Windows Phone 7 Major Update Soon

The Windows Phone Blog recently announced a bunch of updates coming to Windows Phone 7 users in the near future:

A free customer update will be released for all Windows Phones in the first two weeks of March 2011, including copy/paste and improved performance.


Twitter Integration
Twitter will be integrated into the People Hub (Time Frame: second half of 2011)

Availability CDMA Networks
Added support for CDMA networks, Windows Phone will be available to even more customers on mobile operators such as Verizon and Sprint in the (Time Frame:first half of 2011)

Additional Multi-tasking
Adding the ability to switch quickly between applications, run applications in the background (such as listening to music), along with a number of other capabilities in the second half of 2011. More info will be available during April’s MIX conference.

Office Document Cloud Storage
Document sharing and storage in the cloud via Windows Live SkyDrive (Time Frame: second half of 2011)

Next Generation Browsing IE9
A super enhanced IE9 web browser will be added. It will include the same standards support HTML5 and hardware accelerated graphics. (Time Frame: second half of 2011)

Windows Phone 7 Line Up Video

Windows Phone 7 Line Up Announced

Scheduled for November Release, the Windows Phone 7 Phone line up has just been announced.

First up is the Samsung Focus which will be available from At & T

Next up is the Dell Venue Pro:

Next the LG Quantum, also from AT & T

HTC Surround (AT & T)

And lastly the HTC HD7 from T-Mobile

Personally I am really liking the look of the Dell Venue PRO with the HTC surround coming in a close second!

What do you think?

Windows Phone 7 Application Performance Heads Up

Seriously, if you read nothing else this week about Windows Phone 7 development, this article will save you pain, time, headaches

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/delay/archive/2010/10/04/there-s-no-substitute-for-customer-feedback-improving-windows-phone-7-application-performance-now-a-bit-easier-with-lowprofileimageloader-and-deferredloadlistbox-updates.aspx

Windows Phone 7 HTC Mozart

The leaked Video of Windows Phone 7 running on the new HTC Mozart Phone:

Windows Phone 7 Dell Lightning

Dell Lightning

The Dell Lightning includes a full QWERTY keyboard, 4.1-inch WVGA OLED capacitive touch screen, and 5-megapixel autofocus camera. And is based on the Candy Bar Slider Design.

Specifications:
1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor
1GB flash ROM
512MB RAM
MicroSD card slot (8GB MicroSD Card included)
GPS
Acceleromater
Compass
FM radio
Flash video (including video playback)

Windows Phone 7 Debuting October 11th

Extra Extra Extra, looks like Windows Phone 7 will be debuting exclusively with AT & T Keeps of the iphone flame:

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/01/5215207-win-phone-7-debuting-oct-11-with-att-exclusive