Category: Windows Phone

The third generation of N-Gage is arguably Xbox Live

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For all the taco puns and industry questions, there was a lot to like about Nokia’s N-Gage system, especially in the second "next generation gaming" iteration. It was just a little bit too early to market and never managed to get a foothold in the consciousness of the games in the world. Something like X-Box Live shows just how much of the basic structure Nokia got right – look at the Windows Team Blog talking about the new version of Xbox Live in Windows Phone 7.5 and you’ll see what I mean. With Nokia set to bring multiple million users

RWW looks at Windows Phone Mango before bowling a backhanded compliment

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How weird is it that Microsoft is the company doing the “think different” routine in mobile? Instead of searching for apps, a task which many first-time smartphone users are overwhelmed by due to the sheer quantities available, users just search and the apps find them. This might be the most overlooked of all of Mango’s updates, but it’s the one that could have the biggest impact on the mobile application economy going forward… That is, if Microsoft can ever sell enough of these phones for it to matter.

Microsoft will be porting their Zune HD apps over to Windows Phone

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This is excellent news, and not just for us Zune HD owners like me that love Musicquiz and Audiosurf Tilt. Number one, we actually have some developers that have developed titles for Zune that aren’t Microsoft employees or aren’t on the Zune team. And those guys are very welcome to go and create apps for Windows Phone any time they like. The apps that we have built internally for Zune, we’re actually looking at porting those over to Windows Phone. Right now, our focus for the app team is, more apps for Zune. Zune owners would like to hear that

Microsoft legitimise jailbreaking on Windows Phone

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Apple go into a subtle fight against people unlocking their hardware. Sony, especially in the case of the PSP, throw new firmwares and forced updates to try and keep the system locked down. Microsoft tried that with Windows Phone for a bit before ChevronWP7 was released last year which unlocked the handsets, And Microsoft promptly invited the team to Seattle, and the result is that anyone can unlock their Windows Phone handset to run "homebrew" software in return for a small payment to the Chevron developers (I know, how quaint!). Still, Windows Phone need developers, and if doing smart things

Nokia should be pleased at Evernote’s debut on Windows Phone

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From day one, Evernote has been committed to building native desktop, web and mobile versions. In the past three years, we’ve build over 13 different versions of Evernote for just about every major platform out there. Today, we’re adding another. Say hello to the much-anticipated Evernote for Windows Phone 7! And remember that every new Web service that explores Windows Phone is another "ooh, that’s available as well!" moment of joy when Nokia launch their first Windows Phone, perhaps before the end of the year. If they’re going to be judged by applications as well as hardware, this is yet