There has been no shortage of ads for Windows Phone 7, not all of them are great but this new ad that showed up is actually quite nice and what is even more it takes a shot at the other smartphones. In this example we see the pocket to picture feature shown off against an imaginary smartphone. But if they choose to run that with a real smartphone ( read iPhone, Android ) that would tun a lot of heads and they will come out with similar ads that attack WP7, now that would be fun to watch.
via WMPU Some of the other WP7 Ads can be seen here.
Show Seek is a Windows Phone 7 App that allows users to find concerts and shows near them using the inbult GPS on Windows Phone 7. Press release below
Show Seek is a music centric application focusing on finding concerts, shows and dancing bears. Show Seek uses Songkick, Last.FM, Bands in Town and EventBrite to locate music around using your phone. Show Seek allows you to add a username from Songkick to get access to your personalized calendar. Show Seek also saves your searches, so you don’t have to be online to view you last calendar.
Future releases might include Bugfixes and Features like:
-Increase Search results (Limited to 50 per service now)
-LastFM suggestions (Requires last.fm account)
-Better Bing Maps API results (for searching in the ocean maybe)
-Saved Searches (Favorite searches, not offline support)
-Links to event pages on each service
-More details about the event, such as maps, directions or pictures
-Sending favorite events to your calendar / email
-General RSS Support (send me suggestions)
-APE/Ticketmaster searches (maybe)
-Any other services I can find
-Saving favorites locally
-Maybe buying tickets right on the phone
-Exploding pies
The official Windows Phone Analytics does not offer real time stats and there is a delay of roughly about 4-7 days, but if you want to get real time data for your WP7 apps and games now there is a FREE solution offered by mtiks. You also have a WP7 app so you have access to you date while you are on the move . Press release below
Current WP7 features:
1. Free Unlimited Apps and Sessions
2. Light weight SDK
3. Takes less than 5 minutes to integrate
4. Real-time analytics
5. Custom Events and Attributes
6. Charts and Reports
7. Daily Usage (past 15 days)
8. Monthly Usage (past 6 months)
9. New vs Returning users (past 15 days)
10. By Country or Device Type (Overall)
11. Check apps statistics On-the-go with mtiks App available in Market Place
Want to beta test your app before your app goes live in the Marketplace ? Now there is a way, XNA-UK XAP test service is now live. The plan to install your XAP on their test WP7 devices and check for the common Marketplace issues for which your app might get rejected.
According to them
we retain NO rights what so ever to your work, it is completely your own and we will not share any XAP’s that have been submitted (Only moderators can see submitted XAP’s). In fact we will regularly clean up and delete any work that has been sent to us. Mainly to save space on our site!
you can read the full Terms and Conditions here via @DDReaper
Visiblox Charts is a new developer tool that is available to windows Phone 7 developers. Beta Version 1.9 of the tool is available for Free from the developers website. Press release below
Visiblox Charts for WP7 is the first charting library that has support for seamingless zooming, panning, and selection – all optimized for the phone. Similar to Visiblox Charts on other platforms it also provides excellent performance, can be easily customized and styled and was built to be easy to extend. For a quick tour on the Windows Phone version, see the following video:
Tomáš Slavíček, the developer of HexaLines a fairly popular Windows mobile Game is shifting his focus on to Windows Phone 7. ( click here for HexaLines ). He has informed us he is working on a new 3D game engine for Windows Phone 7. So far he has completed quite a few bit of features ranging from
- drawing models, terrain, skybox
- generating primitives (sphere, box, pyramid, roof), with textures
- static / FPS / strategy camera (perspective, isometric…)
- virtual gamepad, multi-touch input
- scene optimization (octree, quadtree)
- drawing transparent objects (Painter’s alg.)
- shadow circles, dynamic projective shadows
- precalculated lightmaps
- scene managers for static / dynamic objects, loading game levels
Generally, drinking and electronics are not the best of friends but with apps like Cocktail Flow we have seen that that is not the case on Windows Phone 7. Cocktail Flow is great if you love cocktails but what if you are a wine-o ( read Wine Enthusiast ) well thanks to this amazing WP7 app Vivino, you can mix your Windows Phone 7 with your wine sessions :). Vivino can recognize major wine labels using image recognition. Though it does not recognize every brand under the sun, Vivino can recognize 450,000 wines from over 11,000 wineries and all that in the first version of the app, that is impressive. As more users use the app and sends in data about wines that number will keep going up. The ability to like or dislike a wine is another great feature of the app. Check out the press release and video of the app below
WP7 App Description
Never forget another wine! Use the Vivino app to take photos of the wines you drink. Using image recognition technology, the app will try to auto-match the wine with our database of 400.000 wines. Share your experience with friends through social features.
Prior to this if any user left a message on the WP7 Marketplace for your App or Game , there was no proper way to get in touch with them. As we all have seen the WP7 Marketplace reviews can be very vague .. it can be something like … ” I would give it 0 star if I could, don’t Download, it did not work ” this does indicate that the user had issues with the app in question and it most likely did not work as expected by the user. But this sort of review is a developers nightmare , he / she has no clue what the issue is and until now had no way of contacting the reviewer to find out why this could have happened and find out a way to fix it via an update. But all that is about to change with Tom Verhoeff’s new update to his WP7 Review Reader web app ( link ). This does not work 100% of the time but is worth a try.
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Andrew Chobaniuk: Thanks for the heads up! [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Emiel Zuurbier: I would like to see the posibility of making a trip that uses different kinds of transportation as from train to bus, bus to subway, subway to train. With a map and directions,...
MrVamosMuchachos: Nice idea. You could take some ideas from the application “SBB”. It is the public transport app from switzerland. [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
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