Some people, such as myself, are not entirely and completed wedded to a single content and device ecosystem in that I have the Samsung Galaxy S as my mobile phone (an Android device for those unfamiliar with it), a Windows 7 custom built desktop at home, a Windows 7 MSI Wind netbook and an Apple …
Tag: Windows Phone 7
Jan 03 2011
Evernote – Cross-Platform Notes in the Cloud
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Browsers, Cloud, Firefox, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTunes, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, WebOS, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Dec 01 2010
Custom Ringtones for Windows Phone 7
Just a quick one for the night. A little while ago a piece of jailbreak software was released for Windows Phone 7 but there has been no actual use for it yet on consumer phones. Well, someone has been working away and has come up with a small homebrew application to fix an issue with …
Nov 24 2010
Windows Home Server – Vail is Fail After Abandoning Drive Extender
- By Boydo in Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, Windows Phone 7
In a hark back to the flop of the Windows Vista “wow is now” campaign Microsoft has seemingly shot itself square in the foot by announcing that the second version of Drive Extender (or DE) technology from Windows Home Server was being dropped. For those of you wanting to know about the original Windows Home …
Oct 20 2010
Windows Phone 7 – Some (Not All) Devices Have Expandable Storage
- By Boydo in Flash, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows Phone 7
There seems to have been a flurry of news in the last about the capability of Windows Phone 7 devices particularly with respect to whether or not additional memory can be added to the base memory already present. It seems that some devices make provision for additional storage through the use of microSD cards however …
Oct 12 2010
Microsoft Removes the Covers From Windows Phone 7
- By Boydo in Display, GPS, Imaging, LED, Location Services, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7
It’s been plastered all over the news today so it should come as no surprise Microsoft has officially unveiled its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. A range of devices were also announced at the launch of which some of the best were: Dell Venue Pro (sporting a hardware keyboard and 4.1 AMOLED screen), …
- A-GPS, AMOLED, ARM, CPU, dell, DirectX, Galaxy S, GPU, HD7, HTC, LCD, Microsoft, multitouch, Omnia 7, Samsung, Venue Pro, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7
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Oct 10 2010
Google Engineer on Windows Phone 7: The World Doesn’t Need Another Mobile Platform
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7
In a PCMag interview, Andy Rubin (a Google Engineer) made a statement in response to Windows Phone 7 in that “the world doesn’t need another mobile platform”. Of course, a statement like that is like rattling a hornets nest for fun and has certainly created some conjecture about the topic in general. What has drawn …
Oct 01 2010
Tethering – Should it be a Fundamental Feature in Smartphones?
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Bluetooth, Connectivity, Interfaces, Microsoft, Mobile, Operating Systems, Secure, Technology, VPN, Wi-Fi, Windows Phone 7, Wireless
Tethering with mobile phones has been around for a while although back in the early days of GPRS it was often worse than dial up (not to mention an order of magnitude more expensive). These days with USB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity it seems odd that some smartphones have been slow to allow users the …
Sep 11 2010
Microsoft Too Cocky Over Windows Phone 7?
- By Boydo in Apple, iPhone, Microsoft, Technology, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7
This would have gone under the radar in mainstream news today Microsoft employees marched through the Redmond campus with two hearses – one for iPhone and the other for BlackBerry. You can read more about it at Neowin where you can see a collection of photos from the event (as well as their own version …
Sep 02 2010
Windows Phone 7 RTMs
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, WebOS, Windows Phone 7
Microsoft officially released its new mobile phone operating system (which it called “release to manufacturing” or RTM) today in what marks a potential comeback for the company. For a long time, the Windows Mobile market had stagnated and vendors had to resort to skinning the aging OS to try and make it keep up with …
Aug 13 2010
Desktop Operating Systems Don’t Belong on Tablets
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, WebOS, Windows Phone 7
Another quick one for tonight. Over the last decade and a bit, we have seen Microsoft attempt to get the tablet form factor to be a success in the marketplace but a Windows tablet just didn’t get any legs. I believe this is due to three reasons: Computing power at the time was insufficient for …
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