One of the big announcement at Nokia World was the introduction of Nokia Drive, Nokia’s proprietary voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation tool provided with Windows Phone.
It’ll complement to Windows Phone’s already built-in navigation via Bing Maps.
At this 'Port' you'll find interesting stuff related to Microsoft and other technologies along with some random interesting things. The word 'mera' in the title is a Hindi language word meaning 'My'.
One of the big announcement at Nokia World was the introduction of Nokia Drive, Nokia’s proprietary voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation tool provided with Windows Phone.
It’ll complement to Windows Phone’s already built-in navigation via Bing Maps.
Just sometimes back Nokia CEO Stephen Elop unveiled Nokia’s first Windows Phones, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710 at the NokiaWorld.
Nokia Lumia 800 Specs -
The Nokia Lumia 800 is a flagship device, bearing more than a similar resemblance to the much-lauded Nokia N9. Behind the 3.7-inch AMOLED display sits a 1.4GHz processor with hardware acceleration and a separate graphics processor. Storage is taken care of, too, with 16GB on board and a further 25GB available free on SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud-based storage space
The Nokia Lumia 800 will be available in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK in November.
It will be priced at approximately €420 before taxes and subsidies. It is also scheduled to be available in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan before the end of the year, and in further markets in early 2012. It’s available to pre-order in select countries now via the Nokia website.
For a detailed Specifications, in action video, 3600 view and much more , please check http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/specifications/
(picture courtesy: Windows Phone blog)
Nokia Lumia 710 Specs -
The Nokia Lumia 710 is an affordable smartphone offering a new alternative to people looking for a mid-level smartphone. The Nokia Lumia 710 offers incredible value to a whole new range of smartphone buyers. With interchangeable back covers (in a choice of black, white, cyan, fuchsia and yellow) and a choice of black or white device, there’s no shortage of personalization available, particularly when you consider the vast suite of apps on offer. Nokia Lumia 710 also sports a 1.4GHz processor together with hardware acceleration and a dedicated graphics processor.
For a detailed Specifications, in action video, 3600 view and much more , please check http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia710/specifications/
The Nokia Lumia 710 will be available in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan towards the end of the year with other markets joining early in 2012. Lumia 710 will be around €270 excl taxes.
Also on board are new signature Nokia experiences, optimized for Windows Phone. Nokia Drive turns both the new Lumia smartphones into dedicated personal navigation devices, with free turn-by-turn navigation and dedicated in-car user interface
Check out what Bing team has done with Bing on the new Windows Mango Phone !
Bing on Windows Phone now transcends the search box. No longer limited by text, you can now search with voice, audio and vision -
Some more features -
Bing Local Scout provides local search results and recommends nearby restaurants, shopping and other activities in an easy to use guide powered by Bing. The results are arranged by:
Bing search results now return Windows Phone Marketplace apps that are relevant to what you’re searching for.
For an in depth look at how this works, check out Ben and Stefan’s video covering Bing on Windows Phone 7.5:
(Source: Windows Phone 7.5: Bing(o) on Mango )
Windows Phone Mango was grabbed by WindowsPhoneUK from one of the teams at the London press conference to shoot a walkthrough of some of the great new features that are coming to Windows Phone Mango -
A Web-based Windows Phone Marketplace will be coming later this year with the public availability of Mango. This was blogged by Todd Brix -
Senior Director, Windows Phone Marketplace.
The Web version of Marketplace will launch with the new OS later this year and give customers another vehicle for discovering your great apps and games. And as a Windows Phone developer, you get all of the added visibility with no extra work. Just as on the phone, customers will be able to browse the full catalog, view screenshots, read application details and reviews and choose from all of the supported languages for that app. This offers customers another way to more thoroughly and confidently browse your apps from the comfort of their PC’s web browser. With the Web version of Marketplace, we will also have more placement areas in which to provide featured apps with extra visibility and merchandising possibilities.
Apart from those details, here’s some more info – This marketplace will be expanded from 16 at present to 35 markets where Marketplace will be operational that includes India, Japan, Korea, Brazil . So more developers, more consumers. (Source: Matt Bencke – GM Developer Ecosystems on Channel9 )
So watch out for Web Windows Phone Marketplace along with Public Mango updates.
UPDATE : Here’s a list of countries where with Mango, Windows Phone Marketplace will expand from 16 to 35 countries where both app submission and app purchase will be supported locally -
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| Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA | Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, Korea (South), Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan |
“In addition, Windows Phone Marketplace now supports app submission in China, Israel and Luxembourg. For those countries that are not yet locally supported by Marketplace, we continue to expand the Global Publisher Program we announced in early March. Today, developers in 69 Middle Eastern and African countries can submit applications via Yalla Apps. App Port supports 13 countries in East Asia. APPA Market is available to developers in 19 central European countries. And both Device7 and MTel service China.”
For more details please check
The new Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta , Mango can be used to develop Applications for both 7.0 and 7.1 version of Windows Phone OS releases.
You can download this release in .iso format for offline installation. (717 MB)
Else if you want web installer and for more details please check here.
The Windows Phone Developer Tools includes the following-