Windows Phone Launches Overseas

Welp Europe and other parts of the world will get to enjoy the Windows Phone 7 about three weeks earlier than Americans. Several phones launched today starting in New Zealand followed by Hong Kong, Singapore, Italy, Belgium, France, Spain, the U.K., and Ireland. I am looking forward to...

Vodafone Won’t be at UK Launch

Not sure what this means, but Vodafone won’t be at the WP7 UK Launch. Apparently they will not be promoting the LG Optimus 7 and maybe expect it to sell without any effort or maybe Vodafone/LG is going to be more focused on other OS systems. Apparently Vodafone Germany will be...

1000 Apps at Launch, Yes Please!

Microsoft announced that they should have somewhere north of 1000 apps when the phone launches in the U.S. according to WindowsPhoneSecrets. The email of Paull Thurott received from a Microsoft contained the following; “The number of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace continues...

Preview: Xbox Live on WP7

Techlicious’ Suzanne Kantra got a little preview of the Xbox Live HUB from Emily Blair of Microsoft who is quite “Techlicious” herself I might add. In the video below Emily goes through the Xbox Live Hub and shows us all the neat features that it adds. If you are used...

T-Mobile Demos WP7

CNET got a hands on view of the some of the T-Mobile Devices (video at bottom). First we get a look at the HTC HD7 which shows Netflix and T-Mobile TV, a family app which allows to synch schedules with family/close friends, and the ever desired kickstand. The other phone they viewed...

Samsung Omnia 8GB or 16 GB? . . .you choose

Samsung put out a specs sheet for their Samsung Omnia and as MyLostBlog (Italian Blog) was astute enough to notice that it is going to be offered in 8GB and 16GB. The question remains will you get an option to buy the one with more memory or will Europe and the U.S. be receiving...

AT&T Phones Showcase

Channel 9 has featured a video of all the Windows Phone 7′s that will be showing up for AT&T Carrier over the next few weeks. you can preview the Focus, LG Optimus Quantummwith Qwerty keyboard, and the HTC Surround. They all look pretty neat to me mainly because of the...

Playing up Bad Phone Behavior

Microsoft is really putting a lot of dollars into their marketing scheme of improving phone etiquette. As you can see from the ad below they are poking fun at all the people who are just on their phone at absurd times. Although I think the interface well help organize the information...

Glance and Go

Microsoft has been pushing that they will be speeding up personal phone usage time. Of course, we ourselves are never guilty of phone over usage but we all seem to notice how long our friends or family have their heads craned down plugging away on their phones. Well the Windows Phone...

EA to partner with Microsoft for WP7 game development

EA has announced that will be partnering up with Microsoft and publishing games for the Windows Phone 7 platform. This is definitely a nice solid partner and should help boost phone sales. Some early titles that EA said they will releasing are Need for Speed- should be fun to play on...