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There are now over 2400 Windows Phone 7 applications in the Marketplace. However if you don't have a Windows Phone or the Zune Desktop, but are still interested to see if Windows Phone 7 is for you you need at least to install the Zune desktop software to browse for available applications. Now that is not needed anymore......A new website has been launched by Paul Willen called MarketplaceBrowser. This site gives everyone easy acces to see and read descriptions of all available … [Read more...]
Recently the first Foursquare client, named WinMoSquare showed up in Microsoft's Marketplace. For those of you, who don't know what Foursquare is, here is a brief description of the Foursquare principle: People use Foursquare to "check-in", which is a way of telling your whereabouts. When you check-in someplace, Foursquare tells your friends where they can find you and recommend places to go & things to do nearby. People check-in at all kind of places - cafes, bars, restaurants, parks, … [Read more...]
A few days ago Microsoft released an interesting and very welcome upgrade for Windows Marketplace for Mobile. In the past Windows Marketplace for Mobile has been covered in a sequence of articles (for example Windows Markeplace for Mobile coming to Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.0 and Windows Marketplace for Mobile - Payments and Operators) that help you to understand the basic concepts and underlying mechanisms of the application store for Windows Phones. However in this article the focus … [Read more...]
A few days ago I saw the news that the well known website FreewarePocketPC.net, which has a massive database of freeware applications for Windows Phone, launched OpnMarket 1.0 !! In simple words OpnMarket is a Windows Marketplace for Mobile alternative, 100% aimed at freeware applications and a natural extension of the FreewarePocketPC.net website. On the OpnMarket section of the FreewarePocketPC website you can read the following product description:"OpnMarket is compatible with most of … [Read more...]
Buienradar is a popular service in the Netherlands for accurate weather forcasts and -almost realtime- weather developments. Buienradar was one of the first applications in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile as announced during the local Windows Phone launch event on October 6th. In this article I hope to provide an in depth application overview, and cover most features and functionality within the application. Installation of Buienradar via Windows Marketplace for … [Read more...]
In this article I will cover a "next-step" in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile development. This morning I read an excellent article of Leigh Geary, Windows Mobile MVP and Editor in Chief of CoolSmartphone.com, where he outlined that Windows Markeplace for Mobile would become accessible from your browser as well. Windows Marketplace for Mobile was currently -until today- only accessible from your Windows Mobile 6.5 powered smartphone. However you now can simply direct the browser on your … [Read more...]
We have waited long for this device, but finally it's here. There were a lot of rumors about the HD2, also known as HTC Leo. Some people believed it would be a (killer) Android device and others told us that it would be the first HTC device with the 1 Gigahertz Snapdragon processor and a capacitive screen. The last party was right. The HTC HD2 has been released to the public with a Snapdragon processor, a large 4,3" capacitive touchscreen, lots of ROM and RAM and all this in a 11 mm tick … [Read more...]
The HTC Snap is one of the few Windows Mobile Standard devices that received an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5. In this article I would like to have a look at the Windows Mobile 6.5 improvements for Windows Mobile Standard devices and compare these with the findings of the HTC Touch2 review, with Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional pre-loaded on the device.1. Homescreen The left screenshot above shows the todayscreen of the HTC Snap running on Windows Mobile 6.5, while the right … [Read more...]
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