The Mobile Minute 189

Posted on 2010/04/11 by Nino

Windows Phone

WP7 Emulator Multi-touch- Joel has created a video to demonstrate
Simulate WP7 accelerometer date in the WP7 emulator- with a WiiMote!

Mobility / Mobile Platforms

RIM buys QNX- ..and now RIM is targeting in-vehicle BlackBerry support ?
Dell Streak / Mini 5 – This MID class device makes a cameo at MTV /via Engadget Mobile
Microsoft makes an announcement today – is it the project Pink devices?

Community

CINNUG Mobile Development Firestarter- Spots still open for this event on April 24!
Day of .NET in Ann Arbor- Registration is now open! (oh, and I’m giving two WP7 talks, too!)

The Mobile Minute 188

Posted on 2010/04/09 by Nino

T.G.I.F. – have a great weekend, folks!

Windows Phone

Application Bar Icons for Windows Phone 7- Don’t have ‘em yet? Go get ‘em direct from Microsoft.
Virus/Trojan on WP?- wmexperts.com brings news of a trojan embedded in a WP game.
NYT Silverlight Kit- Updated for WP7.
Example Pivot Control for WP7- Blog post with screencast and source.
Peter Torr discussed handling orientation changes in WP7
Mark discusses WP7 multitasking- Great breakdown, Mark!

Mobility

HTC HD2 Sold Out for Third Time from T-Mobile- pocketnow.com brings us this piece. Very impressive from a sales perspective.

Mobile Platforms/Applications

iPhone OS 4.0- Here’s the scoop from Engadget. Yes, Virginia, it supports multitasking.

Community

CINNUG Mobile Development Firestarter – April 24, 2010 We’ll cover Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone. Get registered today!
devLink- Registration is now open! This is conference is money well spent. Check out the awesome session list.

The Mobile Minute 186

Posted on 2010/04/05 by Nino

Windows Phone

Adobe Flash in IE Mobile on WP7- eWeek reports Adobe working with Microsoft to port Flash 10.1 to WP7 for IE Mobile. Interesting. So, WP7 IE Mobile will have Flash support, but no Silverlight? Um..

Mobility

Elan sues Apple for patent infringment- round and round the lawsuits go, where it stops, nobody knows!
mobiReady- Free report and analysis to see how well your site will perform on a mobile device. (yours truly scored ‘fair’, which is quite poor, IMO).

Mobile Platforms/Applications

HP Slate- Check out this teaser video and comments from Engadget. For what can be seen, it looks quite promising.

The Mobile Minute 185

Posted on 2010/03/30 by ngb

It usually helps when you set the post publish time correctly..

Windows Phone

Audio Recording in WP7- Details from Peter Foot.

Mobility

Seton Hall University to give all students an iPad – Starting Fall 2010, via TUAW.

Mobile Platforms/Applications

MobileNoter- OneNote notebooks on your iPhone
Smartphone Gurus – www.4winmobile.com is now www.smartphonegurus.com and covering more platforms.
VZW Droid gets Android 2.1 – Updates started Tuesday and continue through the week.

The Mobile Minute 184

Posted on 2010/03/29 by ngb

The, ‘yeah, we took Monday off’ edition.

Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Series on HTC HD2 – You knew someone would do it. pocketnow.com has video.
Source for the WP7 Foursquare app – It looks great, now check out how it’s built.

Mobility

Open LTE Network ? – GigaOM reports that a private equity firm, Harbinger Captial Partners, plans to build out a 4G network to cover most of the U.S.A. by 2015. AT&T and VZW have their eyes on this one.

Mobile Platforms/Applications

ArkSwitch- WM 6.5.x finger-friendly task manager just released v1.1.4. At CodePlex, so you can get the source, too.
Viigo has been bought by RIM- Maker of the popular BB app now owned by them. via BGR
Microsoft My Phone updated- Now at v1.6, and allowing sync via WiFi. An excellent service if you have a Windows Mobile/Phone device.

Community

Windows Phone 7 Dev Camp – Chicago, April 10, via Dave Bost

The Mobile Minute 183

Posted on 2010/03/25 by ngb

A slow news day topped with a slight snowfall. Started categorizing the links – you like?

