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Windows Phone 7 Apps : Travel Speech

by Saijo George on July 30, 2010

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Travel Speech is a new Speech and Text translator for Windows Phone 7. According to the developer 11 languages will be having voice support (en, de, es, fr, it, pt, ru, ja, ko, zh_chs, zh-cht) and text translation would be available for 32 languages. As you might have expected the app will be Powered by Bing Translator. Here is a look at the beta build in the emulator .

Still on WM6.5 try this amazing Translator App.

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Emoticons on WP7 and iPhone.. iPhone is the winner

by Saijo George on July 30, 2010

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Here is a short video of Emoticons on Windows Phone 7, its ok but when you look at Emoji on the iPhone ( click for image ), there is no doubt who is the winner here. iPhone has got this one folks.

Emoticons on WP7

Emoticons on WP7

Click here for the video ( You need to have Silverlight and you also need to register to watch the video, if you ask me it’s not worth it )

via WindowsPhoneUk ( Twitter )

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Some new things in Windows Phone 7 caught on Video

by Saijo George on July 29, 2010

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WP7 PIN Lock WP7 Quick Profile

WP7 PIN Lock , Quick Profiles and Music Controls

Scott from hanselman.com who works for MSDN ( Microsoft ) got a developers device and has posted a short video of it in action. He has shed light on some new stuff including

  • ScreenLock with PIN Code
  • Downloading Email Attachment ( once downloaded they come up with an mini icon )
  • Quick Profile switching and Music Controls
  • IE Mobile Tabs

video after the break

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It is no secret I love Google maps over Bing’s offering but I have to say Microsoft Street Slide looks amazing. According to Engadget Microsoft Street Slide is going to get an iPhone app , apparently its already in the works and it also looks like Microsoft will have a client for Windows Phone 7. We don’t think WM6.5 will be getting an client for WM6.5. Check out the demo video

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OpenSource Authentication for WP7 : Sevenauth Project

by Saijo George on July 28, 2010

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The sevenauth project aims to make it simple to let WP7 app users authenticate using existing mechanisms, rather than having to remember yet another username and password. I am taking a stab in the dark and going to assume the app has plans to support Seven Authentication system. From the video demo from Arktronic ( who is no stranger around these parts, chances are you might have used his ArkSwitch App or seen the demo for his WP7 app ArkWords ) we can see 3 login methods supported

  • Google ( see developers comment below )
  • Yahoo
  • OpenID 2.0

I am thinking many app which requires users to sign in to access data might find this useful. Here is the video demo

More info and Download Source : http://github.com/arktronic/sevenauth

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Indie Artist Song finder on WP7 – video demo

by Saijo George on July 28, 2010

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During GDGT Seattle, Microsoft is giving away Windows Phone 7 handsets. That was not a typo they are in fact giving away WP7 Developer handsets. The 1st one went to a developer who is building a WP7 client ( he is also working on an Android client ) that will allow users to discover and stream Indie Music. Check out the video for more info.

The client looks quite basic and the developer claims to have made the app in a few hrs time.

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Running Late WP7

Running Late WP7


Greg Sullivan, Senior Product Manager for Windows Phone over at Microsoft gives a gives a product tour of Windows Phone 7 on a Samsung Taylor to magnus.de (Weka Media Publishing GmbH, Germany). Fortunately for us they had a few video camera around and have captured the demo in full HD. so sit back and relax and watch the demo. Note they dont show anything new in the video, we have talked about most of those features, save one.

In the part where they talk about appointments , there is dedicated ” I am Late ” software button, that will let you send out an email / sms to the attendees telling them you are running in late for the appointment. Another scenario where we can say we don’t need an app for that. 3:20 in video 4

Video Playlist after the break

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