Posts Tagged ‘Windows Phone 7’

Windows Phone Becomes More Popular Than BlackBerry For Mobile Developers

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

ccording to recent research conducted by Appcelerator and IDC, in the 4th quarter mobile apps developers consider Microsoft Windows Phone 7 to be the third popular platform. Only some months ago this place was occupied by the BlackBerry OS.

About 38% of the respondents informed about their desire to write for WP7 and only 21% – for BlackBerry smartphones. Symbian application development, WebOS and MeeGo are even less popular, only 7%, 6% and 5% correspondingly.

As usual, the rating is headed by Apple iOS and Google Android. iPhone Application Development is attractive for 91% of respondents, for iPad – 88%, for Android smartphones – 83%.The main reason for such interest to Windows Phone 7 is the agreement on cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia signed at the beginning of the year.

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Radar v.1.1 Shows How To Come Back

Monday, October 24th, 2011

At present mobile phone application development is conquering new heights. Now you can find any possible app for your iPhones, Androids, smartphones, iPads, etc. Such mobile apps cover practically all spheres of our life – from business to entertainment.

The Russian start-up Sibity that specializes on mobile software programming has informed about the release of the new mobile application – Radar v.1.1 – for Windows Phone 7 smartphones that allows finding your way back to any chosen point without connecting to the Internet or to Google Maps.

The Radar application will help a user not to be lost and feel confident in an unknown place, especially when going out of the city or to the forest. Now, in order to find the way back you just have to set the coordinates of your current location using the built-in GPS and then you can start your journey. If you need to return back, just open the application and follow the direction showed on the radar screen. Additionally you can find out the distance to the chosen place and the time. The application will be very useful for tourists, motorists, hunters and simply for absent –minded people who often have to find way in unknown places.

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Windows Phone 7 cracked

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

The tool for jailbreaking the smartphones on the platform Windows Phone 7 appeared on the net, reported the techblog IThinkDifferent. Using the program ChevronWP7, users will be able to crack their smartphones and install third-party applications on them. At present Windows applications can be downloaded only from the official store Marketplace. So far, the number of applications in the Marketplace is about 3,000. Windows application developers are not very happy with this news as now they have to think how to protect their apps.

chevron_wp7The mobile platform Microsoft which followed Windows Mobile 6.5 was introduced in October 2010. At present only nine models of smartphones based on this operating system have been introduced on the market. They are sold in 30 countries of the world including Europe and North America. Mobile application development companies have already working hard creating apps for Windows and other mobile platforms.

The models based on WP7 were launched by NTC, LG, Samsung, and Dell. In Russia Windows Phone 7 smartphones are expected to be on sale only in spring 2011.

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Microsoft confirms that Windows Phone 7 is based on Windows CE

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Win_mobileOliver Block, one of Windows CE developers, wrote in his diary that participants of the last conference devoted to integrated systems in San Jose asked him the same questions. They were interested if CE was killed by its developers going forward to the ARM-platform, or if developers were using Visual Studio and whether all Windows Embedded products were based on different SKU.

Mr. Block thinks that programmers who specialize in apps development for Windows Mobile and many others ask such questions because:

• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Tools are still integrated in Visual Studio 2005 only, and they disappeared in the 2008 version.

• Visual Studio 2010 does not support the Smart Device development (it was created to motivate the development of native and .NET CF-applications for Windows CE and Windows Mobile / Phone).

• The long waited release of the next version of Windows Embedded CE was postponed for several times.

• It is not clear, what technologies were used in Windows Phone 7.

So Oliver Block has given us the direct answer: Windows CE is not dead. He has said that developers are working on Windows Embedded Compact 7, which soon will be released, and Microsoft will support its for the next 10 years at least.

We believe that Windows Embedded Team is making a lot to add new features and new tools to support all these new functions. Does it look like a dead product? Definitely it is not!

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BlackBerry OS 6.0: What do we know about it?

Friday, April 30th, 2010

BlackBerry-OS-6We have prepared some information for BlackBerry application developers. We hope that it will be interesting for them to read about the upcoming OS version from Blackberry.

Research In Motion wanted to stimulate our interest at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES), that took place this week in Orlando, Florida. It’s a pity that the company, as usual, kept its mouth shut last week when all BlackBerry mobile apps developers asked about new photos and details in the Net about this very OS.

So, RIM demonstrated the next generation of its OS at this symposium, which begun on Thursday. RIM has confirmed nothing of the rumors about the BlackBerry OS, in addition, it announced its debut at the next quarter.

So, we will expect better integration with sensory devices, trackpad and QWERTY-keyboard support, especially for devices that have been already released, such as Storm, Bold, and the Tour. Unlike Microsoft, which has no plans to adapt the coming OS Windows Phone 7 Series for the previous phones, RIM will make the back-compatible OS. In other words, the updates will be available for the previous smartphone models.

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Steve Ballmer will tell about Windows Phone 7 in detail

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Programmers who specialize in apps development for Windows Mobile platform is waiting for the Microsoft MIX conference. This event will be held from the 15th to 17th of March in Las Vegas.

Microsoft has already demonstrated Windows Phone 7 to mobile developers and journalists. As all admitted, the next generation of Microsoft mobile operating system reverses the usual ideas, changes concepts of smartphones running Windows.

The developers changed their standard GUI in the new version of the operating system: now user content, tools for work and entertainment functions are divided into big five sections (or so called five “hubs”). Everything related to user contacts was placed in the first section “People”.

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The next hub “Pictures” provides access to galleries of pictures, photos as well as automatically updated photo albums in Facebook.

The third section “Office” is dedicated to work with documents. Microsoft promises that Mobile Office will be closer to the desktop version.

The fourth section was called “Music and Video”. As it was expected, its interface looks like the GUI of the Zune HD media player that was shown in the past year.

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And the last hub “Games” offers all the features for work with the Xbox LIVE gaming network, where users can communicate and customize appearance of their virtual characters (avatars).

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In the conclusion we should admit that Win Phone 7 supports multitouch opening new possibilities for Windows mobile applications development.

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