Windows Phone and Mobile developers are waiting for Microsoft to reveal the development environment for the new WPO7 Series platform. This will happen at the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas 14. – 17. March. Until then Microsoft employees find themselves “hunted down” for information and leaks on what to come.

Leaks are starting to spill out and wmpoweruser.com and engadget.com has released leaked documents on development guidelines and policies.

While reading this i can finally ”confirm”  that WPO7 Series is based on Windows CE 6. For us developers this is great news! Continue Reading

It had to come and competition is great. We are seeing more of 3rd party application stores for mobile solutions. Freeware Pocket PC has opened up an alternative application store for Windows Phones promising instant free downloads for your Windows Mobile phone.  OpnMarket is compatible with most of the Windows Mobile Professional devices with touch-screens, once installed it lets you browse, download and install FREE applications directly on your device. OpnMarket will use your mobile network connection or a WiFi connection to download software to your phone. It’s simple, instant and FREE  with access to more than 6,700 free windows mobile games, tools and themes.

The installer cab can be downloaded from here.

The day we have been waiting for is finally here. Someone published malware in an appstore, and to no surprise it was published to the Android Marketplace.  Norwegian newspaper Digi.no has written/translated an article form The Register about an phishing application written to hijack your banking account information.

This was bound to happen, and this is whythere is such a strict regime to submit applications into appstores like the Apple AppStore and the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Today’s smartphones are trusted devices and the general public does not yet think of their mobile phone as a device that needs antivirus, firewall and malware detection software. But as long as there are vendor solutions like the Android Marketplace; where there is no quality control and no reviewing of applications except for the user feedback from those who already have been fooled by such applications i think things will get a lot worse before it gets better. Continue Reading

If you are in Oslo, and you’re a developer that do Windows Phone software development, or are curious about what’s in it you should come to the December meetup for Windows Phone Developer Community.

WPDC has it’s first meetup next Thursday on December 3rd.  at 6 pm. The meeting will be held at NITH, located in Grønland.

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In this first meetup we want to use more as a “constitutional” meeting. Getting to know those who are interested in Windows Phone development and most importantly find others who are interested in being “driving forces” and help build the community. Continue Reading

Finally! There is something on the move here. In May i was writing about that I was looking for a Norwegian Compact Framework User Group or something like a dedicated compact framework development forum for us .netcf developers here up north. With no luck finding one I have been brewing on the idea of trying to start a compact framework community, trying to gather some people that are willing to help promote and arrange.

Myself I am quite happy (and lucky) being able to work dedicated in a mobility department for mobile solutions. From designing enterprise back-end systems that can be used by mobile devices, to client applications interacting with existing business systems. Not to mention being a mobility consultant helping organizations streamline their work flow and processes to mobilize the workforce.  This has been both industrial applications running on dedicated ruggedized devices, one which is out running on 9000 windows mobile devices today and general business applications delivering back-end data to windows mobile devices within a company.

As i said, i am quite happy, but also I feel quite isolated. It’s no community feel to it, and there isn’t much buzz around it, for instance when was the last time you went to a Norwegian convention and anyone talked about mobility and development for devices? The closest thing is going to TechEd Europe. Continue Reading

On Thursday, October 15. (09:00 – 14:30). Microsoft Norway invites developers to Lysaker for a day of  Windows Mobile 6.5 and Marketplace development information. This is a free seminar aimed at developers. This is not only for those already working with mobile development, but also useful for anyone curious about what this is and how to get started.

The first part of the day will be about about WM 6.5, where Director for Windows Phones Norway, Camilla Viken Teigre gives a demo on the new UI and talks about what’s new and improved in this release.

From Finland Vesa-Matti Paananen will be walking us through Marketplace. What is Marketplace and why create Windows Phone applications. Continue Reading

The Microsoft My Phone service is now out in public beta for everyone with a Windows Mobile 6.x device.

With My Phone you get 200MB of storage and you can synchronize your phone data that contains contacts, appointments, sms messages, email, music, pictures and more. Backing up applications is not possible through My Phone (yet).

You also get your own My Phone webpage where you  access through your PC , there you can edit and search your data. Edited data is synchronized back to your phone. Synchronization can be set to manual or automatic. Your My Phone account is connected with your single sign-on Microsoft Live account. Should you loose your phone you only need to install the client on your new phone to get all your data restored.

The beta is free and should provide enough storage space for most users for basic data storage. Continue Reading

Last week Mozilla org launched an alpha version of it’s mobile browser Fennec Norwegian paper digi.no writes.

Fennec ‘s goal is in first hand to support Windows Mobile and Linux devices.

“We have the stated goal of supporting Windows Mobile and Linux devices. Support for other Platforms may be added in the future.”

- Fennec Wiki

The video shows a walkthrough of the alpha 1 release for Windows Mobile, running on an HTC Touch Pro. I really liked the “off-screen” controls and tabs and looking forward to trying it,  but for now you need a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet with OS2008 to run it. Continue Reading

Soon Microsoft Windows Mobile Marketplace will open and the power of fart and flashlight applications will be unleashed onto us, and windows mobile powered devices world wide. Windows  Mobile 6.5  will set us a blaze with gestures and multi touch, and we’ll have the coolest scrollable lists ever made for small screens. Still, while looking at the new glossy mobile UI features created with Eye Candy plug-ins for PhotoShop I wonder, how do you make money out of windows mobile as a software company or ISV? What level of enterprise support is planned into the future releases of the Windows Mobile?

As a developer and solution architect of enterprise industrial applications, mainly targeted for rugged windows mobile powered devices, I see several basic needs for improvement when it comes to support for industrialization of Windows Mobile, – Unless it’s planned life cycle is to be the OS of a fairly advanced MP3 player with phone capabilities. If so, please let us know so we can all go start our Android open source library projects sooner rather than later.

so, what’s needed? Continue Reading

Microsoft has a new site for show casing Windows Phone applications.

Site contains useful business applications from Windows Mobile ISV’s and it looks like it only takes an email to have your own application listed.