Remember that HTC 7 Pro that was floating around a while back, but certainly wasn’t released back when all the other Windows Phone 7’s came out? We just got one and we’re going to unbox it. This is the European GSM version and you can get it from Clove.co.uk. Of course it’s only got the European 3G UMTS bands, so if you’re in the U.S.A. like me, you’re only going to get EDGE speeds. That’s …
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Analyst Says Nokia Needs Microsoft
Here we have Berenberg Bank’s Adnaan Ahmad (head of technology equity research) with some big recommendations for Microsoft and Nokia to work together on Windows Phone 7. The memo is addressed directly to Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and gives many reasons why some kind of partnership would be very beneficial. The note even explains why Nokia concentrating on their Meego platform or switching to Android would be bad ideas. The …
Continue readingNetflix WP7 App Exclusive to T-Mobile For Now
One of our readers named “CLS” noticed that the Netflix for Windows Phone 7 app was no longer available in the Marketplace. I looked on my T-Mobile HTC HD7 which already had it installed and noticed that it was certainly still in the Marketplace for me. After sending the link to an AT&T Windows Phone 7 we noticed that it certainly was not accessible from other devices. So it looks like for now the excellent …
Continue readingTivoMote for Windows Phone 7
It’s no secret that Microsoft sometimes developes software for competing platforms and often snubs their own products in the process. This time we’ve got David Mendlen, Senior Director of Developer Marketing at Microsoft, who’s created a Windows Phone 7 app for TiVo. The software is $1.99 in the Windows Phone Marketplace and it works with Series 3 and above TiVo HD boxes. It allows you to see what shows have been recorded on your TiVo …
Continue readingParachute Panic Xbox LIVE Game Now Available
There’s a new Xbox LIVE game in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and it’s called Parachute Panic. This is a fun little game where little hand drawn stick figures fall out of hand-drawn airplanes on a piece of graph paper, and you have to make sure they open their parachutes and land on the boats at the bottom. You can tap the men to open their parachutes and swipe your finger to make the wind …
Continue readingZtitch Lets You Make Panoramic Pictures
Here’s a cool new app for Windows Phone 7 that lets you create panoramic 2D and 3D images from photos in your Pictures library. The software has a neat interface for letting you manually add and stitch together a series of photos that you’ve already taken. After you’ve created a panoramic, you can pinch to zoom in on a scene and pan around with a 360 degree panoramic 3D effect. You can also browse through …
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