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Microsoft Improves The Guidance For Developers To Port Apps From iOS And Android To Windows Phone
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Microsoft has been working on several fronts to port various apps from other platforms to Windows Phones. They provided us with the guidance, API mapping tools, etc for porting apps from Symbian, iOS and Android platforms. Today Windows Phone developer team announced about their improved guidance to port apps along with some new tools to do them.
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Nokia putting in Windows phone orders from Foxconn also
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Last we heard Nokia would be using Compal as an ODM for the Nokia Searay.
Now Digitimes reports that Nokia has begun releasing its orders for Windows Phone 7.5-based smartphones to both Foxconn International Holdings and Compal Communications.
This is pretty good news for prospective Nokia customers, as Foxconn, who famously also ODMs the iPhone, has a reputation for high quality, unlike Compal who frankly does not.
While there is no way of knowing, given that the Searay was connected with Compal, it may be that the Nokia Sabre or Nokia Ace will be made by Foxcon instead, and represent a somewhat better device, irrespective of specs.
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Microsoft kills the Zune, to focus on Windows Phone
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Microsoft’s Zune player never quite caught up with the iPod line of music player, but now as even the iPod is on the decline, Redmond has decided to kill the Zune altogether. The company will not be releasing new models of the player, but remains committed to supporting the device in North America.
The Zune player is closely tied to the Zune music service, which in turn has intimate connections with Microsoft’s Windows Phone lineup, but while the player itself is dead, the service will continue running as before, with the focus shifting on Windows Phone handsets.
The Zune started in 2006 as an ambitious iPod rival. At the time, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer saw it as a real competitor to Ap...
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T-Mobile Germany starts prepping for Nokia Windows Phone
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Some marketing materials from T-Mobile Germany have given us a few details on what to expect from Nokia’s first Windows Phone. It’ll be running the recently-released Mango update, have a 3.7-inch convex AMOLED touchscreen, and include a navigation app with 3D rendering and voice control. Most of that we’ve already heard in previous Sea Ray leaks, which suggest the device will also have a 5 megapixel camera, and a chassis roughly equivalent to Nokia’s one and only Meego handset, the N9.
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Nokia said paying app writers to support Windows Phone
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Nokia may be taking a cue from Microsoft and paying developers to support Windows Phone, sources maintained Friday. In return for agreeing to write apps, teams are said by CNN to be getting both cash incentives and extra perks. These bonuses could include the gem, being preloaded on Nokia phones, or getting prominent placement in Nokia's own Windows Phone app portal.
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Nokia Windows Phone 7 handset turns on 3D voice navigation
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As Nokia prepares to unleash its first iteration of Windows Phone 7 handsets upon the world, reports have come in that the Finnish phone giant is preparing its own voice navigation and 3D maps software for the Mango OS.
The reports that come in from WinRumors, say that an anonymous tipster sent in "images of some marketing posters that T-Mobile in Germany is currently preparing for its Nokia Windows Phones. The posters were briefly displayed at T-Mobile’s on-site shop at the company’s corporate headquarters in Bonn, Germany."
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Nuance Announces Dragon Mobile SDK For Windows Phone Platform
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Today Nuance, industry leader in speech recognition technology announced the launch of new NDEV program. NDEV Mobile now features three new service tiers – Silver, Gold, and Emerald while only Silver is the free solution. Developers can build voice enabled applications using Dragon Mobile SDK. Developers will also have free access to Nuance’s connected text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities in over 30 languages, bringing natural sounding read back of text in the cloud. Further, NDEV Silver members get access to Bluetooth use cases and hands-free voice applications.
On a related note, Microsoft’s TellMe speech platform is also developing a SDK for Windows Phone developers that may launch soon.
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Windows Phone 7 security attacks to be discussed at Deepsec
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While we know Android is riddled like Swiss cheese with security exploits, Windows Phone 7, except for the jailbreaking scene, has been left more or less alone.
