At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer, Rich Greene, answered a few questions from Matthew Bencke, General Manager Windows Phone as well as audience members. A user interface manipulation question came up since it does seem Nokia’s special relationship with Microsoft may allow them to mess with the UI if they wanted to, but Greene responded with: We certainly do, in the context of this agreement, have the right to manipulate the …
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Demo of Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Phone 7
You’ve already heard that Internet Explorer 9 is coming to Windows Phone 7 this year, but now we’ve got some video demos of it working at Mobile World Congress. Microsoft’s Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager, Windows Phone did a presentation at a developer’s day seminar that dealt with IE9 on Windows Phone. As you’ll see in the videos below, the big deal with IE9 is its much-improved standards support as well as HTML5 and CSS3. …
Continue readingMSN Video Now Available
Microsoft has released a new Windows Phone 7 app called MSN Video. It looks and works exactly the same as MSN Movies except instead of movie trailers and showtime information, you get videos and clips from special events, MSN original programming, programming by 40+ first level providers and many other sources. The content is similar to what you might find at Bing Videos. You’ve got some settings for video display quality, a whole slew of …
Continue readingAcer’s On Board With Windows Phone 7
It turns out Acer is now on board to produce a Windows Phone 7 to be released later this year. We’re not sure if they decided this before or after the news of Nokia jumping in with Windows Phone 7, but as they say, a rising tide lifts all boats. According to Aymar de Lencquesaing, president of Acer’s Smart Handheld Business Group, Acer expects total shipments of smartphones to reach several million units for the …
Continue readingeWallet GO Transfer Utility Now Available
If you were patiently waiting for eWallet to appear in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, you may have quickly purchased the eWallet GO app only to find out that there was no way to get your eWallet 7 desktop wallets onto the mobile app. Luckily Illumsoft has made a transfer utility available which makes it somewhat easy to get all of that secure password data onto your Windows Phone 7. Unfortunately, it does not sync …
Continue readingPlaying Xbox Kinect Against Windows Phone 7
Wow, here’s something new! Take a look at this video of an Xbox Kinect player playing against some one else using a Windows Phone 7 to control elements on the Xbox. This is just a tech demo for now, but you can see some huge potential in there. The dodgeball game they’re showing off there looks like a ton of fun. What other uses for integrated Windows Phone and Xbox Kinect games can you think …
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