HTC Surround review
Of all the Windows Phone 7 launch devices, AT&T's HTC Surround is likely the most curious. It's a landscape slider built on the same basic internals as the rest of its platform siblings, but there's no keyboard under that screen -- the quarter-inch slide reveals an aluminum speaker bar and integrated kickstand, which combine to create a tiny little stereo system of sorts. Mix in Windows Phone 7's heavy Zune integration, add in a dash of Dolby Mobile and SRS Wow "virtual surround" audio processing, and top it all off with 16GB of internal memory, and you have what might be the ultimate phone for on-the-go media consumption.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: htc, internal-memory, launch, likely-the-most, on-the-go-media, review, Surround, thoughts, windows phone 7 series, windows-phone
HTC Mozart and mystery LG Windows Phone 7 device appear in Telstra storefront, coming ’21-10-10′
Well hello there giant Windows Phone 7 handsets. This interactive sidewalk display was just unveiled at the Telstra store in Melbourne Australia.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: australia, engadget, htc, interactive, launch, launch-date, leak, telstra, windows, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 series, windows-phone, windowsmobile, windowsphone7, winpho7
HTC Mozart Windows Phone 7 specifications leak, ‘late October’ UK launch confirmed
We're getting close, very very close to the official launch of the Windows Phone 7 OS.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: htc, internal, leak, mozart-windows, phones, screengrab, sensors, surroundsound, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 os, windows phone 7 series, windowsphone7, windowsphone7os, wp7
Windows Phone 7 pops up on a Samsung prototype device, plays Twin Blades
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore certainly piqued our interest at MIX by demoing Windows Phone 7 on an unidentified Samsung handset , but our excitement soon faded when we found out it was just a hacked-up Omnia i8910 and not a real phone. Still, the Sammy remains only the third WP7 device we've seen other than the ASUS-built test mule and the prototype LG Panther that's been popping up recently after debuting on the Engadget Show , so these two videos of it running a recent WP7 build at reMIX in France is still quite notable -- the OS seems fast and responsive, and we're told everything on the device was functional, including the GPS and camera. What's more, there's a demo of an Xbox Live Arcade / iPhone game port called Twin Blades by Press Star Studio -- it was done in a week by one programmer using 90 percent of the Xbox Live code
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arcade, blades, device, omnia, press, pressstar, result, samsung, shuffle, windows phone 7 series
Windows Phone 7 is the new name, ‘Series’ gets voted off island
Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft's rejuvenated mobile push this year , hatred of the "Windows Phone 7 Series" moniker has been nearly universal -- it's too long, it trips you up every time you try to say it (seriously, just listen to any of our podcasts ), and the "Series" bit doesn't make a whole lot of sense anyhow. Happily, Microsoft has heard the world loud and clear on this one, officially changing the name today to the simpler, happier, more logical "Windows Phone 7." The branding move doesn't have any technical or strategic significance, as far as we can tell -- it truly is just a name change, that's all -- so you can expect the same software to launch later this year that we've already been anticipating... you just won't have to deal with a tongue twister every time you're trying to tell a friend about it
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Lot, moniker, more-logical, podcasts, tongue, twister, windows phone 7 series, winpho 7, winpho7, wp7s
Microsoft seeking patent for Windows Phone 7 Series panoramic GUI
The US Patents and Trademark Office has today made public a Microsoft patent application (serial no. 240,729) related to the graphical user interface found on the hotly anticipated Windows Phone 7 Series mobile OS. Filed in September 2008, this application describes a "contiguous background" that extends beyond the dimensions of the screen (either vertically or horizontally, but not both) with anchored "mixed-media" elements being littered atop it -- all of which is to be served on a "media-playing device." That should sound pretty familiar, given that it's the central navigational concept of both Windows Phone 7 and the Zune HD , and as such it makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to seek to legally protect its uniqueness
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: application, graphical, gui, htc, patent application, patentapplication, patents, phone, uspto, windows phone 7 series, windows-phone, windowsphone7series
Omnimo: desktop Windows given fashion makeover with Phone 7 Series flair
Can't wait for Windows Phone 7 Series , but can't hack the emulator , either? Don't lose hope, Windows junkies -- you can still bring some semblance of WP7S order into your life with this Metro UI-inspired desktop HUD
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: flair, hooks, hud, metro, metroui, rainmeter, source, windows phone 7 series, windowsphone7
Sling working on player for iPad, Windows Phone 7 Series
Looks like Zatz got the goods from the folks at Sling , who have a few interesting tidbits currently in the development pipe. Zatz not Funny is reporting that Sling's Mobile Prouct Marketing Manager, Dave Eyler, has told him that the company is "actively moving towards H.264" and Silverlight support, as well as delivering streaming with resolutions beyond the current 320x240.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: dave, Fingers, interesting, marketing, resolutions, result, silverlight, sling, Versions, windows phone 7 series
Windows Phone 7 Series screwed and chopped onto HTC Touch Diamond (video)
If there's any better argument for rigid spec requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series hardware, it's this video of an HTC Touch Diamond running the OS at an especially syrupy pace. Indeed, the lag is so severe that it could very well be some trickery in the form of a RDP client running on a 7 Series emulator, which is in turn running on a PC -- which, now that we think of it, is a pretty good possibility. Whichever way they achieved this feat, it's certainly not a recipe for a viable handset.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, bearing-on-how, client, engadget, htc, Job, rdp, touch, video, windows phone 7 series
Shocker: HTC plans Windows Phone 7 Series device by year’s end
In news apt to surprise absolutely no one, HTC CEO Peter Chou told Forbes this week that his company would make a Windows Phone 7 Series handset by the end of the year. For the sake of argument, we suppose there are a couple reasons he wouldn't want to. Historically, HTC has pledged loyalty to Microsoft time and again, even making the premium HD2 a Windows Mobile exclusive , but conspiracy theorists might suggest Microsoft returned the favor by denying the HD2 entry to Windows Phone 7 Series.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: couple-reasons, forbes, handset, loyalty, sake, samsung, shocker, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 series, windows-phone