April 14, 2011
When the ‘Mango’ update is released this Fall it will open up a lot of new possibilities for developers. The update will have a lot of tools to help devs develop applications. One such app set to be releases in the Fall along with ‘Mango” is Spotify. Where you go, the music goes too Introduce […]
Tags: Apps, Mango, music, spotify, Streaming, windows phone 7, WP7Apps, News
April 14, 2011
One thing that was not talked about yesterday but a few people noticed was that the Xbox Live hub on the WP7 handsets with the Mango update were… different. Presently when we turn on our phones we see the words Xbox live on the games tile. Well, yesterday while Microsoft employees were showing off their […]
Tags: Games, Gold, Mango, MIX 2011, MIX11, Multi-Player, Silver, WP7, Xbox Live, Xbox Live HubGames, News
April 13, 2011
Applications are one the best functions of a smartphone. With Windows Phone 7, you have to scroll down a long list of apps to open an app if it hasn’t been pinned to the homescreen. The Mango update due this Fall is set to change the way we navigate through our phones. One way that […]
Tags: Apps, Mango, Marketplace, MIX 2011, MIX11, multitasking, windows phone 7, WP7Apps
April 13, 2011
At the Mix11 conference it was announced that Skype be coming to Windows Phone 7 this Fall. The Mango update also due this Fall will have the necessary API hooks to support a full featured Skype app. We will provide more information as soon as it is available. So far that Mango update is sounding like a […]
Tags: Mango, Skype, update, windows phone 7, WP7Apps, Featured
April 13, 2011
When the Mango update comes this fall there will be many promising features. One such feature is the capability to create a live tile from certain actions within an app. The example given at Mix11 was to take the (future) feature of the Amazon app that enables barcode scanning to find your item on Amazon. […]
Tags: amazon, barcode scanner, live tiles, Mango, updateApps, News
April 13, 2011
Something that seemed like it would be an eternity to actually become a reality, is sneaking up on us faster than expected. The Mango update that will be coming to us this fall will already have the tools ready for developers next month. Even showed off an easy way to mimic a different location for location […]
Tags: Developer, Mango, MIX 2011, MIX11, Tools, Visual Basic, WP7News
April 13, 2011
At MIX11 it was just announced that Angry Birds will be launching on Windows Phone 7 on May 25th. It was just announced while showing of the multitasking coming with the Mango update.
Tags: Angry Birds, Mango, MIX 2011, MIX11, Multi-tasking, WP7Apps, Games
April 11, 2011
With Microsoft hosting MIX11 soon, they have been teasing that a few important announcements will be made regarding Windows Phone 7. Well now there is a mysterious list going around that supposedly is every bullet point that Microsoft will make regarding WP7. The list is as follows… Interoperability: devs can now use both Silverlight and […]
Tags: Developer, Framework, Mango, MIX 2011, MIX11, Silverlight, Sockets, WP7, XNANews
April 7, 2011
Jaxbot, the same hacker that brought us that dehydration trick not to long ago is at it again with ‘Multitask7’. It is a program (hack) that gives us multitasking on Windows Phone 7. Yes I know the famous Mango update will allow us to do that later this year but what would be the fun […]
Tags: Apps, Hack, Homebrew, Jaxbot, Mango, Multi-tasking, Multitask7, WP7Apps, News