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Is the HTC Trophy Back on the Table with WP7?
The “HTC 7 Trophy” recently received approval from the Global Certification Forum (GCF) which means it will probably appear for sale in Europe or Asia. You’ve heard the Trophy name before. It was supposed to be a WVGA front-facing Qwerty-thumb-board-style device with a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen, 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM and Windows Mobile 6.5. The device never came out like so, but maybe HTC decided to update the design to support Windows Phone 7. GCF …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.0 is Clear for Take-Off
Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing today! That means the final version that we’ll see at launch is ready to be put onto final hardware from all of the OEMs. Terry Myerson has some great things to say about the experience of developing Windows Phone 7 over at the Windows Phone Blog: Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released. We had nearly ten thousand devices running …
Continue readingHow Quickly Will The WP7 Marketplace Host 100,000 Apps?
Alright, here’s a fun little poll for everybody. How soon after Windows Phone 7 devices go on sale do you think there will be 100,000 apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace? Before you answer, remember that according to this blog post, there have been 300,000 downloads of the developer tools and everybody says that developing apps for the platform is very easy and fun. Also, the Marketplace will open for app submissions in early …
Continue readingWP7 Launch Devices Will Out-Number Palm, Apple, & Google
There are a few doom & gloom news articles out there right now talking about failure for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system based on the news that only 3 companies will be releasing devices on launch day. LG, Samsung, and HTC will all have Windows Phone 7 devices available right away, however Dell’s rumored “Lightning” Windows Phone may take a while longer to finish. I suppose we might assume the Asus Windows Phones …
Continue readingThe Windows Phone Facebook Page’s Survey
The folks running the Windows Phone Facebook page have created a survey designed to help them get ready for the launch of Windows Phone 7 this fall. If you want to contribute, visit this link to fill out the short survey. It’s very quick and easy. Don’t worry, there aren’t any personal questions, but you do have to use a Facebook account to log in. UPDATE: If you don’t want to log-in with Facebook, try …
Continue readingHTC Sense 3 Concept
We’ve been seeing a lot of HTC HD3 concept designs as well as some HTC Sense mockups for Windows Phone 7 from all the fans out there. Here’s a nice looking one from Luke Basarab. As we can see from techit.in and rruffman’s custom Windows Phone 7 tile, the concept design is somewhat possible. While round-corner live tiles are possible, Microsoft is not recommending this since it will clash with the design of other standard …
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