Developers: App Hub back online, brings along new UI & Beta Marketplace support

As we mentioned yesterday morning, the official Windows Phone developer web portal 'App Hub' went down for service updates for most of the day. However, late last night App Hub reemerged and as many predicted it brought along with it quite a few new changes in preparation for Mango. Our friend Cris Rowlands at 1800PocketPC has taken a deep dive into the new changes which includes:

• Redesigned Windows Phone Hub interface
• Support for new app distribution methods
• Beta app publishing
• New app information pages (includes reviews, pricing, details, and life-cycle)
• New windowsphone.com deep-linking for apps
• Crash information which displays the affected phones' model and firmware, as well as the frequency of crashes.

For more pictures and details, read the full article at the source link. If you'd rather skip that and get your hands dirty by playing with these shiny new toys, then head on over to the App Hub to see what's new for yourself.

Via: 1800PocketPC