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Windows Phone updates, after Mango comes Apollo
We’re anxiously awaiting the next update for Windows Phone, codenamed Mango, which supposedly hit around September of this year (if Microsoft can adhere to their proposed timeline). What we know as the Windows Phone 7.5 update (Mango) is bringing a huge amount of features to the platform, that will bring it up to parity, if…
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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7392 update for Sprint HTC Arrive On the Way!
Windows Phone 7 has gotten over it’s first major hurdle, with a cough and a splutter. The update process, went rather poorly, but there’s no point dwelling on that now. As surprising as it is, not all carriers have delivered all of the current updates to WP7 handsets on their Networks. The HTC Arrive on Sprint,…
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Video: Windows phone 7 NoDo on the HTC HD2
So it looks like I’ve found my weekend project. The guys over at XDA Developers are at it again, as YukiXDA has ported the 7.0.7392 build of Windows Phone 7, the latest released update to the HTC HD2. Seems the old warhorse “takes a licking and keeps on ticking”. There’s no question that the HD2 was…