The popular and addictive game Angry Birds seem to fly in Windows 7 Phone handsets soon, as well as in 3D.
Rovio has the uber-cool game called Angry Birds have been creating big waves across many mobile platforms since its launch in December 2009.
Rovio Mobile, which is behind the Angry Birds, has already launched the iPhone, iPad and Android devices, with Angry Birds 2 in the works already.
The company lately disclosed that it will release Angry Birds for Windows 7 Phone users who have missed the action.
Related linksAngry Birds (beta) for Android app reviewAngry Birds Valentine's Day special terms seasons updateAngry Birds for iPad app reviewAngry Birds Seasons for Android app reviewAngry Birds two screenshots leak shows coming appAngry Birds confirmed for Nintendo 3DS 2011 release In an interview with Pocket-Lint, revealed Peter North Backa, CEO of Rovio (or Mighty Eagle as he is known) a little more about their WP7 and 3D plans.
What's more, it seems a 3D version of the game to be in the pipeline too.
When asked about Angry Birds would be available on the Windows 7 Phone, he said that they worked with it, and hinted at the launch being held up because of Microsoft.
When the Pocket-lint asked Peter Vesterbacka about the impending launch of this game on Windows 7 Phone, the company claimed to be working on the game.
All Vesterbacka said was, Let's just say, Microsoft has a lot of lawyers.
It comes across as no surprise that the game is headed for yet another mobile platform, considering his success and the fact that it is headed for a Hollywood debut as an animated film.
As of now we are in the dark about the release date and price for Angry Birds of WP7 devices.
However, it may be recalled that there was any bad blood between these two companies previously.
Those who use Android devices can get it free (with advertising).
But the North Backa from the Rovio seems to think the past should be left behind, thus Angry Birds of the platform.
He also confirmed Angry Birds in 3D format, but has not uncovered anything else, for example, when we could get the 3D version and the device will be launched.
Apart from the Windows 7 Phone launch, a 3D version of the game has also been confirmed.
But as we know, Angry Birds confirmed for Nintendo 3DS release, so it's definitely one of the platforms we should have the game.
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Thursday 3 February 2011
Dell Venue Pro shipping delay confirmed
After a few weeks of release date speculation, Dell has confirmed that the tech radar Venue Pro model launch is delayed.
As expected, Dell has launched its first Windows Mobile 7 Phone OS based smartphone - Venue Pro for India.
The QWERTY keyboard-toting Dell Venue Pro is the first in Britain to rock a full set of keys in the Windows phone 7, and some online dealers was whether it would be released 2 February.
Designed in a slider form factor, carrying Venue Pro 4.1-inch AMOLED display with curved Gorilla glass technology and slides upward to reveal the QWERTY keyboard.
However, Dell has confirmed shipping will not be any time soon, and refused to give an exact UK release date: We have seen a very positive response on Dell Venue Pro, the first vertical QWERTY Windows 7 Phone Smartphone, both from media and customers, said Ellen Murphy, Dell's EMEA Consumer Public Relations Manager, tech radar.
When it comes to specification, Pro Venue has virtually the same hardware that runs Android 2.2 Froyo Venue smartphone.
Unfortunately, we experienced some delays in the shipment of Dell Venue Pro for selected regions, including the UK, and we will offer it for sale when we are completely satisfied and ready to do it.
For India, Dell Venue Pro will be available at Rs.
The teams are working around the clock globaly to reduce the delay and we realize there is no substitute for the shipping product.
34990.
So there we have it - but we doubt we will see many more Windows 7 Phone handsets at the Mobile World Parliament 2011, we have one more from last year still to come.
Microsoft Windows 7 running Dell Phone Venue House Pro 1GHz (Scorpion Core) CPU with Qualcomm Snapdragon Adreno 200 GPU for graphics.
The handset has 512 MB of RAM and 8GB of storage on board.
However, it does not have memory card slot and that's what makes it different from the Venue.
What embarrassed the 4.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, space for this portrait slider phone also features a QWERTY keyboard.
Loaded with a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus, the venue Pro laws 720p HD video.
Venue Pro is the price of Rs.
34990 seems certain slightly higher when compared with the HTC Desire HD available for Rs.
