Windows Phone
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Android remains the only mobile OS still patterned after Microsoft's 2002 vision of the mobile value chain
Belfiore wasn’t shy about criticizing Google’s Android OS. Even though Google currently dominates the mobile OS market, its strategy of licensing the Android OS to manufacturers is similar to Microsoft’s previous approach with Windows Mobile: It’s open-ended, and there are few restrictions on how manufacturers can use or modify the OS. As a result, Android Continue reading
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Taiwan phone makers balking at Windows Phone 7
Digitimes reports: only a handful of companies may get into WP7 when it arrives, they added. HTC may end up controlling 70 to 80 percent of the market simply by being one of the initial partners via Taiwan phone makers balking at Windows Phone 7? | Electronista. Confirming my assumption that “Android is clearly the Continue reading
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Escape from license-land: Measuring phone vendor commitment to licensed mobile platforms
Windows Phone had its day in the sun yesterday. After discarding its previous seven-year effort with Windows Mobile, Microsoft started with a clean sheet of paper. However, whereas the software has been re-built, the business model has not. WP is still a licensed operating system whose primary customers are mobile phone vendors. With Symbian mostly Continue reading
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Will Nokia build Windows phones?
Will Nokia build Windows phones? | VentureBeat. The chances are extremely small. There are three scenarios where this would make sense: If there was a specific market that required it. It would also need to be a large opportunity since developing a new platform and diluting existing platforms need significant upside. The only such market Continue reading
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Windows Phone Thoughts: AT&T set to release multiple Windows Phones
That makes a total of six devices for [AT&T] who is looking more and more like the premier Windows Phone 7 partner. via Windows Phone Thoughts: AT&T Set to Release Multiple WP7 Devices. With Verizon shaping Android into its image, you can read AT&T’s embrace of Microsoft as the deeply-held belief by operators that they Continue reading
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Seven confirmed Windows Phone 7 phones
Seven confirmed Windows Phone devices getting readied for launch. Four more being rumored: Devices – Windows Phone 7 Central. To be built by HTC, Samsung and LG with Dell and Asus rumored. Vendor love for Android runs as deep as Operator love of Android. Continue reading
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IDC: I Dream of Claim Chowder
A few eyebrows were raised when Microsoft presented a slide at a French event where they made the claim that 30 Million Windows Phone devices would be sold by the end of 2011. Given that the first Windows Phone won’t ship until October 2010 at the earliest, or, according to Mr. Ballmer, “by Christmas,” count Continue reading
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Microsoft Taketh Away
Summarizing the new Windows Phone 7 Series: No Multi-tasking — However, there are going to be notifications. No App Sideloading No App store other than the Microsoft App Store No Cut/Copy/Paste No Expandable Storage No Exposed File System No Shell Customization / Skinning No native applications (managed code only) Funny how when iPhone came out Continue reading
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No copy/paste in Windows Phone 7 Series
Todd Brix from Microsoft is saying the lack of copy/paste is by design link: Windows Phone Thoughts: Windows phone 7 Will Lack Copy & Paste: Please Proceed With Your Screaming and Yelling It’s amazing how precisely Microsoft copied the iPhone. Continue reading
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Microsoft Leaks Details of WP7 Platform
Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone Development : Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience There’s zero backwards compatibility with Windows Phone 6.5 applications. It’s still based on Windows CE underneath (version 6 in this case) Developers are going to need to re-code their apps. So what will they code it in? So Continue reading