DVLUP is just plain awesome. They recently partnered with Toledo2 for a Twitter contest where the prize was a 1-hour design consultation for your app. I entered #Hashtastic, naturally, and won – along with 24 other lucky winners. The session was with Arturo Toldeo and was really fantastic. Done over Skype, it was heavily interactive. Arturo prepared a visual...
Read MoreOne of the most important assets Windows Phone has is the fantastic community that has grown around it. Engaging, enthusiastic, and always fun, this group’s most active members have come to be known as WinPhans (Windows Phone Fans). Among them is what most would agree is the leader of this band of merry WinPhans, Sean Johnson. Sean actually coined the term...
Read MoreGoogle snapping up Motorola Mobility certainly does change things in the smart phone landscape. With Google now both a hardware and Android software vendor, Samsung, LG, HTC, et al, should seriously consider expanding their Windows Phone offerings. The assurances from Google that this won’t really change anything for those OEMs and their investment in Android?...
Read MoreIf you haven’t already heard, the official Windows Phone Mango RTM Build 7720 leaked on XDA today. Pretty cool, but be aware of the following: 1. If you are currently on NoDo (7390, 7392), updating using the instructions on XDA voids your warranty. Every dev that updated to Mango Beta 7661 and 7712 via Microsoft Connect had to sign-off understanding that would...
Read MoreWinRumors, specifically Tom Warren, is doing an excellent set of Windows Phone Mango demos. Each one is highlighting the new changes coming to Windows Phone this fall with the Mango update. Pay special attention to the People/Messaging hub demo. The new messaging enhancements sre stellar!
Read MoreFirst off, let me say I don’t necessarily buy into the opinions I’ve been seeing around the net about the Windows name or the Microsoft brand being the big issue with Windows Phone 7’s less-than-dramatic adoption rate. I don’t discount them entirely, but as a software developer, I have a slightly different take. I think Microsoft’s...
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