Free Windows Phone

UPDATE: YES THIS IS AN OLDER POST BUT I STILL HAVE PHONES

Are you looking for a Free Windows Phone? Are you a developer? Do you live on the West Coast of the US? (CA, AZ,ID, WA, NM, CO, NV, OR, UT) Then I have a phone for you. (Read Below) If you have been looking for a free windows phone to do development on then all you need to do is contact me. Email me at Daniel.Egan@microsoft.com and I will send you all the details. (INCLUDE WHERE YOU LIVE in the email or I will not respond — too many emails :) )

I want to be clear on a couple of things.

I am getting these phones to developers that are writing applications for the marketplace
I have a limited supply (First ones to get me the info I need)
You must live on the West Coast of the US (CA, AZ,ID, WA, NM, CO, NV, OR, UT)

If you do not live on the West Coast of the US, I can try to find your windows phone champ for you. Just post the request here : http://thesociablegeek.com/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewforum&f=3.0

This does not mean that they will have a phone for you, but if you are developing for Windows Phone, you WANT to know your windows phone champ. If they don’t have phones, they may know someone who does ( I repeat, I am not saying they have phones Smile , but they may know a way. Either way, they are a great resource for you. )

So all of you West Coasters, get your Free Windows Phone while they last. Email me at Daniel.Egan@microsoft.com for the details. UPDATE : PLEASE INCLUDE WHERE YOU ARE FROM SO I DONT HAVE TO ASK YOU IN EMAIL. (Slowes down the process)

PhoneGap for Windows Phone

If you are writing your phone applications using HTML5, you will want to check this out. PhoneGap has released an update to work with Windows Phone. What PhoneGap does is allow you to write your phone application in HTML5 and still access most of the Native API’s and wrap it in a Native application wrapper so that you can put it in the marketplace. This means you can write your application cross platform.

You can download it from here : http://phonegap.com/ or just watch the video below for more information.

Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit

The new Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit have been released. This time there is a Basic Version and an Advanced Version of the Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit

You can download both of them here : http://bit.ly/w2xF6s

The Basic Labs Include

Hello Windows Phone
Building your first Windows Phone 7 Application
Windows Phone Navigation and Controls
Application Lifecycle
Using the Pivot and Panorama Controls
Accessing Windows Phone 7 Devices
Game Development with XNA Framework
Discovering Windows Phone 7 Device Capabilities
PhotoFun
Launchers
Choosers
Weather Service Push Notifications
Using Bing Maps

The Advanced Labs Include

Catapult Wars Lab
Multi-Touch Game Development with XNA
3D Game Development with XNA Framework
Using a local database in the “Tidy” application
Background Transfer Service in the “Tidy” application
Fast Application Switching in the “Tidy” application
Creating Notifications in the “Tidy” application
Adding Multitasking to your application
XNA 3D Model Viewer
Search Integration
Background Audio Agents

You can download both of them here : http://bit.ly/w2xF6s

Windows Phone App of the Day–LilDemonsSpplatter

Those that know me, know that I am not really a gamer. I enjoy a game once in a while but usually don’t spend much time playing them. I came across this FREE game today that is really cool. It’s a first person shooter game for the phone. The graphics could be a bit better but hey… Its free. Check it out. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=LilDemonsSplatter