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Windows Phone 7 Series Task Manager video walkthrough

Just shot this short walkthrough video of the Task Manager found in the Windows Phone 7 Series emulator. As you can see the thing is PACKED with options, info and features. Will have to play with it a bit more to fully figure out what’s going on.You can check out a full video walkthrough of [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series Applications & Settings video walkthrough

I just did 2 walkthrough videos of the recently unlocked Windows Phone 7 Series emulator. The first one shows all the native apps currently present in the OS (Zune, Pictures, Office, Messaging, Camera etc..):

The second video is a quick walkthrough of the different settings available:

PS: Videos are still being processed by Google…

Seesmic on Windows Phone 7 Series video walkthrough

I just came across this hands-on video of the Windows Phone 7 Series version of the Seesmic client unveiled at MIX10 earlier this week. As you can see the application retains the basic Metro UI mechanism and is 100% Silverlight. Loic Lemeur also indicates that the code of WP7 version is nearly identical to the desktop version [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator ROM Unlocked

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The boys in Redmond aren’t going to be happy about this…After a bit of digging, blogger Dan Ardelean managed to fully unlock the ROM found within the Windows Phone 7 CTP Emulator. As you can see in the screenshots above all [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series UI Design & Interaction Guide

Microsoft just released the Windows Phone 7 Series UI Design Interaction Guide. The Document is a 65 pages guide on how to design Windows Phone 7 applications:

The Windows® Phone 7 Series CTP User Interface (UI) is based off a Windows Phone design system internally codenamed “Metro.” The Metro design principles center on a look that [...]

New Windows Phone 7 Series ad and Marketplace video

Here are two new Windows Phone 7 Series videos showing the OS in action and the Marketplace. Both were presente at MIX10 2 days ago.

Marketplace:

All Windows Phone 7 MIX10 Sessions Part 2

Below are the rest of the Windows Phone 7 Series MIX10 session made that have currently been made available.

Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 1:

PowerPoint Presentation: Click

All Windows Phone 7 Series MIX10 Sessions Part 1

Here are all the Windows Phone 7 Series MIX10 sessions currently available online.

Changing our Game – an Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Series:

Copy & Paste function coming to Windows Phone 7 Series in future updates

Ok folks, I just got official word from Microsoft France’s Head of Mobility Products, Frédéric Brandt, about the Windows Phone 7 Series Copy & Paste drama:

Original:

« Cette information a été confirmée hier pendant la conférence Mix. Lors de la sortie des premiers appareils Windows Phone 7 Series, il n’y aura pas de copier-coller dans notre [...]

No Copy & Paste on Windows Phone 7 Series [UPDATED]

Yes, this apparently isn’t a joke . According to several people attending MIX today, Microsoft revealed that Windows Phone 7 Serieswill not feature a clipboard/copy/paste function when launched later this year. I don’t really know what to think of this other than: “WTH are they thinking?!”. Did the Microsoft rep really say that or was [...]

No Multi-Tasking for 3rd party apps in WP7, no removable storage, no file explorer

Unfortunately Microsoft won’t be able to please everybody with Windows phone 7 Series . The lack of multi-tasking shouldn’t come as a surprise especially given that I (with PPCGeeks) was the first to post the full specs of WP7 more than a month ago (one week before the official announcement, thanks again anonymous tipster..). We [...]

First Windows Phone 7 handset from Samsung shown at MIX10

Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore unveiled Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 Series handset during one of his MIX10 session a few hours ago. As you can see in the video, the phone physically looks nearly identical to the OmniaHD released more than a year ago and seems to feature the same 8Mpix camera (capable of 720P encoding). [...]

Official: No Windows Phone 7 Series upgrade for the HTC HD2

It’s finally official; contrary to what HTC’s support team has been saying last week, Joe Belfiore confirmed today that the HTC HD2won’t be upgradable to Windows Phone 7. There isn’t much else to say I guess (looks like 8GB of Flash memory is required to run WP7 alongside 256Mb of Ram). Those of you who [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series Codec support: DivX and MP4 High Profile

Here’s the full list of Codecs natively supported by Windows Phone 7 Series straight from the development documents on MSDN:

Audio
WAV (PCM, MSADPCM, IMAADPCM, G.711)
WAV

Audio
MP3
MP3

Audio
WMA Lossless
ASF (WMA)

Audio
WMA Pro
ASF (WMA)

Audio
WMA Standard v9
ASF (WMA)

Audio
AAC-LC (Low Complexity)
3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4A

Audio
HE-AAC v1 (AAC+)
3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4A

Audio
HE-AAC v2 (eAAC+)
3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4A

Audio
Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrow Band (AMR-NB)
3GP, 3G2, MP4

Audio
Adaptive Multi-Rate ide Band [...]

The Harvest 3D game on Windows Phone 7 video

Here’s a short video (from the MIX10 keynote) of The Harvest 3D game shown running on the protoype Windows Phone 7 Series handset:

Windows Phone 7 Series development tools available now for free

 

Microsoft just made available for free the development tools necessary to start working on Windows Phone 7 series applications & games:

Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP

Windows Phone Emulator CTP

Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP

XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP

You can download everything right now from here and found all the documentation here

Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series announced: Screenshots

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That’s right folks: Microsft just announced & demo’d Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series. As you can see the application has the same Metro UI as the whole OS, it’s build on SilverLight and use Smooth Streaming for [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator screenshots & info

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Here’s how the Windows Phone 7 emulator looks like. The emulator is actually the full WP7 OS running on your PC. So you’ll get awesome debug features. The Emulator will also support multi-touch directly on the PC if the [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series Applications announced

Microsoft just sent out some new info Windows Phone 7 Series info via a press release:

End -to-End Mobile Development Platform: By combining Silverlight for rich internet applications and the XNA Framework for game development, developers and designers will be able to build visually stunning and immersive applications and games on the Windows Phone 7 Series.
Free [...]

More HTC HD2 Windows Phone 7 confusion: HTC support says update is coming

Things are going to get ugly folks. To ad more confusion to a confusing problem HTC’s support reps are now telling consumers that HTC is working with Microsoft on a Windows Phone 7 Series update for the HTC HD2:

Translation from Spanish to Englsih:
“Concerning your question, we can inform you that we are working along [...]