28 499 from online retailer Flipkart.com.
In December last year, Dell had introduced Venue Pro for $ 450 which means around Rs.
20 250 layers.
We expect price drop in a month or two when more Windows 7 Phone devices and Android 2.3 Gingerbread laden Nexus S hits India.
Dell has also announced Rs.
29 990 official price for the Android 2.2 Froyo loaded Venue smartphone.
As expected, Dell has launched its first Windows Mobile 7 Phone OS based smartphone - Venue Pro for India.
The QWERTY keyboard-toting Dell Venue Pro is the first in Britain to rock a full set of keys in the Windows phone 7, and some online dealers was whether it would be released 2 February.
Designed in a slider form factor, carrying Venue Pro 4.1-inch AMOLED display with curved Gorilla glass technology and slides upward to reveal the QWERTY keyboard.
However, Dell has confirmed shipping will not be any time soon, and refused to give an exact UK release date: We have seen a very positive response on Dell Venue Pro, the first vertical QWERTY Windows 7 Phone Smartphone, both from media and customers, said Ellen Murphy, Dell's EMEA Consumer Public Relations Manager, tech radar.
When it comes to specification, Pro Venue has virtually the same hardware that runs Android 2.2 Froyo Venue smartphone.
Unfortunately, we experienced some delays in the shipment of Dell Venue Pro for selected regions, including the UK, and we will offer it for sale when we are completely satisfied and ready to do it.
For India, Dell Venue Pro will be available at Rs.
The teams are working around the clock globaly to reduce the delay and we realize there is no substitute for the shipping product.
34990.
So there we have it - but we doubt we will see many more Windows 7 Phone handsets at the Mobile World Parliament 2011, we have one more from last year still to come.
Microsoft Windows 7 running Dell Phone Venue House Pro 1GHz (Scorpion Core) CPU with Qualcomm Snapdragon Adreno 200 GPU for graphics.
The handset has 512 MB of RAM and 8GB of storage on board.
However, it does not have memory card slot and that's what makes it different from the Venue.
What embarrassed the 4.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, space for this portrait slider phone also features a QWERTY keyboard.
Loaded with a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus, the venue Pro laws 720p HD video.
Venue Pro is the price of Rs.
34990 seems certain slightly higher when compared with the HTC Desire HD available for Rs.
28 499 from online retailer Flipkart.com.
In December last year, Dell had introduced Venue Pro for $ 450 which means around Rs.
20 250 layers.
We expect price drop in a month or two when more Windows 7 Phone devices and Android 2.3 Gingerbread laden Nexus S hits India.
Dell has also announced Rs.
29 990 official price for the Android 2.2 Froyo loaded Venue smartphone.
Microsoft Teases New Features in Windows Phone 7 Software Update
By Mat Smith on Thursday, February 3 2011It comes up to a month since Microsoft first trumpeted a free update to its Windows 7 Phone handsets. Now they have revealed on their U.S. site what this update will do, and that's basically what they told us in January. Copy and paste comes over the phone, which means we will not have to carefully remember phone numbers, e-mail addresses or physical addresses anymore. You will then be able to transplant this info into Office documents, e-mail and the rest. Good stuff, but then we still want to find addresses that our American cousinsThe WP7 update will give users both the loading speed and performance increases to their range of applications and games. Their app and music store, market place, will also be re-jigged so that you can then search for programs exclusively, to avoid confusing the search results with songs and albums mixed in. That's about it.
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If you're expecting an update to WinPho7, it is best to cheque that your phone is set up to take hold of it.
Finally, the next software update promises a tweaked search function in Windows Phone Marketplace: when searching for apps and games, you will not now face a barrage of music performance as well.
Find Phone update page, which is under settings so make sure you have checked the box that says Notify me when new updates are found.
Color us a bit underwhelmed.
Microsoft says, however, this is a look at some of what's ahead, so hopefully there is more to the first Windows 7 Phone update than the features above.
The company has not announced a date for the update, or has it shed any light on whether each WP7 user will get it at the same time.
Android users often complain about the lag between Google launches new version of its OS, and their carrier and / or phone maker actually makes it possible.
Here's hoping Microsoft has learnt from it.
