Microsoft has arrived to the party late, but signals are the technology colossal is about to chuck everything it has to try to upstage Apple, Blackberry and Google in the touch-phone market.
Telecom and Vodafone will vend the handsets in New Zealand, with Telecom having the LG Optimus 7Q phone accessible next month and Vodafone launching the HTC 7 Trophy at a as yet unspecified date
The Optimus has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and the HTC 7 is rated as the most notable of the Windows phones.
Gen-i Otago manager Peter Thomas supposed the Windows 7 phone (WP7) was designed to bring together what consumers cared about most.
It was a handset for people who did not want to live on their phone.
The key features of WP7 contain:
• The only smartphone with Hubs and Live Tiles that update on the start screen.
• Easier and faster-to-find popular features such as pictures, music, games and information about friends and family;Combined basic everyday tasks such as search, taking pictures, interacting with contacts and managing email to do more in fewer steps.
• The first phone to have one button to Bing, Xbox Live, Office, Internet Explorer Mobile and Zune built in.
“The Windows Phone 7 will be one of the leading smartphone operating systems, giving users a mobile internet experience about as close to an integrated computer as they can get,” Mr Thomas believed.
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