Two new HTC smartphones - HTC 7 Pro and HTC Gratia - will be launched in the UK from February.
HTC's new distribution partner, Brightstar will distribute both Windows 7 Phone Powered 7 Pro HTC and Android HTC gratia range of smart phones, will also distribute HTC Bright Point 7 Pro. Jon French, HTC CEO said: We are proud to add two new phones to our already diverse product portfolio, UK.
Both phones have a stand-out design and innovation that HTC has been known. With the fresh and exciting mobile experience of Windows 7 Phone platform, 7 HTC Pro is for users who want to combine the ultimate in efficiency with the ability to take full advantage of their free time.
The stylish HTC Gratia selection is designed for those looking for a compact but powerful Android smartphone. HTC 7 Pro comes with a tilting 3.6-inch screen, a 1Ghz processor and cutting edge technology such as Dolby Mobile and SRS WOW HD.
It has a slide out full QWERTY keyboard and gives users access to their Outlook e-mail and open and edit Office documents.
It also integrates Microsoft services like Xbox Live, Windows Live, Bing and Zune. HTC gratia comes in Pearl White. The petite handset measuring just over four inches in length, weighs 4.06 ozs and has a seamless, rubberized and tilted back cover that opens to display a bright yellow inner chassis. The phone runs on Android 2.2 and comes with HTC Sense overlay.
Gratia comes with colleague Stream that brings Facebook, Flickr and Twitter updates in a single, organized flow of updates.
Friday, 21 January 2011
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Windows Phone 7 Needs A Droid
In early October, Microsoft had a big launch party in NYC. Steve Ballmer was on the Today Show, and coming out party for Windows 7 Phone was started.
Local AT&T dealers in my area had a handful of each unit, more than enough to meet demand, which was minimal.
LG, who joined the HTC and Samsung launch the WP7 partners, have indicated that sales were disappointing.
Although it is fashionable to blame Windows 7 Phone, it is the flagship phone that is the missing ingredient. Let's take a look at the other platform with the green guy.
It took years for Android to take off, but look no further than the droid for why it took off. It is marketing and positioning. For Verizon customers, the Android alternative to the iPhone.
What Verizon did with Motorola Droid was to create a flagship phone for the Android platform.
Outside of tech blogs and phone geeks, regular people were not talking about the Android phones. The Droid commercials changed fortunes for Android.
If you were sticking with Verizon, you probably left one of their stores with an Android phone. Until the immensely successful Droid campaign, it could have been with HTC's Droid Eris.
Sales volume has increased and so has the developer interest.
That's not to say the sale would not have been strong.
Android was placed firmly against dated OS on RIM 's BlackBerry line and the Droid ship had sailed by the time the WebOS phones hit Verizon. Let us now shift gears to go back to Windows 7 Phone launching on AT&T, which is the larger of the two carriers where you can buy a Windows phone device.
Immediately, you are in competition with the iPhone, not to mention a handful of Android devices as Samsung Captivate.
When you look at the units, there is no clear horse to come back.
Almost pundits wrote the Samsung Focus as the best of the AT&T-units, but it was just another phone from a table of phones in front of Steve Ballmer.
people do not see those commercials and think, I want that Samsung or HTC Focus Surround.
There is almost no differentiation between the two, at least from the 60 second ad clip.
They see Windows 7 Phone, which is the purpose of Microsoft's campaign.
There is no hardware that sells the platform, no flagship phone that stands above the rest.
Do not get me wrong, I think the current line of devices very well, but just how they were lost on the table in front of Ballmer, they get lost on the shelves at AT&T.
Now that Verizon will have the iPhone, the course of marketing dollars from mobile phone manufacturers be heated.
For Microsoft, they just make the OS, so they are somewhat removed from this process.
The last time they worked with Verizon was KIN and that did not work so well.
Phone Windows 7 is not KIN, but at least the marketing unit was determined.
Something they need to cooperate with the HTC, Samsung or LG to make a phone that will be worthy Verizon marketing dollars.
Verizon has an impressive lineup because of this year, so the challenge is becoming greater.
Verizon will have iPhone on February 4, 10 and large releases Android HTC Thunderbolt and still unnamed LTE compatible Samsung phones.
For the first time, AT&T has one of the hottest Android phones Motorola Atrix.
The time for a flagship Windows 7 Phone device is overdue and it may just be the reason why sales are not impressive.
