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WRAP: MALLS ON MAPS, TWITTER TOAST, ROAD-READY GAMES

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A garland of happy app headlines for Windows Phone owners this week. But sufficient about what I’m reading—what’s upon your mind?

Bing adds hundreds of brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new venue maps

How many times have we walked aimlessly around an indoor mall seeking for Banana Republic or an additional the the single preferred store? One of the accessible though lesser-known facilities of Windows Phone 7.5 is venue maps, which shows what’s underneath the roofs of hundreds of malls as well as selling centers opposite the U.S. as well as U.K.

If we held the Bing Maps blog yesterday, we know which with Nokia’s help, Bing was only means to supplement the outrageous cache of venues around the universe to the map repository—including some-more than 1,350 U.S. malls as well as 190 U.K. selling centers which right away uncover up upon Windows Phone 7.5. To see the venue, open the Maps app, daub the Search button, as well as come in the name (sometimes adding the city helps, too). If the mall or selling core has the map compared with it, you’ll see it in purple. Just daub to see something similar to this:

A brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Bing ascent brings hundreds of brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new maps of malls as well as selling centers to Windows Phone owners. Here's the Broadway Mall in Hicksville, NY

Official Twitter app is updated…again!

TwitterThe formula elves during the back of the central Twitter app for Windows Phone have positively been busy. Just weeks after the last Twitter refresh, the brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new the single proposed rolling out early today. The large prominence of the brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new chronicle 1.5? Notifications for things similar to brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new mentions, retweets, as well as more.

 Download the app

 

App roundup:  Marketplace’s tip platformer games

The WPCentral staff took the single for the group nonetheless again this week, spending infinite hours personification tip platformer games in Marketplace to brand the many appropriate of the many appropriate (in their opinion, during least). Among the last selections have been games featuring “a rolling ball, the using dude, ninjas but legs, as well as temples of death.“ How can we conflict receiving the peek? Read the article

What have been the many appropriate platformer games in Marketplace? WPCentral investigates.

Best Xbox games for the summer roadtrip

Speaking of games, Xbox this week proposed touting the own endorsed list of Windows Phone games to container for the summer highway trip. The good headlines for me? I’ve already got many of them. Check out their picks

Before we take off this summer, have certain to container these good Windows Phone games. 

Windows Phone June 29th 2012

WRAP: MALLS ON MAPS, TWITTER TOAST, ROAD-READY GAMES

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A garland of happy app headlines for Windows Phone owners this week. But sufficient about what I’m reading—what’s upon your mind?

Bing adds hundreds of brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new venue maps

How many times have we walked aimlessly around an indoor mall seeking for Banana Republic or an additional the the single preferred store? One of the accessible though lesser-known facilities of Windows Phone 7.5 is venue maps, which shows what’s underneath the roofs of hundreds of malls as well as selling centers opposite the U.S. as well as U.K.

If we held the Bing Maps blog yesterday, we know which with Nokia’s help, Bing was only means to supplement the outrageous cache of venues around the universe to the map repository—including some-more than 1,350 U.S. malls as well as 190 U.K. selling centers which right away uncover up upon Windows Phone 7.5. To see the venue, open the Maps app, daub the Search button, as well as come in the name (sometimes adding the city helps, too). If the mall or selling core has the map compared it, you’ll see it in purple. Just daub to see something similar to this:

A brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Bing ascent brings hundreds of brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new maps of malls as well as selling centers to Windows Phone owners. Here's the Broadway Mall in Hicksville, NY

Official Twitter app is updated…again!

TwitterThe formula elves during the back of the central Twitter app for Windows Phone have positively been busy. Just weeks after the last Twitter refresh, the brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new the single proposed rolling out early today. The large prominence of the brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new chronicle 1.5? Notifications for things similar to brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new mentions, retweets, as well as more.

 Download the app

 

App roundup:  Marketplace’s tip platformer games

The WPCentral staff took the single for the group nonetheless again this week, spending infinite hours personification tip platformer games in Marketplace to brand the many appropriate of the many appropriate (in their opinion, during least). Among the last selections have been games featuring “a rolling ball, the using dude, ninjas but legs, as well as temples of death.“ How can we conflict receiving the peek? Read the article

What have been the many appropriate platformer games in Marketplace? WPCentral investigates.

