Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 Mango details • The Register

Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 Mango details • The Register.

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled changes in the version of Windows Phone codenamed Mango that will crack open the operating system so devs can finally work with smart-phones’ camera data, compass and gyro, pivot and panorama, geo-location, ringtones and users’ contacts, and TCP/IP sockets

Windows Embedded Handheld 7 slips off the Microsoft roadmap

Windows Embedded Handheld 7 slips off the Microsoft roadmap.

 

A year ago, Microsoft officials went public with their roadmap for the company’s various embedded mobile operating systems. At that time, the Redmondians said to expect Windows Embedded Handheld 7 — an enterprise-targeted update to its ruggedized-device operating system — to arrive in the second half of calendar 2011. But those plans seemingly have changed.

Rugged PDA Battery Questions Answered «

Need to ignore their normal ganedata/pidion bias.

Rugged PDA Battery Questions Answered «

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Intel CEO: Nokia should have gone with Android

Intel CEO: Nokia should have gone with Android:

Paul Otellini said Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop had “incredible offers” from both Google and Microsoft to use their operating systems.

“I wouldn’t have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him,” he told a conference call with analysts, according to Reuters. “MeeGo would have been the best strategy but he concluded he couldn’t afford it.”

Windows Phone 7 sending large chunks of unexplained data?

Windows Phone 7 sending large chunks of unexplained data?:

Time to rethink that 500Mb data plan…

Windows Phone Locks-in MicroSD Cards

Windows Phone Locks-in MicroSD Cards:

Samsung have documented the feature for the Focus, saying that inserting a MicroSD card into a Windows Phone can be considered a “pernament modification” adding ”it will no longer be readable or writable on any other devices such as computers, cameras, printers, and so on”.