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 .
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
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 )
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 )
AngelDeath from xda-dev have posted a new hack for the HTC Messaging Client. Running the cab will activate in “Traditional Mode” (inbox, sent, drafts in SMS) to limit how many msgs will load before it will pause and wait for you to tap on the more button for it to continue loading msgs. The Default is 500, but that number can easily be changed in the registry to any number from 1 to whatever number you feel is a good limit, be it 50, 100 etc. It will only work in the traditional mode and will NOT work in threaded/conversation mode yet.
Windows Phone UK recently held a competition and now they have picked the finalist and one of our friend l3v5y has made it to the finals. He is in the running to win a HD Mini and need you guys to vote for him. So plz show your support to him by liking his entry. I appreciate it fellas :)
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
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
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.