This one enables picking the install location (storage card, main memory) which puts it ahead of Android which lacks that without third party software (such as Apps2SD) and also enables…
A few weeks we got wind that there may be a Windows Phone Starter Edition coming around soon, and it looks like that will come true in the form of…
Applications that were made for Windows Mobile 6 are compatible with Windows Phone 7 Series. The interface of the new mobile operating system has been changed though, so the user…
SPB Software announced Mobile Shell 5.0 today at MWC for Windows Mobile, Android and Symbian. It brings a new 3D engine, Natural Interaction Engine, 3D Widgets, SPB UI Builder, and…
So here’s the story on multitasking in Windows Phone 7. According to the director of Windows Phone:
The core operating system is a modern multitasking operating system. If you play music for example, the music will play back as you navigate around the experience…if you’re using email, we have great support for push email and that happens in the background.
For third party applications—we’ll get into a lot more detail on this in MIX—but we have a few ways we’re going to make sure that third parties can bring their value to the user even when the app is not running. Live tiles are an example. Data feeds in the hubs are another example for some apps.
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The default keyboard of Windows Mobile has gone mostly unchanged for about ten years, so it's nice to see Microsoft innovative a little bit on Windows Mobile 7. To start,…
This time, the rumor is that Windows Mobile 7 will be a very close cousin of the Zune HD in more ways than one. To start, it will run off…
MSDN has published a guide on the software needed and the resources available to start developing for the latest iteration of Microsoft’s mobile OS. The page links to the various…