Best Xbox games for the summer roadtrip

Speaking of games, Xbox this week proposed touting the own endorsed list of Windows Phone games to container for the summer highway trip. The good headlines for me? I’ve already got many of them. Check out their picks

Before we take off this summer, have certain to container these good Windows Phone games. 

Windows Phone June 29th 2012

NEW SMOKED BY WINDOWS PHONE ADS START TODAY!

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Over a final couple of months “Smoked by Windows Phone” has been a outrageous success—we’ve seen over 25,000,000 views of a videos as well as digital ads as well as run some-more than 150,000 in-person hurdles in 45 countries worldwide.

Those have been a little flattering large numbers. So we suspicion “Why stop there?”

Today I’m unapproachable to lift a screen upon a brand brand brand new set of Smoked ads which will run by a summer. This time, rsther than than plea people during Microsoft Stores (or upon a CES uncover floor), we strike a streets of Seattle, asking genuine smartphone users to finish usual tasks similar to receiving photos as well as posting them to Facebook, anticipating overwhelming places to eat, or joining with someone upon a amicable network.

In this spot, for instance, we encounter Ramona, a brand brand brand new Seattleite who only changed here from Montana. After articulate to her for a couple of mins we fast sense 3 things: she loves seafood, hates to cook, as well as spends her giveaway time with her friends. So we plea her to find a good circuitously seafood grill as well as share a sum with a couple of of her friends. If her Android phone gets it finished faster than my Windows Phone, cooking is upon me.

Take a demeanour to see how things go down:

You’ll substantially run in to a brand brand brand new ads over a subsequent couple of months all over a web, upon MSNBC as well as MSN — even upon Skype or your Xbox — though if you’re desirous we can check all of them out right right away upon a Windows Phone Challenge YouTube playlist.

And remember: if we similar to what we see, widespread a word regulating a hashtag #smokedbywindowsphone!

 

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Windows Phone June 26th 2012

NEW SMOKED BY WINDOWS PHONE ADS START TODAY!

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Over a final couple of months “Smoked by Windows Phone” has been a outrageous success—we’ve seen over 25,000,000 views of a videos as well as digital ads as well as run some-more than 150,000 in-person hurdles in 45 countries worldwide.

Those have been a little flattering large numbers. So we suspicion “Why stop there?”

Today I’m unapproachable to lift a screen upon a brand brand brand new set of Smoked ads which will run by a summer. This time, rsther than than plea people during Microsoft Stores (or upon a CES uncover floor), we strike a streets of Seattle, asking genuine smartphone users to finish usual tasks similar to receiving photos as well as posting them to Facebook, anticipating overwhelming places to eat, or joining with someone upon a amicable network.

In this spot, for instance, we encounter Ramona, a brand brand brand new Seattleite who only changed here from Montana. After articulate to her for a couple of mins we fast sense 3 things: she loves seafood, hates to cook, as well as spends her giveaway time with her friends. So we plea her to find a good circuitously seafood grill as well as share a sum with a couple of of her friends. If her Android phone gets it finished faster than my Windows Phone, cooking is upon me.

Take a demeanour to see how things go down:

You’ll substantially run in to a brand brand brand new ads over a subsequent couple of months all over a web, upon MSNBC as well as MSN — even upon Skype or your Xbox — though if you’re desirous we can check all of them out right right away upon a Windows Phone Challenge YouTube playlist.

And remember: if we similar to what we see, widespread a word regulating a hashtag #smokedbywindowsphone!

 

Don’t dont think about to follow Windows Phone upon Twitter as well as like us upon Facebook. And recollect to follow me upon Twitter to ask questions or only contend hi.

