During our website’s live podcast, the PPCGP. Microsoft’s Brandon Watson answered questions from our users and panel about WP7 Development, including a couple special pieces of news. Here’s some of that news, in verbatim.
- The Chevron WP7 Unlocker team was NOT paid for their services, and are being kept in contact (Unofficially) to help get input for the devs
- The update coming out late Thursday or Early Friday will be involving a new OS image, which will include Copy Paste Assistance for developers, and hints to a OS update in the coming month. We assume by the end of Feb. Early March
- All apps on the market WILL get Copy and Paste, WITHOUT any updates made by the developer
- The new OS Image will include compatibility for CDMA, and CDMA is promised by the end of Quarter 2 of 2011.
- The OS is looking to grab more devs in general and help them get back on track and interested in WP7′s software
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Still nothing more than “by mid year” for CDMA….just said in yet a different way….I feel AT&T calling.
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Wasn’t the Pro 7 supposed to be out in January? Ahhh! Thanks for getting the answer to that though. I just have to be even more patient. I’m just afraid that when we get to that release on Sprint that it will only be the Pro 7 available and I’d still have to wait for that badass WP7 phone on Sprint. AT&T has 3 WP7 phones. Please release more than the Pro7 on Sprint when the launch arrives.
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T-Mobile, here I come!
You know MICROSOFT… I have been faithful to you since back in my IPAQ days. Then moved on to wm5, then wm6, wm6.1, wm6.5 (with the help from devs here)…
My wife on the other hand, loves Android… and she wont let it go.
The reason for my little rant here is that, I was one of the early “PPC” users and still like Winmo… But this is crap… the CDMA PRO7 was one of the freakin first leaks for CDMA. Rumors expected it by December, then January, then February, now, we dont even know if it TRULY be that CDMA is coming out by the summer…
WTF MS? You are loosing people due to your lack of keeping your word and changing the damn dates. Depending on the Sprint Announcement coming this Febuary, I may have to move to Android and you will loose me forever. I have alot of influence on my friends and some even have a WP7 device because I advised them to get it as I believe is an awesome platform…
I have been waiting to upgrade my phone since December… I am not waiting on that upgrade anymore… not 4 months more, that is sheer stupidity!!! Then only to be blindsided when SPRINT only releases the Pro7 and I have no option for anything else… THAT IS A JOKE!!! If I just wanted one option, I would have CrApple’s GaiPhone and move to AT&T or VWZ.
I am not changing from SPRINT to TMO or AT&T because my bill is nice on SPRINT and the other carriers dont play nice.
MICROSOFT… WTF?… WHERE IS CDMA SUPPORT? WHERE ARE THE CDMA PHONES?
Thank you for letting me get that out of my chest!!! I feel 10 pounds lighter now…. jejeje
@wud_e –
i feel u on finally hearing sum news on the release of pro 7 and i do believe that will be the only win 7 phone just so they can see how sales turn out. i guess i have to go to ebay and get a phone until da beg. of 3rd quarter.
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2Q 2011 is tooo late!
how bout we stop bein so damn impatient? please and thanks
@eric12341 – We’ve been waiting forever though. You try waiting while your GSM counterparts have about 6 devices total. You know what makes it harder on the wait? The talk about updates already and we don’t even have a device! We’ve been patient!! We really have!! Our patience though is wearing thin. I don’t plan to leave Sprint but my wifes Epic 4G is a hot device. If we can’t do better than that for WP7, Pro7 is wack, then I may have to follow suit with the Epic 4G. Come on MS! Don’t let us down. I at the very least need some announcements at MWC. Not just announcements. Good Announcements. This is Frustrating and I wish this wouldn’t fall on deaf ears. I really wish MS could see the frustrations of waiting for these devices. ANNOUNCE MORE CONCRETE DETAILS!
my patients is wearing very thin as well…..also was not happy with the info that came across about MS censoring SkyDrive; all be it for Nude content…..just wondering how far they are going with the censorship on SkyDrive content. Guess this is to be expected for OS that relys heavily on the cloud.
Still where is the CDMA love M$. Hopefully something will be announced at WMC 2011 in the next coupe of weeks.
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I have been patient as well, but now that I got my wife the verizon iphone for Valentines, that will get here monday, she will be giving me back the droid x I pawned on her so I can continue using my TP2.
Before that, I have been very tempted to buy the HD2 on Tmobile sites that were being offered for 50 bucks, then free, then they are out of stock. and the HD7 for 99 bucks new or refurb,
So NoW I was going to switch to Sprint, since the new update, I will stick with Android, and get the Thunderbolt and not the Evo. or Any WP7
I too have been a PPC user since my first iPAQ2215 and continued on with an x51v and finally going to a TP2 when I felt that smartphones had finally caught up to what my Dell could do. The problem I see with MS isn’t that they keep putting off release of upgrades and updates, it’s the fact they just don’t keep up anymore. It used to be they were the ones with the latest and greatest. If Apple came out with something, MS would leap frag them withing a few months and then Apple would return the favor. Now, when they release something, it’s already behind the curve and just barely catches up.
Now, with WP7 not really being backward compatible with the last version, they are rewriting the map and the software that I and many others who’ve been with them for so many years have to start over. When I upgrade my phone/OS in another year or two, I’ll most likely make the switch to Droid. MS has just gotten too big to keep up. Even Apple, with their marketing are getting to that point. How many times will they release a package only to update it a few short months later with no real notice.
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