This is not the first time we have seen Microsoft using this particular test to show off the exciting hardware acceleration in IE9 on Windows Phone Mango. But since then Apple has released the beta of iOS and Microsoft has decided to run the test again. This time we have a BlackBerry Torch, the Samsung Droid Charge, the iPhone 4 ( beta 3 of iOS5 ), and what looks like the HTC Mozart running Mango. The frame-rates achieved by the devices were as below via WMPU

• BlackBerry Torch only managed to pull off a pathetic 9FPS
• iPhone 4 even with beta 3 of iOS5 managed only about 14-16FPS
• The Android powered Samsung Droid Charge got around 20-22 ( something like that from what I can see)
• But the Mango Powered HTC with graphics acceleration came out with an amazing 50FPS !!!

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Imitating the Metro look

Guess the Twitter Client shown above … Too hard ? Well guess the OS on which this Twitter app is available ? If your answer was WP7 you are wrong. If what they say about imitation being the best form of flattery is true, we should be seeing a few switches from iOS to WP7 soon.

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Well this is still in the works and is a tech preview but the processing power demonstrated here will surely turn some heads. With the news IE9 is heading to WP7 in 2011 from the WP7 keynote at MWC. Microsoft demoed the “work in progress ‘ build of IE9 on Windows Phone 7.

You will see the magic of hardware acceleration in IE9 on Windows Phone 7 which can easily render 50 fish using HTML5, and the animation looks quite fluid while Safari on the iPhone 4 is having a hard time with it.

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iPone-Android-WP7-WindowsMobile-startup

We have a video which shows the boot up time for iPhone 4 , Nexus One ( Android ) , HD2 ( Windows Mobile ) and LG Panther ( WP7 ). Keep in mind that the WP7 software is a developers build and not the final product. Windows Phone 7 starts up in almost half the time of all of the other smartphone operating systems. We are not sure if there are 3rd part apps on the other platform which might impact the boot up time but under 30 sec is quite nice especially when compared to the sluggish Windows Mobile startup time.

Bootup time for different Smartphones

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WP7 vs iPhone vs Android email

Email is a feature that is quite often used on smartphones and now we have a video that compares the email client on WP7 with the iPhone 4 and Android 2.2.

Cons :

• no HTML support ( i believe you can re-download the email which will enable the html content, Update : here is the video proof )
• no unified inbox

Pros :

• fast and productive
• allows you to quickly multi-select messages and perform many actions at once
• you can choose to view your email by all, unread, flagged, etc, which is a unique feature among all smartphone email clients

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iphone vs WP7 vs Android Browser

Browsers are a very integral part of modern day Smartphones and with major players pushing their brnd browsers and eliminating competition , users are left to go with the stock browsers on smartphones. On Windows Mobile , we had the option of Skyfire, Opera, Picsel Browser ( back in the days this used to be a really good choice, no download option though, but with more updates from Opera and Skyfire they soon took over the browser of choice on WM ) , now as we all know WP7 will ship with IE Mobile as the only browser.

With iPhone and Android have a strong hold in the smartphone market , let us see how a Prototype WP7 device’s browsing experience hold up against them. Please note that the device shown in the video is not final Windows Phone 7 Software / Hardware ( its rumored that the LG GW910 a.k.a LG Panther might be released as a WP7 device )

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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

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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s2u2

Prerequisite:
- WM5 Phone or WM6/6.1/6.5 Professional devices
- free RAM: at least 1M for QVGA/WQVGA; 4M for VGA/WVGA
- free storage space: at least 2M for QVGA/WQVGA; 4M for VGA/WVGA

Changes of v2.40
- added options to remind any unread notification by vibration or sound or both (S2U2 Settings > Reminder).
Refer to S2U2 Settings Description.xls for details.
- added “60 minutes” option for “Snooze time” (S2U2 Settings > General).
- added “Headset” option for “Lock on Talk” (S2U2 Settings > Power).
- added option to check if any notification exists before unlock by the Proximity Sensor (S2U2 Settings > Power).
- changed the action to shrink appointment info from “tap” to “slide up/down”.
- added “slide to view” for Appointment: tap an appointment to show its details & then slide the slider to open Pocket Outlook with that appointment day.
To change the view appointment application to others, refer to S2U2 Settings Description.xls for details.
- added slide action to the ON/OFF switch of S2U2 Settings.
- fixed a very rare case that iLock2 would hang the system.
It’s related to the checking of Exceptional EXE. If you want to know the technical details, then click here.
- fixed Manila was positioned incorrectly after soft-reset on some devices.
- fixed on some devices/ROMs, the hardware keys were locked even corresponding S2A option was turned on.
- fixed voice mail notification icon was not shown if the value was negative.
- fixed occasionally the “Replace WM6.5 system manual lock” did not work.
- a few minor bugs fixed.

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