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Xbox Live will hit later this year to the Polish

Chip.pl he confirmed that Xbox Live will go to Polish this year, and more specifically to the Christmas period.

Poland will have access to Arcade, Marketplace and VOD (video-on-demand). Work on the first two options are being completed - a bit worse with VOD because Microsoft needs to find volunteers who will broadcast a live TV signal over the Internet. For this reason, the company is in talks with the ITI and Canal +.

Chip.pl writes: "The decision to enter the Xbox Live was taken into Polish in 2009. They had an impact on her excellent results Xbox 360 in our market. The material, which came to CHIP, it appears that Microsoft's research also ranks in the top three most developing countries, emerging markets for consoles. In this segment, ahead of us, only Korea and the Netherlands. "- We hope that our willingness to spend money on the console popularity will translate into the Windows Phone 7 Series.

Since the first Smartphone with WP7Series digest on the market in the same period as the Xbox Live - will be able to take full advantage of the new mobile system ... without obstacles we buy, music, videos and mobile games.

Finally, Poland will not be at the end of the queue.

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HTC Tattoo ever get Android 2.1

French site frandroid.com (translate.google.com) reported that the cheapest HTC - Tattoo will also receive an update soon to the Android system 2.1. How to inform the representative of the HTC: But you must have patience because the adaptation Sense for Android 2.1 intended for Tattoo takes time. Nevertheless update is available.

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Another portion of the data from the GDC 2010, which explains a lot

As it is not difficult to guess Pocketnow.com won another interesting materials from the GDC 2010, which focuses around his computer game developers. The authors learned of the site further interesting things from the perspective of a user (not just the programmer).

The first device to hit the market will have a resolution of 800x480px. Microsoft later devices will also allow hardware to create a lower resolution: 600x360px. It is a smaller size but it is the same proportions. In addition: This is the officially permitted only if the resolution for Windows 7 Phone Seires.

Same Aspect Ratio is a very important feature because the developer will not have to worry about different image sizes. The game is written for 800x480px is automatically scaled down to 600x360px - developers do not even need to worry about touch-sensitive elements on the screen - the coordinates of the virtual buttons will also be adapted to the new dimension of the window.

Interestingly, Microsoft allows developers to write games for 600x360px with the possibility of rescaling it to 800x480px. Why someone would use such a maneuver? Once you to obtain additional performance as such will use more accurate models and better graphics effects at the expense of image sharpness. And since as I mentioned above, the proportions are the same resolution - the developer will not have to worry about adapting to a different image resolution.

It is interesting I will add, a list of graphical effects that developers will have at their disposal:

  • SkinnedEffect
  • EnvironmentMapEffect
  • DualTextureEffect
  • AlphaTestEffect

The following films were presented in a short while playing The Harvest, and now we have confirmation that the game was made from scratch in 3 weeks and that each element on the screen is fully 3D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcFYI_Hz9so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MAUOyUocYg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSpA0PCddQg

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RTVeuroAGD brigade joins the three devices during the pre -

At the beginning of the week I wrote that the recent HTC Smartphones slowly began to hit the store in the form of pre-sales. Attached to the brigade also RTVeuroAGD with much better than Komputronik prices.

And how? Such prices are no longer tolerable?

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Tangram Pro in Action, a video artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpfEFMM0k6s

I wrote a few days ago about the game Tangram Pro by James Florczyk. If you are interested in buying the application but are not sure whether it is worth. These recording should help you make an appropriate decision.

This is a short video showing the possibility of Tangram Pro.

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Sony Ericsson Poland confirms release date Xperii X10

We have already seen that the Xperia X10 will go to British operator Vodafone in April. But how is the situation for our country? Polish division of Sony Ericsson announced on Facebook that in our smartphone appears in late April / May.

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Opportunities XNA 4.0, which is additional information from GDC 2010

Home Pocketnow.com gained additional information on the XNA environment, version 4.0, which lets developers create games for Windows 7 Series Phone.

  • The mobile game can have a maximum of 20 achievements and their sum can not exceed 200 points.
  • There is native support for the creation of version trialowych games. This means that a programmer to easily be able to reduce the number of demo borni, vehicles, maps, etc. It is a pity that they do not like added support for common applications.
  • The whole system has an idea of Push Notification - that is, messages that Smartphones will be able to receive from the server using Microsoft's minimum amount of transfer. Most importantly: since the push messages are handled by a single connection. The system is able to better manage energy. Thus instead of having 5 programs wanting to connect to the Internet for information. Everything goes through one connection.
  • Push notifications can reach the device with a maximum delay of 30 minutes. Each message has a predetermined life time - the limit is exceeded, the message is deleted from the server. In addition, Microsoft can not guarantee that the message arrives at 100% but he will do as it may provide data.
  • As of today, version 4.0, XNA will not support WiFi or Bluetooth. This means that a developer creates a game Bezi not able to write applications with support for multiplayer mode, which takes place in real time. You will be able to create multi-course playerowe game, but it will have to be applications where it is not required for continuous data transfer. For the moment communication with another player will take place via push messages.

If you're a programmer, you can view the following four records to find out more about the XNA 4.0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEWLewe8Z8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2sS9hiJJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQx_qDngQKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wVrqhaYfEk

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Official Google's YouTube application received a number of 2.4

Google has its own dedicated program for Windows Mobile and S60. Today the company released a new version of the program for both systems. Smartphones have their address in order to be able to download the latest version of YouTube 2.4.

The changes are as follows:

  • The new look of the main screen
  • going into account settings, you can view your favorite movies and written letters,
  • while typing in the box "search " the program will automatically show suggestions.

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Fascinating interview with Martin Cooper, the creator of mobile phone

Once maker of mobile phones and the whole technology behind it, said that the present cells are far too complicated ... and effectively. During an interview on C-SPAN, the question: "from which the cells use " - Martin Cooper said he has two camera: Motorola Droid (Milestone in Europe) and Spartan Jitterbug.

Overall, Martin has always buys the latest Smartphones to be on time - especially since many people always ask him what uses and what they think about the different mobile systems. By contrast, old-fashioned to carry phone calls using the Jitterbug, which is easy to use and has minimal address book.

It was very interesting information but I recommend also watch the entire interview with Martin Cooper, because it is truly fascinating. It matters only a little from the USA but also know what were the beginnings of the first cell, and how the infrastructure is used for available bandwidth used for data transmission.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CZ4oLw58ek

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Tenori-ON for your Windows Phone

Tenori-ON is an electronic musical instrument, which was developed by Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori and is now sold under the brand name Yamaha. The idea of the instrument is quite simple: the staging by a vertical line is the place where the sounds are played. Using a matrix made of LEDs can be very easily changed in real-time music emerging from the instrument. Perhaps this is not the best description of the Tenori-ON but I'm not a musician.

Aurora program for Windows Mobile is exactly what the Tenori-ON but the Smartphone. With the precision of the stylus application is incredibly extensive, and each musician will feel like home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seg0nI-sFC0

The program is not cheap because it can cost U.S. $ 44.95, or 128.27 PLN but it is certainly cheaper than a physical Tenori-ON and in addition if you are creating only electronic music, you can go to your concert with the Samrtphonem. Or sitting on the bus to create a new disc, using the ambient sound - because the application can record the sample using the built-in microphone.

The program is to buy from 4pockets.com where you can also find a large gallery and a demo version of Aurora.

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