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Microsoft released the first wave of Windows Phone 7 handsets. The company’s CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking at a launch event in NewYork, said that there will initially be six handsets arriving in the UK, while nine handsets will be available in the US.

The new devices include three HTC handsets – the HTC 7 Mozart, HTC 7 Trophy and HTC HD7 – as  well as the Samsung Omnia 7, LG’s Optimus 7 and the DellVenue Pro, which won’t be available until December. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I came across to an interesting article about Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and I want to share it with my readers.

“After some hours that Microsoft released the Windows Phone 7 series developer toolkit, someone ripped the full smartphone build from it and now the software has been hacked. It turned out that there is plenty more functionality in the emulator’s ROM than appears at first sight. It seemed that Microsoft have done some work to keep certain elements hidden from Windows Phone 7 users. Among the things discovered are a file explorer and a native task manager, over at xda-developers they’ve already discovered mention of cut, copy and paste functionality”. And all that information we got from Dan Ardelean, who has modified the BIN responsible for which features are accessible, bypassing Microsoft’s lock-down.

Acer introduces us its new  neoTouch P400  Windows Mobile. Here we have Windows Mobile 6.5. It is convenient to edit Office documents with the new neoTouch P400  but, in fact, the application offering lacks sexiness. Inside the neoTouch P400 there is a Qualcomm 7227 processor, 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM.

The 115mm x 59.3mm x 12mm (4.5in x 2.3in x .47in) P400 has a 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen display, 3G and 802.11b/g WiFi support, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and features sync support for automatic wireless and web-based synchronization with your notebook or netbook. The device also features  GPS support, an accelerometer, and support for Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and supports a battery life of 5 hours.

Both Acer neoTouch P300 and neoTouch P400 run on Windows Mobile 6.5.3, with the former having a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, while the Acer beTouch E110 and E400 run Android (1.5 Cupcake and 2.1 Eclair respectively) with the E110 having a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen and the E400 having a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen.

Across the board there’s 3G and Bluetooth, while on the E110 lacks WiFi b/g.  No vast processor speeds here, though; at most you’ll get 600MHz.  All have a 3.2-megapixel camera together with GPS and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Acer expect the neoTouch P300 and beTouch E110 to arrive in March 2010, with the beTouch E400 following on in April and the neoTouch P400 dropping in May 2010.