WinMo Notes

Ease of Use features

·         Capacitive touchscreen support

·         Platform to enable multitouch

·         Touch controls throughout system (no need for stylus)

·         Consistent Navigation

·         Horizontal scroll bar replaces tabs (think settings>system>about screen)

·         Magnifier brings touch support to legacy applications

·         Simplified out-of-box experience with fewer steps

·         Drag and drop icons on Start Screen

IE Browser Performance

·         Page load time decreased

·         Memory management improved

·         Pan & flick gestures smoothed

·         Zoom & rotation speed increased

Quality and Customer Satisfaction features

·         Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)

·         Arabic read/write document support

·         Watson (error reporting) improvements and bug fixes

(via Mary J Foley on All About Microsoft)

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Initially, Marketplace was available for the new Windows phones with Windows Mobile 6.5.

To get Marketplace for a Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 based device, simply point your phone’s browser to http://mp.windowsphone.com to start the download process. On the Web, you can visit http://windowsphone.com/getmarketplace.

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Quick Comparison to 7 Competitors

·         Apple

·         Blackberry

·         Android

·         Nokia

·         webOS

·         Samsung

·         Verizon

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I’m pleased to introduce a few much anticipated upgrades for Windows Marketplace for Mobile going live today. We introduced Windows Marketplace with the launch of Windows phones on October 6th and promised a second wave of features in November. Today, we’re adding more advanced anti-piracy protection and an improved developer portal for our registered ISVs, as well as introducing PC based shopping and account management for Windows phone customers.

• Developer portal improvements and stronger anti-piracy protection
• Browse and buy applications from the PC

 http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/

(via The Windows Mobile Developer Blog)

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Here's a sneak preview of the latest Windows phone commercial featuring the newest Verizon Wireless device, the Imagio.

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Now that the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit is out, it is time to start writing widgets!!!

Necessary equipment:

·         The Windows Mobile 6.5 emulator images

·         The web development environment of choice

·         WMDC or Windows Mobile Device Center (on Vista or Windows 7) or ActiveSync 4.5

Super easy walkthrough to create your first widget!

(via Windows Mobile Team Blog)

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The newest Windows phone from Verizon goes for a ride.

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