With more that 13,000 applications in their Marketplace Microsoft came out on stage today to make some new announcements about what’s coming to Windows Phone 7. We’ll see a major upgrade on all Windows Phone devices by the end of the year and developers are getting access to a lot of new APIs enabling new application scenarios.
Here is a summary list of the new features.
- Multitasking – in addition to faster application switching multitasking will allow applications to continue processing in the background.
- Live Tile Functionality Enhancements –
- Sensor Library Enhancements – You’ll have enhanced access to the sensor library and
- Access to the camera and compass-! Reality augmentation is possible!
- Sockets – This needs no explanation
- Database –
- IE9 – with hardware acceleration
- Silverlight+XNA – you can use Silverlight and XNA in the same application
- Twitter in the People Hub
- Background Transfers
- Profile
- Silverlight 4 Runtime
Several new countries are being added to the Marketplace. This brings up the total count from 17 to 35. The new countries are listed below with *.
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil*
- Canada
- Chile*
- Columbia*
- Czech Republic*
- Denmark*
- Finland*
- France
- Germany
- Greece*
- Hong Kong
- Hungary*
- India*
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan*
- Mexico
- Netherlands*
- New Zealand
- Norway*
- Poland*
- Portugal*
- Russia*
- Singapore
- South Africa*
- South Korea*
- Spain
- Sweden*
- Switzerland
- Taiwan*
- UK
- USA /
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