Windows Phone Summary of the Week: May 23-29, 2022

Well, this week was eventful to say the least. The Mango VIP Preview turned out to comprise all the right answers for many consumers and developers, while some felt slightly disapointed with Steve Ballmer stating that at that place'll exist 500 features included into Mango nevertheless only a scattering have been in the media.

Allow us kick-starting time this weeks round-upwardly with our programmer interview. This week we had the peasure in having Waheed Bhatti (Software Architect at Irtiqa) answer some questions most his view on Windows Phone and what projects both himself and Irtiqa are working on. As well, recall how concluding week we got excited about our app being released? Well, as y'all're more than aware of, the submission was rejected. Both myself and Jay went near fixing the issues and the official wpcentral app is now bachelor (Zune link)! It has been receiving great feedback and positive reviews, so we thank you.

Back to Steve Ballmer announcing the 500 new features, you lot can check out our Mango VIP Preview event wrap upwards for the juicy gossip, videos and more.

Our George Ponder gave a quick run through of the top apps on the Marketplace just equally the stat counter reached xx,000 on number of available apps and games. To farther amend the experience of consumers and provide developers with more reach for their apps, a web version of the Market place was detailed to be in the works assuasive purchases to be made through the browser on whatever Bone.

Gaming was in the spotlight at the VIP event on Tuesday with the announcement that the Xbox hub will receive some aesthetic work. The dull Xbox Alive Extras will exist replaced by including all Live enabled features within the hub itself, and so you'll be able to see your avatar and communicate with your friends in no time at all. Hydro Thunder Go fabricated an appearance kicking off the six weeks of must-have games and the RPG category of games for WP7 has finally seen a championship; Dungeon Stalker.

Moving onto a somewhat serious note, Lincolnshire Police force are using Windows Phone in a new fingerprint technology trial, while Rudy Huyn spent a few hours having fun with the new improved live tiles in Mango by turning them into his own Tetris playground. Shazam is back on the Market and is nonetheless priced at a laughable $5.99 for the paid Encore version.

ZTE, a Chinese handset manufacturer, is planning to bring their starting time WP7 device (running Mango) to the tabular array in Q3 this year. The Verizon Trophy is bachelor everywhere, while being sold out in places. Newegg currently have it priced at $99. Speaking of new devices, we got our hands on AT&T's HTC HD7S.

A few entertaining stories to circular off your weekend includes the demo of Mango improving heavily on speech recognition and command (voice-to-text etc) and the showing off of a new "I Honey Windows Phone" design. The orange colour based theme in Mango volition exist renamed as the fruit in the side by side update and emotions will actually be displayed as emotions instead of text. Who would have idea the wall of tiles exists?

For developers we have some goodies. Mango development tools take been released and developers are expected to receive Mango prior to release. Should you lot just need that slight kick in the correct direction with regards to your motivation, Elbert Perez shows that hard piece of work pays off with WP7 by reporting his earnings of almost $xxx,000. If you need a slight helping mitt then nosotros accept institute a cheating sheet for you should you lot not exist on top of things pattern wise. If y'all're subsequently more information about advertising within your app, did you know you lot can use multiple AdUnits with pubCenter?

Oh, don't forget to check out our TVShow app giveaway contest!

Carry on through the break for the highlights.

Highlights

Now available: the official WPCentral app for Windows Phone 7
Ballmer states Mango volition contain 500 new features
Mango Preview Result, wrapping information technology all upward
Windows Telephone Marketplace Top Apps
Windows Phone Market hits 20,000 apps
Joe does Mango: Belfiore shows off Windows Telephone update highlights
More detail on WP7 Web Marketplace [Updated]
WPCentral'southward TVShow Giveaway Contest

Gaming

Mango Games hub and Xbox Live improvements revealed
Hydro Thunder GO is now available on Xbox Live for Windows Phone
Pirate's Mind free for a limited time
Dungeon Stalker brings dungeon crawling to Windows Telephone

Software

Lincolnshire police using WP7 in new fingerprint tech trial
Demo: LiveTris shows how powerful the new Mango Alive Tiles can be
Shazam finally returns to the Marketplace--aforementioned price for Encore

Hardware

ZTE to bring Mango devices to Europe in Q3
Verizon Bays now $99 on Newegg
AT&T's HTC HD7S - First Impressions
Windows Telephone screen comparisons: Surround, Focus and HD7S
Verizon Trophy's micro-SD card revealed

Fun

Mango does Vocalization to text and vice versa
Microsoft shows off new 'I Eye WP' design, makes a sticker for the Focus
The Wall of Live Tiles exists
Mangos are orange and "orangish" is now "mango"
Emoticons become an overhaul in Mango also

Developers

Mango developer tools available today
Developers to become Mango prior to release
OccasionalGamer's Elbert Perez brings in nearly $30K in game dev for WP7
Windows Phone designer cheat sail [Developers]
Using multiple AdUnits per WP7 app

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