I have never been shipped any packages from Sweden. Since the past week though, I’ve been eagerly awaiting a package sent by a very creative, geeky lady and one who loves Windows Phone like me. It arrived in the mail today and it’s a Windows Phone 7 inspired pouch!

Microsoft Windows Phone division president Andy Lees took stage on the second day of the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 in Los Angeles and shared his thoughts on the upcoming Mango release of Windows Phone. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is Microsoft’s premier event for the partner community to learn about Microsoft’s road map and [...]

Tom Warren at WinRumors has posted an in-depth feature review of the upcoming Windows Phone update codenamed Mango.

Brian Gorbett and Cliff Simpkins meet over a discussion that covers the recent Nokia announcement and new features in store for the Windows Phone 7 platform which Cliff promises will “really blow people away.”

Microsoft announced certification exam 70-599 – Designing and Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications few months back. The exam will be published on July 14, 2011.

Quick Charts is a fast set of charting controls for WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7. Quick Charts for Windows Phone is an easy to use and free and open source product. The source code is released under very permissive Ms-PL license.

Although casual gaming on smartphones is very popular, most smartphone-based games are single-player games or turn-based, in which two or more players queue up on a single phone to play games. Switchboard is a cloud service that enables smartphones to link to each other for multiplayer gaming.

While the upcoming Mango release of Windows Phone brings native support for Facebook Places to Windows Phone 7, Gowalla and Foursquare are trying their might to keep the community hooked to their service.

The HealthVault team has made available Windows Phone 7 library that would enable developers to write Windows Phone 7 applications that connect directly to the HealthVault service allowing interaction with a user’s personally controlled health record.

If there’s one thing that bugs a Windows Phone fan like me, it’s the lack of support of instant messengers. Of course, this would change with the upcoming Mango release.