Asus Windows Phone 7 Spotted in Pakistan

windows phone 7 pakistan Asus Windows Phone 7 Spotted in Pakistan

For many, Pakistan is not the country you’ll expect to found the leaked image of next gen gadget. But this Windows Phone 7 phone made by Asus is indeed spotted there. Not much reveal from the phone, except yes it does have standard 3 buttons, front facing camera, not so huge touch screen and that’s all. The thickness of the phone cannot be identified but brushed metal case looks good. I wonder if the back casing made from that as well.

source : pocketnow

HTC Upcoming Windows Phone 7 Leaked

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Except iPhone which  is extremely secretive, probably the rest of mobile phone images and details will leaked as the launch date nearer. Latest phone to join the list is HTC’s Windows Phone 7 more. Windows platform is nothing new to HTC, who have collaborated with them since the Windows Mobile days before, but as I said, this is gonna their first smart book related to Windows Phone 7. Unfortunately, that’s the info available and, nothing else.

via : Engadget

Microsoft Sells 175 Millions Copy of Windows 7 and Still Counting

Windows 7 continue to be the key revenue contributor to Microsoft and drive it’s quartely revenue and net income to the record high. 175 millions copy of Windows 7 has been sold so far since the launch date. This record sales translated to 4.5 billion of revenue to Microsoft this quarter alone.

The potential of higher sales figure is high as ever as most enterprise still adopting wait and see approach before moving to Windows 7. As of now most companies still stick to Windows XP as new OS is still require extensive testing if it suited with their internally developed application. There is no doubt the shift from XP to Windows 7 is gonna happen in future as more companies finish assessing their system on new OS and reach certain level of confident and more comfortable running their system on win 7.

Consumer who had generally positive opinion on Windows 7 will continue their spending on Windows 7. The strong sentimen will continue especially when Windows 7 SP1 due to be released on Q1 next year.

Microsoft undoubly reaping the success of Windows 7 after spending countless time and capital to tailor the OS according to what user really want. Stabil, less buggy, fast and simple OS.

Microsoft To Give Away Windows Phone 7 To All Employees

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Who else is better than Microsoft own employees to test out the new Windows Phone 7, right? It is their pride an possibly the next big thing after Windows OS and Office suite that will drive the future of mobile business is.  If this is true, Microsoft decision to give away Windows Phone 7 is timely. 90k manpower employed by Microsoft is obviously huge enough to provide sufficient feedback for any bug or enhancement if necessary. Apple and Google did the same way before with iPhone 2G and HTC G1, and well, their phone is huge success, so why can’t Microsoft? And to all Microsoft employees, enjoy your (future) new phone folks!

via:mashable

Windows Phone 7 Previewed

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image credit to Gizmodo

The next big thing in smartphone industry, if any is probably Windows Phone 7. The phone concept demonstrated by Microsoft early this year showing a lot of potential in the new OS, such uniquely designed UI never see in any mobile OS before. But that alone will not convince people to  jump alone. After embarrassed by Kin exit early this month, Windows Phone 7 is the last weapon that Microsoft had to revive their presence in mobile OS,  that faded after arrival of fiercest competition from the like of iPhone, Blackberry, Android and even WebOS.

Last week Microsoft has started delivering the Windows Phone 7 prototype phone to developers and tech blogers. And since yesterday Windows Phone 7 review can be seen in almost all top tech blogs. It would need great effort to read all of them, but generally the review is quite positive as the phone build is not yet finalized. The are few point of interest, one that  caught most attention is obviously the GUI – called Metro originated from Zune but giving a fresh looks in phone. Great looks without functional purpose doesn’t serve anything but hate. You would be surprise that it came from Microsoft. The movement as demoed, from one to another screen is as smooth as it should. It is so intuitive.

Not much can be talk about the hardware, as it depends on the vendor that build the phone. But in general, there are 3 buttons which is standard on all phone, home , back and search. If you Android user, you should familiar with these arrangement.

Apps in Windows Phone 7 is  called hub instead, and that’s not the only one with unique name here, there are more new terms introduced such as People, which actually refer to phonebook. They keyboard is as good as iPhone if you wondering.  There is also integration with, what else if not Office… to make this phone appeal to enterprise.

Couple of thing that still not working,  the marketplace, aka application store is still in progress. I’m curios how many application will available when the phone start shipping in the next few months.. Xbox Live integration is not yet ready as well, there got to be lots of works still required from Microsoft.

Source : Engadget, Gizmodo and CNet.