Windows Phone 7
The new device is manufactured by LG, it is a Windows Phone 7 and it features a slide-out four-row hardware keyboard with 41 buttons from which I personally love the…
Some fresh news from the German ZDNet video presentation where guest Greg Sullivan – Senior Product Manager for Windows Phone takes on a short journey with his Samsung Taylor Windows Phone 7 device.
Some of the interesting bits that we didn’t quite see before include a demonstration of HTML e-mail (1:58) and we see that Outlook is capable of delivering the rich e-mail experience of HTML e-mail from any Exchange, POP or IMAP source. As far as calendars are concerned, Windows Phone 7 will handle multiple Calendars (2:19) with Exchange, GMail, Windows Live and it will distinguish between them by using different (customizable we add) colors so the user will know, at a glance, where that certain appointment is coming from.
Samsung Taylor is one of the devices Microsoft is shipping to developers nowadays in order for the to test their Windows Phone 7 applications in real life, on Device, instead…
A theme inspired by the new Windows Phone 7 Metro look. Most of it has been based off the official WP7 SDK (Emulator). Some parts had to be edited because…
According to Microsoft evangelist Martin Esmann from Microsoft Denmark, the phone will also launch in Denmark in October. However, the phone will not have a localized Marketplace, so only the…
Yes, that’s correct, Windows Phone 7 will NOT be officially supported on any device that is currently on the market, Microsoft has repeatedly stated this. It has rather high end specs that very few phones on the market can even support. In addition, Microsoft has a very firm mandate on things such as having the 3, and only 3, buttons on the front of the device….
Some system info about WP7 from Da_G:
WP7/CE6/(future CE7) is quite the different ball game from WM2003/WM5/WM6/WM6.5/CE5/CE5.x… There’s also the LG Expo which runs QSD/ARMv7, so is a possible target.
The major hurdle with porting is that our current devices contain Radio ROMs, Drivers, and Bootloaders which all target the CE5.x platform. CE6+ is a different beast on a low level (in a good way, there are major improvements across the board which required breaking API compatibility – these improvements have been long overdue)
With access to whitepapers documenting the hardware’s interface(s) and initialization routines, Platform Builder for WP7, and a good bit of time it’s certainly possible to bring any platform supporting ARMv7 up to WP7. However such information/software is not public, so it’s up to the OEM to either develop this (not at all likely) or release the requisite platform BSP (also not at all likely) to enable anyone to port their devices to Windows Phone 7.
There are other possible methods such as emulation, but the amount of work involved would outweigh the end result by a good margin. The OEMs major concerns with porting ROMs is the sharing of 3rd party software to which they are not authorized to license distribution (for example, HTC licenses WM from MSFT, and also licenses a number of other technologies such as swype)
Little funny app for the upcoming WP7 OS, if you have your Windows Phone 7 device already, you can give it a try :) Download and more info
This Windows Phone 7 theme uses the JMLToday plugin to update and display most dynamic notifications, dates, appts, and so forth, as well as some modded & custom CHome plugins.…
Here are the alarms and ringtones from Windows Phone 7 from the latest emulator build. They were created by taking Long Zheng's video, extracting the sound and cutting it, enjoy.…