Windows Phone June 26th 2012

VIDEO: HANDS ON WITH WINDOWS PHONE 7.8’S AMAZING NEW START SCREEN

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Yesterday you snuck over to a engineering office building as good as “borrowed” a Nokia Lumia 900 using a VERY early set up of Windows Phone 7.8, so you could fire a video of a extraordinary brand brand brand brand new Start Screen. It’s flattering awesome; being means to resize tiles to S/M/L gives a total brand brand brand brand new dimension – no joke dictated – to personalization as good as customization. Take a look:

For me, a small-sized tile which done me contentedly whine “finally…” is my Phone Tile. you don’t do which most articulate upon my phone as good as have use of it flattering most wholly for email, text, web, games as good as all else, so it was a large service to miniaturize it as good as get it out of a way. On a alternative hand, I’m flattering jacked to have things similar to email, messaging as good as song good as good as large so you can see some-more of what’s starting upon during a glance.

Also longed for to give you a heads up which you only set up a new page upon WindowsPhone.com which covers all of a overwhelming things that’s entrance in 7.8 – similar to a brand brand brand brand new begin shade with resizable tiles, all of a torpedo brand brand brand brand new apps which have been entrance to Nokia Lumias, as good as a roundup of all a alternative app news, similar to a arrival of Audible, as good as a so-close-you-can-taste it launches of Words with Friends as good as Draw Something. Check it out!

 

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Windows Phone June 25th 2012

GRIDLOCK? WHO CARES! AUDIBLE IS HERE

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A confession: I’m an audio book junkie. 

Or during slightest we used to be prior to relocating divided from Southern California as well as a gridlocked freeways.  Nothing eased a suffering of travelling improved than Audible. Books similar to Zen as well as a Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Dharma Bums, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, as well as Silos, Politics & Turf Wars both entertained as well as prepared me during my every day two-hour invert in between Long Beach as well as Irvine.

I’ve been definition to get behind in a robe when roving for work, so we couldn’t wait for to get my hands upon a central Audible app for Windows Phone, that we can download now from Marketplace.

Back in a day, we had to emporium online, bond to a PC, as well as download audio books to my MP3 player. With a brand new Windows Phone app, we can download books without delay to my phone from Audible’s mobile store (something we won’t find upon a little alternative smartphones). we can additionally pin a one preferred titles to my Start shade as Live Tiles for one-touch listening (no need to demeanour down, fail with a player, as well as risk rear-ending a man in front of me).

The Audible app is free, though a cost tab for books depends upon a title. Which books will we be travelling to?

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Windows Phone June 21st 2012

ANNOUNCING WINDOWS PHONE 8

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Three years ago we was propitious to stick upon a Windows Phone group during a time when we were “resetting” a proceed to mobile handling complement software. We finished large changes to a design, a proceed to partners, as good as a platform. The outcome was Windows Phone 7.

Now it’s time to begin revelation we about a subsequent sparkling section of a story: Windows Phone 8. Officially voiced this sunrise in San Francisco, it’s a most modernized mobile OS Microsoft has ever finished as good as will arrive upon brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new phones after this year.

Many of Windows Phone 8’s brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new capabilities come from a startling source: Windows, a most successful as good as absolute handling complement upon a planet, as good as a singular used by some-more than a billion people. Yes, we review which right: Windows Phone 8 is formed upon a same core technologies which energy Windows 8. As a result, Windows Phone 8 will unleash a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new call of facilities for consumers, developers, as good as businesses.

Today I’ll give we a high-level hide demeanour during a Windows Phone 8 height as good as discuss it we only a small of what it’s starting to have possible. I’ll additionally share a small sparkling headlines about apps as good as updates for stream Windows Phone customers. This isn’t a full avowal of all in Windows Phone 8—look for a some-more finish debate of brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new facilities later.

The energy of Windows

If you’ve seen Windows 8, Microsoft’s groundbreaking brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new recover for PCs as good as tablets, you’ve substantially beheld it bears some-more than a flitting likeness to a demeanour of Windows Phone. Here’s how a Windows 8 Start shade looks in a ultimate preview release.

The Windows 8 Start screen, as it appears in a preview release.

With Windows Phone 8, a likeness is some-more than skin deep. We’ve formed a subsequent recover of Windows Phone upon a rock-solid record core of Windows 8. It equates to Windows Phone as good as a bigger kin will share usual networking, security, media as good as web browser technology, as good as a usual record system. That translates in to softened performance, some-more features, as good as brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new opportunities for app developers as good as hardware makers to innovate faster.

This brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new usual core—along with all a additional work we’ve finished upon tip of it—opens up a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new universe of capabilities, which we don’t have to be a techie to appreciate. Here’s a taste:

  • Multi-core processor support: As reviewers have noted, Windows Phone runs buttery well-spoken upon phones with a singular processor. But piggybacking upon a Windows core provides await for mixed cores—so we’re ready for whatever hardware makers mental condition up.
  • Bigger, crook screens: Windows Phone 8 supports dual brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new shade resolutions—1280×768 as good as 1280×720, opening a doorway to extraordinary brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new handsets with high-definition 720p displays.
  • More stretchable storage: Windows Phone 8 supports removable MicroSD cards, so we can things your phone with additional photos, music, as good as whatever else is vicious to you, as good as afterwards simply pierce it all onto your PC.
  • NFC wireless sharing: If we haven’t listened a tenure “NFC” yet, I’m betting we shortly will. This rising wireless record lets phones share things over reduced distances. In Windows Phone 8, it helps have pity photos, Office docs, as good as strike info easier—just daub your phone an additional NFC-equipped device. How cold is that?
  • Internet Explorer 10: The subsequent chronicle of Windows Phone comes with a same web browsing engine that’s headed for Window 8 PCs as good as tablets. IE10 is faster as good as some-more secure, with modernized anti-phishing facilities identical to SmartScreen Filter to retard dangerous websites as good as malware.
  • Wallet: Windows Phone 8’s brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new digital Wallet underline does dual good things. It can keep withdraw as good as credit cards, coupons, boarding passes, as good as alternative vicious info right during your fingertips. And when interconnected with a secure SIM from your carrier, we can additionally compensate for things with a daub of your phone during concordant checkout counters.
  • Better maps as good as directions: Windows Phone 8 builds in Nokia mapping as partial of a platform. Our partnership will yield some-more minute maps as good as turn-by-turn directions in most countries, as good as a capability to store maps offline upon your phone so we can work with maps but a interpretation connection.
  • Cooler apps as good as games: Basing Windows Phone 8 upon a Windows core will unleash a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new call of extraordinary apps as good as generally games, for reasons I’ll hold upon in a moment.

A brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start

We’re putting a finishing touches upon Windows Phone 8 as we write this. It has a ton of good brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new consumer facilities which we can’t wait for to discuss it we about in a months ahead. Today, however, I’m starting to uncover off only one: a beautiful, stretchable brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start screen.

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live TilesThe brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles.The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles.The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles.

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles.The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles.The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles.The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start sceen in Windows Phone 8 is even some-more flexible, with some-more thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles.

As we can see, we’re creation Windows Phone 8 even more personal, with a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new palette of thesis colors as good as 3 sizes of Live Tiles, all of which have been underneath your control. We know Live Tiles have been a singular of a things stream owners unequivocally adore about their Windows Phones, as good as we longed for to have them even some-more stretchable as good as unique. This reduced video shows a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start shade in action.

Windows Phone…7.8!

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start shade is so utilitarian as good as emblematic of what Windows Phone is about which we wish everyone to suffer it. So we’ll be delivering it to existent phones as a module refurbish someday after Window Phone 8 is released. Let me repeat: If we right away own a Windows Phone 7.5 handset, Microsoft is formulation to recover an refurbish with a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Windows Phone 8 Start screen. We’re job it “Windows Phone 7.8.”

Some of we have been wondering, “Will we additionally get Windows Phone 8 as an update?” The answer, unfortunately, is no.

Windows Phone 8 is a era change in technology, which equates to which it will not run upon existent hardware. BUT we caring deeply about a existent commercial operation as good as wish to keep their phones fresh, so we’re upon condition which a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Start shade in this brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new update.

100,000 apps as good as beyond

Today we voiced which a Windows Phone Marketplace strictly strike 100,000 apps as good as games—a miracle we reached faster than Android, as good as a covenant to a thousands of gifted developers around a universe who’ve upheld us given launch. Together they broach some-more than 200 brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new titles, upon average, any day.

On interest of everyone during Windows Phone, THANK YOU! We conclude your bid as good as creativity as good as a worth we move to Windows Phone users. 

