The company notes that they already managed to make the new OS flavor available for half of Windows Phone devices out there, and that updates have been successful so far.
Most of the Windows Phone devices out there have started to receive the update, with some minor exceptions that we mentioned for both the United States and for the global market. (Read the article)
The same powerful and easy to use Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE) handles from design to testing of Windows Phone 7 Series phone applications.
The Windows Phone SDK includes the following:
· Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
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Windows Phone Emulator (Read the article)
Rumor has it that the upcoming Windows Phone 8, codenamed ‘Apollo’, and Windows 8 platforms would actually converge to a single OS, being based on the same kernel, and representing the SKUs of the same platform.
The fact that the Windows Phone OS and the Windows client for PCs will be closely tied starting with the next releases was something that many speculated ever since last year, but it is only now that more solid details on the matter started to emerge. (Read the article)
When made available, the application was said to be the best messenger developed for Windows Phone, and it seems that things indeed proved so.
The experience that Windows Phone users received from it was so impressive that they decided to bring their friends and family to the service as well.
The result was an impressive growth in usage on the Kik Messenger’s network, clearly visible after the application’s release on Windows Phone.
However, the growth was not experienced based exclusively on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, and users should know that. (Read the article)
The software development kit includes all of the resources that developers need for coming up with applications for the mobile OS.
The SDK was packed with the tools to enable the building of applications for both the Windows Phone 7 and 7.1 platform flavors.
With the new release of Windows Phone SDK 7.1, developers can finally start submitting their applications to the Windows Phone Marketplace, so as to have them available for download as soon as the first Mango devices are put for sale. (Read the article)
The new release, version 2.1.1, comes as the Echo release, and packs a series of features and enhancements aimed at helping developers add more capabilities to their BlackBerry WebWorks applications.
The new SDK flavor was also meant to bring the development of applications for the BlackBerry smartphones closer to the building of software for the BlackBerry PlayBook.
One of the new features in the latest release of BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for Smartphones would be the inclusion of microphone APIs into the mix, through which a WAV file can be saved on the handset or on a microSD memory card.
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What Android and iOS lack when it comes to impressing users, Windows Phone gains, thus managing to offer an overall better experience to those who buy, own and make use of a handset running under it every day.
After all, this is what Microsoft has always wanted when it came to the mobile market, though we should note that Windows Phone Mango is the OS flavor in the spotlight. (Read the article)
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