You may have seen a number of recent Windows Phone 7 prototype reviews at sites such as CNET, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Engadget and MobileCrunch. Many of them cite the lack of Twitter integration in the People Hub as a glaring omission. Of course there will be plenty of Windows Phone 7 Twitter apps from the likes of Seesmic and Twikini, but why isn’t it fully integrated? If you were one of the Windows Live Home early …
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Windows Phone Live Service Screenshot
We first heard about the Windows Phone Live service last week, now that some preview devices are out there, it looks like we’ve got a screenshot of how the service’s interface is going to look. Unfortunately it’s not the extremely cool Kin Studio, but it will match everything else in Windows Live just fine. It looks like the Windows Phone Live service will be part of the Windows Live Devices service, which includes the new …
Continue readingWindows Phone Disaster Hype Debunked
Our friends at the Windows Phone Connection have took the liberty of debunking Galen Gruman’s “article” that labels Windows Phone 7 as a disaster. Galen, a former MacWorld writer, lists off numerous issues in Windows Phone 7 that he believes will spell out its failure. On the other hand, Bill Fisher points out that his article is poorly researched, often factually wrong, and really just surprising for its willfully ignorant, negative tone. Here’s a few …
Continue readingOne-on-One with Windows Phone 7’s Architect
Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine has gotten the chance to talk with vice president and director of Windows Phone program management, Joe Belfiore. Lance and Belfiore talk about the Microsoft vision for mobile phones, how some Kin leftovers might cross over to 7, and what Microsoft has learned from Apple’s iPhone 4 and Android’s rapid growth. Microsoft has a lot of work to do to reverse the bad press they’re getting from Galen Gruman’s scathing …
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