Can it really be ? Yes, an app which lets you transfer raw files onto your Windows Phone. Hann File Transporter pairs up with the freely available Hann Portable Server to let you upload and download files directly from your computer.
Office files on your computer can also be opened directly from your Windows Phone. Hann File Transporter also includes a media player and an image/text/html viewer for viewing files stored locally and directly off Hann Portable Server.
Links – Hann File Transporter – Zune Link
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“Today, Netflix announced that its WP7 app is now live and ready to download. As with the Netflix apps for other platforms, the WP7 version is totally free and will allow you to watch streaming content on your device.”
Well, there you have it. The venerable Netflix movie service is officially ready to stream content right to your new Windows Phone 7 device. The app is free and is available on the Zune Marketplace. Personally, I’m not a movie watcher on these smaller devices. I do enjoy watching short video clips such as those on YouTube, but I have yet to feel the urge to download and watch a full-length movie. I do own an Archos media player (with a 4.3″ screen), that I have watched movies on, and enjoyed that a fair bit, but my current smartphone has a 3.7″ screen and it just seems too small. I’d be interested in your opinion and thoughts. Do you watch movies on your smartphone device? Is this Netflix app something that you’d take advantage of?
“Today, Netflix announced that its WP7 app is now live and ready to download. As with the Netflix apps for other platforms, the WP7 version is totally free and will allow you to watch streaming content on your device.”
Well, there you have it. The venerable Netflix movie service is officially ready to stream content right to your new Windows Phone 7 device. The app is free and is available on the Zune Marketplace. Personally, I’m not a movie watcher on these smaller devices. I do enjoy watching short video clips such as those on YouTube, but I have yet to feel the urge to download and watch a full-length movie. I do own an Archos media player (with a 4.3″ screen), that I have watched movies on, and enjoyed that a fair bit, but my current smartphone has a 3.7″ screen and it just seems too small. I’d be interested in your opinion and thoughts. Do you watch movies on your smartphone device? Is this Netflix app something that you’d take advantage of?
“Microsoft has been cramming tons of useful new features into Hotmail this year, and the venerable webmail app is looking better than ever. Today, Microsoft has announced the arrival of another new feature — one that is squarely aimed at encouraging new users to give Hotmail a try.”
As the article points out though, people are reluctant to switch because they like their existing email address. Now, if you like the Hotmail user interface and features, you can use your existing email address with it as long as your current email can be accessed via POP3. Hotmail will just pull those messages into your account and you can “send as” so the recipient sees only your preferred email address.
I’ve been doing this for a few years, but with the GMail interface. The problem with this (at least with GMail) is that you cannot see on your mobile device which emails are native and which are being pulled in from outside accounts, and all replies go out as if they were from your GMail account. I am not sure if Hotmail has addressed this or not, but I’d actually be surprised if they have. Anyone here tried this yet with Hotmail?
Todd Brix over at the Windows Phone Developer Blog has posted some information about the most recent updates to the app certification requirements. Of note are requirements that the app size be less than 225MB (down from 400MB), and information about apps that can run under the lock screen. The latter requirement is relevant for apps such as Pandora that you would run while the screen was off. Applications currently in the marketplace will be subject to the changes the next they are submitted for an update. Hit the link for more information and a link to the certification requirements document.
Todd Brix over at the Windows Phone Developer Blog has posted some information about the most recent updates to the app certification requirements. Of note are requirements that the app size be less than 225MB (down from 400MB), and information about apps that can run under the lock screen. The latter requirement is relevant for apps such as Pandora that you would run while the screen was off. Applications currently in the marketplace will be subject to the changes the next they are submitted for an update. Hit the link for more information and a link to the certification requirements document.
Todd Brix over at the Windows Phone Developer Blog has posted some information about the most recent updates to the app certification requirements. Of note are requirements that the app size be less than 225MB (down from 400MB), and information about apps that can run under the lock screen. The latter requirement is relevant for apps such as Pandora that you would run while the screen was off. Applications currently in the marketplace will be subject to the changes the next they are submitted for an update. Hit the link for more information and a link to the certification requirements document.
According to Amazon, you’ll soon be able to read more than 725,000 ebooks on your Windows Phone 7 device using their Kindle software. They have a place to sign up for a notification when the app is released. Hit the link below to sign up!
“That didn’t take long, did it? The promised beta of Windows Phone 7’s Mac-friendly companion app is now available, bringing basic media sync capability — notably with iTunes and iPhoto integration — to that shiny new Microsoft-powered phone of yours.”
