Engadget has just posted a few screenshots of upcoming games developed for Windows Phone 7 Series. What I liked about the screenshots is the resolution at 800×480 pixels – it really shows tremendous detail. It will definitely be interesting to see how it looks in full motion on a 3.5″ screen.
Palm has now launched their “Plug-in Development Kit” (PDK) for the Palm Pre. The PDK is based on the following core technologies:
GCC for compiling C/C++ code to ARM native code
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL ES, and a 2D video frame buffer
So, you can now finally develop C/C++ applications for the “web-only” Palm Pre device. It will be interesting to see how much developer interest there will be for the Palm PDK once it’s released publicly in Q2 2010.
The Windows Phone 7 Series sessions at MIX 2010 have now been announced and they look quite interesting:
Changing our Game – an Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Series
Building Windows Phone Games
Building a High Performance 3D Game for Windows Phone
Designing and Developing for the Rich Mobile Web
Overview of the Windows Phone 7 Series Application Platform
Windows Phone UI and Design Language
An Introduction to Developing Applications for Microsoft Silverlight
Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 1
Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 2
Windows Phone Application Platform Architecture
Development and Debugging Tools for Building XNA Games for Windows Phone
Distributing and Monetizing Windows Phone Applications and Games
Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone
Unit Testing Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Applications
If I wasn’t already holding a seminar at Scandinavian Developer Conference on March 16 I would definitely have done all I could to get ahold of a last-minute airplane ticket to MIX 2010 in Las Vegas.
At the TechEd Middle East Dubai 2010 Opening Keynote, Eric Rudder demonstrated how XNA games written in C# will integrate across PCs, Windows Phone 7 devices and Xbox 360 consoles. And it looks very promising!
I like how they did not only make Windows Phone 7 Series cross-platform compatible with PCs and the Xbox 360, but how they have also added synchronization features to the platform.
Inspired by Palm’s use of the Cufón JavaScript API to generate images of custom web fonts I have decided to try it out on my WordPress blog headers. Installation was very easy in four simple steps:
Download the WP-Cufón addon, unzip and copy to wp-content/plugins
Chris Pirillo has just posted a video walkthrough of Windows Phone 7 Series:
What I found most interesting is that it takes exactly 3.0 seconds to open an email from the inbox (16.10 into the video). That’s about 2.9 seconds longer than it takes on an iPhone. There are also THREE transitions happening when you click [...]
If you already own an iPhone with a mobile data subscription, why should you have to pay for another mobile data subscription just to be able to use your iPad when on the go? Since the iPad and the iPhone use different SIM cards you can’t really move your one and only SIM card around [...]
Michael Gartenberg has posted an interesting post about the fragmentation of the Android operating system, and how it needs to be addressed immediately to prevent Android devices from being as fragmented as desktop Linux systems:
I recently tried to install one of the few good Android games and found it won’t work on Nexus One as [...]
Johan Sanneblad has a Ph.D in applied Mobile IT and works as a Business Developer at the IT consultancy firm HiQ in Göteborg, Sweden.
Johan has worked in the area of Mobile IT since 1999 and has worked with major companies such as Nero, Nokia, Resco, Skype and Sony Ericsson managing mobile application projects and developing mobile strategies. During 2009 Johan was involved in six commercial iPhone applications, four major Windows Mobile applications and two projects for mobile platforms that has not yet been made available for the public.
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Eilith: Told you it was an ARM processor! Also, it’s actually a Cortex A8 at 1Ghz. http://arstechnica.com/app...