Windows Phone

Managed code security on WP7- Yashwardhan from the .NET CF team gives an overview of managed code security in .NET CF 3.7
NETCF / CoreCLR Transparency behavioral differences- Another must-read post from Yashwardhan for WP7 devs.
WP7 Input Scope – Peter sorts it out for you. I consider this a must-read for WP7 devs.
SketchFlow prototyping for Windows Phone- Christian Schormann from the Expression team gives the how-to
Known issues w/NETCF + VS2010Express MIX drop
NetFlix OData app on WP7

Mobility

Why Japan is king of mobile – stats and facts from mobiThinking
How Weather Data Could Be the Next Location Data – a January bit from GigaOM that poses some interesting questions.

Mobile Platforms/Applications

BlackBerry Beta Zone – For .ca, .us, and .uk only. via Engadget Mobile

Community

CINNUG Mobile Development Firestarter – April 24, 2010 We’ll cover Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone. Get registered and come see yours truly talk about Windows Phone development, and learn about Android and iPhone dev, too!

The Mobile Minute 182

Posted on 2010/03/24 by Nino

Foursquare for Android – for those Android users who love checking in, via Android Community.
Mobile broadband traffic outside of your awareness- Dean Bubley has a great post discussing how much traffic is occurring that you may not be aware of.
AT&T 3G MicroCell rollout – Nationwide, starting mid-April, via Engadget Mobile
Microsoft’s mobile strategy learning from Android?- Matt Asay says it should. I disagree. Phillipe has some thoughts, too.
next-gen LTE from Huawei at 1.2 Gbps- Something to look forward to in several years.
Advice for Mobile Start-Ups- Kevin Benedict provides an index for his eight-part series.

The Mobile Minute 181

Posted on 2010/03/24 by ngb

The “spring is upon us and I’m quite ill” edition.

HTC HD2 launches on T-Mobile USA – Endgadget Mobile has the scoop.
Top 5 Superphones to Watch- James Kendrick from jkOnTheRun gives us the list. I agree with his picks, FWIW.
.NET CF in WP7 – One of the .NET CF team members explain it as it now exists on Windows Phone 7.
Panoramic navigation on Windows Phone 7 with no code …and with XAML + code- two approaches to the same challenge.
Custom splash screen – Page shows us how easy this is to do on WP7
WP7S UI Templates – Mark shows us how to use these and gives us PPT samples.
Firefox for Windows Mobile is dead- Stuart Parmenter shares the sad tale.

The Mobile Minute 180

Posted on 2010/03/17 by ngb

Still tweaking the format a bit.

List of SQL Compact 3rd party tools- just updated by ErikEJ.
Labryinth Sample game for Windows Phone- from Pete Blois
Outlook Mobile Update – Detailed info from the Exchange team; for WM 6.1 devices (WM 6.5 doesn’t need it)
Fool’s Gold in Mobile?- An interesting perspective by Tomi Ahohen /via Carnival of the Mobilists 215
Windows Phone 7 Series Copy & Paste drama, resolved eventually – Post from Long Zheng with some details. I’d also like remind the reader that Silverlight 3 doesn’t have c&p, so…
WiFi offload vs femtocells- Dean Bubley has a great post on why WiFi offload will not always win over femtos.
FCC’s Broadband Plan – Details & analysis from GigaOm. Mobile broadband will save us all. Huzzah!
Mobile social networking stats- UK stats show that it’s huge!

Mercurial 1.5 and TortoiseHg 1.0 released!

Posted on 2010/03/16 by ngb

As some of my readers may know, I’m a big fan of the Mercurial distributed version control system, and I have it installed on all my dev machines and VMs. I opened up http://mercurial.selenic.com tonight to pull down the Hg + TortoiseHg bits for a new VM and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Hg 1.5 and TortoiseHg 1.0 have been released (2010-03-06). There are many important changes, so be certain to read the release and upgrade notes (and review the release planfor future release dates).

Hg 1.5 Release notes

Hg 1.5 Upgrade notes

THg 1.0 Release notes

Download TortoiseHg 1.0 + Mercurial 1.5 here If you want just the Mercurial bits, go here.

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