Mobile

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” to get Linked Inbox – a better version of unified inbox

More details are leaking about Microsoft’s next major update to its Windows Phone platform codenamed "Mango". Earlier today, a Twitter user @WindowsPhone8 tweeted the following:

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/WindowsPhone8/status/70675300970795008″]

And soon after, Neowin posted a screenshot which shows off the new "Linked …

What to expect from the Windows Phone 7.5 VIP event?

It’s not long until Microsoft reveals to the world what’s under the hood in its upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 update, codenamed "Mango". On May 24th at 10am EDT, Microsoft will be holding a VIP Preview party in New York and …

Windows Azure toolkit v1.2. for Windows Phone 7 released

As announced last week, Microsoft released version 1.2 of the Windows Azure toolkit for Windows Phone at TechEd North America 2011.

Additions to the toolkit:

  • Support and tooling for the Access Control Service 2.0
  • Support for Windows Azure Storage

Windows Phone news: SkyDrive, Office 365, Lync, WHS, and Nokia Services

We told you this weekend about some “unofficial” news about Windows Phone coming from WPDevPodcast, and now a post on the Windows Phone Blog has made some of of that news official.

While we should be hearing a lot …

WPDevPodcast reveals more new Mango features

Last week, (right after they interviewed Brandon Watson), the Lowdermilk boys over at WPDevPodcast posted on some new features for Windows Phone coming in Mango, including Bing Audio and Bing Visual.  Well, they’re at it again!

This time, they’ve got …

Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android and Windows Phone announced

Today, Microsoft announced Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices, consisting of assets for Windows Phone, iOS and Android. Using the toolkits, developers can use the cloud to accelerate the creation of applications on the major mobile platforms.

Windows Azure Toolkit

More Windows Phone 7.5 Mango consumer features revealed – Messenger in People Hub confirmed

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango with Chinese supportIt seems like today is “Mango” day, with several sources leaking information about the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update. Earlier today via a podcast Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk revealed several consumer features coming in “Mango” – including Bing Vision, Bing …

New Windows Phone Mango consumer features revealed

A Windows Phone developer podcast hosted by Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk have some new good news for Windows Phone developers, and ultimately users.  Along with news about a new partnership between MetroTwit and Rowi, and an interview with Microsoft’s …

More on East Asian Language support on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”

We all saw during the MIX 11 conference that Microsoft will be expanding language support to 16 different languages, including East Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese:

East Asian Language support in WP7

It appears Long Zheng from iStartedSomething.com has more information about this …

New Bing Maps iOS SDK

Microsoft just released a new Bing Maps iOS SDK. This new SDK gives developers a set of Objective C classes to develop iPhone and iPad applications within Xcode, along with documentation and several sample projects to help them get …