Microsoft bringing check-ins to Windows Phone this fall
One thing we tried to push at MIX11, despite all the awesome news, was all that info was for developers, not consumers (though we tried to show why it mattered). The point being that Microsoft still has tricks up their sleeves for Mango/7.5 that we have yet to see and we're sure there will be plenty.
Evidently one of those is a built-in, native check-in system analogous to Foursquare or Google's latest addition to Latitude. This will be done via your Live account, which makes sense since you use that to "log onto" the phone.
All of this comes way of one @KADacey, who is testing said system with the Twitter source '(WindowsLive)INT', which when clicked links back to the Windows Phone site (curiously, he has since deleted the above Tweet, ahem). To make it more interesting, Manan Kakkar points out that '(WindowsLive)INT' is the Live Messenger Facebook app. So take that for what it's worth, which we think is a lot.
Big thanks to clubdirthill for finding the original tweet and Manan Kakkar for digging deeper
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HeyCori says:
Can someone explain what this would be used for?
wheelerk says:
I'm not sure either. But I'm more interested in the other stuff that was not mentioned at MIX11 that will be for the consumer. I also heard this in one of the podcast interviews that MIX is more for developers and the new features of Mango mention there was only to get the devleopers excited. They mentioned that there are alot of other consumer features that were not mentioned and that they would be slowly releasing more information as we get closer to the Mango release.
jsantana0793 says:
Public perception is what matters and Microsoft is not only late in the game, but also behind in what should have been available since the beginning when the phone was about to be released to Market. There should had been careful studies of what the competition had going and made sure those things were ironed out, right out the gate. It is really discouraging for any consumer to consider Windows Phone to be a contender when it is very clear that the OS is incomplete. No push notification, the lack of real apps to show what the OS can do, no HTML 5, no Silverlight, no Flash, no multitasking and so on. These things should have been out since day one. There should not have to be an update, then another update to add those features. It's hard to argue the fact that Windows Phone 7 is worth having when it lacks most of the features that should have been available. Instead, now it’s a waiting game, while this is happening. Android and IPhone will continue to release more advancement that will not be available till much later on Windows Phone 7. No good for Microsoft new it new Phone OS.
Jazmac says:
Give it a rest jsantana. We heard the same "commentary" when the Nexus One launched. "Too late to the game." Iphone is king. There is no mistaking the fact that better is always better. Windows Phone is simply better. In fact much better. I left android and ever since I've had my Windows Phone, I haven't missed any parts of android. I've even moved my contacts to Windows Live and its all good. Microsoft is playing what is known as the long game. They are keenly aware of what they are up against including dealing with perceptions such as yours. A lot of whining, complaining and comparisons to hardware spec. I believe that "doing it right" trumps the shotgun approach the ad agency uses. IE Dump truckloads of substandard hardware on the market, claim activations rather than actual sells numbers and get people like you to plant tales of woe on a pro-Windows Phone website. Its obnoxious and you're wrong at the top of my voice. So save the trolling. Its repetitious and mad boring.