Finally, the company has not mentioned bug fixes, but we assume that the now infamous \phantom data \leakage problem will be squeezed in the update as well.
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If you're expecting an update to WinPho7, it is best to cheque that your phone is set up to take hold of it.
Finally, the next software update promises a tweaked search function in Windows Phone Marketplace: when searching for apps and games, you will not now face a barrage of music performance as well.
Find Phone update page, which is under settings so make sure you have checked the box that says Notify me when new updates are found.
Color us a bit underwhelmed.
Microsoft says, however, this is a look at some of what's ahead, so hopefully there is more to the first Windows 7 Phone update than the features above.
The company has not announced a date for the update, or has it shed any light on whether each WP7 user will get it at the same time.
Android users often complain about the lag between Google launches new version of its OS, and their carrier and / or phone maker actually makes it possible.
Here's hoping Microsoft has learnt from it.
Finally, the company has not mentioned bug fixes, but we assume that the now infamous \phantom data \leakage problem will be squeezed in the update as well.
Nokia told to ditch MeeGo in favour of Windows Phone 7 - PCR
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been advised to drop MeeGo in favor of Windows Phone 7.In an open letter to Elop, Adnaan Ahmad investors Bere Bank Berg wrote: Get rid of your own proprietary high-end solution MeeGo - it's the biggest joke in tech industry right now and will put you further behind Apple and Google.
Nokia is facing increasing pressure to dump their existing mobile operating systems in favor of Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone, a move that could keep the company relevant in the market for smart phones.
Nokia has focused on developing their own operating systems, Symbian and MeeGo while competing vendors such as Samsung and LG have started using Google's Android.
According to a report from PC Pro, a number of influential analysts are piling pressure on Nokia, encourage flagging manufacturer to drop both Symbian and not yet released MeeGo OS in favor of a Microsoft link up.
This follows Monday's news that Android had passed Symbian to become the world's most popular mobile OS in Q4 2010.The sales difference was relatively slim - Nokia still sold 31 million Symbian phones, 1.9 million less than Android - but Nokia lacks a presence in West, where Apple and Android handsets are preferred.
Adnaan Ahmad of Berenice Berg Bank - the oldest private bank in Germany - have urged Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, do the following: Get rid of your own proprietary high-end solution (MeeGo) - it's the biggest joke in the tech industry right now and will put you further behind Apple and Google.
Article continues belowAdvertisementInteractive IdeasWP7 has received rave reviews, but lacks support from vendors, who choose for Android is open-source benefits.
Ahmad argues that a transition to Windows 7 Phone would benefit both Microsoft and Nokia, but the platform is currently struggling to compete with the two big names.
The numbers support this view - WP7 only accounted for 5 percent of the handset market last Christmas.
Ahmad advice was repeated by Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, who said the switch to Windows 7 Phone would address the key concerns we have about Nokia in recent years: terrible software.
Nokia is still the world's most popular smart phone manufacturer, have a market share of 28 percent last quarter, saw a potential deal could be a match made in heaven.
Au.
Ahmad seems to believe it: Two million units sold in the last fourth is not really much to write home about, given $ 500 million in marketing programs, but with Nokia on the page, you will have access to a potential 20-25 percent global share of time - and exclusivity.
Do you think that Nokia should adopt Phone Windows 7? Vote on the poll below [Source: Viewing]!.
Nokia is facing increasing pressure to dump their existing mobile operating systems in favor of Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone, a move that could keep the company relevant in the market for smart phones.
Nokia has focused on developing their own operating systems, Symbian and MeeGo while competing vendors such as Samsung and LG have started using Google's Android.
According to a report from PC Pro, a number of influential analysts are piling pressure on Nokia, encourage flagging manufacturer to drop both Symbian and not yet released MeeGo OS in favor of a Microsoft link up.
This follows Monday's news that Android had passed Symbian to become the world's most popular mobile OS in Q4 2010.The sales difference was relatively slim - Nokia still sold 31 million Symbian phones, 1.9 million less than Android - but Nokia lacks a presence in West, where Apple and Android handsets are preferred.
Adnaan Ahmad of Berenice Berg Bank - the oldest private bank in Germany - have urged Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, do the following: Get rid of your own proprietary high-end solution (MeeGo) - it's the biggest joke in the tech industry right now and will put you further behind Apple and Google.
