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Windows Phone 7 for Dummies

by Bill Hughes (Author)
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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Unleash the full power of your Windows Phone 7!

Windows Phone 7 is the new and improved mobile platform for all Windows smartphones. The new platform has been completely rebuilt from the ground up and this guide walks you through everything that's new, from the look and feel to the underlying code to the revamped home screen and user interface experience. Placing special focus on the features and functionality that is shared across all Windows Phone 7 series models, this fun and friendly book covers a wide range of how-to topics on everything from making simple calls to using your handheld device as a mobile computer.

  • Explores the exciting new Windows Phone 7 and the completely revamped platform that will revolutionize the way you experience mobile phone use
  • Shows you how to personalize your interface and exchange and sync information with your Windows PC
  • Covers how to download, install, and use Mobile Office applications
  • Demonstrates creating, downloading, exchanging, and sharing digital media, such as photos, videos, sound, and music files with other mobile device and PC users

    Windows Phone 7 For Dummies takes your Windows Phone 7 experience to a whole new level!

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  1. ISBN-10
    0470880112
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0470880111
  3. Publisher
    For Dummies
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2010
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    7.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
  7. Print length
    298 pages
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From the Inside Flap

You have the smartest smartphone around — now learn how to make the most of it!

It's revolutionary, it does all sorts of new tricks, and it's friendlier with your PC than any other smartphone. You want to get all the functionality from your Windows Phone 7 that you paid for, so grab this book and learn how to use every feature! From the basics to playing games, music, video, and going online, here's what you need to know.

  • Meet Windows Phone — learn your way around the phone and find out what applications are included

  • The gang's all here — coordinate all your social networking contacts and facilitate communication with the People hub

  • Let's hear it — use your phone's Zune HD capabilities to get the most from music and video

  • X-citing gaming — play your favorite Xbox games, including multiplayer ones, and explore what's available on Xbox LIVE

  • Get down to business — take the Internet wherever you go and use Office Mobile apps including OneNote, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Open the book and find:

  • Why your Windows Live ID is essential

  • Cool things only your Windows Phone can do

  • How hubs help you

  • Tips on buying apps at the Marketplace

  • Multiplayer games for your phone

  • Hints for using the Windows Live photo gallery

  • Types of games available through Xbox LIVE

  • What you can do if your company uses SharePoint

From the Back Cover

You have the smartest smartphone around now learn how to make the most of it!

It's revolutionary, it does all sorts of new tricks, and it's friendlier with your PC than any other smartphone. You want to get all the functionality from your Windows Phone 7 that you paid for, so grab this book and learn how to use every feature! From the basics to playing games, music, video, and going online, here's what you need to know.

  • Meet Windows Phone learn your way around the phone and find out what applications are included

    • The gang's all here coordinate all your social networking contacts and facilitate communication with the People hub

      • Let's hear it use your phone's Zune HD capabilities to get the most from music and video

        • X-citing gaming play your favorite Xbox games, including multiplayer ones, and explore what's available on Xbox LIVE

          • Get down to business take the Internet wherever you go and use Office Mobile apps including OneNote, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

            Open the book and find:

            • Why your Windows Live ID is essential

              • Cool things only your Windows Phone can do

                • How hubs help you

                  • Tips on buying apps at the Marketplace

                    • Multiplayer games for your phone

                      • Hints for using the Windows Live photo gallery

                        • Types of games available through Xbox LIVE

                          • What you can do if your company uses SharePoint

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies (January 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470880112
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470880111
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Bill Hughes

Bill Hughes

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I am an experienced marketing strategy executive with over two decades of experience in sales, strategic marketing, and business development roles at several leading corporations including Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Motorola, and Xerox. Recently, I have worked as a consultant with Microsoft, and Tacoma Public Utilities.

I have also been an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern where I taught Business Marketing to graduate MBA students.

I graduated with honors with an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree with Distinction from the College of Engineering at Cornell University. I was elected to the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary.

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3.6 out of 5 stars
3.6 out of 5
11 global ratings

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Kang Kang
5.0 out of 5 stars Windows Phone 7 for DuMMIES (smart)
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2012
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Must book before/after you buy Windows Phones. For a penny. Of course I paid $3.99 shipping & handling. No body pickup pennies on the sidewalks nowadays. Heavy duty paper created natural looks excellent pictures (screen captures from Windows Pnone) and graphics. I myself hate the fonts, style, approach of the DuMMIES series books but this book is worth original $24.99 US. One thought: those cartoons by Rich Tennant... The author did one deed. One cartoon I still remember, old wife is at desktop keyboard, ugly potbelly bare chested boxer briefed big-footed husband lifting an iron at his iron-board to PRESS keys in a key-ring. Says "Press a Key?". (sort of similar effect)
One more nice thing about this book, it is "IN FULL COLOR". This is the only the DuM series book in Full color, bright shiny heavy duty paper.
Thanks author Bill Hughes, Wiley Publishing, Inc. et al. And Amazon.com who gave me this opportunity to buy the best deal in the West.
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John F. Connor
5.0 out of 5 stars Clear and helpful
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2012
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I'm almost seventy-five, and learning new skills to keep up-to-date is necessary. While I chafe at the appelation "dummies", it certainly is accurate in my case, and the book has helped eliminate the mystery of the Windows Phone.
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Stephen Vaughan
5.0 out of 5 stars New gizmo get a book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2011
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I decided that the time had arrived where I needed to link my computer to my real world and thought that a smartphone would do it everyone goes on saying it must be Android etc etc. but I wanted something simpler so I can get around windows 7 and decided from reviews that I would get a Windows Mobile 7 phone not being one to read reviews and take as gospel mainly because they focus on the areas I am not interested in I bought the above book so I would know the basics and could then move on to make windows mobile 7 mine. I found the book informative and as a good reference for the system ,and more quickly as a senior have made my experience with a smartphone enjoyable I found what this operating system`s shortfalls are and the book enabled me to accept that it is a new system and till it is accepted by more people it will equal or better Android system which I know nothing about. I would recommend this book to help understand and use Windows Mobile 7
I have an HTC HD7 and am glad I got this book as a user manual and Instruction Books assume you know more than you do
Its only drawback is perhaps too biased towards Microsoft but then you are buying a Microsoft product
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J. McNicol
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2012
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I am a great believer in the "for Dummies" books and have always found them to be interesting and helpful.
Unfortunatly this one does not live up to the rest,written for the American market it still tends to gloss over some of the basic facts-how to delete certain apps. that appear not to want to be deleted-how to download certain apps. and what does some of the windows messages mean?
Of some use but disappointing I would not recomend this book.
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Chris Davison
3.0 out of 5 stars OK
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2013
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So far I have not finished using this book and it has not been particularly helpful to date.

This may. of course, be me not understanding.

So far I have not been able to apply information to my Nokis Lumia 610
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Nils
2.0 out of 5 stars Way too shallow - now largely obsolete
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2015
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Lots of illustrations, but extremely lean on content. I - and my wife - was expecting much more including useful tips and tricks.
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