Microsoft is banking their future on cloud-based services and integrating those services seamlessly into their products. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, handles online photo albums with ease. The yet-to-be-launched mobile operating system will succeed the ancient Windows Mobile platform with a sleek new user interface paradigm and a focus on cloud-connectivity. One of the…
Video: A look at Windows Phone 7 auto-rotating screen and icons
Auto-rotation is nothing new. Almost all smartphones these days have accelerometers integrated into their hardware, allowing them to detect orientation (landscape or portrait) changes – that allows them to automatically rotate the screen when the user rotates the handset. But, not all smartphones do auto-rotation the same way. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, concentrates…
Windows Phone 7 kills multitasking, non-marketplace apps, removable storage
It looks like it’s one step forward and two steps backwards because Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series will be ditching full third-party multitasking, removable storage and the ability to add applications from places other than the Windows Phone Marketplace. Microsoft is obviously taking cues from Apple, Research In Motion and Palm (to a certain extent)…
A look at Windows Phone 7 Xbox Live gaming hub
One of the cool features baked right into Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is its hub-centric Xbox Live games panel. By connecting Windows Phone 7 directly to your Xbox Live account, you can keep up to date on your Xbox Live account – points, avatars, unlocked achievements, etc. And, because the Windows Phone 7 platform is…
More Windows Phone 7 specs revealed
We’ve already heard about the three chassis that are required for handsets that run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series, but the software giant has revealed a few more details. As we already know, the handsets will have to sport a capacitive touchscreen with at least four points of contacts and a minimum resolution of…
Zune and Windows Phone 7 Series – A look at how to manage music from your desktop
Windows Phone 7 Series owes a lot of its design aesthetic and features to the Zune music player from Microsoft. From the sleek user interface to the incredibly integrated Zune music hub, it’s clear that Microsoft is really trying hard to give Apple and its iPhone’s iTunes-based music ecosystem some hard-hitting competition. As such, the…
Exclusive: Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone from Samsung
We just got a juicy little scoop on a previously unknown Windows Phone 7 Series handset during Joe Belfiore’s UI demo at MIX10. We all know about the LG WP7 handset, but we were surprised to see a new Samsung jobby rocking the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system! Mr. Belfiore didn’t mention the name…
Check out Windows Phone Marketplace for Windows Phone 7
There’s a ton of news today about Windows Phone 7 Series and the revamped Windows Phone Marketplace really caught my eye. Like the latest mobile operating system, the Marketplace is going to be pretty. Like any app store, you’ll be able to see a wide view of categories and there are smooth-looking transition animations when…
So who’s going to make applications for Windows Phone 7 Series? Answer: About 33 companies
These days the media, and investors, care about “apps”. Thanks to Apple, your platform, no matter how innovative, no matter how awesome, no matter how promising it appears to be, will be called out by douche bags around the world for not having over 100,000 applications, or whatever the official number is right now. It’s…
Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, shows off ease of app development
Today is the start of Microsoft’s MIX10 conference in Las Vegas, and there’s some good stuff coming down the Windows Phone 7 pipeline. First up, Microsoft has announced that they have made their Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools available for download through their MSDN download center. The tools will give eager devs a chance to…