Good news on the app front. As of today, there are 1,000 apps available in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. We certainly expected there to be 1,000 apps by the US launch and now they've hit that number with time to spare. More importantly, there appears to be a healthy selection of quality apps. It's no where close to the 100,000 apps touted in the Android Market, but we'll see … [Read more...]
Here's a quick look at Twitter for Windows Phone 7 shown here on the HTC HD7. via Channel 9 … [Read more...]
As soon as I say Microsoft isn't making an official Twitter app for WP7, I'm proven wrong. Microsoft has just announced that the developer tools for WP7 are finalized, and handful of very cool apps have just been unveiled too. Twitter, Netflix, OpenTable, Travelocity, and Flixster will all be available soon, and you can see them demoed here (which Silverlight won't let me … [Read more...]
We've talked about Seesmic before, we even saw a brief video demonstration, but this preview blows that away. Seesmic is looking like an excellent Twitter app for WP7, fully featured in every way imaginable, and it gels with the Metro UI perfectly. It integrates with both Twitter and Facebook, offers searches, customizable interface, geolocations, the whole shebang. Color us … [Read more...]
Windows Phone 7 will have native Facebook support. This is a known thing. There will be Twitter apps — at the bare minimum Twikini and Seesmic. The question is: will Microsoft have native Twitter support in Windows Phone 7, so we can get short banalities delivered directly to our screen? The Unwired have uncovered something that hints Microsoft might be moving in that … [Read more...]
