WP7: Get phone name - windows-phone-7

I'm looking for a simple information.
I want to get the name of the device the user is currently using.
For example, I want to get "Eric's Phone" (like in Zune).
Is it possible? I looked for the DeviceExtendedProperties (see link) or the UserExtendedProperties see link)
Thanks for you time.

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Google play developer name

I want to know, if I can in play console, use a company name instead of my real name, because, on the store, it displays my name next to my app, which I don't think looks good. So can I just change it to a company name? for example X corporation Is there something i need to keep in mind?
I know it's not a code related question, but I've searched for hours on google, and couldn't find anything useful.
Please help.
If you go to the main page of the console (before you choose your app) and select Developer Page, the top option is Developer Name. I expect changing that will do what you want?
It should not.
I have done recently for changing developer name to my company, then google terminated my account and removed apps from play store.
Google Play on Jan/2022
You can find out it on the Developer page.

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I just released one app yesterday. It's showing up in my country.
But I found out that it's not showing in some countries. How I can check that it's available in all the countries or not. What I need to do if I want to make int available in all the countries >
Depends on your app, maybe this helps. Otherwiese, have you read the localiaztion guidlines (like it is suggested by google to do so before releasing an app)? As far as I remember you are asked in the developer console in which country you want to rlease you app, but maybe this was only for payed apps.
Maybe this question is related to this one: This item isn't available in your country
quoting durbnpoisn answer:
Check your listing in the Developer control panel.
There is a listing for where the app is available (Pricing &
Distribution section - Manage Countries). The checkbox for whatever
country needs to be checked on. Otherwise, it's locked out.
For convenience, there is a box at the top that says "SELECT ALL
COUNTRIES".
For what it's worth, if the country in question is not on the list,
there is nothing you can do about that. There are a number of rules
and regulations about where Google Play can distribute stuff. You have
no control over that.

Is there a way to export notes taken in Google Play books?

I have taken a series of notes in a book that I read on Google Play books. Is there a way to export these notes all together as a text document or some similar format?
Google has changed this and now if you have Android device you can get your notes on Google Drive. Simply do this:
Open Play Books on your Android device
Go to Settings
Save notes, highlights and bookmarks in Google Drive - turn this ON
This feature is still not perfect. The biggest problem I have is that page number is not recorded properly for most books. Instead, you just have link that opens the page in Google Play Books. Meaning, it'll probably work for you personally, but sharing notes and making sense of notes on different devices is problematic.
It isn't perfect but here is one way to do it. After doing this you will receive a zip file with your book(s) and an HTML (or JSON) file with your notes.
Follow this link to the Google Data Tools https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/downloads
Click the Create New Archive button
Click the Select None button
Go down to Google Play Books and flick the switch on
Hit the down arrow
Either download all or click on the Select Books radio (a popup will appear where you can select none again and search at the top)
After you have chosen your books, go to Next at the bottom
Pick your export options and you're good to go.
there is no such available function at the moment. I have submitted a request already, let's see what google developers say.
It works on some books and not others apparently. I can't produce a summary/review of Guttag's book for my class.I have the print version and just bought the Playbook version.

Windows Phone 7 Page Navigation and Data Retrieving

I'm pretty new at this and not sure what the code should look like. I would like to do the following:
I want to code an application that will navigate to the 'settings page' of the windows phone device and then "read"/ retrieve the data that displays under the 'Theme page'?
I tried using the MSDN site for that exact same thing, and found it a little lacking.
Basically what you want to use is the IsolatedStorageSettings object. It's essentially a Dictionary that you can access in any page.
Here is the blog I found the most useful (it has simple examples that are free of extraneous stuff):
http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/2010/10/15/31-days-of-windows-phone-day-15-isolated-storage/

How To: Change application name based on phone language setting

I have noticed that when i change phone settings, that some of the applications on the phone change their name based on selected language.
eg. Where you change phone settings is Settings (english), Parametres (french), Configuracion (spanish)
Does anyone know how to do this for my own application?
I can change the strings inside my application. I want to change the application name that is displayed beside (or overtop) the application tile.
Microsoft wrote a detailed guide on how.
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