A live chat with JP Wollersheim, Group Product Manager for Windows Phone, just ended over at Windows Phone 7 Backstage where we learned some really cool things about photography in Windows Phone 7. First of all, the dedicated hardware camera button makes launching the camera very quick and easy. Fast cameras seems to be a big priority for Windows Phone 7. Even if the phone is locked or turned off, just press the camera button …
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Windows Phone 7 Supports Opening ZIP Files
Here’s a nice find from one of our readers! “c120p” has noticed that the Windows Phone 7 emulator is actually able to open ZIP files that you may click on from a website. A window will appear asking if you want to open the Zip file, then a new window will show the contents of the Zip file. If any of the files are of formats that are supported by the operating system, you’ll be …
Continue readingMystery HTC Windows Phone 7 Spy Shots
Engadget has scored some spy photos of an HTC made Windows Phone 7 device. It’s got a 3.7″ SLCD screen, no keyboard, 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, and capacitive hardware buttons on the front. Of course, it will have all of the other minimum hardware requirements, but will also bump up the camera resolution to 8 megapixels. There’s not HTC custom applications or live tiles on this device yet, but it seems HTC is in talks on …
Continue readingMicrosoft has a Windows Phone 7 Speech UI Preview, too
Microsoft has released a video demonstration preview of some of the speech interface features that will be integrated with Windows Phone 7. We already saw most of these features in the emulator, but if you want to see how they work on a real device, check out the video here. Hopefully we’ll see a much more extensive speech interface in the future. Don’t forget to add media player voice controls, Microsoft! (via Microsoft PressPass) Originally …
Continue readingMo Words Scrabble-Like Windows Phone 7 Game
We’re starting to see a lot of applications being developed for Windows Phone 7. And why not? The development tools are free and we hear it’s an absolutely joy to make apps for the platform. Here’s a new one that looks like a Scrabble-style word game. The developer is using a MVC 2 website as a back-end to manage user registrations and presumably multi-player functionality. Obviously it’s still under development, but this could be a …
Continue readingGraphic.ly Windows Phone 7 App Emulator Demo
Here’s a Windows Phone 7 emulator demo of the currently under development Graphic.ly application. The app seems to combine a comic book reader with a comic book store where you can buy comic books, but that’s not all… there’s also some social networking integration and comic-related news. Personally, I’m not a huge comic book fan, but this app looks great and might actually make me want to start buying virtual comic books to read on …
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