Windows Phone 7. We’ve spoken a lot about it of late. My personal feelings are that, after a Service Pack, this could shape up to be a rather brilliant OS in a few months time. We’re in the here and now though, and the fact that you can’t upload ringtones is a little shocking.
Step forward the lovely people at xda-developers who have spotted the fact that you can read and write to the ringtones directory. Well, when we say “you” we actually mean “Apps downloaded from the Marketplace” can write to the ringtone directory. We’re assuming that ringtones will have to be purchased from the Marketplace, or some lovely person will code something to let us access that special ringtones directory and send our own MP3’s across. Just give us a file manager. Go on.
Anyhow, xda-developers aren’t too happy with the new locked-down Microsoft OS, and criticise the lack of customization within the OS.
Those looking to extend the life of their Windows Mobile 6.X devices would do well to give Maximus Mobile a try. This great looking launcher from XDA-Developers breathes new life into the aging operating system by providing an alternative to the current start menu. Maximus Mobile allows users to save favorite apps and allows users to keep track of recent apps. The program supports QVGA, VGA, and WVGA screens. The app is free to download and try by following the link below.
As we get closer to the full availability of phones packing Windows Phone 7 there’s yet more leaks. We’ve still got an element of confusion between the HTC HD7 / HD3 / Mondrian and HTC 7 Trophy handsets but this, supposedly, is the HTC Spark. The poster at xda-developers is kinda cool about his find – cigarette in hand he’s casually posted some pics here.
More pics, including that HTC Hub, a Photo and Sound Enhancer are on the link below.
Still searching for a decent Facebook application for your WinMo phone? Well, in case you’ve missed this, some developers at XDA have recently supplied a rather awesome Facebook app.
Now, apparently this app is actually made by Microsoft themselves and has been stripped from the yet-to-be-released version of Windows Mobile - 6.5 (Build 21169). That being said, this app is in fact a pre-release version with ‘many known bugs’ (though, I couldn’t personally tell you what those bugs are as I’ve not actually run in to any myself, but see the list of known problems after the jump). I can tell you, I’ve been using it for a bit now and I really love it!
We all knew it would happen eventually – on January 22nd a Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM for the HTC Fuze/Touch Pro was posted over at XDA Developers. Well, surprise surprise – XDA has received a legal complaint from Microsoft! XDA has, of course, pulled all the links for the cooked ROM as well as any other ROMs that are based on the yet-to-be-released operating system.
The e-mails sent to XDA Developers from Microsoft identify the site as ‘distributing unlicensed material and state’,
We hereby give notice of these activities to you and request that you take expeditious action to remove or disable access to the material described above, and thereby prevent the illegal reproduction and distribution of this copyright work(s) via your company’s network.
Have you been on the edge of your seat waiting for a good Windows Mobile Facebook app? Well wait no more – it’s here… sort of!
It seems the Facebook app that is intended to be released with the new Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade has been extracted from the firmware and is now available for use with Windows Mobile 6.1 devices!
So as always with these kinds of applications, the download comes from the XDA-Developers forum. And, though everything should be just fine with this download, you are downloading at your own risk. That being said, enjoy!
Watch the video and judge for yourself: Rayvitto from XDA-Developers.com has put up this Youtube video of what he claims to be the Windows Mobile 6.5 beta ROM in action on his BlueAngel.
I’ve scoured and found sixteen of the coolest and most useful tweaks for the HTC Touch Diamond. Want to know how to boost the TouchFLO 3D performance? Want to know how to enable GPS photos?
Two awesome hacks from XDA-Developers in one day! Woo hoo!
This time one that allows you to ‘enable’ (read: re-enable) Internet Sharing on your HTC Touch Diamond, Sprint Touch Pro, AT&T Fuze (Touch Pro) and the Samsung Epix!
Now, this is a registry key edit so use at your own risk as we’re never 100% sure of how these things will turn out sometimes.. but if you’re desperate for Internet Sharing (or brave and up for a challenge) try out this trick…
The good folks over at XDA-Developers have created a hack that brings full TouchFLO 3D capabilities to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1! TouchFLO 3D on the Xperia means a more finger-friendly UI, YouTube usability and a ton of other awesome enhancements.
If you’re an Xperia user, I suggest heading over to the XDA-Developers thread now and downloading this for yourself!
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Windows Phone 7. We’ve spoken a lot about it of late. My personal feelings are that, after a Service Pack, this could shape up to be a rather brilliant OS in a few months time. We’re in the here and now though, and the fact that you can’t upload ringtones is a little shocking.
As we get closer to the full availability of phones packing Windows Phone 7 there’s yet more leaks. We’ve still got an element of confusion between the HTC HD7 / HD3 / Mondrian and HTC 7 Trophy handsets but this, supposedly, is the HTC Spark. The poster at 
Still searching for a decent Facebook application for your WinMo phone? Well, in case you’ve missed this, some developers at 
