Windows Phone 7 has managed to get some serious recognition at the International Design Excellence Awards, achieving no less than three awards. The prizes were handed out by The Industrial Designers Society of America, that brought gold for WP7 in the Interactive Product Experiences category. Microsoft’s mobile OS also achieved silver in the...
Usually Windows Phone handsets can’t be used as simple USB storage devices and if you’re familiar with Zune hardware, you should know that the same rule applies to them. However, there’s a registry edit that will allow you to implement this feature and make a Samsung Omnia 7 or HTC HD7 your USB stick. XDA Developers forum member MarcHoover...
Some Windows Phone 7 users have complained about excessive data usage on their device, even when the handsets were idle, making Microsoft start an investigation on this matter. Smartphones were downloading up to 50MB a day for no apparent reason and now the Redmond giant blames it all on a third party solution. Said solution is commonly accessed from...
After reading some reports concerning a new issue on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft decided to take action. We’re talking about the “phantom data” transfers taking place on these devices, according to several users quoted by BBC. The complaints come from forums and people are saying that the handsets are depleting their monthly share of...
Vangos Pterneas is a Windows Phone 7 developer who just released a face recognition system for Microsoft’s latest mobile platform. The software is based on a port that uses Rene Schulte’s open source Facelight libraries. The expert claims that using Facelight was a ball, as the user only needs two XAML image controls placed in the same position. The...
Microsoft doesn’t play when it comes to competing with its rivals, even when it comes to the mobile market. Although Windows Phone 7 is yet to reveal sales figures and some say that it’s not even close to matching competition, we’ve heard that the platform’s first update in January 2011 will bring all the needed features to kill...
Microsoft’s latest mobile creation, Windows Phone 7 received mixed reviews over the past weeks, that included criticism regarding the lack of features on this OS, stuff like copy/paste and a serious multitasking system. According to Arpan Shah, Microsoft Director of Project Management for Microsoft Project, WP7 will receive the copy/paste update...
Here’s Angry Birds in the news again, this time with a bit of controversy. Turns out that Microsoft published the famous iPhone game’s logo on its page, as if it were available on WP7, but without receiving any info from Rovio Mobile concerning such a port. Right now, the title is only available on Andorid, iOS, Palm webOS, Maemo and Symbian^3. What...
We’ve seen and heard everything there is to know about Windows Phone 7, so it might be time for a real launch date to be released, right? Apparently, the OS is coming to the UK, Spain, France and Germany on October 21st, while the US will have to wait a bit longer, till November 8th, according to Microsoft expert Paul Thurrott and his sources,...
We’ve previously informed you that Microsoft was going to hand out WP7 handsets to its employees, partners and developers, in order to stimulate interest in the platform and increase its popularity. Now, we’ve just found out that 3,076 active WP7 users have been spotted, thanks to Long Zheng. He used the Facebook config for Windows Phone...
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