, and charging adapter… nothing special like a case or coupon codes or anything like that. The box is heavily AT&T branded and it was nice …
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Windows Phone Scores High in Readers’ Choice Awards
With all the doom and gloom stories about Microsoft, you’d think everyone hated Windows Phone 7. Kind of surprisingly, it turns out the 8 month old operating system has scored quite highly in PC Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards. The Samsung Focus even beat out the Apple iPhone 4 for the top spot as best smartphone on the AT&T network with an overall score of 8.7 versus the iPhone’s 8.4. The only other smartphone that got …
Continue readingGPS Tuner Turn by Turn Navigation (Video)
For a long time, if you wanted a turn-by-turn GPS navigation program on your Windows Phone 7, you were stuck with the Telenav GPS app that some carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint would bundle with the device often for a monthly fee. Now there’s a new program from GPS Tuner called “Turn by Turn Navigation” which should fill the void for those who either had no GPS navigation program at all, or didn’t …
Continue readingWindows Phone Already Does Play Music From The Cloud
Lately there’s been a lot of interest in cloud-based music streaming services. You’ve got Amazon’s Cloud Player and Google Music Beta as well as rumors of an Apple iTunes cloud music streaming service. Yesterday, when we asked about SkyDrive support in Mango, Pocketnow alumn, Derek Snyder showed us how you could access multiple folders in your SkyDrive account and easily open a 3rd party file type like PDF. He also showed us a folder with …
Continue readingWindows Phone Developers Will Get Mango in About 4 Weeks
Here’s some good news for registered Windows Phone developers. It sounds like you’ll be able to load the new “Mango” update code on developer devices in about 4 weeks or so. Speaking informally at a Windows Phone Mango VIP event in London on Tuesday, Achim Berg, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Phone marketing told WinRumors that the company would release the bits in around four weeks time. Microsoft’s Brandon Watson previously revealed, at MIX …
Continue readingTurn-by-Turn Navigation in Windows Phone Mango
One of the features we did not hear about yesterday at the Windows Phone Mango announcement was turn-by-turn GPS navigation support in Bing Maps. Luckily a developer named SharpGIS has discovered the feature in the new developer tools and has posted a YouTube video of the feature as seen below. Without real WP7 hardware to provide a GPS fix, the Windows Phone Developer Tools let the user manually feed the Bing navigation app coordinates. As …
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