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Joe Belfiore Walks Us Through The Many Features of Mango [Video]

May 24, 2011 No Comments

There was alot announced today in such a small amount of time. Good thing we have Joe Belfiore here to demonstrate some of the features. Bing Visual, HTML 5 Speed test and more

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Mango: Windows Phone Gets It’s Bing Vision

May 24, 2011 No Comments

Along with Bing giving more indepth search results,Microsoft has added a whole new way to perform searches using your WP7 device. Currently there are two ways to do a Bing search, by typing in your search and by doing a voice search, with Mango there will also be Bing vision. What Bing vision does is […]

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Mango: Bing Quickcards Will Change The Game

May 24, 2011 No Comments

Searching on your mobile device will never be the same again. Mango will take Bing searches to a whole new level. Pretty much any information that you might be searching for on Bing will be put into quickcards for easily accessible information. Someone looking for a place to eat would get results from the immediate […]

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No New Hardware Shown Off: New Manufacturers Announced

May 24, 2011 2 Comments

I was very dissapointed to see the Mango event end and not see any new hardware shown. I was really looking foward to maybe seeing the HTC Bresson but I would of settle for anything. Atleast they did mention the new hardware and spoke briefly about having Nokia phones running Windows Phone in their labs. […]

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Twitter and LinkedIn: Integrated in Mango

May 24, 2011 No Comments

We all knew Twitter would be integrated into Windows Phone with the Mango update but LinkedIn was a huge surprise. Windows Phone will be packed with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. That is a pretty powerful social experience we are going to have. More features posted soon..

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Almost Showtime For Mango: What has been Uncovered So far

May 24, 2011 No Comments

We have less than an hour to prepare for Microsoft’s Mango event. It promises to have tons of news and new features involving the Mango update and the future of Windows Phone. We are very excited and even more so with Steve Ballmer stating that there will be over 500 new features packed in with Mango. Let’s […]

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Mango: Windows Phone 7.1?

May 24, 2011 No Comments

Running rampant on the Internets today is the rumor that Windows Phone after the Mango update will be called Windows Phone 7.1 They are going by this MSDN posting of new Silverlight features for Windows Phone 7.1. We had uncovered the name change to be Windows Phone 7.5 ages ago in a page dedicated to […]

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13 Year Old Has 19 Windows Phone Apps (Video)

May 24, 2011 No Comments

If were thinking about developing apps but afraid it might be a bit too much to handle. Meet 13 year old Johnny Simmons of Simzz Dev. who has developed almost 20 apps on Windows Phone 7. His apps include: DrawPad DrawPad Pro NightClock Analog Night Clock Random Numbers and Dice 7 Tab Browser Free 7 […]

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Bill Gates Utilizing WP7: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Message App

May 24, 2011 No Comments

It is really good to see that the person synonamis with Microsoft is Utilizing his Windows Phone 7. Even though it also really show that they really need to hurry up and have an option for not displaying every app in Zune. Today they launched the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Message App. No […]

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MyThings Lite Task Manager Hits WP7

May 23, 2011 No Comments

We reviewed MyThings a few days ago and we gave the app a pretty good score. Now the developer has released a free light version of the application for Windows Phone 7. The main differences that I see are – no live tiles nor notifications on this light version. Also, your are limited to 5 tasks […]

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HTC Arrive, Trophy and HD7 For $0.01

The Microsoft Store is holding a promotion for most HTC Windows phone 7 models. The HTC Trophy, Arrive and ...

US Cellular To Offer Windows Phone Soon?

US Cellular to offer Windows Phone soon. You can take this with a grain of salt but it does...