No operating system, it is to deliver a Windows phone that stands out from the rest of the table.
While the table of the devices will help drive adoption over time, is the flagship phone that will get them back in the race.
Local AT&T dealers in my area had a handful of each unit, more than enough to meet demand, which was minimal.
LG, who joined the HTC and Samsung launch the WP7 partners, have indicated that sales were disappointing.
Although it is fashionable to blame Windows 7 Phone, it is the flagship phone that is the missing ingredient. Let's take a look at the other platform with the green guy.
It took years for Android to take off, but look no further than the droid for why it took off. It is marketing and positioning. For Verizon customers, the Android alternative to the iPhone.
What Verizon did with Motorola Droid was to create a flagship phone for the Android platform.
Outside of tech blogs and phone geeks, regular people were not talking about the Android phones. The Droid commercials changed fortunes for Android.
If you were sticking with Verizon, you probably left one of their stores with an Android phone. Until the immensely successful Droid campaign, it could have been with HTC's Droid Eris.
Sales volume has increased and so has the developer interest.
That's not to say the sale would not have been strong.
Android was placed firmly against dated OS on RIM 's BlackBerry line and the Droid ship had sailed by the time the WebOS phones hit Verizon. Let us now shift gears to go back to Windows 7 Phone launching on AT&T, which is the larger of the two carriers where you can buy a Windows phone device.
Immediately, you are in competition with the iPhone, not to mention a handful of Android devices as Samsung Captivate.
When you look at the units, there is no clear horse to come back.
Almost pundits wrote the Samsung Focus as the best of the AT&T-units, but it was just another phone from a table of phones in front of Steve Ballmer.
people do not see those commercials and think, I want that Samsung or HTC Focus Surround.
There is almost no differentiation between the two, at least from the 60 second ad clip.
They see Windows 7 Phone, which is the purpose of Microsoft's campaign.
There is no hardware that sells the platform, no flagship phone that stands above the rest.
Do not get me wrong, I think the current line of devices very well, but just how they were lost on the table in front of Ballmer, they get lost on the shelves at AT&T.
Now that Verizon will have the iPhone, the course of marketing dollars from mobile phone manufacturers be heated.
For Microsoft, they just make the OS, so they are somewhat removed from this process.
The last time they worked with Verizon was KIN and that did not work so well.
Phone Windows 7 is not KIN, but at least the marketing unit was determined.
Something they need to cooperate with the HTC, Samsung or LG to make a phone that will be worthy Verizon marketing dollars.
Verizon has an impressive lineup because of this year, so the challenge is becoming greater.
Verizon will have iPhone on February 4, 10 and large releases Android HTC Thunderbolt and still unnamed LTE compatible Samsung phones.
For the first time, AT&T has one of the hottest Android phones Motorola Atrix.
The time for a flagship Windows 7 Phone device is overdue and it may just be the reason why sales are not impressive.
No operating system, it is to deliver a Windows phone that stands out from the rest of the table.
While the table of the devices will help drive adoption over time, is the flagship phone that will get them back in the race.
Intel intends to develop Windows 8 based phones
Earlier this month Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows, probably Windows 8 will have ARM support in addition to the x86 instruction set supports it today.
In recent lecture at the International CES 2011, Intel has claimed that it has the ability to build Windows 8 powered phones.
The last time Microsoft supported a completely different type of processor for client systems was when Windows NT 4 had support for x86, MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC processors.
After the announcement of Windows 8 to support ARM-based chipsets, Intel's CEO showed some sings of being taken advantage of this move by Microsoft.
The press release states: Oddly enough, the Intel even though there are plans for a Windows phone 8, on the x86 chip not less.
Plus for Intel is that they unify its operating systems, we now have the opportunity for the first time ... to have a designed-from-bottom, touch-enabled operating system for tablets that run on Intel that we have today, Intel CEO said, noted by PC Pro.
Intel says Atom processor running a trimmed down version of Windows 8 will outperform an ARM processor running on the same platform.
Secondly, we have the opportunity to put our low-power Intel processors running Windows 8 - or next-generation Windows'- into the phones, because it's the same operating system stack.
It also has several advantages. And I see it as an upside opportunity for us.
Tiny screens and limited hardware support aside, one could almost any desktop app theoretically run on such a device, while an ARM device must have software for compiling it.
