Microsoft is pouring on the Widows phone 7 features big time. Today at the Mix 2010 showcase Microsoft was showing off a lot of applications that will be able to run on Phone 7. According to betanews.com there were a host of apps being showed off such as a new Twitter Client, Robb’s favorite app Foursquare, a Music identification service from Shazam and others. But the one that stood out was Netflix streaming. You heard correctly, you will be able to stream your Netflix movies to your phone.
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Last week I put up a video of an XBOX Live game being paused from a desktop and continued on a Windows Phone 7 device then an XBOX 360. Well this is a picture of another game that is based off of the XNA 4.0 platform. Well Microsoft has decided to show off a bit more of what can be done with this intergration and the XNA Platform.
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There are a lot of Windows Phone fans that were bummed out about the fact that there was no upgrade path from their old phone to the new Windows Phone 7 Series. I certainly disagreed with anyone that had that opinion. An article on Gizmodo.com is reporting that the Zune HD will not be upgradeable either.
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With the momentum of the Mobile World Congress Microsoft decided to ride the wave and announce the updating of the Windows Mobile Marketplace. There were a lot of enhancements mentioned in the Blog of Todd Brix ( Senior Director of Mobile Services )but the three that stood out to me are
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In an unbelievable turn of events a leaked document is confirming that Windows Phone 7 will support multitasking. The document was leaked to the great team at XDA-developers. here is the quote from the document.
“As a preemptive multitasking operating system (OS), Windows Phone OS 7.0 supports multiple processes running simultaneously on the system. There is no limit to the number of processes that can run on the phone. The only limit is the amount of available system resources.”
This is huge news and should make Windows Phone users very happy. The other information obtained from the document was the frameworks for development. It looks like Windows Phone 7 supports Silverlight UI framework for event driven, XAML based development. and also Microsoft’s XNA UI Framework for lo-based games. XNA is the platform used for Microsoft Gaming including the XBOX. I really hope this is accurate.
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Not only does AT&T have some incriminating information about Steve Jobs but now they have dug something up on Steve Ballmer. Microsoft has announced that AT&T will be the “Preferred†network for Windows Phone 7.
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A lot of rumors and speculation have been flying around for weeks. But in an article on Bloomberg.com Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, was quoted as saying Windows Phone 7 will, “move the bar forwardâ€. It
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