Since the launch of the Nokia Lumia 800 two weeks ago at Nokia World 2011 I’ve been lucky enough to spend time with some of the key designers responsible for its creation, in order to bring you this exclusive in-depth video documentary. At 8-minutes long, it’s not your ordinary bite-size online video, but it is packed with heaps of fascinating insights and exclusive access to never-before-seen materials. So it’s worth setting aside a little time if you’re interested in discovering how the Nokia Lumia 800 was born. The Nokia Lumia 800 builds on Nokia’s “fabula” design language, a visual style that
Read MoreCheck out how Windows Phone 7.5 offers a truly smarter way to app. Metro Design that delivers a beautiful, integrated experience; Fast App Switching for quick multitasking between apps; Live Tiles that gives updates at a glance; and App Connect that connects searches to apps. Mobile app developers can take an idea to app faster and easier with developer tools are that both powerful and familiar. Build easily, build better, build now with Windows Phone 7.5.
This Summer, build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes to catch a movie, eat ice – cream, buy camping gear and more. The first 1,000 students to enter will receive an Xbox 360® game, or publish the most apps and win a Windows Phone. Enter the Student App-a-thon. Each week 2 winners will be from among all entries received to win one $25 gift card. The student who publishes the most apps at the marketplace could win a Windows Phone. App Hub is the place to distribute and merchandise your applications for Windows Phone 7. To get
Read MoreFor the sake of helping developers to find their way to mobile platform of choice Microsoft has launched iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool. It's a utility that will act like a translation dictionary. This tool will look at the calls your iOS app's code is making, pick out the iOS API calls and help you find a new home for them in .Net's ample libraries. A developer can search a given iOS API call and find the equivalent WP7 along with C# sample codes and API documentations for both platforms. All WP7 API documentations are pulled in from
Read MoreDell Venue was a surprising and pleasant addition to the Windows Phone 7 lineup. And here is a promotional video showing the same in action : Agreed that its one of the best looking Windows Phone 7 out there in market. via
Windows Phone 7 early adopters were little disappointed with Microsoft not introducing the Copy/Paste feature into the OS. Well as rumoured it will be part of the Windows Phone 7 update which is coming in 2011 and you can see it in action below : via
We all know that Bing will be the default search engine on Windows Phone 7 devices and if you do need google, there is always a browser near you. But Google is not taking any chances and they just released their native search app for Windows Phone 7 platform. The Google Search app is a free download for all Windows Phone 7 devices. You can download the app by searching the Marketplace for “Google Search”. via
HTC HD2 was a Windows 6.5 device but since it packed a serious hardware, we have seen people porting all kinds of mobile OS onto the device including Android. Latest to join the line is Windows Phone 7, which was officially denied by Microsoft as upgrade to HTC HD2(yeah crazy). via
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