As you may have read yesterday, Microsoft showed its first Windows Phone 7 advertisement at the Lawrence of Arabia Secret Cinema movie screening in London. The trailer is very brief, but mimics a famous scene from the movie. As we noted yesterday, Secret Cinema is a community of film lovers who schedule secret screenings of films in various interesting locations. Participants also like to make more of a party out of the film screenings by …
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Bye Bye Brain Windows Phone 7 Game
Plain Concepts has recently shown a video demo of their new tower defense style 3D zombie game called “Bye Bye Brain”. The game’s 3D graphics are accellerometer enabled for angle-of-view changes based on the phone’s tilting angle. It’s design is also very well integrated with the Metro style theme and it looks fantastic. The video below shows both a video screen capture of the game as well as actual game-play on a Windows Phone 7 …
Continue readingBarnes & Noble eReader Update With Lots of New Features
Remember the Barnes & Noble eReader software that comes with the T-Mobile HD2? It just got an update that brings a lot of new and exciting features! In the Library view, you now have a grid option so that you can see many more book covers at the same time. You’ll also notice a new section at the top called “Lend Me.” That’s where you can recieve book loan offers from your friends with Nook …
Continue readingIs the HTC Trophy Back on the Table with WP7?
The “HTC 7 Trophy” recently received approval from the Global Certification Forum (GCF) which means it will probably appear for sale in Europe or Asia. You’ve heard the Trophy name before. It was supposed to be a WVGA front-facing Qwerty-thumb-board-style device with a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM and Windows Mobile 6.5. The device never came out like so, but maybe HTC decided to update the design to support Windows Phone 7. GCF …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.0 is Clear for Take-Off
Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing today! That means the final version that we’ll see at launch is ready to be put onto final hardware from all of the OEMs. Terry Myerson has some great things to say about the experience of developing Windows Phone 7 over at the Windows Phone Blog: Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released. We had nearly ten thousand devices running …
Continue readingHow Quickly Will The WP7 Marketplace Host 100,000 Apps?
Alright, here’s a fun little poll for everybody. How soon after Windows Phone 7 devices go on sale do you think there will be 100,000 apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace? Before you answer, remember that according to this blog post, there have been 300,000 downloads of the developer tools and everybody says that developing apps for the platform is very easy and fun. Also, the Marketplace will open for app submissions in early …
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