Microsoft talks Windows Phone 7 Series development ahead of GDC: Silverlight, XNA, and no backward compatibility
Microsoft is keen on unveiling the meat of its developer story around Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 in less than two weeks, but with GDC coming up next week, they're figuring that now is a good time to start dropping hints -- they'll want to be capturing the collective imagination of the gaming industry, after all, what with that Xbox Live integration they've got going on. To that end, Charlie Kindel of WinPho's developer experience team has outed a few key items at a reception in San Francisco this evening. The major points are that Silverlight , XNA , and .NET will figure prominently into the developer story -- not a surprise considering that Microsoft is heavily invested in both, gaming is central to the Windows Phone 7 Series story, XNA is a big deal on Zune HD already, and this all lines up with what we'd heard in the past.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: beast, charlie-kindel, clean, down-on-twitter, initial, mobile, operating, result, windows-mobile, windowsphone7series, winpho 7, xna
HTC HD2 and Windows Phone 7 Series: Just tell us no, Microsoft
Dear Microsoft, We've had it up here with these shenanigans. You're jerking us around, and we're sick of it.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: bar, editorial, microsoft, much-the-best, plea, result, sameness, Season, windows, windows-mobile, windowsmobile, windowsmobile6.5, windowsphone7
Windows Phone 7 Series themes for WinMo abound in dev forums
We know that it ain't always practical or desirable to put money down on a phone every time a new OS or interface comes out -- so what is a gadget hound to do when they realize their hardware won't be supported by Windows Phone 7 Series ? Well, if you're anything like these enterprising individuals you roll your own.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Appointments, individuals, jaxxbot, mimic-the-new, office, series, skin, skins, varying-degrees, windows phone 7 series, windows-mobile, windows-phone, windowsphone7series
Exclusive: LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series early prototype unveiled (with video!)
Microsoft's Aaron Woodman just pulled off a little surprise here at The Engadget Show: he brought out LG's Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! The QWERTY slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world's ever seen, and while the hardware and software are both obviously early, we can tell you a few things about it: it's just a hair thicker than an iPhone or Nexus One, there are dedicated hardware camera, volume, and power buttons in addition to the back, home, and search buttons dictated by Windows Phone 7 Series, and we noticed a five megapixel camera with a flash on the back, along with a headphone jack. Can't say much apart from that right now, since things are so early and everything is subject to change, but things are certainly moving along.
Categories: Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: DVPFX930/P, engadgetshow, Headphone, production, result, search, series, sliderqwert, windows, windows-mobile, windows-phone, windowsmobile
Adobe taking a pass on Flash 10.1 for WinMo 6.5, will go straight to 7
An Adobe employee over in the company's official forums dropped a bomb earlier this month that they've now decided to pass on releasing Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile 6.5, instead moving straight to 7. The official explanation is that "WinMo6.5 does not support some of the critical APIs that we need," but frankly, this sounds like a load of crap -- since the project was announced last year , there's no way it took them this long to figure out that an official cut for 6.5 wouldn't be technically possible. If we had to guess, the real justification also explains why Adobe has been so quiet on the matter: 6.5's now viewed as a dead-end platform since 7 represents a clean break for Microsoft, and the company feels like it can't be bothered to invest the necessary time, energy, and money to see the project through.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adobe, clean, flash, money, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5, wm 6.5
Nokia’s Ovi Maps headed to Windows Mobile and Android?
Put your skeptic hats on kids 'cause we've got a juicy one for you. When Greig Williams, Nokia's General Manager for South East Europe, was asked by the German language Die Presse whether Ovi Maps would be coming to Android and Windows Mobile he responded very simply, "That will be the next step." Well then, that's pretty clear... but as much as we'd like to believe it, we simply can't pin our hopes to this statement alone.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: computing, engadget, europe, googlenavigation, greig williams, language, motivation, nokia, ovi, ovi maps, platform, presse, profits, south, windows-mobile
Acer Liquid e, beTouch E110 / E400, and neoTouch P300 / P400 hands-on
Acer took MWC rather seriously this year with no fewer than five phone intros to its name spanning the range from Android to Windows Mobile 6.5.3 , so we went ahead and put our hands on all of them today. Starting at the bottom of the range, the lowly beTouch E110 is obviously designed to compete head-to-head with the likes of the HTC Tattoo -- in fact, it apes the Tattoo's design pretty closely in some respects. Unlike Acer's higher-end Android phones, the E110 uses a custom skin that seems pretty well-suited for its QVGA resolution, and it's still managing 3.6Mbps HSDPA in your choice of 900 / 2100 and 850 / 1900 flavors for different areas of the world.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, htc Tags: audiences, e400, htc, mwc2010, reasonable-way, result, touch-e110, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5.3
HTC HD mini hands-on
HTC's launch today also gives us the HD mini , and, as a result, we're starting to have a problem sticking with a favorite with each post we put up -- really, they're all that nice. Unfortunately for us we didn't have an HD2 to throw down and do a real side by side comparison, but just looking at the pic above and comparing it to any other we've posted and you'll see the difference right away. The display is bright and crisp and the OS was responsive enough -- and with the device set to ship in April, things are looking pretty posiitve to meet that date -- and while the display doesn't wow like the HTC HD2 , it doesn't seems too cramped to be useable.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: after-the-break, comparison, entry, hd mini, hd2, htc, htc hd mini, htchdmini, launch, looking-pretty, result, sense, side-comparison, windows-mobile, windowsmobile
Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win
Windows Phone 7 Series.
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: barcelona, breaking-news, congress, holidays, microsoft, windows-mobile, windows-phone, windowsphone, zune
Windows Mobile 7 interface and device leaked on MWC banners
The eagle-eyed folks of learnbemobile have come across this stupendous leak of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Mobile 7 OS . It would appear that some last minute alterations were taking place under the covers in Barcelona, though apparently no one bothered to check if there were cameras around before lifting said covers.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: barcelona, entry, heavily-rumored, leaked-on-mwc, microsoft, mobileos, mwc 2010, stupendous-leak, windows, windows-mobile, windowsmobile, windowsmobile7, xbox live, xboxlive