WP7
Nokia Drive on HTC, Samsung WP7 Phones
While Nokia has brought Nokia Maps to the windows phone devices, it has kept Nokia Drive app exclusive to its Lumia smartphones. This tutorial is a strictly unofficial way of getting it to work on any Windows Phone device out there. Keep in mind that your phone must be running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) operating system. Follow these steps very carefully and you will be running Nokia Drive in almost no time.
Windows Phone App Development
Windows Phone is getting more and more popularity lately, especially among the users who love Microsoft and Windows 7. The Marketplace is also becoming very profitable for the developers. We have compiled an easy-to-follow guide on Windows Phone App Development where we have provided interface building, design and programming tips together with suggestions on using various GUI elements.
Windows Phone 7 BackUp
According to Microsoft, Windows Phone operating system is made in such a way that nothing can go wrong. However, one nasty update can render your phone useless. While Zune does automatically backs up and restore data during the windows update process, it does not allow the user to create dumps of apps, settings and documents stored on the smartphone.
Windows Phone 7.1 Review
Microsoft Windows Phone has enjoyed moderate success till now and the future looks very promising as the Redmond giant has promised myriad new features in the upcoming Mango update which will bump the Windows Phone version to 7.1. This is contrary to the rumors earlier which suggested that the next update will be called 7.5. So, let us take a quick glance at the features packed in the upcoming update.
Windows Phone Color Banding Fix
The NoDo introduced a very peculiar problem in the HTC and Samsung WP7 devices – it forced the apps and games to use only 16 bit colors irrespective of what the display was actually capable of rendering. Microsoft said that it is the fault of HTC (in case of hTC Windows Phones) that they upgraded the color depth to 32 bit. This was outside the design requirements of Microsoft which are just 16 bit (65k colors). So, HTC reduced the color depth to 16 bit in the March update (Nodo update).
Walsh Windows Phone download
A lot of users just could not wait for the carriers and vendors to roll out the updates and followed unofficial ways to get them (example: Mozart NoDo update, HD7 Nodo update, forced Surround Nodo procedure). Later Microsoft revealed that if you have updated your smartphone that way, you would not be able to future updates (some are getting error code 80180048). So, in order to get the latest and greatest build on your phone, you will have to fix whatever ‘stuff’ was done by the NoDo.
