Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 – Available on AT&T and T-Mobile in the States
Microsoft and their partners today revealed nine new Windows Phone 7 smartphones that will be available this holiday season from leading mobile operators in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Here in the United States Windows 7 enabled devices will be available from AT&T and T-Mobile. AT&T has three offerings and all three phones will cost $199.99 with a contract. The phones are the HTC Surround, LG Quantum, and Samsung Focus. Each have a capacitive touch screen, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The HTC Surround is the phone shown below and it has a 3.8-inch touch screen, 16GB of internal memory and is the first smartphone that has built-in Dolby Mobile surround sound speakers! It will be interesting to see how these phones do on the market this holiday.
Windows Phone 7 marks a new era in mobile gaming as the first phone to put the power of Xbox LIVE into the palm of peoples hands with a blockbuster lineup of game titles from award-winning publishers. In addition to the titles already announced earlier this year, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) today announced the first wave of EA games coming to Windows Phone 7 this fall. As part of Microsofts managed portfolio of Xbox LIVE titles, all EA games for Windows Phone 7 will be Xbox LIVE-enabled. EA will deliver a portfolio of titles that offers something for every mobile gamer, from casual to core, including Need for Speed Undercover, Tetris and The Sims 3.
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