Xbox have just turned Ten and to celebrate this great achievement Microsoft is giving away a free Avatar Prop, click here and claim it while it last ( I don’t think it will last forever , so be quick about it ). Its a small present that your avatar will unwrap and open to reveal some Confetti fireworks once installed your avatar on your xbox hub in Windows Phone will be seen playing around with it

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Microsoft have bought out a new advert, in their on-going effort to promote WindowsPhone7. Here are several things I like about this it:

• It shows a real feature; displaying your 3D avatar in the X-Box Live Extras app.
• It shows a real WP7 game, Need for Speed : undercover.
• It includes some humour thanks to a life-size avatar doing his “sexy dance”.
• It moves away from the ‘glance n’ go’ style they had been working with, which might give the wrong impression about WP7 & shows that its actually a fun platform.
• Then there is the line  ”You’re an avatar dan.” Which I think Ill be quoting to many of my friends who haven’t a clue what I’m on about.

The last thing I really like is that they have made a model of the phone they use in all of their advertising, now who else out there would join me in saying they would be more than happy with a phone like that? Its THE windows phone; simple, elegant & sexy.

If you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch the advert here:

So, what do you all think of this new offering from Microsoft’s marketing department?
Let us know what you’re thinking by putting a comment below!

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Engadget got the chance to test out these features first hand, so lets see what they had to say about it

Besides just announcing some games today, Microsoft has also shown off the full feature set of Xbox Live integration in Windows Phone 7, and users of the service should be pleased to discover that there’s not much missing from the version they know and love. Live on WP7 will allow for full avatar integration (we’re talking fully rendered, interactive avatars) along with customization (clothes, accessories, and more). The company has even crafted an avatar-centric version of familiar phone utilities like flashlight apps and levels, adding some whimsy to what would normally be pretty staid affairs. Additionally, messaging, friend lists / status, achievements, and leaderboards (with friend comparisons) are all here as well, making for a pretty complete mobile Xbox Live experience. And also just like the console, every game will have a try-before-you buy demo to check out before spending your hard-earned cash.

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2 Nice looking Avatar theme for your WM6.5 device. Created by ecatapano from ppcgeeks.com

Download this Avatar Theme

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Avatar

• Flick to scroll among your contacts. Contacts without pictures will not show up.
• Tap an avatar to bring up details. This is where iContact integration kicks in: if iContact is installed, Avatar will use it. If not, it will bring up the standard contact manager.
• Tap-and-hold on an avatar to call using that contact’s “smart property”: the one that shows up in the standard contact manager. “<m>” = mobile, “<w>” = work, “<h>” = home, etc.

Avatar features:

• low memory footprint – only around 100KB on VGA
• Works on all screens: VGA, QVGA, WVGA, WQVGA, Square
• AppToDate support
• Ultra-smooth scrolling
• Integrates with iContact and iDialer

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