Starting off your week with full serving of delicious tech news, it’s time for your US update. We’ve got the latest on the Xbox 720, Windows Phone 7 Mango, an updated Galaxy S 2, the N900 successor and details on the Asus PC X101 netbooks.
There’s been an interesting twist in the Windows Phone 7 Mango hardware guidelines. According to Eldar Murtazin, LG and HTC will be following in the button-less footsteps of the Nokia Sea Ray. Are you ready for a world of virtual on-screen controls?
Earlier today we told you Ovi Maps APIs would be supported by the Windows Phone 7 Mango update — now we have a new twist. Smartphone insider extraordinaire, Eldar Murtazin, has confirmed WP Mango design guidelines do not require front hardware buttons and “LG, HTC will have such phones.”
Conflicting reports and rumors go hand in hand. We’ve seen Windows Phone Mango design guidelines list hardware button requirements. The Nokia Sea Ray leak suggested a different policy. Now we have new evidence from Eldar Murtazin in support of a button-less design.
The first Windows Phone handset from Nokia, powered by Mango, will reportedly, “blow your socks off”. At least according to Dave Trevaskus, a senior training consultant for Nokia, who announced his praise for the upcoming smartphone on Twitter this morning.
According to mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin, there’s currently two Mango-powered Nokia prototypes make the rounds throughout the company. Which device Dave Trevaskus is referencing on Twitter, however, is anyone’s guess.
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The mysterious HTC Mazaa has received a lengthy hands-on video courtesy of Eldar Murtazin. After making several appearances in Microsoft Windows Phone Mango demos for IE9, the HTC Mazaa is quickly becoming the focus of the Windows Phone community. Today we learned the Mazaa packs a 12-megapixel camera, capable of capturing RAW images.
There were some juicy announcements at the Windows Phone 7 Mango update launch in London yesterday, not least the arrival of several new big brand handset manufacturers to the fold. But what about the OS itself? How’s that changed? See for yourself in our video walkthrough right here.
We’re live at Microsoft’s Windows Phone launch event in London, but lo if Microsoft’s not gone and served up all the details already online. Over at Microsoft’s website, a press release detailing the next big update to Windows Phone, Mango, is up. As expected, Twitter and LinkedIn integration feature prominently, and third party multitasking will finally be enabled.
UPDATE: Nokia has just announced that its first Windows Phone handset will run Mango.
It’s no secret that a Nokia Windows Phone or twenty is on the way, but Microsoft has just confirmed several other new partners committed to busting out Windows Phone blowers as soon as this year, all running Mango. Among them, Acer (a long rumoured partner), Fujitsu and up and coming Chinese manufacturer ZTE.
The latter is by far the most interesting since it’s recently made a name for itself cranking out incredibly cheap – and surprisingly good – Android smartphones. Microsoft however specifies minimum specs for Windows Phone handsets and is set on avoiding a race to the bottom, so it’ll be interesting to see how ZTE tries to stand out. Stay tuned for more, the press conference is just kicking off.
Remember the Sony Ericsson Xperia 10 Mini Pro? Well a successor to the excessively lengthily-named Android blower appears to have bounced into view in China…
