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Latest Mobile Windows News: Conspiracy theory: Apple and Microsoft have secret agreement about mobility to defeat Google March 11, 2010; [General]
Long time ago, when Steve Jobs returned to his position as CEO of Apple... Google releases new YouTube player for Windows Phone March 11, 2010; [General]
Graphics of games in Windows Phone 7 Series will be inherently inferior to iPhone games!!! March 11, 2010; [General] Faster, faster, to make it on time for November 2010 release! - that's how Windows Phone division works now and in process of this hurry they are making bad decisions...
... and one of such decisions, that will mean that games for Windows Phone 7 Series will have inferior graphics to iPhone games, is this: Diamonds are Forever, Your Marketplace Purchases Are Not March 10, 2010; [General] Another epic fail of Windows Phone division.
Adobe confirms: Flash coming to Windows Phone 7 Series but no soup for you Windows Mobile 6.x losers! March 10, 2010; [with touch-screen] When Microsoft was unveiling Windows Phone 7 Series for the first time ever, we were there on location, and we remember how Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) shouted loudly that Microsoft has nothing against Flash when somebody from the audience asked about it. Previously Adobe announced that there will be no Flash for Windows Mobile 6.x phones but only for 7 Series, and now Adobe is confirming it again, almost officially: Foursquare for Windows Phone finally widely available but only from Marketplace March 10, 2010; [General] It is not an official app from Foursquare itself but nonetheless it is very good:
... and to get it just do search for "foursquare" in Marketplace but if you are outside of USA, remember to set market to USA: Mary-Jo Foley lied March 10, 2010; [General] Mary-Jo Foley has written a book about Microsoft and her main day job is writing for ZDNet about Microsoft things. Shortly speaking she considers herself the biggest expert about Microsoft in the world. Mary-Jo Foley in the past published this what supposed to be "chassis specifications for Windows Mobile 7" that she got from "trustworthy source" and many publications copied and linked to it, but now it is clear: it was all lies. Let's take a look one by one: For Microsoft: old users = losers, as no XNA 4 for Zune HD March 09, 2010; [with touch-screen] Microsoft could release Silverlight and XNA for owners of Windows Mobile 6.5 users but no, Microsoft hates those people and these goodies are coming only to Windows Phone 7 Series phones.
Similarly Zune HD owners will not get 3D goodness of XNA 4 game development kit (XNA Game Studio 4.0), even though Zune HD has more than enough power for it: CEO of Microsoft loves Apple now, and changes his mind about iPhone app store March 09, 2010; [General] Previously Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, when asked what he thinks about making money off mobile applications, in context of huge monetary success of several developers in iPhone app store, has said "I don't think anybody is making any money" [in iPhone apps] and we have it on video to prove it: Reminder to Windows Phone developers with apps in Marketplace: checkboxes!!! March 09, 2010; [General] So, you have apps in Windows Marketplace for Mobile and you would like to earn more money? Simples! Just follow this instruction: Comparison of Toshiba TG01 and Toshiba TG02 and Toshiba KG01 and Toshiba TG03 March 09, 2010; [General] If you would like to get a decent Windows Phone, there is more than one manufacturer available for that. Notably Toshiba offers high-end Windows Phone cellphones and here we are presenting a detailed comparison of upcoming Toshiba phones compared to the current top model (i.e. TG01): TG02 not on sale yet but Toshiba talks already about TG03 for Windows Phone 7 Series March 08, 2010; [with touch-screen] Last month in Barcelona we were fondling Toshiba TG02 - a version of TG01 but with capacitive display - but now Toshiba is already talking about TG03 although TG02 still is not on sale: Windows Phone podcast number 322 published March 07, 2010; [General] In this episode Alli (Alabama, USA), Joel (Atlanta, USA), Gareth (Northern Ireland, EU), Edward (Germany, EU) are chatting about Windows Phone news: Windows Phone podcast 322 Please listen to this podcast - it's the only podcast about Windows Phone that tells how it is. Microsoft demonstrates continuous XNA gaming on a PC, Windows Phone 7, Xbox March 07, 2010; [General] In this demonstration a guy is a telling a story of playing a game that he starts at work on his PC, continues it underway on his Windows Phone 7 Series phone (yay!) and then comes home and continues the same game on his Xbox 360 at home! Interestingly he shows also Visual Studio and the fact that this XNA-based game is sharing code and code is detecting which device it is running on and using proper sensors (like joystick on Xbox or acceloeremeter on Windows Phone 7 Series device): Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 Series is Good March 07, 2010; [with touch-screen] Previous page   |
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