Steven Sinofsky introduced a technology preview of Microsoft's Windows ARM support for the next generation of Windows at CES 2011. Sinofsky also answered some questions about how Windows phone will fit into Microsoft's Windows ARM plans: I'm not going to speculate about our product range right now.
Of course there are downsides.
I would say that the form of Windows 7 Phone is uniquely focused on the small form factor that Windows does not focus on.
There are reasons there is Atom-based phones out there.
It is always important to remember that at least two of the other players in this room also has two operating systems each.
More processing power means more power consumption.
So to find out where it seems the boundaries are and what scenarios are something that our entire industry has kind of thinking.
As battery technology advances, all else being equal, should an ARM device gives the user more battery life than a nuclear device.
At least with us we are very very clear right now, the small screen Windows phone screens and these (pointing to the laptop), Windows 7.Sinofsky not denied the possibility of porting Windows 8 on the smart phone type of device and allow to explain that it's completely new concept for the industry and people working on it, but we have a whole new OS for their own phones ie
I'm not so sure that the market needs a phone, even with the power of a desktop.
Windows 7 Phone and currently performing very well and meet all the company's standard source.
It is not the first time this has been tried, but it could be the first time that the technology of the OS and hardware may be able to handle it.
Windows 8 may be out as late as this year, just two years after Windows 7 was launched.
In recent lecture at the International CES 2011, Intel has claimed that it has the ability to build Windows 8 powered phones.
The last time Microsoft supported a completely different type of processor for client systems was when Windows NT 4 had support for x86, MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC processors.
After the announcement of Windows 8 to support ARM-based chipsets, Intel's CEO showed some sings of being taken advantage of this move by Microsoft.
The press release states: Oddly enough, the Intel even though there are plans for a Windows phone 8, on the x86 chip not less.
Plus for Intel is that they unify its operating systems, we now have the opportunity for the first time ... to have a designed-from-bottom, touch-enabled operating system for tablets that run on Intel that we have today, Intel CEO said, noted by PC Pro.
Intel says Atom processor running a trimmed down version of Windows 8 will outperform an ARM processor running on the same platform.
Secondly, we have the opportunity to put our low-power Intel processors running Windows 8 - or next-generation Windows'- into the phones, because it's the same operating system stack.
It also has several advantages. And I see it as an upside opportunity for us.
Tiny screens and limited hardware support aside, one could almost any desktop app theoretically run on such a device, while an ARM device must have software for compiling it.
Steven Sinofsky introduced a technology preview of Microsoft's Windows ARM support for the next generation of Windows at CES 2011. Sinofsky also answered some questions about how Windows phone will fit into Microsoft's Windows ARM plans: I'm not going to speculate about our product range right now.
Of course there are downsides.
I would say that the form of Windows 7 Phone is uniquely focused on the small form factor that Windows does not focus on.
There are reasons there is Atom-based phones out there.
It is always important to remember that at least two of the other players in this room also has two operating systems each.
More processing power means more power consumption.
So to find out where it seems the boundaries are and what scenarios are something that our entire industry has kind of thinking.
As battery technology advances, all else being equal, should an ARM device gives the user more battery life than a nuclear device.
At least with us we are very very clear right now, the small screen Windows phone screens and these (pointing to the laptop), Windows 7.Sinofsky not denied the possibility of porting Windows 8 on the smart phone type of device and allow to explain that it's completely new concept for the industry and people working on it, but we have a whole new OS for their own phones ie
I'm not so sure that the market needs a phone, even with the power of a desktop.
Windows 7 Phone and currently performing very well and meet all the company's standard source.
It is not the first time this has been tried, but it could be the first time that the technology of the OS and hardware may be able to handle it.
Windows 8 may be out as late as this year, just two years after Windows 7 was launched.
Monday, 17 January 2011
Crysis coming to iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7? Crysis coming to iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7? NoMatchingStoryFound
Crytek, the development studio behind the PC first-person shooter Crysis, is looking for someone to develop for the iPhone and iPad with experience of Android and Windows Mobile is a preference, a recent job posting has indicated.
The company is looking for someone with experience in designing and developing complex, integrated iPhone and iPad applications.
Crytek have seen on the App Store in the past, but Cevat Yeril, CEO of the company, felt the low pricing of apps and games distorts the perception of what a game should be priced at.iPad and iPhone are both doing a real disservice to the game rates to allow betting on such a low price point - there is a problem that the industry has to take at some point, he told Develop.
