Donnerstag, Oktober 14th, 2010 | by Richard Deininger | Posted in Mobility, Windows 7 Phone | 3 Comments »
We did an update for Mexico (Meiern, Mäxchen,…) to run on Windows Phone 7.
Currently we are trying to get this on the WP7 Marketplace and decided to give you a developer preview.

Don’t forget to check out the Video:
So, if you have WP7 SDK and/or Zune, try out the new version.
Mexico
Montag, Mai 3rd, 2010 | by Richard Deininger | Posted in Windows Mobile Marketplace | 1 Comment »
We got the HTC Touch 2 thanks to Marketplace and our freeware game “Spin the Bottle”,… so, we didn’t get the grand price, but still not too shabby.
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Cool features the HTC Touch 3D surface (of course) and the Zoom bar.
But see for you self: Specifications.
Only minor drawback: It got no G-Sensor,.. so we have to play Spin the Bottle with our fingers.
Donnerstag, Januar 14th, 2010 | by Daniel Siegl | Posted in .NET Framework, Compact Framework, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile Marketplace | 5 Comments »
Yesterday night I was pretty excited to see that Spin the Bottle was downloaded 10001 time since the launch of Marketplace in October 2009.

It all started with a joke on Teched EMEA 2008 in Barcelona. By the end of the evening, Rizo got so enthusiastic about it that he stayed awake and delivered the first release already in the morning. Consequently we were able to show Spin the Bottle to the World in the very last panel discussion at the event.
When Marketplace got in place last October we decided to put it on to gain experience with the application store and certification process, so we would have experience for consulting our customers.
We know the graphics of our app could be nicer – yet we never imagined it would be so successful. The development was done more or less in spare time, on the positive side the “lean” graphics make it work also on OMAP 200 based devices like the HTC Wizard.
Windows Marketplace was a little rough around the edges when it came out! Nevertheless I have to admit it got quite mature rather fast.
During the certification process the feedback from the marketplace authority about issues in our software when failing the test where precise and always to the point. This is a clear indication that enough manpower is involved in the testing and as a result the quality of the customer experience is kept high. As a consumer I like the way the application store works – nevertheless the IPhone’s software distribution has a still a little edge because it informs proactively about software updates. Because it can leverage a Push mechanism.
From my inside-the-industry position the only thing that’s strange is that companies who don’t have their HQ in one of the Windows Mobile Marketplace markets are banned from publishing software!
Dienstag, November 17th, 2009 | by Christian Zauner | Posted in Programmierung Allgemein, Windows Mobile | No Comments »
Endlich ist Windows Mobile Marketplace auch in Österreich verfügbar. Seit heute gibt es auch einen Client für 6.0 und 6.1 – damit gibt es auch hier kein Hindernis mehr an Spin-the-Bottle zu kommen ;-] Einfach mit dem Handy auf: http://mp.windowsphone.com

Auf meinem Samsung OmniaII mit 6.5. wurde ich eingeladen, die neue Version von Marketplace zu installieren – was aber klaglos funktioniert hat – und jetzt gibt es endlich auch eine größere Auswahl an Apps. Überrascht hat mich die doch recht große Anzahl an kostenpflichtigen Apps – aber vielleicht gibt es da ja einige brauchbare Dinge. Wir halten Euch am laufenden über unsere Testkäufe.
Apropos kostenpflichtig – Spin-the-bottle steht auch weiterhin zum kostenfreien Download bereit
Montag, September 28th, 2009 | by Daniel Siegl | Posted in Windows Mobile | 2 Comments »
Let’s hope this is not true!! – This would be a big disappointment!
Additional details on using Windows Marketplace from a phone running Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 will be provided by the end of the year. Stay tuned.
WM 6.0/WM 6.1 – no marketplace till 2010 -> TamsPPC
Mittwoch, September 23rd, 2009 | by Daniel Siegl | Posted in Compact Framework, Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »
In der deutschsprachigen MSDN Webcast Serie: Windows Mobile: Applications at your fingertips geht es um die Entwicklung von Windows Mobile 6.5 Anwendungen. Es ist selten das mir ein deutsprachiger Webcast gefällt! Peter Nowak, Patrick Getzmann und Simon Hackfort gelingt schaffen es aber sehr gut die Inhalte rüberzubringen.
Highlights:
- Hooper
- Windows Mobile Marketplace
- Gesture API
- Windows Mobile 6 Consumer Solution Accelerator