Samsung B7330 reviewed
There are not many Windows Phones with front-facing keyboards out there. HTC which is the leading Windows Phone manufacture has stopped making devices that sport front-facing keyboards. Fortunately, some time back, Samsung churned-out a Windows Phone with the aforementioned design. Let’s take a quick glance at its specs:
QVGA and HVGA on Windows Phone 7
The Windows Phone 7 series is packed with a lot of enthralling surprises. One being 480X800 WVGA touchscreen that is supposed to be presented at the MIX. The 320 X 480 HVGA display is conjectured to be the successor of the WVGA.
Let’s wait for the MIX event to make it official.
Via Mobiletechworld
YouTube App for Windows Phones
YouTube has released a YouTube app for the Windows Phones today. Until now, only HTC was bundling their own YouTube app to allow the users to play YouTube videos on their phones.
Alright, so how do you install it?
On your phone, fire up IE mobile and go to http://m.youtube.com/app and download the app
Flash support for Windows Phone 7
Flash getting aloof from Windows Phone 7 series seems to be just a rumor since Mike Chambers from Adobe clarifies that Flash 10.1 is supposedly worked upon to get it integrated with the new OS. Have a look at his statement:
“There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference. One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series.
I don’t have an eta or other specifics right now, but it is something that both Adobe and Microsoft are working closely together on.”
Via Eweek
More on XNA Game Studio 4.0
The Game Development Conference is here and the developer’s paradise- the XNA Game Studio 4.0 is being welcomed to take over the development of Windows Phone 7. The much talked about X-Box integration gets more profound.
Here are some of the key questions from an interview to Pessner and Klucher:
About segregation of support of games for Xbox live functionality:
The short answer is "no." The way that we built the Phone and Marketplace experience makes it very easy to search for what you’re looking for. With XNA Game Studio 4.0, you can use the same set of tools to build an Xbox Live game or non-Xbox Live game on the platform.
About transfer of save states between Xbox 360 and the Windows Phone:
No, save states are not a feature for the first revision of Xbox Live, although we’ve heard a lot of feedback and desire from publishers.
About Zune HD
XNA Game Studio 3.1 supports Zune development and that will continue. We actually expect that to continue. We created a new version of XNA Game Studio for 4.0 that takes advantage of all the features of Windows Phone 7 Series. So we fully expect through Creator’s Club and Game Studio that game development will continue on the Zune HD platform. But we’re also enabling additional development to happen.
Another big point is — just like the portability piece we’ve shown here — we’ve done some work internally and with some of the other Zune HD developers, and again, it’s 90, 95 percent code reuse.
Consistency in diversified Windows Phone 7 series devices:
Part of our approach to the market that’s different than what it’s been in the past is we are defining a specific hardware target and development platform that will be consistent across the various devices. Though the devices will vary slightly — OEMs will have some choice in terms of what they want to ship and what variations they want to do — we’re expecting some interesting form factors to come to market. But the Windows Phone team doesn’t have any specific news about the variations.
Grab the full interview here.
