Posts Tagged ‘windows phone’
No Skype for Windows Phone 7
Citing a second-rate “user experience” compared to the iPhone and Android, Skype admits it has no immediate plans to release an app for Windows Phone 7.
Skype is working full steam ahead on an app for the iPad and the next-gen iPhone, but users of Windows Phone 7 will have to take a number and wait… and wait… and wait.
Skype’s Asia Pacific Vice-President Dan Neary says that Microsoft’s forthcoming smartphone OS is not a priority when it comes to mobile platforms.
“We try and focus not only where the need is but where the best experience is, and we feel that the best areas for us to develop are on the operating systems that we currently support – iPhone, Symbian, BlackBerry and now Android” Neary told APC during a press briefing in Sydney today. “We simply feel that those operating systems (have) a much better user experience”.
Windows Phone 7 – complete fail or not?
No file system access:
No file system access means
a) you can not use it as USB thumb drive
b) you can not share files with different computers
c) there is no file downloads from web and no useful ftp clients and similar apps because they are useless without fsa
d) you can not open files with different apps unless maybe you email them to yourself, which is complicated but is the common way to get files on iPhones and it will also be like that crap on Windows Phone 7
No SD cards
We don’t have to explain why that sucks. Terabyte SDXC cards are on the way and Windows Phone 7 buyers are stuck with built in 8-32GB. And you have no thumb drive mode and no SD card to take out and load files on it.
No copy and paste
No, you are not dreaming to live in 2007. It really is 2010 and Windows Phone 7 really has no copy&paste. Is this ridiculous or what?
Tags: access, drive mode, file, iphones, Phone, Read, sd cards, System, thumb drive, Windows, windows phone, Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 theme for WM6.5.x and Titanium
A theme inspired by the new Windows Phone 7 for Windows Mobile 6.5.x and Titanium. The goal is to create a nice clean looking theme with a WP7 feel to it. At first it will be (W)VGA compatible. This is a work in progress!
HTC HD Mini for UK
It’s the first Windows Phone to sport HVGA 480?320 resolution (which makes us wonder how third party apps will work on it). It’s also HTC’s first Windows Mobile 6.5.3 device.
The HD Mini is due to ship in about a week (April 7 to be exact). The price is ?275, or around $420. If you’re in the US, you can still use the HD Mini, but you won’t get 3G on any carrier.
Windows Phone 7 Series theme
Windows Phone 7 Series Theme for all Windows Mobile devices, this is a theme for the new and fast ThrottleLauncher 1.0 final version.
Features:
- Scrollable home page
- Animated real contacts on homepage
- Animated pictures tile with differents thumbs from selected folder
- Animated Me tile
- You can choose your own photo for the animation
- Animated contacts name for People page
- People page
- Games page
- You can choose a xbox live Avatar
- Six colors for the tiles(Blue,Orange,Red,Green,DarkBlue,Yellow)
- You can use original wm taskbar
- Original Windows Phone 7 footer
- Battery indicator(Thxs to HDOwner for the graphics)
- Little clock
- You can add your favorites apps on home page
ZuneHD theme for Windows Mobile 6.5
Feel the new ZuneHD / Windows Phone 7 look on your Windows Mobile 6.5.x powered phone with this great full theme.
First Windows Phone 7 Series device is from LG
The Engadget Show Live is currently streaming and Aaron Woodman from Microsoft has just shown off the first Windows Phone 7 Series from LG.
Tags: Aaron Woodman, Engadget, Live, Microsoft, Read, Show, Windows, windows phone, Windows Phone 7 Series, woodman
One of 2 main designers of Windows Phone 7 Series is a secret iPhone user
He doesn’t get dirty with Windows Mobile, he is using iPhone. Why should you buy Windows Phone if he isn’t even using such stuff? (and we mean: in private, not that whole show for the public)
Recently, after announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series, he has left the closet, i.e. stepped into the limelight and created even special public twitter account for spreading positive propaganda about Windows Phone 7 Series… but his private Twitter account reveals: he is a secret iPhone user.
Whom we are talking about? No, it is not Joe Belfiore – the main honcho of Windows Phone 7 Series, it’s Charlie Kindel – the guy responsible for software development thingies (tools, APIs, etc?) in Windows Phone 7 Series.
See for yourself: his private secret Twitter account, where you can see “iPhone: …, …” in his account proving that he’s an iPhone user. Note: we have more proof than just Twitter that he is using iPhone secretly but we are not revealing these proofs on purpose.
Shame on you, Charlie Kindel! Maybe instead of using iPhone you could bring native software development to Windows Phone 7 Series, instead of pushing on developers .NET tech (like XNA and Silverlight) that doesn’t provide protection of intellectual property (i.e. can be decoded easily with free tool even by preschoolers)?
Tags: Charlie Kindel, iphone, Joe, native software, Phone, Series, silverlight, twitter, Windows, windows phone, xna
