Mobile Applications are rapidly developing segment in the global mobile sector. Developing mobile applications targeting different mobile platforms such as Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Bada(Samsung’s Proprietary OS) is the trend setter now. Quoting from Wikipedia Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such […]
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Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is “Windows Mobile 6.5.5”; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.
Windows Mobile is based on the Windows CE 5.2 kernel. and first appeared as the Pocket PC 2000 operating system. It is supplied with a suite of basic applications developed with the Microsoft Windows API, and is designed to have features and appearance somewhat similar to desktop versions of Windows. Third parties can develop software for Windows Mobile with no restrictions imposed by Microsoft. Some software applications can be purchased via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. By 2011, much software is developed and maintained only for the newer Windows Phone; there is little development and support for the obsolescent Windows Mobile.
Most Windows Mobile devices come with a stylus, which is used to enter…
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2 (a.k.a Windows Phone 7.1 Developer Tools–beta 2) is released
Microsoft has released(06/28/2011) BETA2 of their new Windows Phone 7.1 Developer Tools. The new Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2 (renamed from WPDT – Windows Phone Developer Tools) can be used to develop Applications for both 7.0 and 7.1 version of Windows Phone OS releases. The Windows Phone SDK includes the following Windows Phone SDK 7.1 […]
Read more →Windows Phone 7 Mango update goes to RTM (released to Manufacture)
Microsoft’s latest release for Windows Phone is out, long awaited with so many new features, Windows Phone 7.1 a.k.a MANGO. Officially Windows Phone team has signed-off the RTM build for Windows Phone 7 MANGO. The Mango update for current Windows Phone handsets will be ready this fall, and will come pre-installed on new Windows Phones. […]
Read more →What is METRO on Windows Phone 7?
Introduction My intention with this article is to clarify the doubts among the .NET programmers having a misconcept about Windows Phone 7 and Metro. When people first hear about METRO, they started believing that it’s a new programming language for Windows Phone 7 and they start referring to that in so many places. What […]
Read more →Future of Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 been recognized as one of the major release by Microsoft, just like the way Windows 7 win the hearts of millions of Windows 7 users around the globe. Recent survey indicates that over 350 million licenses of Windows 7 has been sold across the world so far. The MetroUI – Design Guidelines/language […]
Read more →My Experiment with Windows Phone 7
My Experiment with Windows Phone 7 Note: This article is a modified copy of a mail I passed to my team and removed all references to our work from the content. Since this is for information purpose only, I thought it would be helpful for the Developer Community out there. Recently few week back, I […]
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