Videos: Windows Phone 7 Multi-tasking, Cross-Platform Gaming
A couple of interesting videos have come out of the Windows Phone 7 Series demos at TechEd Middle East. The first shows multi-tasking with the phone’s Internet Explorer browser, showing the browser instantly loading a site (either having been paused earlier or loading the site in the background) and then having a site collapse into a live tile on the start page. The second shows cross-platform gaming, with a game starting on a PC, then shifting to Windows Phone 7 Series, and finishing on Xbox.
Videos after the break:
Web Browser Multi-tasking
Cross-Platform Gaming
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