To symbol a milestone, currently we’re announcing a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new collection of marquee titles. The central Audible app for audiobooks arrives in Marketplace today. Official apps from Chase as good as PayPal have been in a works. Gameloft has Windows Phone versions of Asphalt 7: Heat as good as N.O.V.A. 3 Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance on a way.

And Nokia is assisting broach a much-requested Zynga games Words with Friends as good as Draw Something to Windows Phone after this year. Check out Nokia Conversations currently for some-more sum about this as good as alternative brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Windows Phone-related announcements today. (And don’t skip a fun brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new “100,000 Apps as good as Counting” mugs as good as alternative something good to eat in a central Windows Phone Gear Store!)

Developers, developers, developers

Since we’re articulate about apps, we wish to discuss it developers a small bit about what they can design in Windows Phone 8. Some of a sparkling changes upon a approach include:

  • Native formula support: Windows Phone 8 has full C as good as C++ support, creation it simpler to write apps for mixed platforms some-more quickly. It additionally equates to Windows Phone 8 supports renouned gaming middleware such as Havok Vision Engine, Autodesk Scaleform, Audiokinetic Wwise, as good as Firelight FMOD, as good as local DirectX-based diversion development.
  • In-app purchase: In Windows Phone 8 we have it probable for app makers to sell practical as good as digital products inside of their apps.
  • Integrated Internet calling: In Windows Phone 8, developers can emanate VoIP apps which block in to a existent job underline so Internet calls can be answered identical to normal phone calls, regulating a same job interface.
  • Multitasking enhancements. Windows Phone 8 right away allows location-based apps identical to practice trackers or navigation aids to run in a background, so they keep operative even when you’re we do alternative things upon your phone.

This is only a taste. Later this summer, we’ll have most some-more for developers upon a Windows Phone 8 Software Development Kit (SDK) as good as a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Visual Studio 11-based growth tools. So stay tuned.

Windows Phone 8 @ work

In Windows Phone 8, we’re additionally relocating in to a workplace in a large way, introducing a series of facilities as good as capabilities which companies as good as their IT departments demand. This is only a singular some-more good of pity a usual core with Windows 8. Some of a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new business-friendly facilities include:

  • Device encryption: To assistance keep all from papers to passwords safe, Windows Phone 8 includes built-in record to encrypt a complete device, together with a handling complement as good as interpretation files.
  • Better security: Windows Phone 8 supports a United Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure foot law as good as facilities softened app “sandboxing,” so a phone is softened stable from malware with mixed layers of security.
  • Remote management: With Windows Phone 8, IT departments can conduct apps as good as phones remotely, with collection identical to ones they right away occupy for Windows PCs.
  • Company Hub as good as apps: Companies can emanate their own Windows Phone 8 Hub for law worker apps as good as alternative vicious commercial operation info.

An e.g. of how a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new association Hub competence demeanour in Windows Phone 8.

New languages, refurbish process

I get a lot of tweets asking, “When will my phone get Arabic? Farsi? Turkish?” They’re additionally a tip underline requests upon a Windows Phone Suggestion Box site.

I’m happy to discuss it we these languages have been coming! In fact, Windows Phone 8 will await a sum of 50 languages, or stand in a stream geographic coverage. We’re additionally expanding Marketplace, a store for apps as good as games, to await app downloads in over 180 countries—nearly 3 times a stream footprint.

Another area we know most of we caring deeply about is Windows Phone module updates as good as how they’re delivered—something we’ve gotten a lot of feedback upon over a final year. Today I’m vehement to discuss it we which we’ve been operative closely with a most partners to urge a refurbish routine for Windows Phone 8, as good as assistance get we a ultimate module some-more fast as good as easily.

How? First, Windows Phone 8 updates will be delivered wirelessly over-the-air, so we don’t have to worry plugging your phone in to your Personal Computer to refurbish anymore. Second, we will await inclination with updates for during slightest eighteen months from device launch.

Finally, we’re operative to emanate a module which gives purebred enthusiasts early entrance to updates prior to to extended availability—a small present to a greatest fans as good as supporters. We consider these 3 initiatives will assistance keep your phone fresher than ever before.

What’s next

I know that’s a lot to digest—and demeanour brazen to. And we didn’t even discuss tangible phones yet!