In light of Infinity Blade's recent success, an Unreal Engine-powered RPG that was released in the wake of an impressive tech demo, maybe Crytek is looking to make money in a market that definitely willing to pay more for graphically impressive, more immersive games.
Although it is clear Crytek is more serious look at mobile platforms, exactly why is not yet clear.
It would make sense for the company to licence its CryEngine graphics engine and / or create a game that would likely be Crysis, but we can not be sure.
Whatever happens, we are confident that in-game worlds by iPad and the iPhone is about to get much prettier.
The company is looking for someone with experience in designing and developing complex, integrated iPhone and iPad applications.
Crytek have seen on the App Store in the past, but Cevat Yeril, CEO of the company, felt the low pricing of apps and games distorts the perception of what a game should be priced at.iPad and iPhone are both doing a real disservice to the game rates to allow betting on such a low price point - there is a problem that the industry has to take at some point, he told Develop.
In light of Infinity Blade's recent success, an Unreal Engine-powered RPG that was released in the wake of an impressive tech demo, maybe Crytek is looking to make money in a market that definitely willing to pay more for graphically impressive, more immersive games.
Although it is clear Crytek is more serious look at mobile platforms, exactly why is not yet clear.
It would make sense for the company to licence its CryEngine graphics engine and / or create a game that would likely be Crysis, but we can not be sure.
Whatever happens, we are confident that in-game worlds by iPad and the iPhone is about to get much prettier.
Ballmer: we've shipped 1.5m Windows Phone 7 phones
Steve Ballmer has defended Microsoft's technology, games and claimed the Windows 7 Phone handsets are the best on the market.
Microsoft has been very cagey about the true sales figures for its new mobile platform since the launch of Windows 7 Phone in October and November 2010. In a recent interview with USA Today, but revealed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer what is likely to be the only figure someone comes to hearing about for a while - that 1.5 million mobile phones were sold to carriers.
Microsoft's CEO is under increasing pressure, with a number of executives leaving the company and the rumors about his departure.
There is obviously a significant amount, but with a number of different phones (each sharing a minimum spec) from manufacturers such as HTC, Dell, LG and Samsung some real sales figures based on the phones that are in the hands of consumers will come in handy route about now only so we can judge exactly how well received platform.
But in an interview with an American newspaper, he sounded bullish about Microsoft's mobile success and his company's tech decisions.
Ballmer is obviously very proud of Windows 7 Phone, describes the phones as the best-looking phones on the market, and he's probably right, with a user interface that is significantly faster and more efficiently than any other.
We have the best-looking phones on the market There are a lot of competition, but we've gotten the best looking phones on the market, he said USA Today.
Remarkably for a man who once led many buy outs of Microsoft as the company extended its monopoly in the 1990s, has Steve Ballmer also turned down the chance to buy Research in Motion in favor of Microsoft to develop Windows 7 Phone as a quality product to sit alongside the Xbox 360 and Kinnect.
We have the widest range of options, phones, software, crafts.
Let's hope he can be proud of the sales figures when they finally revealed.
It is just as good or better than anything else out there.
We have much work to do, he admitted.
However, we are in the game.
We sold 1.5 million of operators [via OEM, that Microsoft provides with OS licenses].
Windows 7 Phone launched in October last year, and neither Microsoft or the mobile operators has revealed how many phones have been sold to customers.
In comparison, Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4 handsets in the first three days of availability.
Bing as a weedBallmer also quoted search and game two of their successes, next to the business market.
We have made bold technology bet, said Ballmer.
We have invested in the cloud, and our enterprise business, it's going great.
We made the game on the Xbox, we did invest in Kinect.
We focus on Bing and growing like a weed in that business, he added.
So I feel pretty good about the game.
Starting this month, Bing 3.3% global market share, according to Net Applications, but the search engine is also used by Yahoo, which has a 6.7% market share.
Microsoft has been very cagey about the true sales figures for its new mobile platform since the launch of Windows 7 Phone in October and November 2010. In a recent interview with USA Today, but revealed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer what is likely to be the only figure someone comes to hearing about for a while - that 1.5 million mobile phones were sold to carriers.
Microsoft's CEO is under increasing pressure, with a number of executives leaving the company and the rumors about his departure.
