Samsung has managed to make a good business with the Galaxy S smartphones that run Android operating system. Apart from that the company has already offered its handsets with Windows Phone 7 operating system. The Samsung Omnia 7 GT-i8700 is considered to be the first mobile device of the manufacturer that is based on the [...]
LG has become one of the mobile makers that has decided to use the Windows Phone 7 OS. The carrier’s latest Optimus 7 is powered by the new Microsoft’s OS and can be characterized as a solid mobile device. The handset has the weight of 157 g. As the Optimus 7 is considered to be [...]
The market of mobile devices is ready to introduce yet another solid handset. The HTC Surround is another handset from the range of Windows Phone 7 handsets. It is offered in an admirable HTC design tradition. It feels sturdy when you hold it. The front of the Surround is covered with a brushed metal housing. [...]
They did it before and they’re doing it again. Microsoft is perhaps one of those very few companies that set a trend of handing out things for free. During the Xbox 360 Whisper Version promotion days, the company reportedly handed out free consoles to hundreds of attendees. This time, the software goliath is giving free [...]
I was one of those people who got impressed with the Windows Phone 7 and the OS. Microsoft really put in a lot of effort in presenting its masterpiece. However, the post event effects were just mere thoughts of how Microsoft came up with too familiar tropes and the same old stuff. It’s true that [...]
It looks like Nokia has become the only company that is able to put the Symbian operating system in life support. As a matter of fact, Sony Ericsson has decided to cut the cord with the operating system. As a result, the only mobile manufacturer that is able to build phones for the platform is [...]
HTC has announced the availability of a number of handsets that are based on Windows phone 7 operating system. The whole story is about the HTC HD7, HTC 7 Surround, HTC 7 Trophy as well as HTC 7 Mozart. AT&T will sell the HTC 7 Surround which will be available with a two-year contract. As [...]
Although LG is set to launch a pair of mobile devices available with the latest operating system of Microsoft, still only the LG Quantum is headed to the United States. The quantum is the only among Windows Phone 7-based handsets to be enabled with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. It is easy and comfortable to [...]
Samsung has introduced its latest social networking handset, which is known as the Wave 2. It is expected that the phone will offer a range of different social networking as well as multimedia options due to which users will be able to access the Internet and also share information, chat with their friends and relatives. [...]
It is already known that Windows Phone 7 mobile devices can be headed to AT&T as well as T-Mobile. As for the HTC HD7, it will be offered by T-Mobile and you can buy it on holidays. The HD7 has a slight resemblance to the HTC Evo 4G as well as HTC HD 2 when [...]
The US market will soon get 5 mobile devices powered by the latest Windows Phone 7 OS of Microsoft. The well-known carrier AT&T is set to offer the following handsets, the Samsung Focus, LG Quantum as well as HTC Surround. As for T-Mobile, it is going to sell the Dell Venue Pro along with HTC [...]
Windows 7 mobile phones are just around the corner. Hopefully, the first batch will be introduced in the holiday season or probably a few weeks later than that. Word is that the new Microsoft mobile phone OS will probably an iOS lookalike. Regardless of the identity crisis, if the OS is good enough, it can [...]
It is still unknown whether Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is able to compete against Apple’s iPhone as well as Android army. But we will be able to found out this on October 11 as it is the date when the Windows Phone 7 will be rolled out. A big attention will be drawn towards the [...]
Microsoft has made announcements concerning the finalization of code base for Windows 7 mobile phone OS. The version 1.0 of the software has been given a green signal. It means that the latest Windows 7 OS powered smartphones will have the same version of the software in them. Several things that you didn’t know about [...]
Regardless of how bad or good Windows 7 phones may be, we thought of letting our readers in on the technical preview of Windows 7 based LG, Samsung and Asus models. Microsoft opened up by saying that they just released thousands of prototypes of their Windows 7 phones, among a select number of testers. WP7 [...]
Monday was considered to be a big day for Microsoft; the company was all set for an overhaul of the upcoming Windows 7 phone. Not to mention the fact that I happened to know a few guys at Microsoft and they handed me a Windows phone 7 prototype for field testing and preview. The device [...]
In a race for long term survival and gold ratings, Microsoft recently announced that they’ll be paying developers to create applications for Windows 7 Mobile OS. This would help the company to overcome any shortcomings and obviously, if the idea is a big hit, then Microsoft will be way ahead of Google’s Android OS and [...]
Microsoft also jumped into the Smartphone arena about three months ago when they unveiled the latest state of the art Smartphone and the model was named as Microsoft Kin. This release of the Smartphone was according to tech experts a frantic effort by Microsoft to scramble the market share and counter the Apple and Google [...]
We all know that Microsoft has got the leap on the personal computer world in the late 80s and maintained it well throughout the 90s, IBM and Apple’s operating system division were left somewhat in the dust.
There are times ( particularly when it comes to attending Microsoft press conferences) when we find it easy to believe that the increasing number of Macs as well as their iPad cousins have gained a greater hold in this portable computer world.