We’re unequivocally vehement about a clever choice of hardware partners who have been putting their await at a back of Windows Phone 8. The initial call of inclination for Windows Phone 8 will come from Nokia, Huawei, Samsung, as good as HTC, all built upon next-generation chips from Qualcomm.

As I’ve said, we’re only starting to discuss it a full Windows Phone 8 story. Keep your eye upon a central Windows Phone blog as good as website for some-more headlines via a summer. And, as always, I’m fervent to listen to what we think. Thanks for reading!

Windows Phone June 20th 2012

HOW TO WATCH TODAY’S WINDOWS PHONE SUMMIT

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Curious about a destiny of Windows Phone?

We’re land a limit in San Francisco this sunrise for name members of a press as well as tech village which outlines a little of what to design from us in 2012 as well as beyond. Event headliners embody Terry Myerson, Joe Belfiore as well as alternative tip Windows Phone execs.

The great headlines is we saved we a practical front-row seat. Microsoft’s Channel 9 is streaming a eventuality live starting during 9:00 am Pacific. Click here to balance in. (If we skip it, Channel 9 is additionally upon condition that on-demand replay afterward).

And have certain to check behind here a bit after for some-more upon a eventuality from Windows Phone’s Joe Belfiore, conduct of module management.

Windows Phone June 20th 2012

THE WRAP: NEWS APPS DELIVER, CONSUMER REPORTS TESTS US, “FATTY IN THE BOWL”

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Here have been a little of my a a single preferred headlines equipment of a week. What about you?

CNN arrives, New York Times hits 2.0

It was a great week for headlines junkies. The New York Times denounced a redesigned Windows Phone app—version 2.0—which includes a garland of tidy pattern as good as underline upgrades. You can right away pin sections as good as blogs to Start to see a ultimate headlines as good as save a a single preferred articles to a cloud, where they’re ocular upon mixed devices. Neat stuff. Get it here

First expelled to a single side to Lumia owners, CNN has right away done a central app broadly accessible in Marketplace. The app serves up a ultimate headlines, video, as good as violation headlines alerts. You can additionally balance in to CNN Radio as good as send watcher cinema as good as video to CNN’s iReports without delay from your phone. Grab a app

The central New York Times goes 2.0 as good as adds a little great brand brand brand brand brand new features.The central CNN app, brand brand brand brand brand new to Marketplace, is an additional contingency have for headlines junkies.

Consumer Reports tests a Nokia Lumia 900, HTC Titan II

The Consumer Reports lab organisation not long ago put a initial Windows Phones concordant with AT&T’s quick 4G network to a exam as good as favourite what they saw. Editors praised a Lumia 900 for a “stunning” shade as good as great video recording ability. “With it’s large, pleasing arrangement as good as accessible controls, a Lumia is a really great choice,” they concluded.

The Titan II, meanwhile, stood out for a outsized specs, together with a 4.7-inch shade as good as 16-megapixel camera (“the tip fortitude we’ve seen upon a phone”). Both models posted great battery hold up scores, testers noted. Results crop up in a magazine’s Jul issue.

Create a Windows Phone app in thirty days? Yes we can.

If you’ve contemplated cashing in upon a smartphone bang as good as formulating a Windows Phone app, we substantially arrived during your set of keys with a million questions: What do we need to know? How do we have money? And many importantly: Where a heck do we start?

Now Microsoft has a brand brand brand brand brand new site called 30 To Launch which provides answers to these questions as good as more. Moreover, a site outlines a devise for formulating your mental condition app in only thirty days, hooking we up with giveaway resources, tips, as good as consultant recommendation along a way. What have been we watchful for? we wish your overwhelming app upon my phone.

Seton Hall freshmen get Windows Phones

How times have altered given we was in college. As Information Week reported Tuesday, Seton Hall University’s complete incoming category of 2016 is reception Nokia Lumia 900 handsets as good as giveaway use from AT&T for a tumble semester. The phones will come with a homegrown SHU app which provides entrance to campus directories, maps, as good as headlines feeds. Another pre-loaded law amicable media app lets students bond with classmates, roommates, advisors, as good as others. “The university picked a Windows Phone inclination due to a local formation with Microsoft’s Office apartment of software,” Information Week notes.

