Anandtech benchmarked two Samsung Taylor (development devices) running on both an updated and original Windows Phone 7 build. In the video above, on the left side you see the updated Windows Phone 7 compared to the ”old” WP7 build. The old build is currently the same that we are running on every Windows Phone 7 device that is not under any NDAs or anything,...
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One guy that wasn’t happy with the current amount of available Windows Phone 7 optimized wallpapers went ahead and created one impressive collection of them! After searching and searching for wallpapers that met my standards for my Windows Phone, I have collected some and made a pack so I could share it with others. I didn’t make any of them, I just scaled/cropped...
Support for a Windows Phone 7 plugin will be added in the next Windows Home Server version, currently codenamed “Vail”. This will enable the user to access a Windows Home Server with their Windows Phone 7. Streaming photos, music and video should be possible with smooth loading and playback (if on a good connection is available that is). You should also be...
Steve Ballmer told at the keynote at CES that Windows Phone 7 will see “significant improvement in performance when loading or switching between applications”. We didn’t really know much the speed increase will in fact be, but now Aaron Woodman, director of Microsoft’s mobile communications business has stepped forward and explained how much this...
There has been a lot of talk of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 update. Now, Microsoft has shed some light on what the update will actually bring, including the long awaited copy and paste support. The page is actually titled january-update.aspx, so could this mean that we will see the update launched in January, or just that the details went live in January? Who knows,...
Rovio, the developer of Angry Birds, told yesterday that they in fact are working on a Windows Phone 7 version of the highly popular game. When asked on when it will happen, Rovio answered that in “some months” time. Rovio is also expected to launch a PlayStation mini version of the game later this week. This is meant to be played on the PSP, but can also...
This day turned out to be a “milestone day” with both Windows Phone 7 and webOS markets hitting the 5,000 applications milestone, and now also the Android Market has hit the 200,000 applications milestone! The Android marketplace milestone is reported by AndroLib.com, and thus isn’t official. But it gives you an idea on where we are currently located...