Well, if you are a Mac owner and are considering purchasing a Windows Phone 7 smartphone, Microsoft’s beta version of their new Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac may just tip the scale in favor of that purchase. The utility will help you sync your media (photos and music, in particular) with your Mac. What is particularly interesting about this utility, is that it does not use the traditional file/folder metaphor for the sync mechanism. Instead, it leverages iTunes and iPhoto (the Mac’s venerable music and photo management software) as the conduits for the syncing. So, if your media is managed with those apps then this new sync facility will be particularly attractive.
“That didn’t take long, did it? The promised beta of Windows Phone 7’s Mac-friendly companion app is now available, bringing basic media sync capability — notably with iTunes and iPhoto integration — to that shiny new Microsoft-powered phone of yours.”
Well, if you are a Mac owner and are considering purchasing a Windows Phone 7 smartphone, Microsoft’s beta version of their new Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac may just tip the scale in favor of that purchase. The utility will help you sync your media (photos and music, in particular) with your Mac. What is particularly interesting about this utility, is that it does not use the traditional file/folder metaphor for the sync mechanism. Instead, it leverages iTunes and iPhoto (the Mac’s venerable music and photo management software) as the conduits for the syncing. So, if your media is managed with those apps then this new sync facility will be particularly attractive.
Windows Phone 7 apppears to have broken the 1000 app mark today. Meanwhile, Android has hit a similar – if not much bigger – landmark. Google themselves now confirm 100,000 apps, a number which you may have seen some months back. That, though, was a number calculated by Androlib. These more official stats show that there’s a rather large selection of Android apps to choose from.
Back to Windows Phone 7 for a moment though. The first third-party app using a live tile (one that’s acutally.. live) has appeared, plus we’re pretty glad to see one thousand applications to choose from considering how new the OS is.
Links – Twitter.com – WMPowerUser.com
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Windows Phone 7 apppears to have broken the 1000 app mark today. Meanwhile, Android has hit a similar – if not much bigger – landmark. Google themselves now confirm 100,000 apps, a number which you may have seen some months back. That, though, was a number calculated by Androlib. These more official stats show that there’s a rather large selection of Android apps to choose from.
Back to Windows Phone 7 for a moment though. The first third-party app using a live tile (one that’s acutally.. live) has appeared, plus we’re pretty glad to see one thousand applications to choose from considering how new the OS is.
Links – Twitter.com – WMPowerUser.com
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Windows Phone 7 apppears to have broken the 1000 app mark today. Meanwhile, Android has hit a similar – if not much bigger – landmark. Google themselves now confirm 100,000 apps, a number which you may have seen some months back. That, though, was a number calculated by Androlib. These more official stats show that there’s a rather large selection of Android apps to choose from.
Back to Windows Phone 7 for a moment though. The first third-party app using a live tile (one that’s acutally.. live) has appeared, plus we’re pretty glad to see one thousand applications to choose from considering how new the OS is.
Links – Twitter.com – WMPowerUser.com
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Windows Phone 7 apppears to have broken the 1000 app mark today. Meanwhile, Android has hit a similar – if not much bigger – landmark. Google themselves now confirm 100,000 apps, a number which you may have seen some months back. That, though, was a number calculated by Androlib. These more official stats show that there’s a rather large selection of Android apps to choose from.
Back to Windows Phone 7 for a moment though. The first third-party app using a live tile (one that’s acutally.. live) has appeared, plus we’re pretty glad to see one thousand applications to choose from considering how new the OS is.
Links – Twitter.com – WMPowerUser.com
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OK, we’re big enough to admit when we’re wrong. When we filmed our earlier look at Windows Phone 7 we stated that apps had to reload and kept forgetting what you were doing before. It seemed that a lot of third-party apps would just exit and then re-start from scratch, but we’ve since been told that some apps behave better. One app in particular is the official Twitter app, which grabs the latest tweets and writes them to an internal cache. This means you can reload the app and you’ve still got the locally stored tweets – you don’t need to look at a blank screen and wait for an update.
Now yes, I know we’re banging on about this multi-tasking / app closing behaviour quite a bit of late, but it’s important to get this right. From what we’ve read it’s not essential for apps to resume from where you left them, however – it should be essential behaviour. Another issue we’re seeing is that those “Live Tiles” aren’t really “Live” with third-party apps and – in the case of Twitter apps – you’ll currently not get told that a tweet has arrived.
This said, we hope that Microsoft can make Live Tile updates easier for developers to update. We also hope that Microsoft make app-resuming from stored data an essential part of submitting your app to the Marketplace. These things aren’t seriously limiting problems – we’re looking at the first batch of apps and you can bet that app developers will be fixing their apps as soon as they get feedback from users. Windows Phone 7 is still a very good OS and you should not, in any circumstances, doubt the potential it has.
Check out our latest Windows Phone 7 video where I describe all this a bit better and show you more of the new OS including the browser, calendar, calculator and more.
