September 21, 2011
Last month, HTC announced that they were investing $300 million in Beats Audio. HTC plans to improve their audio tremendously by adding the Beats Audio technology made popular by HP laptops and the popular Beats by Dr. Dre line of headphone products with Monster. HTC has incorporated the technology already in their new HTC Sensation […]
Tags: Beats Audio, Beats Electronics, Headphones, HP, HTC, Sound, Speakers, Windows PhoneNews
September 21, 2011
With all the Windows 8 excitement at Build, I missed this really cool presentation on Windows Phone and Metro UI. It is a really intense look on how it came to be, what is it? and how different it is from other OS’s. The video is an hour long so go grab some popcorn and […]
Tags: Build, Demo, Metro Style, Metro UI, Video, Windows PhoneNews
September 21, 2011
Finally some official news on the Mango update! Eric Hautala, General Manager, Customer Experience Engineering for Windows Phone put up a post today where he let us know that the Mango update should begin distributiion in a week or two. The “Where’s My Phone Update?” page will be also updated to show the rollout status […]
Tags: eric hautala, Homebrew, Mango, Microsoft, oem, update, where's my update, Windows Phone, WP7News
September 21, 2011
Microsoft is reporting that outages across many of their online services are offline. For example while on Xbox Live matchmaking is still working, xbox.com is down. Same for Zune, while you can download apps – you will have some problems managing your account.Take a list of the services that have been affected. Xbox LIVE: Signing […]
Tags: Microsoft, offline, Services Down, Xbox Live, ZuneNews
September 21, 2011
Microsoft & Nokia are working hard to get Symbian developers up and running on Windows Phone. Just like the iPhone and Android developer tools Microsoft handed out months ago, these tools are packed with information on helping you move over and develop on Windows Phone. below is the information provided by Microsoft’s Windows Phone Blog […]
Tags: dev, Dev Tools, developer tools, developers, Sybian, Symbian Developers, Symbian QT, White PapersNews
September 21, 2011
AT&T’s pending acquisition of T-mobile has been a nightmare for both parties so far. AT&T has been bombarded with companies, politicians and customers that are apposing this deal. T-mobile customers so far have either left T-mobile for another carrier or are just waiting in fear hoping this deal doesn’t go through. So what can AT&T […]
Tags: AT&T, Plans, Rates, T-mobile, TmoNews
September 20, 2011
PopCap has finally released an update for Plants vs Zombies. This update fixes the Zen garden bug where you fertilize a certain plant and the phone takes you back to your home screen. So now, you are able to fertilize your plants to your hearts content. Unfortunately, none of our WP7Connect comrades have experienced the other […]
Tags: Games, plants vs zombies, pvz, update, Xbox LiveGames, News
September 20, 2011
German site Windows Smartphones is reporting that a credible source has confirmed that Vodafone users will be receiving the Mango update by the last week of September. I am sure most of us are trying not to get too excited at every little Mango rumor that comes our way, but at least this one will be […]
Tags: Mango, Microsoft, update, vodafone, Windows Phone, WP7News
September 20, 2011
When you are a relatively new OS and your battling your way to the top, you have to take your wins wherever you can get them. Smaato has released their Q2 mobile ad metric reports, Windows Phone has come out #1 US and worldwide in ad click throughs. Apple’s iPhone is a close 2nd in […]
Tags: Ads, advertising, Android, Apple, developers, Google, iPhone, Microsoft, Smaato, Windows PhoneNews
September 20, 2011
I was shocked to find out that no one had put up the Samsung developer preview tablet on ebay yet. Someone finally has and it is a testiment to how awesome Windows 8 is that it even took so long. The tablet right now is going for US $2,025.00 with 5 days left! I know […]
Tags: Build, Developer, ebay, Microsoft, samsung, samsung Tablet, Windows 8News