Microsoft may have debuted the operating system this week, but it looks like developers weren’t yet ready with applications to run on Windows Phone 7. Or maybe Microsoft feels you don’t need extra apps.

Facebook is making information available through Bing to help you search for recommendations. The feature, already available, reads your friends’ profiles along with yours.

Exideas has just released its patented virtual keyboard for Android Phones. Previously available for the iPhone, MessagEase is now available as a free download from Android’s Market.

If you own an Apple computer and buy a Windows Phone 7 smartphone, you will be able to sync your data between the devices. Zune is expected to be enabled to sync with Macs as well.

MailTones, by Electric Pocket, enables iPhone users to change the email alert tone and set different tones for email messages. The app enables you to set a tone for a specific contact as well as display the sender and subject so you know if you need to read it immediately.

Say you’re in a car and you want to use WiFi instead of 3G, and the car is moving… Wiffler can connect you, only about 11 percent of the time, and get those packets sent. The process is still in the research phase, there is currently no plan for offering the product.

Five devices, four vendors, and multiple carriers represent the opening shot for Microsoft’s newly released Windows Phone 7. However, not all the devices will be available immediately.

This page includes three short videos showing Windows Phone 7 running some popular games and apps. However, Angry Birds is not among the available games.

A faster processor, more memory, and some design improvements are on tap for a new version of the Palm Pre.

Windows Phone 7 may be too little, too late. Apple and Google have already staked out the field and Microsoft’s new mobile OS lacks some of the features people have come to expect from their smartphones.