There are a lot of rumors and speculation that Microsoft is going to announce the launch of Windows Phone 7 at a big event in New York City some time in October. Most rumors point to October 11th. Well, if you dig through our archives, you might remember a similar event where Windows Phone 6.5 was announced. Back on October 6, of 2009, Microsoft had a big Open House event where Robbie Bach showed off …
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Two Xbox LIVE Games Appear in Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
Paul Thurrott has noticed some changes to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace today. First off, you’ve got two Xbox LIVE capable games now. Hexic and Flowerz are Xbox Live enabled which means you’ll be able to earn acheivments and contribute to your gamer score by playing those. There’s also a new menu item called “AT&T AppCenter.” Apparently, AT&T is testing their own section of the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Unfortunately this is only interesting for …
Continue readingHow to Sync Windows Phone 7 with Outlook
Everyone has always complained about problems with ActiveSync on the desktop. Many people often ran into errors and wished it would just go away. Well, with Windows Phone 7, ActiveSync is gone. Windows Phone 7 only connects to Zune when you plug it into the PC and only syncs music/videos/podcasts/pictures. That means there will be no more errors or frustrations for you when trying to sync all of your personal information management data between your …
Continue readingYouTube on Windows Phone 7
A lot of people might be wondering about how you can watch YouTube videos on Windows Phone 7. Microsoft’s Brandon Watson demonstrates how simple it is to play YouTube videos from the YouTube website in Internet Explorer… even though the browser does not yet support Flash. It would seem that YouTube autodetects the Windows Phone 7 browser and links it to a YouTube player app on the device. You’ll also notice that the YouTube video …
Continue readingA Look at Halo Waypoint for Windows Phone 7
If you’re an Xbox player, you probably know that the new Halo Reach game was released last night. Well, there will also be a Halo companion application for Windows Phone 7 called Halo Waypoint. It’s not really a game, but it’s a useful tool for keeping track of your progress, milestones, and other gameplay-related data that you might accomplish in the real Halo games. It will also give you access to other Halo related content …
Continue readingWhat is this OneNote Thing About?
One of the things that I’m excited about in Windows Phone 7, but haven’t really heard too much about just yet, is the OneNote Skydrive syncing. We don’t know exactly how that might work, but many of you may not even know about how useful OneNote can be on the desktop. So let’s take a look at that, and then maybe you can imagine how having OneNote on Windows Phone 7 might be useful. We’ll …
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