Charging cable may not be universal for Windows Phones

Paul Thurrott from Windows Phone Secrets proposed a question to Microsoft asking whether the Zune Music Player connector will be the same connector used on Windows Phones. Unfortunately, they responded and will not enforce hardware specifications for the connector. So device makers are...

Download the Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit

For you developers out there, Microsoft has announced their Developer Training Kit for the WP7 Series. Here are the official release note: Windows Phone 7 Series promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its...

The future of mobile multitasking, told by Michael Gartenburg

With the relatively small size of cell phone screens, multitasking on phones is a totally incomparable to multitasking on PCs. The biggest concern moving forward from the current state of mobile multitasking are concerns about battery life/resource management and permissions for...

HTC CEO: Windows Phone Coming Before Year End

It’s only March it’s music to the ears that HTC will be making a Windows Phone 7 Series device before the end of the year. We could have predicted this but you never know in the tech world. HTC is arguably leading the Android charge nowadays, pumping out Google’s little...

Firefox ceases development of WP7 app until Microsoft releases an NDK

Despite the fact that Mozilla has expressed that the Windows CE 6 architecture suits Firefox well and that they are “”well positioned to have an awesome browser on Windows Phone 7,” the team has halted progress on the app until an NDK is released. Until then, Mozilla...

First Windows Phone Ad Unveiled, Meet Anna

They’ve wooed us with what seems like awesome software and we’re assuming Microsoft’s partners can deliver awesome hardware to match. There are many of us waiting ever so patiently for the first WP7 phones to drop but there is an entire world out there that doesn’t...

Windows Phone Tablet Concept Looks Awesome and Possible

I’m not suggesting that creating the iPad based off the iPhone was an easy feat for Apple to pull off, but it was a logical progression. Perhaps only Apple could have pulled off a tablet that garnered so much attention, but in doing so they essentially opened the doors to a new...

No Copy/Paste On Windows Phone 7

Not this again. We’ve seen this controversy play out on the iPhone, Android, and now it’s arrived at Windows Phone 7′s doorstep: there will be no copy and paste for Windows Phone 7 on launch. That’s the word out of MIX 10. Eeks. What’s worse is that...

HVGA Resolution Coming To Windows Phone 7 (We Don’t Care)

I’ll admit it: I’m a mobile phone snob. I like the latest and greatest. I want to have the newest, shiniest, and most powerful device with the coolest new features. The playing field will start pretty level with Windows Phone 7 Series, at least in the display department, as...

Windows App Marketplace Revealed

Exactly one month ago we saw the Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 for the first time and loved the direction Microsoft took. That was a leak rather than an official unveiling, but today Microsoft pulled the cover off the car and the leaks were right: it looks the same and boy is it...