Posted on 03/24/2011 3:53:26 AM PDT by Wooly
SMARTPHONE LAGGARD Microsoft has started to roll out its first major update to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) bringing, among other things (drum roll), copy and paste.
Following last month's relatively minor preliminary WP7 update that bricked some Samsung devices, Microsoft's first major, actual WP7 update, upping the version to 7.0.7390.0, arrived without any further delays. The so-called "copy and paste update" brings faster application switching, WP7 Marketplace search, improvements to WiFi, Outlook, camera and audio and more Facebook integration.
However Microsoft knows that copy and paste functionality is what users will notice straight away. As if it were a never before seen feature on smartphones, Microsoft has even set up a website for it, making the most of a small added feature.
Speedier application switching was shown off earlier this week by an independent hacker who altered registry settings in order to retain application state in RAM.
There are other performance improvements that Microsoft itself managed to think up, including device specific optimisations, although the Vole didn't go into more detail.
Aside from improving search in its WP7 Marketplace, Microsoft has worked on improving the process to buy applications greater than 20MB using credit cards registered outside of the US. This is particularly important because Xbox Live games on the WP7 Marketplace, products that Microsoft heavily promotes, typically take up more than 20MB.
Like its previous update, Microsoft will be rolling out this latest and far larger update over time. Microsoft admits that WP7 users' waits will depend on many factors, including which device they happen to have and what mobile operator they use.
Some WP7 users will be wary of Microsoft's latest software update. Given the mess that Microsoft made with its first WP7 update, which only made changes to the software update procedure, they must be hoping that the Vole did more testing with one that makes significant changes to WP7.
Microsoft makes a mobile phone OS? Never heard of it.
It is actually a very good OS and you can convert videos to an .flv format so that they do not take up alot of room like an MP4.
I use Jing to create a lot of mp4 videos. Jing can also be used to create swf files. The mp4 files made with Jing are vastly smaller than the swf files.
What do you use to convert mp4 to flv?
I will have to get back to you on the software program I use. It is straith forward by device and includes a YouTube downloader that also converts to the format you want.
The formats FLV and MP4 are containers. They in themselves have little to do with the quality of video for a given file size. These days they both most often contain a video payload compressed with the same H.264 compression, using AAC for audio. IOW, they'd be about the same size, all else being equal. But very often you will find an FLV using the older Sorenson codec for video and MP3 for audio, which means a larger file size for a given quality.
The main difference between the two is that .flv has serious limitations for streaming, while MP4 is very good at it.
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