There is obviously a significant amount, but with a number of different phones (each sharing a minimum spec) from manufacturers such as HTC, Dell, LG and Samsung some real sales figures based on the phones that are in the hands of consumers will come in handy route about now only so we can judge exactly how well received platform.
But in an interview with an American newspaper, he sounded bullish about Microsoft's mobile success and his company's tech decisions.
Ballmer is obviously very proud of Windows 7 Phone, describes the phones as the best-looking phones on the market, and he's probably right, with a user interface that is significantly faster and more efficiently than any other.
We have the best-looking phones on the market There are a lot of competition, but we've gotten the best looking phones on the market, he said USA Today.
Remarkably for a man who once led many buy outs of Microsoft as the company extended its monopoly in the 1990s, has Steve Ballmer also turned down the chance to buy Research in Motion in favor of Microsoft to develop Windows 7 Phone as a quality product to sit alongside the Xbox 360 and Kinnect.
We have the widest range of options, phones, software, crafts.
Let's hope he can be proud of the sales figures when they finally revealed.
It is just as good or better than anything else out there.
We have much work to do, he admitted.
However, we are in the game.
We sold 1.5 million of operators [via OEM, that Microsoft provides with OS licenses].
Windows 7 Phone launched in October last year, and neither Microsoft or the mobile operators has revealed how many phones have been sold to customers.
In comparison, Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4 handsets in the first three days of availability.
Bing as a weedBallmer also quoted search and game two of their successes, next to the business market.
We have made bold technology bet, said Ballmer.
We have invested in the cloud, and our enterprise business, it's going great.
We made the game on the Xbox, we did invest in Kinect.
We focus on Bing and growing like a weed in that business, he added.
So I feel pretty good about the game.
Starting this month, Bing 3.3% global market share, according to Net Applications, but the search engine is also used by Yahoo, which has a 6.7% market share.
Windows Phone 7 Launch Fails To Meet Expectations according to LG
Windows Phone 7 launch disappointing, according LG. With Microsoft refused to disclose the exact sales figures for its Windows 7 Phone range, speculation gathers about underwhelming record of devices and subdued interest in the nascent mobile platform.
Microsoft had launched the much-hyped smart phone platform in the high-end phones made by Dell, Samsung, LG and HTC.
To give credence to that conjecture, one of the handset OEMs expressed concern for post-launch phase on record to Pocket-lint.
But a month after launch, the companies had been suspiciously silent about sales figures.
Two months after debuting its mobile OS, Microsoft had shipped 1.5 million Windows 7 Phone devices to retail, an overview LG's James Choi displayed a bit disappointed: From an industry perspective, we had high expectations, but from a consumer point of view visibility is less than we expected.
Choi said that when Microsoft will release some updates, and do more to attract customers to its platform, so sales will start picking up.
For individuals at halfThe marketing strategy and planning team director for LG pointed out two areas of weakness in Microsoft's latest mobile operating system to explain away the teething problems.
There is much skepticism at the moment, but when Windows 7 Phone handsets that are mid-tier to the low level start to appear market share will grow.
According to Choi, Windows 7 Phone very intuitive and easy to use - compared to Google's Android OS extremely complicated - even though it's very simplicity could count against it, among some key demographics that label it boring.
Right now it's only exclusively present in a high level, because of its hardware, and it is to limit growth, said Choi.
Microsoft's insistence on strict minimum hardware criteria, such as 1 GHz microprocessor, and a WVGA resolution screen, is mentioned as the second most important factor for the low of the market: There is much skepticism at the moment, but when Windows 7 Phone handsets that are mid- tier to the low level start to appear in market share will grow, said Choi.
Right now it's only exclusively present in a high level, because of its hardware, and it is limiting growth.
Do not pull outNot that some of this concern or fear will affect LG's approach to supporting Windows 7 Phone in 2011, with electronics giant committed to balance our portfolio by supporting Microsoft's mobile operating system Android together.
And speaking of the future, Choi would not be drawn on the next wave of LG Windows phone devices, although the suspicion remains that the successors to Optimus 7 and Quantum may be published on February Mobile World Congress.
Microsoft had launched the much-hyped smart phone platform in the high-end phones made by Dell, Samsung, LG and HTC.
To give credence to that conjecture, one of the handset OEMs expressed concern for post-launch phase on record to Pocket-lint.
But a month after launch, the companies had been suspiciously silent about sales figures.
