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While Microsoft used a basic, unbranded ASUS device to show off Windows Phone 7 at the MWC10, LG was the first manufacturer to show us a pre-production prototype device. Last night, Engadget held a video podcast to spotlight the phone and discuss Windows Phone 7 Series. The specs on this are vague except for the fact that its a slider with a 5MP camera with flash and a 3.5mm headphone jack. LG is also rumored to be releasing their WP7 phones by September 2010.
For you HTC HD2 owners out there, there’s been much debate on the Windows Phone 7 upgrade options. The hardware should be able to run it just fine, but will there be an upgrade option available? We’ve heard yes and no, but nothing official from HTC or Microsoft. Now you can voice your opinion in an online petition.
Rumor has it that there will be very few chassis designs available for Windows Phone 7 Series, with only 1 being available at launch. At the big announcement at MWC, Microsoft did say they were going to put more hardware restrictions on the manufacturer. Chassis 1 has a full touchscreen, gigahertz processor, and dedicated graphics acceleration (perhaps without a hardware QWERTY keyboard since that’s in the Chassis 2) and is rumored to be the only version available at launch.
When you hear of Games Development Conference, you probably think of XBox, PS3, Wii, and PC game manufacturers. While Microsoft is behind they XBox brand, they are planning on spending about 25% of their time at the conference talking about Windows Phone 7. The conference is on March 10th, which is before the much talked about MIX10 from Microsoft’s MWC announcement.
After reviewing the documents, you’ll see that Windows Phone 7 Series is capable of multi-tasking. Most developers won’t get complete access to native APIs, probably for security reasons. The main developer tools will be Visual Studio and Expression Blend for the XAML UI. Silverlight will also be support, as well as XNA, …
Windows Phone 7 Series has been spotted running on a HTC HD2. We already knew the HD2 would be able to upgrade to WM7, but someone at MWC10 has snapped a few shots of it in its early form.
Things to note are:
-The device had a current copy of TomTom installed, which launched and ran …
Now that the new Windows Phone 7 Series has been announced at MWC10, Microsoft has already put up a website to demo the new UI. Also, check out the quote in the screenshot above!
You can view the demo here: http://www.windowsphone7series.com/.
It covers most of the new layout features that were discussed during the press conference …
From the demonstration, the new Windows Phone 7 Series seems very smooth and everything has been very well integrated. The prototype device supports pinch-to-zoom in maps and has multitouch. The calendar app is completely revamped and is very finger-friendly. The browser is based on the desktop version of IE and has really …
Here are two possible “facts” that I have found about Windows Mobile 7. I found the first while looking at a slide entitled “Personalizing Mobile Technology To Enhance Learning And Organizational Skills” and it indicates that Windows Mobile 7 will support gesture control via it’s front-facing camera. The presenter of the slide, a Mr. Neil …
We’ve heard the rumors of a Zune Phone for a while now, and many Windows Mobile users feel that it would be a great interface to have on a phone. Similar to how Apple made the iPod Touch into the iPhone, Microsoft would be taking its popular mp3 player, the Zune, and making it …
While everyone at Microsoft seems to be hush-hush about Windows Mobile 7, Peter Clein, CFO of Microsoft, finally gave us some information. In an interview with Fox, he was asked “Are we going to see Windows 7 Mobile come out in 2010? What is your plans for that?” His response was “We …
Microsoft just released a Zune software update today, version 4.2. Microsoft enthusiast Long Zheng has been dissecting the drivers with the latest update and has found some interesting references to a Zune phone, or a phone that supports Zune.
[Microsoft.NTx86]
%Zune.DeviceDesc% = ZuneMTPZUSB, USB\MS_COMP_MTPZ
%Zune.DeviceDesc% = ZuneMTPZUSB, USB\VID_045E&PID_0710
%Zune.DeviceDesc% = ZuneMTPZUSB, USB\VID_045E&PID_063E
%Phone.DeviceDesc% = ZuneMTPZUSB, USB\VID_045E&PID_0640
%Phone.DeviceDesc% = ZuneMTPZUSB, USB\VID_045E&PID_0641
%Phone.DeviceDesc% …
More than likely this will wind up being fake, but the Chinese site QQ.com has posted a spec sheet for the successor of the HD2, dubbed the HD3. According to the sheet, its expected release date November 2010 with a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU.
Other specs of interest:
- Running on Windows Mobile 7 – This …
If you remember, the HTC HD2 is headed to T-Mobile USA, and is rumored to be the only device currently on the market to be upgraded to WM7.
Now that the HTC product page is live, you’ll see that the US version will come with some nice boosts in its specs compared to the European version …
An unconfirmed source says the HTC Obsession aka Diamond 3 will supposedly be released on At&t and T-Mobile this year with WM7 and there are no reports of a CDMA (Sprint/Verizon) version in the works.
The specs that we have so far (via WMExperts) are a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor, GSM/HSDPA connectivity, 3.7 inch capacitive AMOLED …
