Microsoft Announces 10 Windows Phone 7 Phones
The Windows Phone 7 news is coming fast and hard this morning and, though Microsoft's press conference is still going in New York City, the company has already sent out the press release announcing the launch of the OS.
Microsoft today announced that we'll see 10 Windows Phone 7 devices launch in time for the holidays. Included are phones from Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung, which will be available on América Móvil, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Movistar, O2, Orange, SFR, SingTel, Telstra, TELUS, T-Mobile USA and Vodafone. Phones for Verizon and Sprint will launch in the first half of 2011.
During the Windows Phone 7 event this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the new OS is focused on personalization and efficiency. Describing his phone as "wonderfully mine," the CEO showed off how he'd personalized the tiles on his home screen and said that the company had focused on minimizing the time we spend tap-tap-tapping away on our phones.
"Windows Phone 7 was designed to deliver a mobile experience that has the phone working better for people, bringing together the things they care about most and helping them to get things done faster," Microsoft said in a statement.
Despite the fact that Windows Phone 7 was built from the ground up, it does boast integration with some of Microsoft's most popular services. The tech industry has long speculated that Microsoft would build a Zune phone and was disappointed when the Zune HD didn't have phone functionality. Though these Windows Phone 7 devices are more than just Zune phones, they are the first phones to ship with the Microsoft-brand music service. Users can also enjoy Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Office Mobile, Windows Live and Bing right on their phone.
Microsoft didn't reveal much about the 10 devices that will be available in 2010, but thanks to the press conference we know these to be the HTC 7 Surround, the HTC HD7, the HTC 7 Trophy, the HTC 7 Mozart, the HTC 7 Pro, the Dell Venue Pro, the LG Quantum, the LG Optimus Pro, the Samsung Focus, and the Samsung Omnia Pro.
Stay tuned; we'll bring you more on these devices as soon as we can!
Source: Microsoft (via Engadget)
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I hope MSFT succeeds in this!
They are trying so hard.
What? They removed tethering and serious user configurability. Trying to copy Apple and pandering to iSheep I hope and expect MSFT to fail miserably.
They are trying so hard.
lol.... seriously lol
What? They removed tethering and serious user configurability. Trying to copy Apple and pandering to iSheep I hope and expect MSFT to fail miserably.
You hope they fail?
Scum, you should hope they succeed so they can draw a more competative marketplace for everyone
BTW, Android users are just as much sheep as iPhone users now so comment=fail
Dell Venue Pro is completely drool worthy. Nice sized screen with 5MP camera AND a full QWERTY? Sign me up!
I may actually ditch my Pre Plus finally, though stomaching TMO over Verizon would be difficult..
Well, here's to more competition devouring Apple's stranglehold on AT&T.
I hope they bring healthy competition but I have to be convinced. MS hard at work playing catch up. Like a science fair, they wait until everyone shows up and quickly conjure up something. If it fails I won't be surprised since they are sooooo F'ing late to the party.
You hope they fail?Scum, you should hope they succeed so they can draw a more competative marketplace for everyoneBTW, Android users are just as much sheep as iPhone users now so comment=fail
When speaking of that, I really hope Nokia will pursue their MeeGo platform that they develop together with Intel and eventually succeed with it. Most applications that run in Linux will run in MeeGo and does run in Nokia's current Maemo.
I hope MSFT succeeds in this!
Agreed.
You hope they fail?Scum, you should hope they succeed so they can draw a more competative marketplace for everyone
Competition usually doesn't require software companies suing manufacturers that refuse to use their software. Can anyone name which phone OS developer was suing Motorola?
I had the ATT Tilt phone which used MS OS 6.x.
Though I'm very familiar with Microsoft operating sytsems on my laptop and desktop computers it was such a pain to find files or figure out how to make configuration changes on my Tilt phone (searching for file after file on a phone with a really obfuscated OS) that I'll never buy another Microsoft OS based phone.
I would be surprised if Microsoft gets this one right.
10 phones not to buy. Dont know why anyone would trust MSFT after winmo 6.5
Easy app programing integration into Visual Studio for VB and C# would be awesome. My limited PC programming skills are in those two so it would be great to see.
Silent cheer for hardware programmers who are stuck in C and assembly!
i agree that competition is good, but everything is so separated and propitiatory. apples special connector, every platform has its own language to be programmed in, it BAD. standard USB, one (or at least support) a common language, SD slots, and the ability to install apps outside of the "app store/market/whatever".
Competition usually doesn't require software companies suing manufacturers that refuse to use their software. Can anyone name which phone OS developer was suing Motorola?
Who cares? Everyone sues everyone else but everything keeps rolling. I hope MS succeeds more competition is always a good thing.
You hope they fail?Scum, you should hope they succeed so they can draw a more competative marketplace for everyoneBTW, Android users are just as much sheep as iPhone users now so comment=fail
what is the point of competition if it is achieved by releasing an identical device... its like the Simpson episode where the two presidential candidates are identical twins... guess that makes android the alien!
please... ANYONE... explain to me HOW wp7 is any different to the iphone... I hate the iphone, so I don't care if the 'iphone clone' market is getting more competitive...
Easy app programing integration into Visual Studio for VB and C# would be awesome. My limited PC programming skills are in those two so it would be great to see.Silent cheer for hardware programmers who are stuck in C and assembly!
you could try not being a n00b? for us who know c/c++, which is everyone in the games industry. it is preferred, but most importantly, it is much more STANDARD across the platforms... MS is the ONLY one who uses c#, so it is actually a MASSIVE pain for any cross platform dev.
google > microsoft all the time, back by demand suck it u anti-google troll
Microshaft as a company has severely lost the plot!
They can't even get an operating system right, and now they are cloning phones...Give me a break! You actually think this phone is going to work?
Wakeup MS, get you operating system right FIRST, then think about other things.
The LAST thing I want is a phone with ANYTHING Microshaft in it!
Good luck with that!