Link – Windows Phone 7 Overview (Part 3) – Windows Phone 7 Review (Updated)
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OK, we’re big enough to admit when we’re wrong. When we filmed our earlier look at Windows Phone 7 we stated that apps had to reload and kept forgetting what you were doing before. It seemed that a lot of third-party apps would just exit and then re-start from scratch, but we’ve since been told that some apps behave better. One app in particular is the official Twitter app, which grabs the latest tweets and writes them to an internal cache. This means you can reload the app and you’ve still got the locally stored tweets – you don’t need to look at a blank screen and wait for an update.
Now yes, I know we’re banging on about this multi-tasking / app closing behaviour quite a bit of late, but it’s important to get this right. From what we’ve read it’s not essential for apps to resume from where you left them, however – it should be essential behaviour. Another issue we’re seeing is that those “Live Tiles” aren’t really “Live” with third-party apps and – in the case of Twitter apps – you’ll currently not get told that a tweet has arrived.
This said, we hope that Microsoft can make Live Tile updates easier for developers to update. We also hope that Microsoft make app-resuming from stored data an essential part of submitting your app to the Marketplace. These things aren’t seriously limiting problems – we’re looking at the first batch of apps and you can bet that app developers will be fixing their apps as soon as they get feedback from users. Windows Phone 7 is still a very good OS and you should not, in any circumstances, doubt the potential it has.
Check out our latest Windows Phone 7 video where I describe all this a bit better and show you more of the new OS including the browser, calendar, calculator and more.
Link – Windows Phone 7 Overview (Part 3) – Windows Phone 7 Review (Updated)
Read on and add your comments. Follow us on twitter too.
OK, we’re big enough to admit when we’re wrong. When we filmed our earlier look at Windows Phone 7 we stated that apps had to reload and kept forgetting what you were doing before. It seemed that a lot of third-party apps would just exit and then re-start from scratch, but we’ve since been told that some apps behave better. One app in particular is the official Twitter app, which grabs the latest tweets and writes them to an internal cache. This means you can reload the app and you’ve still got the locally stored tweets – you don’t need to look at a blank screen and wait for an update.
Now yes, I know we’re banging on about this multi-tasking / app closing behaviour quite a bit of late, but it’s important to get this right. From what we’ve read it’s not essential for apps to resume from where you left them, however – it should be essential behaviour. Another issue we’re seeing is that those “Live Tiles” aren’t really “Live” with third-party apps and – in the case of Twitter apps – you’ll currently not get told that a tweet has arrived.
This said, we hope that Microsoft can make Live Tile updates easier for developers to update. We also hope that Microsoft make app-resuming from stored data an essential part of submitting your app to the Marketplace. These things aren’t seriously limiting problems – we’re looking at the first batch of apps and you can bet that app developers will be fixing their apps as soon as they get feedback from users. Windows Phone 7 is still a very good OS and you should not, in any circumstances, doubt the potential it has.
Check out our latest Windows Phone 7 video where I describe all this a bit better and show you more of the new OS including the browser, calendar, calculator and more.
Link – Windows Phone 7 Overview (Part 3) – Windows Phone 7 Review (Updated)
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Spotify have released a mobile app for their Premium service for Windows Mobile 6.x phones AND announced that their will be a Windows Phone 7 app coming as well!
There aren’t many WP7 apps out there yet, so its great to hear someone like Spotify are supporting the platform. It’s also an interesting one, given that one of the features of the Zune store is a streaming package that undercuts Spotify Premium by £1 a month. That said, there’s a lot more artists on Spotify than Zune’s streaming service at present.
That also makes it easy for those with multiple devices and OS to port their listening to their other devices – compile a playlist on your Android phone or tablet, and it will be available straight away on your Windows Phone, PC, Mac and iPhone.
No word on timing though – but make it soon Spotify :)
Link - Spotify blog
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“Scuttlebutt no more, Microsoft is officially confirming that there will be an app to sync Windows Phones with Macs. Presumably, it’ll work not too unlike the Kin Mac apps. I really don’t know why they didn’t announce this on Monday.”
Gizmodo has a post today claiming that Windows Phone 7 devices will eventually have an app that will let them connect to an Apple Mac. It makes one wonder just how far that sync capability will go? Will it include data, image, video and/or music syncing? We’ll have to wait a bit to find out more details, but it does suggest there must be a demand for such functionality.
I’ve made quite a few trips down to London over these past few weeks and booked a number of trains. Usually I find a computer, check the timetables, find the best fare and then book online. However, Raileasy have now made things mobile with the addition of their new mobile app. It’s available for the iPhone, Windows Mobile and Android with the ability to search for trains, plan your journey and then buy tickets from your phone.
We’ve given it a spin and taken some screenshots below. It’s free and completely secure. Grab it now from the App Market on your phone.
Link – Raileasy
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