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HD7s on Backorder, Seriously?

June 10, 2011 No Comments

AT&T’s HD7s was released on June 5th and customers who ordered it through AT&T’s website are receiving an email stating that the phone is backordered: Dear CHASE xxxx, Thank you for your recent purchase on the AT&T Premier Online Store. We are pleased that you chose AT&T as your wireless service provider. Unfortunately, items in […]

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Microsoft Sponsoring Windows Phone App-a-thon for Students

June 9, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has been working diligently on expanding the Marketplace. They have created numerous contests and incentives encouraging the development of applications. Their newest contest is is called the Windows Phone Student App-a-thon. The incentives for this contest are as follows: The first 1,000 students to publish an application will receive a copy of Halo Reach, […]

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Windows Phone 7 is Second Among Platforms Devs Plan to Use

June 9, 2011 No Comments

The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has grown at a fast pace and having seen the newest VisionMobile research report I can assume that it will continue to do so. VisionMobile published a report based entirely on the developers mindset. There is a lot of interesting information included in this report but the main point of […]

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Full House Poker Gets Long Awaited Update

June 9, 2011 1 Comment

I know there are many of you who have been waiting for Full House Poker to receive an update and that day has finally come. People playing Full House Poker were experiencing a glitch where you would buy into a game and if you exited the game, your buy-in money would be gone but your game […]

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Rumor: Zunepass, Speech and Other Services Expanding to New Regions

June 8, 2011 No Comments

There has been a lot of information regarding the expansion of Windows Phone 7 and its’ services to different regions. Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Windows Phone Program Management tweeted this message: The Zunepass has been something that we cannot live without in my household so I, for one am happy that others will get […]

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HTC Arrive, Trophy and HD7 For $0.01

June 8, 2011 No Comments

The Microsoft Store is holding a promotion for most HTC Windows phone 7 models. The HTC Trophy, Arrive and  HD7 are all available for $0.01 with a new contract plus they will send you 4000 Microsoft points after the phone is activated. This offer is valid thru July 2nd, 2011. With the Mango update on the […]

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More Proof That Multiplayer is Coming to Windows Phone 7?

June 8, 2011 No Comments

There has been continuous speculation that multiplayer gaming will be coming to Windows Phone 7 when the Mango update drops this Fall. One thing that has helped fuel the rumors is a video that was posted on the internet demonstrating Mango in which you can see (only for like a second) an option to “Pick a multi-player […]

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GPS Turn-By-Turn Navigation Released For Orange France

June 7, 2011 No Comments

Orange France has just released a turn by turn navigation application for their users. From what I can see from the pictures it seems like a well rounded application. Unfortunately it only works with data plans, which at times is slow and can be expensive. Some of the things you can expect with Orange Maps The […]

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How to Get Different Images on Your Picture Hub Tile and Pictures Background

June 7, 2011 2 Comments

The folks over at the monsmartphone blog seem to have discovered a minor glitch in Windows Phone 7 that allows users to change the background in the pictures hub to make it different from that of the picture hub tile itself. I hope you’re still following me. So, you would start by making sure the […]

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Developers Will Not get ‘Mango’ Through Update

June 6, 2011 No Comments

Joe Belfiore tweeted recently that they were “working on a plan for DEVELOPERs to be able to get Mango for phones before launch”. This led many to believe that Mango would be distributed to developers in the form of an update to their current device. AppHub provided a little snippet of information on this matter. […]

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Acer’s Allegro Windows Phone to be Released This Holiday in Europe

We all love to get all excited about the latest and greatest Windows Phone hardware. In order for Windows...

AT&T HTC HD7s: Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” Update Rolling Out Today (October 11)?

In the initial Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) scheduling breakdown for AT&T, we previously stated that the HTC HD7s would...