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Microsoft’s Shawn Hargreaves just announced that 2 screen resolutions will be supported on Windows Phone 7 Series: 800×480 (WVGA) at launch and 480×320 later (possibly in Q1 2011?): The phone features an image scaler which allows games to render to any size backbuffer they like, and have it automatically stretched to fill the display, with [...] Microsoft’s Andre Vrignaud live-tweeted the Xbox Live on WP7 session that took place at GDC today. Q: Will games have to go through cert? Or just XBL games? A: all games go through cert, XBL games will have a few more reqs. #gallery-1 { Following theannouncment of XNA Game Studio 4.0Microsoft just unveiled the first screenshots of 2 3D games currently being developed for Windows Phone 7 Series. The first one is The Harvesta Diablo-like action game featuring destructible 3D environments developed by [...] As expected Microsoft as finally announced XNA Game Studio 4.0 at GDC today. This new version new lets developers develop games for Windows Phone 7, Windows PC & Xbox 360 (note the missing Zune HD…) and adds the following features: - Hardware accelerated 3D API’s on Windows Phone 7 Series Here’s a video (that probably shouldn’t even be on YouTube yet) of Microsoft’s Eric Rudder’s keynote at TechEd Middle-East in Dubai demonstrating an Indiana Jones game build using XNA and running on the PC, Windows Phone 7 Series and XBOX 360. Multi-Platform development (thanks to XNA & Silverlight) is going to be Microsoft’s big selling [...] Details of the 12 Windows Phone 7 Series sessions at MIX are now officially announced. As you can see it’s all about XNA & Silverlight: Unit Testing Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Applications Jeff Wilcox Learn how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework. See what tools are [...] Cnet’s Ina Fried just posted a short video interview with Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel ahead of next weeks GDC & MIX. The new thing you will notice is the couple of new (demo) applications present on the start menu (those apps were probably build on Silverlight/XNA for the GDC keynotes). Charlie also does a rpid tour [...] The Windows Phone team just launched the new Windows Phone Developer blog just in time for GDC and MIX. The blog is now located at http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wpdev/ and will be the place where all WP7 development related info will be posted. This is the place. Subscribe to this feed to get deep technical information on the [...] Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel has just posted a little blurb on what developers can expect in Windows Phone 7 Series. As expected (and leaked here in early February) the main development tools will be XNA and Silverlight (via Explression Blend): I mentioned in my last post that one of our principles was “to build upon the [...]
Too Many Buttons?? Mary Jo Foley just received a statement (identical to the one posted by Pocket-Lint yesterday) from Microsoft’s PR about Windows Phone 7 Series on the HTC HD2: “For Windows Phone 7 Series we are enforcing a strict set of hardware requirements to ensure a consistently great experience for end-users and developers. While we [...] Engadget had the chance to sit down with Asus CEO, Jerry Shen, at Cebit in Germany today and ask him a couple questions about their future products. When asked about Windows Mobile (Windows Phone 7 Series), Shen answered that Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is a great improvement but he feels that with Windows Phone 7 “it’s [...] Well all know by now that Silverlight and .Net (XNA & Visual Studio 2010) are going to be the main development tools used for developing applications on Windows Phone 7 Series. Independent .Net developer, Jim Wightman, posted his thoughts in a blog post: Bring on the .NET developers… Yep, the success of WP7 rests at least partially [...] The boys at Engadget just posted the full video of Saturday’s show where Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman demonstraded Windows Phone 7 Series on a prototype handset build by LG (LG Panther ?). The action starts at 29mins (the should be embeded below): Nothing really new is shown besides the ne OS running on the LG handset instead [...] According to Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, the HTC HD2 doesn’t qualify for a Windows Phone 7 Series upgrade ” because it doesn’t have the three buttons”. Tony Wilkinson, Business Operations Director for Microsoft Australia, also added that “there are some hardware components that the HD doesn’t [...] #gallery-2 { Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman just unveiled/pulled out of his pocket LG’s first Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone during the Engadget show a few minutes. As you can see in the pictures, the device features a sliding-qwerty keyboard and a design [...] Looks like there’s some confusion (or FUD) going on at Adobe’s official forums. It all started when somebody asked Adobe for clarification about their Flash 10.1 Mobile roadmap. Somebody claiming to be an Adobe Employe posted the following: On January 9: We’re waiting for OS updates from Google and Microsoft before we can distribute a Flash Player [...] Accodring to Engadget Chinese, who had the chance to sit down with LG Hong Kong during their Chinese New Year event, the company’s first Windows Phone 7 Series handset is scheduled to ship as eraly as September. Problem is that the Chinese-to-English translation of the news post doesn’t really say that: LG a few days [...] According to a couple of Australian Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Microsoft is planing to have 3 Windows Phone 7 hardware chassis. We’ve known about Chassis 1specs for while, thanks to Mary Jo Foley who posted them a couple of months ago, but everybody was still wondering if Redmond was also planning other chassis. If toady’s info [...] If you still think that Microsoft isn’t serious about development & gaming on Windows Phone 7 Series then suggest you think again. Just found out that a couple of days before the MIX10 event Microsoft will host several Windows Phone 7 sessions at the Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco (see here): Developing Games for Windows [...] Last week’s been really busy with MWC and the Windows Phone 7 Series announcement on Monday 15th in Barcelona. A lot has been said about it since then and the general consensus is that Microsoft is doing the right thing by restarting from scratch but some people are still worried or disappointed because of what [...] |
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