Recently, I’ve done some research on the Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 and managed to find out about a brilliant idea involving both the program compatible systems. The idea focuses on combining the features of one OS with the other. It will help you arrange all the gyroscopes, accelerometers and other motion-detecting sensors in your desktop!
Continuing with the trend of choosing flashy monikers for its phones, HTC’s latest device called the Eternity has been leaked by a number of trusted online sources. The phone is undoubtedly one of the most lustworthy Windows Phone handsets to date, sporting a 4.7 inch touchscreen display and trumping the HD7 as the WP phone with the largest screen size.
Microsoft is quickly trying to become relevant in the mobile space against giants like Apple and Android, and they’re doing a fine job at it. Windows Phone 7 features Live enabled games that will net achievement hungry gamers some extra gamerscore, while also being a cut above the rest of the downloadable games currently on the service. Only problem is the Games Hub is nearly a mess and fairly disjointed.
The sticking point for many consumers when the Windows Phone was released happened to be the lack of custom ringtones. Everyone loves to express themselves in some fashion and this is a feature available in every smartphone available except the Windows Phone. Microsoft heard the cries of many and is going to make sure consumers get what they want, but with some pretty high restrictions.
Microsoft has been struggling to meet their expected sales numbers for their Windows Phone 7 handsets, since November, and it seems AT&T sales reps may be a factor in the low results. It was a mystery to me why so few of these devices had been sold as well considering how well the Metro UI works among other things I enjoy about the phone itself.Though, after doing some research into and seeing many tweets and comments on Windows Phone articles it became more clear where the issue was.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 has become notorious with it’s lack of update expediency since the much delayed NoDo update. Through that update users did get the much needed copy/paste functionality and some smaller performance tweaks but it was hardly worth the wait. The Mango update, however, seems to hold a little more promise for those who have jumped on the Windows Phone bandwagon.
Many Windows Phone users out there are probably already rocking this brand specific app as it was released earlier this week. For those unaware, Microsoft decided to disallow connecting to hidden wireless networks from any Windows Phone 7 device. This upset many who enjoy their secure and private networks, but luckily HTC has found a work around by developing a very simple application.
Microsoft has yet to release a Zune player for Mac computers for unknown reasons, but for those that have a Windows Phone and prefer a Mac to aPC then you should be seeing your Windows Phone Connector client updated officially as of Friday. The updated software is now available in Apple’s Mac Store. Microsoft says it has fixed a high CPU utilization problem in certain sync situations and has included some performance improvements across the application.
Microsoft has decided that it will take some more time in releasing the much anticipated Windows Phone 7 mobile platform update to make sure that it doesn’t suffer from the same fate as the previous update for the platform putting the company in an embarrassing position. The new update has now been delayed till the end of March this year. The compromising situation arose last month when Microsoft released a regular minor “under the hood” update for its mobile platform which was supposed to aid in the further upcoming updates of the operating system which included the one which gave the phone cut-and-paste functionality.
According to news coming in from insiders, Nokia Ovi will receive more than $1 billion from Microsoft as a part of the Finnish company’s software deal with the software giants in order to develop and promote mobile phone handsets which will run on the Windows Phone 7 platform. One of the sources, who preferred to stay anonymous as no official contract has yet been signed, also claimed that the terms include Nokia paying Microsoft a premium for each copy of the Windows Phone 7 operating system that it uses in its handsets, and that these costs will be offset by the fact that Nokia has cut down on its own budget for software development and research after the deal.
Feedback from Windows Phone 7 users who are on a Samsung handset suggests that the much talked about glitch in the update process of the software which affected Samsung users specifically still hasn’t fully been resolved after new updates from Microsoft.It’s only been just over a day since Microsoft finally resumed its update push for the Samsung devices running on the Windows Phone 7 platform; however the users have reported problems arising after the process.
Last Thursday Microsoft announced the official release date of Angry Birds for the up and coming mobile platform. April 6th will be a very unproductive day for many of those Windows Phone 7 owners out there, unless you have played it before you can’t quite grasp the highly addictive nature of the game. Not only that, but a few other high profile titles will be making their way to Microsofts phone.
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