Windows phone for Australia

Last week a new feature for Windows Mobile 6.x developers was rolled out, to enable marketing of their applications. A deeplink points a user directly to your applications details page either on the Marketplace website or the Marketplace on-device...

Deeps De Silva, from our Developer team here in Oz, has started an MSDN discussion thread on Developing for Windows Phone 7 Series & he wants your thoughts. The discussion thread is at  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/msdngeneralau...

The ROM Update to Windows Mobile 6.5 for the Telstra version of the HTC Touch Pro2 is now available. You can download the update from http://www.htc.com/au/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=250&cat=2&dl_id=901 DonK

Charlie Kindel has posted that recordings of MIX10 sessions are starting to be posted on http://live.visitmix.com/videos For the Windows Phone specific listing check out Charlie’s post at Videos of MIX10 Windows Phone sessions . DonK

In the Keynote at MIX 10 today the availability of the developer tools was announced. One highlight in the announcement is that the entire Windows Phone developer environment is free, and will be when the product releases. The Windows Phone 7 Series developer...

I’ve held off posting about Windows Phone 7 Series as there has been so much great information that sites like Engadget, Gizmodo, WMPoweruser have posted. In addition to this Microsoft’s own Charlie Kindel has started to post on what’s public about developing...

I just posted about the changes in the client update for Marketplace for users of Windows phone, so what was announced/has changed for developers. This is taken from Todd Brix post on the WMDev blog . Developer experience improvements Free app submissions...

If you fire up the Marketplace client on your Windows phone this morning (in Oz) you should get the updated Marketplace client pushed to you. You’ll be asked to install an update. What is this bringing to customers on the phone? Two core things in Australia...

Stay in tune with the kick-off of the Super14 season with the WWOS Rugby Union app. If you want to track scores/results/live game info on your Windows phone the Wide World of Sports Rugby Union app is now available in Marketplace – and it’s free! How...

Jan 27th saw the Samsung Omnia Pro (sometimes known as the Jackie) launched in Australia. The Samsung Omnia Pro is a Windows phone for the highly mobile professional - enabling you to keep in sync with the office without losing touch with the rest of...

It’s finally here!! HTC’s HD2 has landed in Oz, and will be officially available thru Telstra & their dealers from tomorrow Tuesday January 19th! All T-Life stores will have live HD2s in-store, so visit your local store to check it out. The HD2 is...

http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/phones/phone_details.cfm?phone=HD2 DonK

Paul had posted a comment on the Snap from a previous post , in his post he asked how to setup the Snap to use MMS on the 3 network. “I am having fun with my HTC Snap (thanks BTW). I have tried to load a new ROM on it as I dont use telstra and all the...

Here are a set of offers that Optus currently has available on Windows phones. HTC Snap: from $49 per month ($0 upfront) on the Optus ‘yes’ business cap plan. See http://www.optus.builtforbusiness.com.au/phone.php?phone_ref=HTC_Snap for all the details...

As we get to the end of 2009 I want to provide you a guide on getting started with Marketplace, and from this we (the WMOz team) plan in the new year to provide a series of reviews of applications available in Marketplace. For this first post I’ll focus...

Last Friday I let you know that the Wide World of Sport (WWOS) Cricket Widget was available for 6.5 touch-based (Professional) phones. The good news this morning is those of you with 6.5 non-touch (Standard) phones, can now get this widget for your Windows...

Do you own a touch base Windows phone (running Windows Mobile 6.5) and want to stay up to date with the latest cricket scores, news, updates this summer? Then start Marketplace on your phone and type “Cricket” into the search bar. You can also access...

The HTC HD2 is coming to Oz, in January, and you have a chance to win 1 of 5! If you’re keen for what CNET describe as " a Windows Mobile phone like we've never seen before ”, then click the link below to enter – you just register your interest and...

If you’re looking for a local (Oz) review of the HTC Touch Pro 2 then head over to Technology at Play – a local forum run by a Windows Mobile MVP, based in Brisbane. To read the review head to: http://www.technologyatplay.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22587#post22587...

If you’ve purchased an HTC TouchPro2 via the open channel market in Australia then you can get the official update to Windows Mobile 6.5 for this phone. Click on this link http://www.htc.com/au/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=790&news_id=393 and follow...

On October 7 when Windows phone was launched, the HTC Touch Diamond2 was made available with Windows Mobile 6.5 from Telstra. Before we launched 6.5, Optus and a lot of open channel/retail partners were selling the HTC Diamond2 powered by Windows Mobile...

Last week I posted about updates including purchasing of apps from the PC had gone live. At the time I noted that changes were coming to enable Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 devices to purchase apps from Marketplace. On Tuesday morning Oz time the product...

There have been a set of upgrades go live on Windows Marketplace for Mobile through today – full details are on the updates is available on the windows team blog . Summary of the updates; 1. Developer Portal improvements & stronger anti-piracy protection...

If you’ve purchased an HTC Snap in Australia in the last few months you can now get the official Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade from HTC - http://www.htc.com/au/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=262&act=sd&cat=all Before you apply the ROM update I’d encourage...

Our friends in WA decided that their trial of Day Light Saving was just that, and back in May the referendum decided not to implement it permanently, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/16/2572628.htm?section=australia . There is now a patch available...