The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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No More Ambiguous Icons in Windows Phone 7!
Thank Goodness! The latest build of Windows Phone 7 adds little text descriptions for the bottom bar icons when the bar is expanded with a swipe. This makes it MUCH easier for you to figure out what those icon buttons mean while maintaining the clean/simple design when the application bar is collapsed. I don’t know about you, but I was certainly looking at some of those icons wondering how I was going to decifer what …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 With Zune Video Ad
A designer named Paul Anders who apparently works on some of the Windows Phone 7 videos recently posted this cool video that shows a little bit about Windows Phone 7’s Zune integration. Check it out below, or at the original link. Do you think this would make a good TV commercial or is it better just on the web? (via Ramon Trotman) Originally published on Pocketnow on June 10, 2010. More Smartphone News articles from …
Continue readingIf You Ask Nicely, Windows Phone 7 May Allow Alternative Browsers
One of the cool things about Windows Mobile Classic is that there are a ton of alternative web browsers that you can install. With Windows Phone 7, you only get one and, at least initially, developers won’t be allowed to make others. However, in this TechRadar interview with Microsoft senior director Paul Bryan, we hear… “You won’t see native code Opera or Firefox at launch,” he said, but continued “We’re always working with our partners …
Continue readingPCWorld Says You Should Wait for Windows Phone 7
While PC World considers Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 to be late to the smartphone game, classic Windows Mobile is still in 3rd place in the market behind RIM and Apple. This article points out that the big reason that headline-grabbing Android and iPhone devices haven’t dominated the market is because of their lack-luster business support. If you’re a corporate user, chances are that Windows Phone 7 might be exactly what you need to surpass both …
Continue readingVideo: OneNote 2010 Syncing
Microsoft OneNote’s Windows Live Skydrive syncing feature became available and fully functional yesterday, so now you can finally sync your notebooks to the cloud for free. We’ll show you how that works in the below video, but what about Windows Mobile? We’ll also try to get that to sync. It turns out OneNote Mobile 2010 on Windows Mobile 6.x doesn’t sync so well with OneNote 2010 on the desktop. It only syncs one notebook and …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7: A New Kind of Phone
Windows Phone Connection has posted a video from TechEd 2010 that shows some interesting video re-enactments of some of the going-ons inside Microsoft as well as a lot of the approach and design ideas that went into developing Windows Phone 7. The video is about an hour long and consists mostly of PowerPoint slides with voice over, but you’ll also see staged re-creations of the discussions that supposedly happened when Terry was called in by …
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