This was the first WP7 handset out of the traps. Samsung’s offering is the Omnia 7, proud owner of the best screen of the bunch, a fourinch Super AMOLED. It also contains 16GB of storage, the same 1GHz Qualcomm processor as the HTC handsets and 720p video recording. It’s a very solid start for Microsoft, with the quality of the third-party hardware matching the promise of its sparkling OS. Other highlights of WP7 include live, constantly updating tiles on your home screen, Xbox Live games on the go–albeit scaled-down versions–and the Zune media player. Two omissions do glare, however: no multitasking and no cut and paste, although that is promised to arrive by “late 2011”. With a slick OS capable of taking on Apple and Android and high-specced, good-looking handsets, Microsoft is back in the mobile game. With support from app developers,WP7 should really fly in 2011.
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