Article continues belowAdvertisementInteractive IdeasWP7 has received rave reviews, but lacks support from vendors, who choose for Android is open-source benefits.
Ahmad argues that a transition to Windows 7 Phone would benefit both Microsoft and Nokia, but the platform is currently struggling to compete with the two big names.
The numbers support this view - WP7 only accounted for 5 percent of the handset market last Christmas.
Ahmad advice was repeated by Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, who said the switch to Windows 7 Phone would address the key concerns we have about Nokia in recent years: terrible software.
Nokia is still the world's most popular smart phone manufacturer, have a market share of 28 percent last quarter, saw a potential deal could be a match made in heaven.
Au.
Ahmad seems to believe it: Two million units sold in the last fourth is not really much to write home about, given $ 500 million in marketing programs, but with Nokia on the page, you will have access to a potential 20-25 percent global share of time - and exclusivity.
Do you think that Nokia should adopt Phone Windows 7? Vote on the poll below [Source: Viewing]!.
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Windows Phone 7 data bug finger-pointing
Yahoo has denied Microsoft's claim that it is responsble for a data error in Windows 7 Phone. Yahoo has spoken out after being accused of excessive data costs experienced by some Microsoft Windows 7 Phone (WP7) users.
Last month, noticed the Windows 7 Phone users, large data packets were sent from her phone, even when it was in standby mode, push a little over their download limits. Microsoft fingered an inefficiency in the synchronization of e-mails between its Windows client Phone eMail and Yahoo Mail as the cause of rogue WP7 data charges.
After initially pointing the finger at an unnamed third party app, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft outed as the source of the mysterious data. In a statement, defended Yahoo's Yahoo Mail client and said application has been used successfully on millions of mobile phones, including Apple IOS, Google Android, Nokia Symbian and Research In Motion (RIM).
However, Yahoo has now pointed out that the service does not cause problems on any other mobile platform. The problem on Windows phones are specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail will not affect these other mobile devices, said Yahoo.
Yahoo Mail is widely available in the tens of millions of mobile phones, including those running IOS on Apple, Android, Nokia Symbian, and RIM, the company said in a statement. The company added that it has offered Microsoft a near-term fix for its chosen execution and said it is encouraging Microsoft to switch to a standard way to integrate with Yahoo Mail, which would result in a permanent solution.
The problem on Windows phones are specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail are not affected at these other mobile devices. WP7 Some users were erroneously charged for up to 50mb a day to check e-mail and social networking sites.
Yahoo has offered to give Microsoft a near permanent solution for implementing the selected and urges Microsoft to switch to a standard way to integrate with Yahoo Mail, which would result in a permanent solution, the company said.
Last month, noticed the Windows 7 Phone users, large data packets were sent from her phone, even when it was in standby mode, push a little over their download limits. Microsoft fingered an inefficiency in the synchronization of e-mails between its Windows client Phone eMail and Yahoo Mail as the cause of rogue WP7 data charges.
After initially pointing the finger at an unnamed third party app, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft outed as the source of the mysterious data. In a statement, defended Yahoo's Yahoo Mail client and said application has been used successfully on millions of mobile phones, including Apple IOS, Google Android, Nokia Symbian and Research In Motion (RIM).
However, Yahoo has now pointed out that the service does not cause problems on any other mobile platform. The problem on Windows phones are specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail will not affect these other mobile devices, said Yahoo.
Yahoo Mail is widely available in the tens of millions of mobile phones, including those running IOS on Apple, Android, Nokia Symbian, and RIM, the company said in a statement. The company added that it has offered Microsoft a near-term fix for its chosen execution and said it is encouraging Microsoft to switch to a standard way to integrate with Yahoo Mail, which would result in a permanent solution.
The problem on Windows phones are specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail are not affected at these other mobile devices. WP7 Some users were erroneously charged for up to 50mb a day to check e-mail and social networking sites.
Yahoo has offered to give Microsoft a near permanent solution for implementing the selected and urges Microsoft to switch to a standard way to integrate with Yahoo Mail, which would result in a permanent solution, the company said.
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