gdp's Comments

WMPoweruser.com : Twin Blades pulled from Marketplace due to “marketplace content policy”

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:45:12 +0000

If it is still on your phone then you are fine. If you ever reset your phone or have to move to a new phone then you've lost the game; there's no way to redownload it :-(

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft comments on Windows Phone 7 HTC HD2 port

Sun, 6 Feb 2011 02:16:52 +0000

Microsoft doesn't sell phones. They sell phone operating systems. As such I don't think they would be concerned with if they sell a license through new hardware or not.

WMPoweruser.com : Windows Phone 7 Browser Update Is Imminent

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:09:51 +0000

I thought "Mango" is thus far an unconfirmed (unannounced) rumor. The only officially announced forthcoming functionality is Copy+Past and some additional performance updates.

WMPoweruser.com : WP7 Homebrew WIFI settings shortcut now available

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:17:47 +0000

I leave Wi-Fi turned on. Since I use a lot of location services applications it works out better for me to leave Wi-Fi on since Wi-Fi location tends to give better results than cell tower based location and I may not always be in an area where I can get a quick GPS fix. Between the charger in my car and being at a computer most of the day for work I generally don't find myself worrying about battery capacity that much.

WMPoweruser.com : Carmack turns down Windows Phone 7 Rage port due to no native development

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:37:08 +0000

I don't think they are holding back to give Silverlight a better chance. I think it all comes down to stability concerns and time constraints. There are features that are not yet in the Silverlight runtime on the phone (ex: Sockets) that were said to be left out because of the impact inclusion would have on the test matrix and delivery dates. I think they just concentrated on getting out what they could and will start releasing more with time. Microsoft has also said that the initial release of WP7 isn't feature complete. So there's more to come.

WMPoweruser.com : Dell Venue Pro shows up on Expansys, claims memory card support

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:07:45 +0000

From what I've been told the preproduction Samsung devices had a micro SD card but didn't support an upgrade. If you managed to pry the glued in card out the device would not book until the original card was restored.

WMPoweruser.com : AT&T to be “initial exclusive” US carrier for Windows Phone 7

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:47:41 +0000

Wasn't AT&T also the first GSM carrier with WM6.5 devices in the USA?

WMPoweruser.com : HTC HD7 specs leak with tiny picture, we have a better one

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:03:53 +0000

Unlike other phones the SD card is considered part of the internal storage. The Samsung Taylor (in developer's hands now) is implemented like this. If you get your hands on one you'll find that it's internal storage is a gig microSD card that is glued in place. You can forcibly remove the card but if you put another card in it the phone will not start until the original SD card is restored. It's possible for a phone's internal storage to be a combination of integrated memory and what would essentially be a permanant SD card. But the internal configuration would be abstracted away from the user.

WMPoweruser.com : HTC HD7 specs leak with tiny picture, we have a better one

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:53:14 +0000

I've got to agree with your thoughts on this. 8 gigabytes is the lowest amount of storage that a WP7 device can have. Such devices can be made with internal non-user accessible SD cards. I'm inclined to believe that we are seeing base model specs and the carrier can decide what capacities that they will sell.

WMPoweruser.com : Weaving ever tighter–My Phone being integrated with Windows Phone 7

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:56:03 +0000

Can't help but think that the previous siloed approach was some how a side affect of the anti-trust and other anti-competitive law suites that were brought against them.

WMPoweruser.com : OAuth kills another Windows Mobile twitter client–HTC Peep is dead : Update - Now fixed

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:17:52 +0000

It doesn't have anything to do with the operating system one uses. Twitter used to support one method for authentication, now they nolonger do. Anything that used the original method of authentication will nolonger work. To highlight the OS independent nature of this "problem" checkout tweetdeck for iPhone (Which at this moment won't work and has no update) to the official twitter client for iPhone (Which does work).

WMPoweruser.com : Windows Phone 7 WILL have MicroSD support (and other tidbits from the UI Guide)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:19:58 +0000

I thought there was a previous document that said a device *could* have an SD card but the card had to be non-user accessible.

WMPoweruser.com : WP7 Game Development books coming soon

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:23:49 +0000

Surprised there was no backreference to his other book http://wmpoweruser.com/for-developers-windows-mob...

WMPoweruser.com : Funny Video shows how other Smartphone OSes have an uphill battle against the iPhone (NSFW)

Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:57:57 +0000

Funny video. Such a shame the person that made it is about to get fired for it. http://www.inquisitr.com/77692/iphone-4-video-get...

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft announced new battery loading technology – what?!?

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:25:57 +0000

A bridge rectifier will work on AC or DC current. When building circuits I'd generally add a bridge rectifier so that I didn't have to concern myself with applying a DC current in reverse polarity and damaging something. Diodes for making them are cheap. I buy the in packs of 100. The Wikipedia entry on bridge rectifiers that I mentioned above words this much better than I can: " ...it permits normal functioning of DC-powered equipment when batteries have been installed backwards, or when the leads (wires) from a DC power source have been reversed, and protects the equipment from potential damage caused by reverse polarity."

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft announced new battery loading technology – what?!?

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:49:30 +0000

Sounds a lot like they put a bridge retifier in their circuitry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_rectifier

WMPoweruser.com : WP7 endless application list

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:15:58 +0000

This may be the same thing as the jump list others have mentioned, but as you scroll through the artist there's a letter before each section of artist. Pressing the letter shows all the letters of the alphabet ( http://www.twitpic.com/210p4b ). Chosing a letter from there will take you straight to the list of artist or albums that start with that letter ( http://www.twitpic.com/210q67 )

WMPoweruser.com : WP7 endless application list

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:40:19 +0000

Kind of seems that a solution for the problem already exists in the way that the Zune handles the long list of artists and albums.

WMPoweruser.com : Developers: Marketplace payout for July

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:36:45 +0000

A welcomed addition though would be some way of knowing where one's money is in the workflow. Carrier payments made through AT&T can take as long as 120 days to make their way to some one (According to Marketplace documentation) so there currently isn't an easy way to know how much money to expect in the next payout. The Marketplace makes incremental improvements over time, so I'm fairly confident that at some point we'll see some functionality to assist with this come later on.

WMPoweruser.com : Windows Phone 7 compass API not ready yet

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:30:42 +0000

It's worth noting that among other things Windows 7 (the desktop OS) has APIs for compasses, gyroscopes, accelerometers, temperature sensors, voltage sensors, light intensity sensors, and a lot of other sensors. I'd imagine we'll see these trickle down to WP over time.