Inside a minds of Nokia’s tip engineers

Nokia Conversations, a company’s central blog, ran dual equipment this week which should interest to armchair engineers as good as anybody extraordinary about what it takes to create a cutting-edge smartphone today.

The initial introduces readers to Stefan Pannenbeckern, Nokia’s conduct of industrial pattern as good as a male during a back of a award-winning Lumia 900. Pannenbeckern shares a little of things designers during Nokia obsess over—like orator holes—when office building their Windows Phones. “We caring about a smallest sum as good as qualification any partial of a phone so it becomes what you’d design from a pleasing watch, or a beautifully engineered span of sunglasses,” he says. Read on

3D polish models of a Nokia Lumia 800

In a apart post this week, bard Karen Bartlett talks with Nokia receptive to advice operative Oscar Lopez, who sum a little of a company’s secrets for achieving intelligible calls—like regulating dual microphones inside any Lumia 900 instead of one.  Find out why. Lopez additionally records he spends a lot of time in dead-silent padded rooms.

3D polish models of a Nokia Lumia 800.

And finally…”Fatty in a bowl”

It’s regularly fun to see what kinds of snapshots people take with their Windows Phones. So a extraordinary writers during Nokia Conversations motionless to consult Flickr’s metadata as good as accumulate a little of their a a single preferred Lumia images. See them here. Some shots have been overwhelming examples of what a smartphone camera, as good as generally Nokia’s, is able of these days. Others have been just, well….

Fatty in a bowl 

Windows Phone June 15th 2012

9 TIPS FOR WORKING WITH SKYDRIVE ON WINDOWS PCS

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We’ve perceived most comments as good as tweets about how people make make make make make make use of of of of of of SkyDrive bland to access, create, as good as share opposite devices. In this post, Lia Yu, a product marketer upon a team, shares a couple of of a a one preferred tips.       

– Anand Babu, Group Product Marketer, SkyDrive

When we implement a giveaway SkyDrive app upon your computer, we can entrance your photos as good as files from roughly anywhere, store them, as good as firmly share them. And with a attainment of Windows 8 Release Preview, SkyDrive is automatically accessible right upon a Start shade as good as any of your Windows 8 apps can bond but delay to SkyDrive. We’ve had SkyDrive upon a Windows PCs for a little time right away as good as longed for to share a little of a a one preferred tips upon ways to make make make make make make use of of of of of of it.

1. Access SkyDrive simply from any Windows 8 app

In further to browsing as good as handling your files but delay regulating a SkyDrive app, we can additionally make make make make make make use of of of of of of alternative Windows 8 apps to name a record or save files to SkyDrive.

For instance, to name a close shade or a design password, we can name from photos upon your SkyDrive, right from a record browser. Just name SkyDrive from a dropdown list of record locations as good as name a picture.

PC settings with a close shade preference screen

Photos app display cinema from SkyDrive

Or, if you’re regulating an app similar to SketchBook, a sketches we emanate can be saved but delay to SkyDrive, right from a app. Again, usually name SkyDrive in a dropdown list of record locations.

 SketchBook app with a save symbol being used to save to SkyDrive

Choosing a save place in SketchBook

2. Fetch Photos from an additional device

For those of we already regulating Windows 8 Release Preview, we can fast “fetch” a print from an additional PC, right in a Photos app. The capability to fetch a print is enabled a same approach as fetching a record from SkyDrive.com. All we need is a SkyDrive app commissioned upon a Personal Computer we wish to fetch photos from as good as an internet connection. The Photos app in Windows 8 Release Preview will automatically stock a PCs we have enabled fetch for, so we can simply proceed browsing a photos upon all those devices.

Photos app display photos in opposite locations, together with a home PC

3. Organize your files upon SkyDrive

If you’ve used SkyDrive for a while, we competence have combined a lot of folders which aren’t really good organized. You competence cruise receiving this event to classify your SkyDrive, which is generally easy right away which we can some-more draw towards as good as dump inside of a SkyDrive printed matter upon your Windows PC. And even if you’ve common a little of these files as good as folders, with a SkyDrive sharing update final year, we can roughly regularly do this but “breaking” a pity entrance for others.

