If you’re coming to Windows Phone 7 for the first time, you might be a bit surprised to find a phone that looks quite unlike any other mobile platform on the market. Thanks to the Metro user interface (known as the Metro UI) Windows Phone 7 devices feature a combination of a tile-based approach (which provide access to the various “hubs”) and a similar menu system to that found on Zune HD devices. Combined with some easy to remember gestures, the Metro UI makes Windows Phone 7 an extremely easy-to-use platform. Finding Your Way Around Windows Phone 7 The Start screen on

Touch-screen devices always require gestures from the user in order to access certain functions and delivery specific commands. Even going back to the old Pocket PC devices with their stylus-based interface, certain shapes could be “drawn” on the screen to achieve specific tasks, such as entering or editing text. While some of these gestures are still in use – most notably on Windows 7 tablets – many of them have been superseded as Pocket PCs became Windows Mobile and latterly Windows Phone 7. With touch screen phones that require just a couple of fingers, the matter of

One of the things I’ve missed from Windows Phone 7 is the ability to wander around a high street book store and check the price of comparative titles online at Amazon. While it’s been a long time coming and for some reason seemed to be delayed in favour of the Kindle app, finally Amazon Store for Windows Phone 7 has been released! Offering all of the expected features – search products, browser, add them to a wish list or stack them in your cart – the Amazon app is available free as of today in the USA with the UK version set for release some time soon (we

The truth about Windows Phone 7′s sales figures might be some way from being formally confirmed by Redmond, but there remains a buzz about the popular mobile platform, particularly in Germany. Teutonic mobile phone users have been snapping up the new mobile platform from Microsoft with regularity if the enthusiastic response from Deutsche Telekom is anything to go by. Ingo Hofacker is Deutsche Telekom’s Head of Consumer Marketing, and as such he certainly has his fingers on the pulse as to which mobile devices sell and which don’t across the European Union. “We are

All right folks tonight we are live from New York City and in one corner of the ring is the past master of propaganda in Google and its hotshot Android, on the other side is the sensation that has engulfed the planet in iOS from Apple and going up against them in the coming year will be the young gun released right now Live- Windows Phone 7 Microsoft. Boy, this whole event has the atmosphere of a classic boxing bout from Madison Square Gardens. So fitting that mobile phone OS giants will tee off with the launch of Windows Phone 7 OS from NYC! As we speak, Microsoft is on stage in