The Windows Phone 7 hardware line up has been confirmed. HTC, Dell, LG, Asus and Samsung will all be sporting Windows Phone 7 at launch, which leaves us to ask: who’s missing?
July, 2010
It’s been a long, tiring Friday morning as we lurch towards the weekend. Help keep yourself awake as the clock ticks down with our bite-sized news burst. It’s your Lunchtime Lowdown..
The HP Slate launch has been on again/off again more times than a bad romcom engagement. But now it seems we’ve got the final answer: the Windows 7-packing HP Slate is on the way but it’ll be an enterprise device for business. If you’ve been angling for a consumer tablet from HP (aka the PalmPad/HP Hurricane), it’s still coming and will be rocking webOS 2.0….
Those free Windows Phone 7 handsets that Microsoft is slinging out to employees are not just a delightful gift. In an internal email that’s slipped out onto the web, Microsoft mobile head honcho Andy Lees urges Microsofties to make Windows Phone 7 apps in their “spare time”. Could that 900,000-strong army of internal Windows Phone 7 owners be the key to getting a killer library of apps on the virtual shelves by launch day?
New Xbox fanciers, hold onto that credit card until you’ve seen this: Microsoft just outed the first special edition Xbox, clad in the livery of Halo Reach. It’s silvery, comes with an extra controller, and has us smitten already.
Good morning all! Time to rub the last few grains of sleep from your eyes, wake up and smell the news. Here is a round up of the stories you may have missed – it’s your Techie Breakie.