This infographic put together by the folks at Technobolt allows you to quickly compare the important features of all the WP7 phones available, so that you can make the best choice based on your needs (Click to view it in its full glory):
I bought the Samsung focus based on its screen type (Super Amoled) and its weight and I love it!
Screen shots of layouts of the different keypad layouts available on the WIndows Phone 7 (as taken from the emulator).
InputScopeValues - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.input.inputscopenamevalue.aspx
tip: If you want to start your app with the SIP keypad displayed, one easy method is to set focus on a text box on the page.
this.Loaded +=
new RoutedEventHandler((object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) => {txtBox.Focus();});
| Default |  |
| Url |  |
| FullFilePath |  |
| FilePath |  |
| EmailUserName
EmailSmtpAddress |
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| LogOnName |  |
| PersonalFullName
PersonalNamePrefix PersonalGivenName PersonalMiddleName PersonalSurName PersonalNameSuffix |
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| PostalCode
AddressStreet |
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| AddressStateOrProvince
AddressCity AddressCountryName AddressCountyShortName |
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| CurrenyAmountAndSymbol
CurrencyAmount |
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| Date |  |
| DateMonth
DateDay DateYear |
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| DateDay | |
| DateDayName |  |
| Digits
Number |
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| OneChar
Password |
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| TelephoneNumber
TelephoneCountryCode TelephoneAreaCode TelephoneLocalNumber |
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| Time
TimeHour TimeMinorSec |
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| NumberFullWidth
AlphanumericHalfWidth AlphanumerFullWidth |
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| Text
Chat |
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| Search |  |
| NameOrPhoneNumber |  |
We had one in Denver September 25th. The next closest one is on October 12th in Colorado Springs. Find one nearest to you at: http://www.msdnevents.com/wp7devlaunch/
And even if you don’t have one that is occurring near you, there is one that will be simulcast – register at: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032458870&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Disclaimer: this post enters me to win a free WP7 phone (link).
I am excited enough that even though I was eligible for an iPhone upgrade in july of this year, I plan to wait for the Windows Phone 7 launch later.
If you find that June 2010 installer for Windows Phone Developer Tools (beta) hangs while running imagegen.exe, then check to see if you have an AntiVirus application with AutoProtect features turned on. On my machine, it looked as though Norton AntiVirus’s auto-protect features was blocking imagegen.exe from completing on my machine.
Once I temporarily disabled Autoprotect, the installer ran successfully.
Loading an image in SilverLight at run-time.
Drag an image control onto the design surface. Call it SampleImage.
if (Uri.IsWellFormedUriString(UrlTextBox.Text, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute))
{
BitmapImage bi = new BitmapImage();
bi.UriSource = new Uri(UrlTextBox.Text, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
SampleImage.Source = bi;
}
What it includes:
Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
Windows Phone Emulator CTP
Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP
note: requires a restart of the computer
Unfortunately, this year, not many of the low-end devices came packaged with the iGo 8. This new version is vastly improved (even better graphics, more options, 3D land-marks, etc) and I wish I could get my hands on a device that was cheap (under $200 or at least one to review). With none available and my c310 aging out, this year I begrudgingly, settled on a Garmin Nuvi 260.
But if you have the $ then check out this list of devices that run the iGo 8. The iGo8 will definitely not disappoint you.
Current list of devices supported by Nav N Go iGO 8:
Airis T482
Airis T620
ASUS MyPal A686
ASUS MyPal A696
ASUS P320
ASUS P535
Dell Axim X51v
Eten Glofiish M700
Eten Glofiish M750
Eten Glofiish M810
Eten Glofiish X500
Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX 720
Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX N500
Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX N520
Gigabyte g-Smart i
HP iPAQ h2210
HP iPAQ h4150
HP iPAQ rw6815 Personal Messenger
HP iPAQ rx5940 Travel Companion
HTC Athena 100 (X7500)
HTC Pharos (P3470)
HTC Touch Cruise (P3650, Polaris)
HTC Touch Dual (20 key) 5520
HTC TyTn (P4500, Hermes 200)
HTC TyTN II (Kaiser)
MiTA Mio 168
MiTAC Mio 169
MiTAC Mio 180
MiTAC Mio A501
MiTAC Mio A701
MiTAC Mio A702
MiTAC Mio P350
MiTAC Mio P360
MiTAC Mio P560
MyGuide 7500XL
Palm Treo 750
Samsung SGH-i780
Toshiba Portege G810
Yakumo deltaX 5 BT
And a much more detailed list after the jump (link).
My wife has the HTC tilt mobile phone and I am going to check out to see if I can get the iGo8 to run on it and review this latest version from Nav N Go.
The biggest problem with the Mio c310 that I had was that the company did not put out map updates often enough and their customer service kinda sucked (just check the number of people who commented on my posts on upgrading the map software and how they could not get any help from Mio and used my post to unbrick their 310s).
My only problems with the Nuvi: The device runs Linux and the graphics are just not crisp. (I felt that was also the same problem that the TomTom’s had). In addition, as someone who loves to tinker with his devices, there are just about zero hacks for the Nuvi(s) (same is true for the TomTom). I just cannot customize the map screen to show me the details that I am interested in and I am stuck with what Garmin decided that I must see while I drive. (On the Mio, I could have current elevation, time to destination, distance to next turn, just about anything that could be computed could be put on the screen).
The pluses for the Nuvi are: Solid map update technology, so you wont need a PhD in computer science to update the device’s firmware or maps. Simple interface – you will never ever need to break out the manual. Has TTS on a low end model. 5 hours of battery – so you can take it out of the car and on your walks around the city.
list of my posts on the Mio - http://blog.aggregatedintelligence.com/search/label/Mio
list of my posts on GPS devices - http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&source=uds&q=GPS%20blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.aggregatedintelligence.com%2F
Here is more information on the different flavors of WM6
from: Windows Mobile 6 Device Types - Smartphones & PDAs - What's the Difference?
I recently began playing with the Windows Mobile 6 SDK and the first thing that you realize are there are 2 major flavors - Standard and Professional. Within these two flavors - there are more choices to make. Truly mind boggling!
Here is what I found from my research:
The first thing to realize is that there are 3 flavors of the devices that you can buy: Standard, Classic and Professional. Classic and Professional devices support touch screens, whereas Standard does not. If you wish to develop for the classic or the professional devices, then you need the professional version of the WM6 sdk.
The standard and professional devices are smartphones - support phone services as well as act as a PDA, the classic devices - are only PDAs. (If you are looking for a map from the old devices then basically the Windows Mobile for PocketPC platform is now the WM6 Classic platform and the old Smartphone platform is now the Standard and Professional WM6 platforms).
The good news is that even though there are two versions of the SDK, there is quite a large overlap over the libraries used and the installer created using any one of the SDKs can be used to deploy to all three types of devices.
Here is a summary of the different types of devices supported by the 2 versions of the SDK:
One can use either Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 for developing applications for WM6.
For code that will run on the device - there are two major ways in which you can create your applications:
Useful links:
