iPhone 5 event 10/4 rumor, AT&T offers roaming message rates, Canon adds AirPrint support

Sep 212011

There is a latest gossip starting around currently which the iPhone 5 betray eventuality will be hold on Oct 4. The sources additionally explain which the iPhone 5 will be accessible for squeeze weeks after the event.

AT&T has voiced a little latest general in motion messaging rates for users which transport the world. The rates will give we 200 messages for $ thirty monthly and 500 for $ 50 monthly which can be used in 100 countries.

Canon is adding await for AirPrint to 3 some-more AIO wireless printers. The printers need a firmware refurbish and embody the Pixma MG8220, MG6220, and MG5320 printers.

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iPhone 5 Specs

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Sep 212011

From scouring the internet to listening to unconstrained rumors, here’s what we’ve come to see as the many illusive specs for the arriving iPhone 5. Keep in thoughts which you have been all available a mid-October proclamation from Sprint. We’ll see what happens. Until then, here have been the specs:

World Phone with a SIM-less Design
Curved Glass Display
A5 Chip with a clocking speed in the operation of 1.2 or 1.5 GHz with 1GB RAM
Wireless Charging as good as Sync & Back Up of data
4G
iOS 5

This of march is not the downright list. There have been alternative cold facilities talked about similar to a fire-resistant body, a demeanour which mimics the iPad 2, and improved battery hold up than the iPhone 4.

Where’s Mango? An update on timing

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Sep 212011

Hi everybody. Given all the latest conjecture around the timing of the Mango update, I longed for to move we up to speed on what to design next.

For months, we and dozens of the partner companies have been laying the grounds for the Windows Phone 7.5 update—and creation plain progress. As a result, we right away design to begin rolling it out in the subsequent week or two. At that time, we’ll additionally modernise the Where’s My Phone Update? list to simulate the worldwide rollout status.

This additionally seems similar to a great time to counsel opposite installing unaccepted or leaked copies of Windows Phone software.

During the central Windows Phone 7.5 refurbish process, each Windows Phone will additionally embrace program from the handset manufacturer. This suited and interconnected firmware has been painstakingly tuned so your phone—and apps—work with all the latest facilities of Windows Phone 7.5. Since your phone requires the correct firmware to duty as designed, my recommendation is simple: drive transparent of illicit updates and homebrew tools.

By the way, in box we longed for it, we not long ago expelled latest versions of both the Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac and the Zune program for PCs, that you’ll need to refurbish your phone. If we haven’t already, I inspire we to implement it. I cruise you’ll similar to the update-related improvements, that speed up the altogether refurbish routine and give we some-more carry out over backups. A tiny favor: When we refurbish to Zune 4.8, you’ll be asked to experience in mending the refurbish process. Please cruise we do so.

I know you’re fervent to get your hands on the subsequent recover of Windows Phone—and everybody concerned with Windows Phone is similarly vehement and fervent to broach it to you. Please cling to on—we’re roughly there.

Eric Hautala

General Manager, Customer Experience Engineering

Google Wallet – Available Now (sort-of)

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Sep 212011

As many of we have already heard, Google Wallet has been launched and Sprint is personification the game. So far, only the Nexus S 4G phone is equates to of the attainment and even then, only those who have perceived the refurbish will be equates to to operate it. This equates to which for now, Google Wallet has in truth expelled a really soothing launch. There have been a couple of articles connected with the willingness of businesses when it comes to this latest record and assumingly the list is not which vast – yet. As with many latest technology, we will have to wait for and see where this leads.

The grounds is elementary – operate your phone instead of your wallet. All we do is call your device in front of a rebuilt depot and voila, the contract is done. Check out the video next – we gotta adore the execs in commercial operation clothes braggadocio of the approach this will change the approach they have money.

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Google Wallet Rolled Out for Sprint Nexus S 4G

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New phone from att, need help picking one! please help?

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Sep 212011

JoJoCahill asked:

Okay, so here’s the story. i’m in center propagandize and for my entrance up b-day i’ll substantially get a latest phone, only forward of time. the complaint is, i need assistance picking a single out.
here have been the simple details: i have AT&T as my phone company. i’d similar to a phone with:
hold screen, camera which captures great peculiarity photos and video which can go on for at slightest 15-30 minutes, i’d similar to tv similar to the lg vu has or downloadable cinema and tv shows similar to the iphone. i’d additionally similar to song i can download from my mechanism and not have to buy. i’d similar to internet (actual internet) greatfully do not indicate the iphone. i unequivocally wish something which is opposite and isn’t super renouned though still great quality. of march if the iphone is the only choice, afterwards i do not know. greatfully try to poke and try to find something which fits the requirements.

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Nokia Developers: learn Windows Phone even faster

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Sep 212011

It’s my good wish to have known currently a extensive package to precedence your growth skills whilst superintendence to set up applications for Windows Phone. The Microsoft & Nokia agreement has been described at length over the past integrate of months and, identical to Matt Bencke highlighted, a single of the goals has been to have it easy for Nokia Symbian developers to clarity Windows Phone.

