Tag Archives: Windows Phone 7

Microsoft Starts the Internal WP7 Campaign, Giving Away Free Handsets to All Employees

December 3, 2010

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What a kind company Microsoft is, giving away free Windows Phone 7 handsets to all employees just to start it’s internal Windows Phone 7 campaign. And seems like Microsoft Netherlands is the first or at least the first to tweet, to get this present as tweeted by Maarten Sonneveld, the head of Microsoft Netherlands. Microsoft [...]

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Beezz Twitter Client for WP7 Update Coming Today with Live Tile and Push Notification

December 3, 2010

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Beezz, the Twitter client for Windows Phone 7 update is coming sometimes today. In this update Beezz made a major update with two additional new features including Live Tile support – an app’s home screen icon that will display an automatically updated info in the background – and toast notifications which is something like push [...]

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Chrome to Windows Phone 7 Now Available on the Marketplace

December 3, 2010

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According to the Hitslink data on November 2010, Google Chrome browser holds 9.26% of the browser marketshare. It means one of you who read this article probably use Google Chrome. And if you own Windows Phone 7 handset, now you can use an extension for Google Chrome browser called Chrome to Windows Phone 7 to [...]

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Microsoft Managed to Discontinue the ChevronWP7 Unlocking Tool

December 1, 2010

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Seems like Microsoft doesn’t want to be bothered in it’s effort to build the Marketplace excitements. Just exactly one week after the release of the ChevronWP7 Windows Phone 7 unlocking tool, Microsoft managed to “force” the ChevronWP7 team to discontinue their tool. It’s Brandon Watson, the Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7 who [...]

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ChevronWP7 Released Custom Ringtone Manager for Windows Phone 7

November 30, 2010

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ChevronWP7 team who released the unlocking tool with the same name few days ago for side-loading applications on Windows Phone 7 which enables people to install apps to Windows Phone 7 devices without using a Marketplace developer account has just brought another surprise. And this time they just released the custom ringtone manager for Windows [...]

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AllFacebook Statistics Shows Around 126,000 Windows Phone Users

November 30, 2010

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Microsoft has been so keen to keep updating the number of apps and developers in the MarketPlace. The latest one reported by Windows Phone Developer Blog, there are roughly 3,000 apps and games with more than 15,000 developers currently exist in the MarketPlace. However when it comes to the number of Windows Phone 7 device [...]

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Automattic is Working on Official WordPress App for Windows Phone 7

November 30, 2010

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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms at the moment. And in order to strengthen it’s dominance, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) gradually build apps for mobile devices. Currently it supports mobile platforms including Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Nokia. And the latest one which the company is working on is the Windows Phone [...]

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No Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 Before Christmas This Year

November 29, 2010

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RovioMobile, the company behind the popular game Angry Birds is organizing a global meet-up on December 11 to celebrate the first official Angry Birds Day. This event was previously rumored to be the launch of the Windows Phone 7 version of the game or at least some kind of good announcement for Windows Phone 7 [...]

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Microsoft Released VB for Windows Phone Dev Tools

November 29, 2010

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Mirosoft today released the Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools and now is available to download on the Microsoft Download Center. This release enables Visual Basic developers to create Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 using the final version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. In addition to this release, the VB team also [...]

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WP7Applist: 29% of WP7 Apps are Free, Average Price is $1.50

November 29, 2010

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A new site called WP7applist just go live. This site provides a web-based overview of Windows Phone 7 applications in the MarketPlace which is currently not available from Microsoft. The interesting part of this site is, it provides a quick statistic of the existing situations of apps in the MarketPlace. According to this site, 29% [...]

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