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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 T-Mobile US just sent invites to a couple of US websites for their HTC HD2 launch event taking place in New York city on March 16th. What everybody wants to know is if the handset will be upgradeable to WP7 especially given the date of this event (it’s taking place right after the start of [...] The LG eXpo which launched last December on AT&T seems to be suffering from several production/manufacturing issues according to Art Stewart, vice president of wireless products AuthenTec provider of the fingerprint sensor found on the eXpo. LG “has antenna issues” with e devices and “We shipped thousands of [sensors] to LG…but there has been a [...] #gallery-1 { Looks like T-Mobile is getting ready to launch the HTC HD2 in a few days. The latest rumored date is still March 24th (some people are claiming March 17th now). This US version of the HD2 packs more ROM [...] 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 [...] Opera is announcing today the new native version of Opera Mini 5 on Windows Mobile. Opera Mini has always been a Java based application but to improve performance on Windows Mobile, Opera decided to turn it into a native app. I just tried it for a few minutes and my first impressions are that this looks [...] 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 [...]
2009 Windows Mobile OPEX According to Microsoft’s investor relations manager, Bill Koefoed, The company is planning to invest $1B in reseach & developement for Windows Mobile this year. Microsoft is going to spend $9b in total R&D this year and last year’s Windows Mobile OPEX was $0.9B (R&D, sales and marketing) so I expect this [...] 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 [...] Mary Jo Foley got in touch with a Microsoft spokeperson to get some more information about the recently announced Windows Phone 6 Starter Edition: Q: Is Mobile Starter available to phone makers via Bsqure only? Or also direct from Microsoft? 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 [...] In a interview with Austrian magazine Die Presse, Greig Williams, Nokia’s general manager for the Alps and South East Europe, dropped something that nobody really expected. When asked if the company’s Ovi Maps will ever be released on Android and Windows Mobile he answered “That will be the next step.”. Now take this with a [...] 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 [...] This frankly came out of no where. According to Skype’s own FAQ the Windows Mobile version has now been officially dropped supposedly because of a subpar user experience sucked compared to the iPhone and Symbian version: Why can’t I download Skype Lite or Skype for Windows Mobile? Unfortunately, Skype Lite – a version of Skype for your [...] |
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