Tag: WINDOWS PHONE 7 SERIES

If you've been living under a rock -- or if you insist on using Apple products -- you might not have seen or heard of Microsoft's new Metro UI. There are tantalizing hints of it in Windows 7 and Zune, but only with Windows Phone 7 can you see what Microsoft has in store with its new Metro UI. And now you can make your Firefox look a bit like a next-generation operating system... kinda. Metro ...

Our sister site, the adorable and trustworthy Engadget, has "super-double-ultra-plus-confirmed" with Microsoft that Windows Phone 7 will not launch with copy and paste functionality. Why on earth would an impressive next-gen mobile OS not include a clipboard? It seems like only yesterday that we were all making fun of the iPhone for that same shortcoming. Microsoft's answer is that users don't ...

With a large Windows Phone 7 Series sign calling me I set out to find an actual working example of a new Windows powered phone. With a little finagling was able to sweet talk my way into the Microsoft's blogger lounge at South by Southwest Interactive. While there seems to be only one example running around here somewhere, which I'm working to track down, there was a demo of the OS on a ...

Bad news for owners of the latest Windows Mobile 6.x devices: your phone doesn't meet the hardware specifications for an update to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft says that even the brand new HTC HD2 doesn't meet its tight requirements for the much-talked-about new mobile OS, according to APCMag. Even though the HD2 has a fast enough processor, a nice touch display, and a good enough camera, ...

The folks at Mozilla have been working on a mobile version of the popular Firefox web browser for much of the past two years. A lot of that work has been focused on Windows Mobile and Nokia's Maemo platform. But in October, we found out that a version for Google Android devices was on its way. We even saw an early screenshot earlier this month. Now we have something resembling a time frame. ...

Earlier today Microsoft introduced the world to the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system: Windows Phone 7 Series. While we aren't expecting any phones running this OS to be available until later this year, the company had a number of demo units on-hand at Mobile World Congress, and the web is starting to fill up with videos demonstrating the new UI, including the video at the top ...