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Windows phone is like your PC just grew legs. The cast of Windows characters you already know - Internet Explorer,
Microsoft Office, Outlook - on your phone, in your pocket. Take the web, your work, and your friends with you
wherever you go. Windows Mobile platform lets you reuse your existing Visual Studio and .NET development skills and server infrastructure to extend your applications to mobile devices and give users new experiences and solve new business problems.

 

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HTC Arrive

 

Sprint announces our first Windows Phone 7 device, HTC Arrive. HTC Arrive offers a glance-and-go experience combined with an innovative design that features a sliding full QWERTY keyboard and tilt-up display. HTC Arrive will be available beginning March 20.

 

HTC Arrive features

  • Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon Processor
  • 3.6 inch WVGA capacitive touch screen with multi-touch capability
  • Full HTML Web browser with Bing Search
  • Windows Phone Marketplace offers a single view to showcase apps, games, music and premium Xbox LIVE games
  • Corporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync), personal (POP & IMAP) email, IM and text messaging
  • Office Hub gives you read/edit/share access to popular Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), plus Sharepoint and OneNote
  • 5MP camera with flash, autofocus and digital zoom and 720p HD camcorder
  • 16GB internal memory for storing pictures, videos and large files and Windows Live Essentials 2011 for 25GB of storage in the cloud at no additional charge
  • Photo Gallery to organize, store and edit photos, and Live Mesh for consumers or small business owners who need access to their documents on multiple devices
  • Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n)

Click here to learn more.

HTC Touch Pro2

 

HTC Touch Pro2 upgrade 2.04.651.4 is now available.

  • This version offers the following fixes, feature updates and enhancements:
  • Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade
  • Additional HTC Sense user interface enhancements
  • Improved social networking integration
  • Variety of minor bug fixes
  • Windows Marketplace for Mobile offers a rich and integrated marketplace of quality applications for purchase using Windows Live ID

Update your software

 

Important Note: All data will be deleted from your Touch Pro2 during the upgrade to version 2.04.651.4 (music, pictures, 3rd party applications, etc). Before starting the upgrade, be sure to back up all of your data using ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center, if you are running Windows Vista. Click here to view detailed instructions on backing up your data using ActiveSync.

 

To update your software, go to the HTC Touch Pro2 download site and follow the step-by-step instructions.

 

Visit the Support web site to check your current version and get the latest fixes and enhancements.

  • Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
  • Microsoft Office Mobile
  • Windows Mobile email (work & personal)
  • Adobe Flash Lite plug-in
  • Customizable Today screen displays the features that user accesses most often and shows important information
  • Users are allowed to receive calls, keep track of upcoming calendar appointments and view recent activities while the phone is still locked
  • Microsoft My Phone service allows users to access, manage and back up their personal information
  • Microsoft’s Tellme mobile application provides voice-enabled mobile search for business listings, traffic, maps, driving directions, movies and weather
  • Internet Explorer Mobile 6 offers powerful Web search capabilities
  • stereo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
  • Instant messaging and threaded text messaging
  • Easy access to popular social networking sites, including Facebook, Flickr and Twitter
  • Supports a variety of Sprint services, including Sprint Navigation, the Sprint Music Store, and Sprint NFL Mobile
  • Pre-installed SIM

 

Samsung Intrepid - Windows Mobile 6.5

 
  • 2.5-inch touchscreen display with 320×240 pixels resolution
  • 3.2 megapixel camera with video recorder capability
  • Candybar design with full QWERTY keyboard
  • Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
  • Microsoft Office Mobile
  • Windows Mobile email (work & personal)
  • Adobe Flash Lite plug-in
  • Customizable Today screen displays the features that user accesses most often and shows important information
  • Users are allowed to receive calls, keep track of upcoming calendar appointments and view recent activities while the phone is still locked
  • Windows Marketplace for Mobile offers a rich and integrated marketplace of quality applications for purchase using Windows Live ID
  • Microsoft My Phone service allows users to access, manage and back up their personal information
  • Microsoft’s Tellme mobile application provides voice-enabled mobile search for business listings, traffic, maps, driving directions, movies and weather
  • Internet Explorer Mobile 6 offers powerful Web search capabilities
  • stereo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
  • Instant messaging and threaded text messaging
  • Easy access to popular social networking sites, including Facebook, Flickr and Twitter
  • Supports a variety of Sprint services, including Sprint Navigation, the Sprint Music Store, and Sprint NFL Mobile
  • Pre-installed SIM

 

Getting Started with Windows Mobile Application Development

 

Creating programs that run on Windows Mobile phones is just as easy as writing apps for the desktop.  Follow the steps on this page and you'll have a running Windows Mobile application.

 

Get the Tools

  • Get Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. You will need Visual Studio to develop applications for Windows Mobile. It will allow you to author, debug, and package your application for delivery from one easy-to-use interface.  Learn more at the Visual Studio Developer Center.
  • Download the latest Windows Mobile SDK. The SDK contains the API header and library files you will need to access Windows Mobile functionality as well as documentation, sample application projects, and emulators that allow you to deploy and debug your application, even if you don’t have a Windows Mobile device.
  • Get ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center. You will need to have ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center in order to deploy applications to a Windows Mobile device or to an emulator. Windows Vista ships with Windows Mobile Device Center.  For Windows XP, you can download and install the latest version of ActiveSync if you don’t already have it.

Create, Build, and Run an Application

  • Create a smart device project. Open Visual Studio 2008. On the File menu, select New->Project. In the Project Types pane on the left, expand Visual C# and select Smart Device. In the Templates pane on the right, select Smart Device Project and click OK.  When the Add New Smart Device Project wizard pops up, select Device Application and click OK.

  • Add a little functionality. From the Toolbox pane on the left, select a button and drag it onto the form in the design view.  Double-click the button to create a Click event handler.  In the handler, type the following line of code:

    button1.Text = “Click!”;

  • Build and deploy your application. To run your application on a Windows Mobile device, make sure it is connected to the desktop. Press the F5 key. From the drop-down list, select a device or an emulator to deploy to, and click OK. Your application should be up and running.

Tutorials

Downloads

Sprint Device Specific Tools

Reference: Learn more at Microsoft's Windows Phone Website & Windows Mobile Developer Center

Develop

 

Developer Code Signing

 

Use the sample certificates in the Windows Mobile SDK for internal development and to test the results of normal-mode or privileged-mode sign code. The SDK includes a set of certificates (and private keys), located in the tools directory under SdkCerts.cab (Certs.cab in WM 6.0 SDK).

 

Technical Articles and Documentation

Best Practices

Test

 

Best Practices

Release

 

Technical Articles and Documentation

Distribution

Reference: Learn more at Microsoft's Windows Phone Website & Windows Mobile Developer Center

Cool Stuff

 

Featured apps

 

 

 The My Phone application may be used with Windows Mobile 6 phones and is pre-loaded on most newer Windows® phones. If the software is not already on your phone, please visit Microsoft's My Phone webpage or enter http://myphone.microsoft.com/install into your mobile phone’s browser to download the software.

 

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