So, folks from Microsoft and Nokia worked together to set up a good package to assistance we get started. This beneficial package contains the following collection and support to assistance we along the trail to superintendence Windows Phone development:

The “Windows Phone Guide for Symbian Qt Application Developers” white paper,
The addition of Symbian Qt to the Windows Phone API mapping tool
The “Nokia Windows Phone Training” roadshow, a array of developer events starting currently in Paris

These element the identical iOS/Android superintendence & mapping work we expelled a integrate months ago.

The “Windows Phone Guide for Symbian Qt Application Developers” white paper is about 100 pages orderly in 8 chapters.

Chapter 1: Introducing Windows Phone Platform
to Symbian^3 Qt Application Developers
Chapter 2: Windows Phone Application Design Guidelines
Chapter 3: Windows Phone Developer and Designer Tools
Chapter 4: C# programming
Chapter 5: Introducing Windows Phone Application Life Cycle
Chapter 6: Porting Applications to Windows Phone
Chapter 7: Windows Phone Example Applications
Chapter 8: Using the API Mapping Tool

The white paper is accessible in opposite formats (HTML, DOCX & PDF). Feel giveaway to leave comments, suggestions, and/or corrections on the online version.

Chapter 6 introduces porting tutorials, in which we will find unsentimental examples and tips on how to pier your applications, identical to the RSS Reader applications or the “Diner” example, a catalog-type grill report application. From pattern care to interpretation binding, the porting story addresses most aspects of the routine which will be utilitarian to you; the developer.

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The full list of samples and source formula is accessible to you.

The addition of Symbian Qt to the Windows Phone API mapping tool is an a single some-more perk we longed for to broach in sequence to speed up the superintendence bend to Windows Phone. For this initial iteration of the mapping, we’ve focused on the core libraries for Qt 4.7 for Symbian (QtCore, QtGui, QtLocation, QtNetwork, QtSensors, QtSql, QtXml, QtWebKit, QML Elements, QML Components ). We entice we to suggest up ideas about what a single some-more mapping we feel would have clarity and would identical to to see enclosed in the tool.

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Finally, keep an eye on the “Nokia Windows Phone Training” roadshow, starting currently in Paris, France. During this a single day precision event, you’ll clarity how to take your ideas and get them using on the Windows Phone platform. Upcoming dates and locations for the roadshow have been as follows: Milan, Italy (Sept 26), Madrid, Spain (Sept 29), Berlin, Germany (Oct 4) , London, United Kingdom (Oct 10) and Silicon Valley, USA – date & sum entrance soon!
Similar events have been additionally function in Australia: Sydney (Sept 24-25[SOLD OUT], October 8-9), Melbourne (Oct 8-9[SOLD OUT, wait for for list]) and Brisbane (Oct 8-9).
We comprehend this is only a integrate of dates and locations, so for all the developers who wish to clarity Windows Phone, I suggest which we follow at your own gait the EXCELLENT “Window Phone Mango Jump Start” online video training. And stay tuned, there’s some-more to come!

Start Today!

We’re all fervent to see the Nokia hardware using Windows Phone. Windows Phone Mango is only out of the door, so don’t wait, go get your duplicate of the “Windows Phone Guide for Symbian Qt Application Developers” white paper and take value of the guidance!

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, Sr. Technical Evangelist
@jccim – blogs.msdn.com/interoperability

[Cross-posted on the Interoperability blog]

Is Blackberry messenger free between blackberry users?

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Sep 202011

jflem21 asked:

I have T-Mobile and my partner has Verizon. We’ve been messaging with the Blackberry Messenger instead of by Text Message. I beheld it does not equate these messages as texts, is this use free?

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Submit Windows Phone 7.5 Apps today; Update 7.0 Apps in October

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Sep 202011

Windows Phone 7.5 inclination have been right away permitted in Japan and Russia, and with multiform latest phones voiced this month, the rate of apps submitted which take value of latest Windows Phone facilities (like quick app switching and mixed live tiles) is usually increasing. Many of we have been updating existent apps, so let me take a notation to follow up on my post from mid-August, “What happens when I tell a Windows Phone ‘Mango’ focus update?”

Last month I remarkable which once we tell the 7.5 chronicle of your application, we will no longer be means to cgange the existent 7.0 version. I additionally concurred which a little we competence find this limiting, as multiform of we have given confirmed. We listened you, and have been happy to inform currently which by the finish of Oct we will capacitate functionality in App Hub which will concede we to tell updates to both the 7.0 and 7.5 versions of your apps. Knowing which on normal people refurbish their apps each 3 to 4 months, this Oct timeframe provides declaration which we which you can contention 7.5 apps currently and still have entrance to your 7.0 app good prior to the subsequent refurbish is required. There’s no need to wait!