Two months after debuting its mobile OS, Microsoft had shipped 1.5 million Windows 7 Phone devices to retail, an overview LG's James Choi displayed a bit disappointed: From an industry perspective, we had high expectations, but from a consumer point of view visibility is less than we expected.
Choi said that when Microsoft will release some updates, and do more to attract customers to its platform, so sales will start picking up.
For individuals at halfThe marketing strategy and planning team director for LG pointed out two areas of weakness in Microsoft's latest mobile operating system to explain away the teething problems.
There is much skepticism at the moment, but when Windows 7 Phone handsets that are mid-tier to the low level start to appear market share will grow.
According to Choi, Windows 7 Phone very intuitive and easy to use - compared to Google's Android OS extremely complicated - even though it's very simplicity could count against it, among some key demographics that label it boring.
Right now it's only exclusively present in a high level, because of its hardware, and it is to limit growth, said Choi.
Microsoft's insistence on strict minimum hardware criteria, such as 1 GHz microprocessor, and a WVGA resolution screen, is mentioned as the second most important factor for the low of the market: There is much skepticism at the moment, but when Windows 7 Phone handsets that are mid- tier to the low level start to appear in market share will grow, said Choi.
Right now it's only exclusively present in a high level, because of its hardware, and it is limiting growth.
Do not pull outNot that some of this concern or fear will affect LG's approach to supporting Windows 7 Phone in 2011, with electronics giant committed to balance our portfolio by supporting Microsoft's mobile operating system Android together.
And speaking of the future, Choi would not be drawn on the next wave of LG Windows phone devices, although the suspicion remains that the successors to Optimus 7 and Quantum may be published on February Mobile World Congress.
Sony Ericsson Sticking With Android For Now But Leaves Door Open for Windows Phone 7
Several hardware manufacturers have committed to Windows 7 Phone, but it seems Sony Ericcsson is not ready to build a Windows 7 Phone device.
The company seems ready to stick with Android phones in the near future, but leaves the door open for Windows Phone 7.
And as per Steven Walker, director of global marketing at Sony Ericsson, they will stick to the Android platform for quite some time.
We have launched a series 6.xx products, but we took a decision not to bring a product to market in the first wave.
Even then, it does not mean they have ruled out Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone competely.
We certainly hold to keep an open mind for Windows 7 Phone. We continue to engage in a relationship with Microsoft, but we have not made any specific announcements about when and how we would introduce Windows 7 Phone portfolio.
Not an Android Fanboy thisIn an interview with Pocket-lint, Steven said: We have done much work with Microsoft over the years.
Sony Ericcson has not been wildly successful with Android, nor do we remember some breakthrough phones from their Windows Mobile days.
We have launched a series 6.xx products, but we took a decision not to bring a product to market in the first wave.
The real question is when Motorola will decide to jump back on board with the Windows phone.
We certainly hold to keep an open mind for Windows 7 Phone. We continue to engage in a relationship with Microsoft, but we have not made any specific announcements about when and how we would introduce Windows 7 phone in the portfolio.
He clearly said that although Sony Ericsson is still concentrating on the Google operating system, the doors to Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone open.
They are not intended to be Android For ever Motorola and make changes as needed.
The company seems ready to stick with Android phones in the near future, but leaves the door open for Windows Phone 7.
And as per Steven Walker, director of global marketing at Sony Ericsson, they will stick to the Android platform for quite some time.
We have launched a series 6.xx products, but we took a decision not to bring a product to market in the first wave.
Even then, it does not mean they have ruled out Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone competely.
We certainly hold to keep an open mind for Windows 7 Phone. We continue to engage in a relationship with Microsoft, but we have not made any specific announcements about when and how we would introduce Windows 7 Phone portfolio.
Not an Android Fanboy thisIn an interview with Pocket-lint, Steven said: We have done much work with Microsoft over the years.
Sony Ericcson has not been wildly successful with Android, nor do we remember some breakthrough phones from their Windows Mobile days.
We have launched a series 6.xx products, but we took a decision not to bring a product to market in the first wave.
The real question is when Motorola will decide to jump back on board with the Windows phone.
We certainly hold to keep an open mind for Windows 7 Phone. We continue to engage in a relationship with Microsoft, but we have not made any specific announcements about when and how we would introduce Windows 7 phone in the portfolio.
He clearly said that although Sony Ericsson is still concentrating on the Google operating system, the doors to Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone open.
They are not intended to be Android For ever Motorola and make changes as needed.
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