June 20, 2013

Windows Phone 7 - News


“Dell Venue Pro” Review and Hands-on Video

The Dell Venue Pro is also slightly on the bigger side, compared with the current range of Windows Phone 7 models, but it makes up for the larger footprint with a solid chassis and a portrait-sliding keyboard. The 4.1-inch 800 x 480-pixel AMOLED panel slides up to reveal a full QWERTY keypad. Although the slightly [...]

Dell Venue Pro WM7 Phone Releases on Nov.8

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Dell Venue Pro is a unique Windows Phone 7(WM7) device , and Dell officially announced the phone a few days ago during the launch of WP7 in USA. The Phone will be available via Microsoft and Dell channels starting November 8 and November 15, as a leaked screenshot hinted yesterday. Dell Venue Pro comes with [...]

Windows Phone 7 Launches with 5% Mobile OS Market Share and more than 2000 Apps at Marketplace

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Microsoft is coming back to the smartphone OS wars with the launching of Windows Phone 7 officially today. Microsoft currently holds 5% of the global smartphone OS market share with Windows Mobile according to Gartner research. Windows Phone 7 would need to gain 9% to catch the Apple iPhone and 12% to take on Android [...]

Microsoft Announced XBox Live Games for Windows Phone 7

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Microsoft have today revealed the launch line-up for the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 devices, and boy, is it a great list! But first, for those of you unaware, here’s a brief description of the LIVE fuctionality that the phones will offer when they’re released this Holiday season: Windows Mobile 7 phones, which will hit the [...]

Gamescom 2010 – Microsoft Announced Age of Empires Online and Micosoft Flight

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Today Microsoft announced a couple of key titles for their Games for Windows – LIVE service. Both are revivals of long-running PC game franchises that went dormant after their developers closed shop. At the Gamescon 2010 conference in Cologne, Germany, Microsoft Corp. announced the first series of Xbox LIVE games that would launching on Windows [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Says that they were Now Focusing on an iPad Rival

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In the official transcript of Microsoft annual financial analysts meeting Thursday, the Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said was one of the top issues on his mind: the competitive threat of Apple’s iPad. He continues, that the Microsoft is hard at work preparing a Windows-based alternative to Apple’s already-popular iPad tablet. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, and [...]

HP Only Making WebOS Devices not Windows Mobile 7

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HP Senior Executive Todd Bradley told CNBC that the company will use WebOS, the mobile operating system acquired when it purchased Palm, on smartphones. HP will not be selling any Windows Phone 7-based devices, Bradley said. It’s quite obvious, why would a company go for something some other company provides, when it has its own, [...]

Microsoft Gives Windows Phone 7 Devices to Their Employees

If you remember that the Google handed out G1’s as a holiday bonus (thanks Gizmodo). Now Microsoft is handing them out, not as a bonus but probably as a way to get everyone excited about the company’s latest version of its mobile OS. With this latest reboot of Windows Mobile, Microsoft needs to hit it [...]

Is Windows Mobile a Good Rival of Android, iOS and Symbian ?

While there’s still shockingly few details about the launch of the Windows Phone 7 platform, Microsoft has now at least revealed a list of manufacturers that will be producing the first set of Phone 7 handsets. The manufactures are Asustek, Dell, HTC, LG, and Samsung are all working on Windows Phone 7 devices, although you [...]

Watch Unboxing Video of Windows Phone 7 Technical Preview

Microsoft is sending out LG and Samsung developer phones loaded with the Windows Phone 7 Technical Preview. I have one for a few weeks and will be putting it through its paces so check out the hardware I will be using. Check out the below video,

Check out Technical Preview of Windows Phone 7

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Microsoft has begun providing a technical preview of Windows Phone 7, its upcoming mobile operating system platform, which it says is still very much on track for the 2010 holiday season. Most of what’s in the technical preview has been seen or discussed at either Mobile World Congress in January, where Microsoft first unveiled its [...]

2010 Apple WWDC and Microsoft TechEd both Events Start on Monday, June 7

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Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft and Apple. The two most valuable tech companies in the world will host competing conferences next week for IT pros and developers. While Apple gets its iGroove on with the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Microsoft will lure techie professionals to New Orleans for TechEd. Both conferences start Monday, [...]