Again, I additionally endorsed which we brand the Windows Phone 7.5 functionally of your app in both your app outline and (if needed) in the screenshots. To have this simpler for we and your customers, we have written and have been creation permitted currently screenshots and conceal graphics which we can add to your own screenshots to brand your app as optimized for Windows Phone 7.5 (examples below). These have been the only screenshot content overlays which will pass certification. These latest customary design resources have been right away permitted here and will be permitted around App Hub shortly.

Now is the time to contention your Windows Phone 7.5 extended app if we wish to be there when business take their initial large punch out of Mango.

Thanks for your ongoing feedback to assistance us set up a improved knowledge and larger event for you.

Todd Brix,
Senior Director, Windows Phone Marketplace

Logitech Harmony link, iPhone Skype vulnerability, iPhone 4S chip leak

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Sep 202011

Logitech has voiced a ultimate product called the Harmony Link which turns the iPhone, iPad, and Android inclination in to a concept remote. The app pairs with a WiFi IR blaster and supports the macros for becoming different inputs for tasks similar to examination movies.

The ultimate chronicle of Skype for the iPhone has a disadvantage inside which can concede entrance to your hit book. The disadvantage allows Javascript formula to be executed on the iPhone which is placed in to the user name of the Skype comment and afterwards executed to take your hit list.

The iPhone 4S thinly slice has leaked and shows the shade underneath power. The phone isn’t put together, all we see is the courage of the device, though it is cold to see.

Google+: 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107…

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Sep 202011

We proposed the Google+ plan to assistance have online pity some-more similar to real-world sharing. Of course, in hold up we increasingly share on the go, so over the past ~90 days we’ve grown Google+ apps for Android, iOS and the mobile web.

During this time we’ve finished lots of improvements to the project, and in fact, the organisation only voiced the 100th latest underline altogether (open signups). But the work is distant from done, and currently we’re bringing 7 a single some-more Google+ facilities to your mobile device.

Hangouts on your mobile (a.k.a. underline #92)

Seeing someone face-to-face is a single of the many critical ways we can bond with them. Unfortunately we’re mostly as well busy, as well distant away, or as well indeterminate to have meetups a unchanging occurrence. That’s because we’re creation Hangouts accessible on phones with Android 2.3+ and front-facing cameras (iOS await entrance soon). Just find an active hangout in the Stream, and we can stick on your friends face-to-face-to-face:

Hangouts on your phone: Stream View (left), Green Room (center), Portrait Mode (right)

101, 102, 103. You asked for it

We take your feedback really seriously, and we do the many appropriate to broach your most-requested facilities as fast as possible. So currently we’re rising 3 some-more things you’ve been asking for in Google+ mobile:

Improved SMS support. Users in the US and India can right away post to Google+, embrace notifications, and reply to organisation messages around SMS (with some-more countries on the way). To begin texting, only determine your phone series in Google+ settings.
Improved +mentions support. To add someone in your circles to a review (or simply get their attention), we can right away +[their name] inside a post or comment.
+1’ing comments. When we review a good criticism in the Stream, we can right away +1 it without delay from your iOS device (with Android entrance soon).

SMS (left), +mentions (center), +1’ing comments (right)

104, 105, 106. Giving we some-more choices

The many critical partial of Google+ is you, so we wish to have certain we have suggestive ways to personalize your knowledge — from selecting only the right people to share with, to switching in between the app, the web, and SMS as we see fit. Today we’re vehement to pierce 3 latest options to mobile users:

Edit your form photo. You can right away put your many appropriate face forward, from where we occur to be. Just revisit your profile, click edit, and we can select or take a latest picture.
Customize your notifications. Some notifications might be some-more critical than others, generally when you’re on the go. Now we can confirm which ones we see (or not) on your phone.
Make a little room. If you’re receiving lots of photos, or installing lots of apps, afterwards inner storage can infrequently shrink. That’s because we can right away pierce the Google+ app to SD storage on Android devices.

Edit your form print (left), Notification settings (center), Move to USB (right)

107. So prolonged Huddle, hello Messenger (and hi there, photos)

As we pierce from singular margin hearing to open beta, we’re renaming Huddle to Messenger. More importantly, we’re adding latest functionality to Messenger which creates organisation information exchnage even some-more fun: print sharing. So right away when you’re sitting down for a meal, or kicking behind on vacation, we can uncover your circles what’s happening, right this second:

Messenger: Homescreen (left), Choosing a Photo (center), Posting a Photo (right)

We goal we suffer today’s turn of Google+ mobile features. There’s copiousness left for us to do, so we’ll keep listening, and operative to have your mobile knowledge which most better. In the meantime, we can try the latest app (on Android and the mobile web today, and on iOS soon), and let us know what we think.

Posted by Punit Soni, Google+ Mobile PM

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