Author: Peter Murphy

  • Video: If I got my hands on prototype running Mango…

    This is just amusing, but I think exactly what I would do, if I got my hands on a WP7 device, running the New Mango Update. Even at the presentation, [sounds like Joe Belfiore talking in the background] these guys from Howard Forums, could not contain their curiosity, and made their own sub plot Video.…

  • Video: HTC Sensation unboxing

    Video: HTC Sensation unboxing

    The HTC Sensation is a beast of a device. It has a massive 4.3-inch screen, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, and 768 megs of RAM. I’ve had PC’s with lower specs! It only has 1 GB of internal storage, but will take up to 32 GB of expandable memory with a microSD card. Super LCD screen,…

  • Screen Capture App for WP7, Homebrew!

    One of the essential tools for bloggers when reviewing mobile phones and applications is the ability to capture screenshots of the device and application in action. Makes sense right? Isn’t picture is worth a thousand words? But the native API’s for Windows Phone, don’t allow for that functionality. Although I’ve posted about screenshots on WP7…

  • Rumour: will Microsoft Zune, be no more?

    Place this firmly in the “Not Quite Sure” basket, but leaked information that Microsoft’s Zune services, are to be broken up, redistributed across, Xbox mobile, Xbox Live and Windows Live Zune, seems a bit out there. In a lot of ways it doesn’t make sense, considering how core Zune is to the Windows Phone experience,…

  • More Windows Phone rumors; May 24 announcement imminent!

    While Windows Phone may seem like an underdog, and there are many features that iOS users, Android users expect natively are missing, the growing, devoted user base are fanatical about the OS. The OS launched on a varied similarly specced series of devices, that at  the time where considered high end in terms of hardware,…

  • Video: Task Viewer for Windows Phone from WPH

    Most of us have become used to having Task Managers, if using Windows Mobile or Task Killers on Android, to manage the multi tasking nature of the OS’s. It wasn’t abnormal to run an application, to turn off applications you didn’t need running. The basic premise being to free up , optimise available memory. In…

  • AT&T’s HTC HD7 launch date set for June 5th

    This is sort of a round about announcement, because the Windows Phone Blog, said the HTC Twitter account said AT&T said the HTC HD7s would be available for purchase on June the fifth. To all intents and purposes this is just the HD7, with a bit of a twist. It has all the same specifications,…