There have been a couple of things to keep in thoughts as we do this. Apps similar to Office as good as inclination similar to your Windows Phone have been written to work with “special” folders in your SkyDrive. These folders embody Documents, Pictures, Public, Mobile uploads, Blog images, SkyDrive camera roll, Twitter uploads, as good as BitLocker. If we undo or rename these folders, SkyDrive will automatically reconstruct them to safeguard these apps or inclination can keep working. Of march we can still pierce around folders or files which have been inside of these special folders.

4. Add SkyDrive to your Windows libraries for simpler access

SkyDrive is written to be elementary nonetheless powerful. With a singular SkyDrive folder, there have been most options to personalize a experience. If we wish to perspective your SkyDrive files to one side your alternative Documents as good as Pictures, supplement a Documents or Pictures subfolders in your SkyDrive to a particular libraries in Windows 7 (or Windows 8).

This can be quite available if we make make make make make make use of of of of of of apps similar to Photo Gallery or Office which uncover files from certain libraries by default. It’s additionally an additional reason to keep your SkyDrive organized.

5. Make SkyDrive your “primary” drive

If we wish to go cloud-first as good as provide SkyDrive as your first place for personal files, afterwards set a default save location in your libraries to your SkyDrive folders. You can even go all a approach as good as mislay any alternative internal folders from your libraries.

SkyDrive in Windows libraries

6. Redirect your Desktop to SkyDrive

Often we leave “work in progress” files upon a desktop. When relocating in between PCs, it can be easy to dont think about these critical files. Solve this by redirecting a desktop upon your PCs to a printed matter upon SkyDrive. Right click upon Desktop in your user printed matter as good as name properties. Then shift a place for a Desktop to a printed matter of your preference upon SkyDrive.

Desktop synced with SkyDrive

7. Add OneNote notebooks to SkyDrive

If we already make make make make make make use of of of of of of OneNote with SkyDrive, we competence notice which your notebooks uncover up in your SkyDrive printed matter as shortcuts – not tangible files. This is since of a singular approach which OneNote functions with SkyDrive to capacitate special facilities such as co-authoring.

If we wish to supplement OneNote notebooks now stored usually upon your Personal Computer to SkyDrive, open OneNote 2010, click File, afterwards Share, afterwards corkscrew to Share On. Select Web, afterwards in Web Location, name SkyDrive. After that, we can perspective or revise notebooks upon a web. Also if we have been upon a Personal Computer (or Mac) but OneNote 2010, we can entrance your cover by clicking a particular by-pass in your SkyDrive printed matter as entrance your OneNote notebooks from a web.

8. Work together upon Office docs

If we devise to work together with someone else upon a request regulating Word 2010 or 2011, PowerPoint 2010 or 2011, or Office Web Apps, open a record but delay from SkyDrive.com, not from your SkyDrive folder. This lets we as good as your friends work upon a “live” chronicle of a request so which we can work concurrently but formulating versioning issues.

9. Get simpler entrance to common folders as good as pity options

In a preview recover of SkyDrive for Windows (and Mac), we can perspective your personal files in Explorer (or Finder). To perspective files common with we or files in your groups, revisit SkyDrive.com or make make make make make make use of of of of of of a SkyDrive app for Windows 8. For discerning entrance to SkyDrive.com, pin it to your taskbar regulating IE.

You can additionally customize your taskbar to regularly uncover a SkyDrive complement tray icon. Then we can right-click SkyDrive in a complement tray as good as name “Go to SkyDrive.com”.

SkyDrive by-pass in a complement tray

With SkyDrive in a complement tray, we can additionally simply check either syncing is complete. A immature line will slip opposite a bottom of a idol if SkyDrive is still syncing as good as vanish when it’s done.

SkyDrive idol with a immature line to prove syncing

So that’s a flattering discerning roundup of a little of a a one preferred tips upon SkyDrive. We find SkyDrive incredibly useful, as good as we’re certain a little of we do too. We’re guessing which a little of we have a little tips of your own. Feel giveaway to share feedback as good as your own tips in a comments. Thanks!

Inside Windows Live June 15th 2012