At Deepsec in Vienna security researchers will be discussing methods to attack OS security in Windows Phone 7 by exploiting the special privileges OEM applications have.
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Verizon expects Windows Phone to overtake BlackBerry
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Despite the poor sales of Microsoft’s Windows Phone devices, Verizon seems to have more confidence in the platform than RIM’s BlackBerry. During the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam expressed his opinion on which platform would emerge as the third major mobile operating system and he believed that Windows Phone would overtake BlackBerry.
McAdam echoed the sentiment of other carriers, which feel that the mobile space will ultimately boil down to three major platforms. At the beginning of this year, the top mobile ecosystems were Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian, RIM’s BlackBerry, and HP’s WebOS. At present, Nokia has abandoned Symbian for Windows ...
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Microsoft And Nokia Release Windows Phone Porting Guides For Symbian Developers
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Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up on a package of new tools aimed at getting Nokia developers prepared for the transition to Windows Phone. Announced today are three jointly developed tools and guides, the most notable being the addition of Symbian Qt to the Windows Phone API mapping tool.
The Windows Phone mapping tool, which already supports iOS and Android, serves as a translation dictionary between the Windows Phone platform and other mobile operating systems. With it, developers can pick out the API calls in their apps, then look up the equivalent classes, methods and notification events in Windows Phone.
To be clear, this is not a direct porting tool – it doesn’t do the work for you. ...
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Nokia Windows Phones still on track for 2011 launch
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There's not been too much to write about on the Nokia Windows Phone front lately, which is always a worrying sign that a launch delay is inevitable. But Nokia is adamant that it will still be launching its first range of Windows Phones in 2011.
This is according to the official Nokia Twitter account, which promises that we will see some phones in Q4, with the majority of stock coming in early 2012.
"We cannot confirm local availability but the 1st Nokia w/ WP devices will ship in Q4 and with volumes in 2012," explained the tweet.
Nokia Win!
We've been waiting a rather long time for a Nokia Windows Phone to land - the original announcement was back in February.
It wasn't until June, however, ...
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Steve Ballmer on Windows Phone: “We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked”
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You’ve heard it before - Steve Ballmer has previously mentioned that Windows Phone sales have gone “from very small to very small,” but now nearly a year has passed since the launch of WP7 and Microsoft’s chief executive officer drew some obvious conclusions. “We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked,” Ballmer said. Well, analysts have actually pointed out that after Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s platform share on the market fell behind that of Samsung’s bada, which is plain bad.
But the outspoken CEO remained optimistic about the future. With DirectX graphics and better mobile version of Internet Explorer, Windows Phone will aim to take that magical third ecosystem position. “I’m...
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Windows 8 apps will be easily portable to Windows Phone 7
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In a demo at the BUILD keynote Steve Sinofsky demonstrated a Silverlight application being ported by changing only one line of code from Windows 8 to Windows Phone 7.
This would increase the addressable market for bot Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 developers immensely, and removes the concern developers had that Windows Phone 7 will become a Silverlight island in a sea of HTML5.
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NVIDIA Tegra to support Windows Phone in 2013?
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NVIDIA is looking ahead to 2013 even though 2012 isn’t here yet and a leaked roadmap shows what the company has planned for the future with its Tegra chipsets. The leaked roadmap slide shows that NVIDIA is looking at putting its chips inside Windows Phone smartphones. It’s interesting that 2013 is the year that NVIDIA pegs for supporting that platform.
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Nvidia sees Windows Phone as a “growth opportunity”
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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, not content with leaking possible Windows Phone 7/Windows 8 app compatibility also appears to be hinting at an expansion of Windows Phone 7 processor compatibility to Nvidia Tegra chipsets.
Speaking to investors yesterday, he mentioned the company expects to profit from Windows 8 tablets by creating Quad-Core Kal-El Plus chips optimised for Windows 8.
"The Windows 8, Windows on ARM, coming out toward the end of next year, or the year thereafter, is going to be a growth opportunity for us," Huang predicted.
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