If you’ve got the Windows Phone Marketplace pinned to your start screen as a live tile, you may have noticed this morning that an update is available for the Facebook for Windows Phone app. The update brings the version number to 1.5, but does not add the features you were really looking for such as a Live Tile, Push notifications, or Facebook chat capabilities. The new changes are minor beginning with a renaming of the …
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Windows Phone Prototype Has Great HTML5 Performance
During the MIX 11 keynote this morning, Joe Belfiore showed off the “Mango” update’s HTML5 rendering speed and Internet Explorer 9. He used a standard test from the IE Test Drive site to show how quickly the new IE9 on Windows Phone will render HTML5 when compared to a current iPhone 4 and Nexus S. In the Speed Reading test, the iPhone rendered about 2 frames per second, while the Nexus S Android phone handled …
Continue readingMultitasking, Deeper Integration, and More Coming to WP7
Microsoft announced a few new and extremely welcome features and API’s for developers to use in their Windows Phone 7 applications that will run on the “Mango” update that should be arriving this Fall. Developers will be able to take advantage of multitasking for background processing, audio and file transfer, and fast app switching, including background audio playback for HTML5 webpages, which is extremely cool. This will be done using “Background Agents” which can also …
Continue readingHelp Get This Fan-Made Windows Phone Ad on the Air
Remember when we said that Microsoft should consider airing some of those really cool fan-made Windows Phone 7 commercials? Well, it’s on! Except it’s not really a contest. Brandon Foy made a new super cool 2 minute long animated ad for Windows Phone, and Microsoft said that if/when it gets 200,000 views, they’ll air it on national television. We’ve posted the video below, so if you’d like to see that on TV, all you have …
Continue readingAngry Birds Coming to Windows Phone 7 on May 25th
A lot of people have been waiting for Angry Birds to show up for Windows Phone 7. This morning it was announced at MIX 11 that the extremely popular game will be available on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace on May 25th. That’s still over a month away, and we’ve been hearing rumors of the game’s release for a long time, but at least now we finally have an actual date to look forward to. …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Mango to Support Programs Searching
A few cool features coming to Windows Phone later this were were shown at the MIX 2011 keynote this morning. One of them is the new jump lists for finding applications in your programs list, as well as the auto-searching feature. You’ll see the new search button in the programs list and this will let you start typing the name of an app you want to find and jump straight to it. What else is …
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