Microsoft Accidentally Confirms October Release for Windows Phone 7? [During Live Labs Presentation, Microsoft Accidentally Pins October Release on Windows Phone 7]

Posted on TFTS by Jeff Baker on Saturday, 26. June 2010 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

First released as Pocket PC 2000 back in April of 2000 (hence the version’s title), Windows Mobile has progressed through many different iterations and currently sits at version 6.5. While it started as a PDA operating system, it has evolved into a full fledged mobile phone operating system and has appeared on a plethora of devices. Considering it possesses a decent chunk of the market, you would expect Windows Mobile to be a decent operating system. However, according to critics, the operating system is laden with bugs and isn’t very stable resulting in a not so pleasent mobile experience.

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However, despite receiving some bad press, Windows Mobile has found its way onto high powered devices such as the HTC HD2. Featuring specs almost identical to the HTC EVO 4G with a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 800, 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 576MB of RAM, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and the ability to record 480p video, a microSDHC slot for up to 32GB of storage, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g WiFi, A-GPS, the HTC HD2 is still a very technologically advanced device despite being released almost 8 months ago.

Even though it powers hot devices like the HTC HD2, Windows Mobile has failed to garner as much interest among consumers as competing mobile operating systems like Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Luckily, Microsoft engineers have been hard at work on the latest version of their mobile operating system entitled Windows Phone 7.

We’ve been hearing about Windows Phone 7 for quite some time and have even seen a few devices that will run Microsoft’s new operating system at launch but what we have not heard is an official release date. Lucky for us, it seems that a Microsoft employee has recently let the release date slip during a recent Live Labs presentation. According to the below video of said presentation, Windows Phone 7 will be made available in October.

Are you excited for Windows Phone 7? Do you think it will make Microsoft a viable competitor in the smart phone industry? Let us know.

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ckjordan
As much as I hate apple products; I’m still holding on to Apple IPhone till another manufacturer put an end to this misery/Joke/Funeral////.
WinPhone7 is promising, but first this phone must be fully customizable, slim, responsive (capacitive), light weight, power saver, snappy and dependable.
I need a device without borders around the LCD, a device that have full language support both on the handset side and on the PC side (English language isn’t my first), I need a stable internet browser, Google maps, music organizer with efficient media player and controls. I think ZUNE will do fine. (must support all kind of audio & Video), FM radio is a must, HD/ auto focus/ 5Mpx Camera is the least, a device that let me download anything from the web then drag them (Exchange them) between phone and PC with no fuss, a device that can display Day, Date and Time without having to terminate calls or quit music just to see what is the time, a device that let me open, edit and save all kind of files like word documents, excel, PDF. Audio and video editor is a bonus but not necessary.
I don’t like the tiny circles control buttons especially in the media player, instead I like to see a VCR like bars with smaller bars on top that Flares green when pressed.
I don’t need Xbox in my future phone
I don’t need hundreds of applications, few good ones is fine.
I like a good currency converter, amulti converter, a multi language dictionary, BBC news reader, sync application, Google maps, encyclopedia, first aid application, and of course the Zune app
I also like to see good file explorer/ finder in the handset.
I like to have full control over my (phonebook) like sorting contacts by color, favorites etc
Developer
I don’t know how Microsoft can possible release Windows Phone 7 in October. Currently it is in pre-Alpha stage, which means it is riddled with bugs. So many bugs that I can’t see how it will be ironed out by October. The testing time is much shorter than for other OSes (usually OEMs play with an OS for 9 months before release), that I can only assume that Windows Phone 7 will still have many bugs on release time.
WindowPhoneYes
The more the merrier. Microsoft has to make this great so I expect them to put a lot of resources towards it.
It’s got some very nice development tools and you can program apps using their excellent Silverlight browser plug-in (it’s like Flash).
As long as they don’t to anything stupid like close up their app store or have strange and nagging bugs, they should do fine. It’s all about execution now. They have the money, market power and desire. I hope they bring this home.
Xentrax
Microsoft itself can do very reliable software if they want (and most of the time they want it). Unfortunately, end users rarely see pure Microsoft solution: even Windows notebooks have a lot of branding added to them, let alone smart phones where non-extensible parts of the shell were extended and finger input was enabled were it could not be theoretically enabled :-) I used to work with some mobile hardware running plain Windows Mobile OS (or Windows CE) without any additions and there were rarely any issues with Microsoft’s code. Any problem ended up to be a hardware defect. And most of Windows Mobile phones were produced not by Motorola or Sony, but by HTC, Samsung, LG, HP and Asus …
Windows Phone 7 is less of a computer but more of a dumb phone (and this is exactly what people want). Windows Phone 7 hardware specification is very strict and there are no extensions allowed. Of course, as it always happens, vendors will write terribly buggy low-level drivers, but Windows Phone 7 device is an “always on” device, so there won’t be “we cannot reproduce” mantra from hardware vendors about problems in the drivers. I think Windows Phone 7 devices will be simpler, easier to use and more stable than Windows Mobile. Microsoft has good chances of taking good share of not-very-smart-phone market.
What I don’t really get is that why Microsoft seems to be completely abandoning PDA market. I believe there could even be some profit in proving advanced PC users with good PDA OS and talking one vendor or two into providing good PDAs as well. Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is the first finger-friendly Microsoft shell, but there are no high-profile devices out there to support it. Finally, I hoped to see Wacom-like pen input on one device or another but it did not happen.