Microsoft and Nokia will be running free development workshops for the former’s Windows Phone OS, starting from next weekend. If you’re digging WP7 and call Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Auckland your usual habitat, then you might want to check them out. Yes, it’s about as short notice as you can get, with the first event scheduled for February 16-17, but MS and Nokia plan to hand out one or more Nokia Lumia handsets, which sweetens the deal significantly. More »
A platform is useless without dedicated developers. Brandon Watson, former head of the Windows Phone Developer Experience, knows this better than anyone. Knowledge he will surely carry over to his new gig as director of Amazon’s Kindle Cross Platform team. More »
The move to Windows Phone 7 has been a difficult one for Nokia. Even though the switch was announced almost a year ago, handsets have been sparse, although well received in the few regions around the world they have launched. But that hasn’t halped the bottom line, with the Finnish giant losing one billion Euros in the final quarter of 2011. More »
Getting a firmware upgrade notification on your phone is like getting an early birthday present — you’re extra excited because it’s wholly unexpected. Now, Microsoft is ensuring that every new WP7 update gives you that “early present feeling” by borking their popular Where’s My Phone Update feature. But why? More »
We actually first got wind of the Fantasy back in July, but here’s our best glimpse yet at the still-unannounced phone, courtesy of an XDA forum member. More »
Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive service gives you 25GB of free cloud storage to store your files. But how does it integrate with Windows Phone 7 Mango? Giz reader Michael takes a look. More »
Following the surprise launch of the My Xbox Live app for iOS from Microsoft last week, it seems somebody at Redmond has decided that exclusivity isn’t the path to success, and has green-lit the launch of Microsoft titles Kinectimals and Halo Waypoint for iOS. More »
Microsoft was keen to tell the world that there was over 500 improvements to Windows Phone 7 in its 7.5 Mango update, but was less keen to list them all out. It turns out that one of those features was NFC support caked into the OS, although so far there’s no hardware support for the technology. More »
Last week was a big week for Xbox fans. The latest dashboard update completely overhauled the user experience on the games console, iOS users got a dedicated app for Xbox Live and Windows Phone 7 users got the ability to control their Xbox using their smartphones. But how well does that work? We tested it out. More »
