AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it -- and Microsoft 's cellular efforts -- repeatedly over the past year. "We'll be the premier carrier for Home windows Cellphone 7," a spokeswoman stated by way of e-mail on Monday. "We haven't given guidance on timing."

The spokeswoman would not elaborate about what a premier provider would do to advertise WP7. Analysts have noted the value to Microsoft of getting as many carriers on board as possible, particularly given the failure of Microsoft Kin telephones sold by Verizon Wireless and Microsoft's transfer away from the Windows Cell 6.x platform.

Each Verizon and Sprint Nextel refused to remark about their plans for WP7, and the fourth-largest provider, T-Mobile USA, didn't reply to a question on its plans. A Microsoft spokeswoman final week stated neither Microsoft nor the cellular operators have any bulletins on whether they will have WP7 telephones when they develop into usually accessible this fall. She did observe, nonetheless, that Microsoft indicated at its WP7 announcement at Mobile World Congress in February that its US companions have been AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon.

AT&T has stood out in its reward for Microsoft and WP7 in current months. At the CTIA present in March, Jeff Bradley, senior vp of mobile units for AT&T, stated in an interview that the service was trying ahead to promoting WP7 telephones to be used on its network when they develop into available.

via: engadget

Verizon has cut the price of both Microsoft Kin models. The Kin Two, seen here, drops from $99 to $49.  Over the weekend, Verizon quietly cut the price of both Kins. The lower-end Kin One dropped from $49 to $29, while the Kin Two went from $99 to $49. Those prices require users to sign a new two-year contract and agree to a $29 or higher monthly data plan, in addition to voice service.

Despite a significant TV ad campaign, the phones have gotten comparatively scant attention since their launch. The Kin, designed to target a similar demographic as the Sidekick, has faced steep competition from the iPhone and other smartphones, which don't cost any more per month and offer the ability to run thousands of applications.

I think Microsoft needs to get its act together and produce better phones in order to have a chance in this super competive mobile world, otherwise I think they will be disappearing from the Smartphone chart by this time next year.

source: cnet

With no explaination, the VP of Skype was hesistant to explain why there would be no development taking place for the new Windows Mobile offerings. However, he said Skype is in development mode for iPhone, iPad and Android Based phones.

Another kick in the stomach for Microsoft I guess, they are facing great challenages in the mobile world, even with the Kin release.

source: wmpoweruser

Microsoft has announced two new features to Bing App for windows phones, first feature is a redesign of the home page, making it easy to navigate with common used shortcuts.

The second is turn-by-turn navigation for Windows Mobile 6 series phones. powering by Bing Maps.

Here are the list of phones will be able to get this update.

Windows phone

• HTC Fuze
• HTC Pure
• HTC HD2
• HTC Tilt 2
• HTC Touch Diamond 2
• HTC Touch HD
• HTC Touch Pro
• HTC Touch Pro 2
• Motorola Q9c
• Samsung Jack
• Samsung Omnia II
• Samsung Propel
• T-Mobile Dash 3G

source: bing.com

Two new videos uploaded by Mobility Digest, check it out folks.

Windows Phone 7 showing off more features, E-mail, events, and schedules should always be together. Check out this video to see how Windows Phone 7 keeps life in order.

Windows Phone 7 Office Hub Preview: See how the Windows Phone 7 Office hub gives quick access to docs on SharePoint for dynamic document sharing, editing, and uploading.

Microsoft has officially announced the specs for Kin One and Kin Two on its facebook page (Germin Version).  The Unwired was able to do some translation for us.  Here it is.

KIN One, the portrait QWERTY-slider, features a 2.6" TFT, QVGA (320 x 240) capacitive touchscreen and sports a 5 megapixel autofocus CMOS camera which features anti-shake and a dual LED flash. It comes with 256 MB DDR RAM and 4 GB Flash memory. In addition to Verizon's excepted CDMA and Vodafone's expected WCDMA support, the KIN One features Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, USB 2.0 and WiFi b/g. Furthermore the device comes with a GPS receiver, an FM radio and an accelerometer. The battery is said to be 1240 mAh.

KIN Two, the landscape QWERTY-slider, is said to feature a 3.4" TFT, HVGA (480 x 320) capacitive touchscreen and sports a 8 megapixel autofocus HDR CMOS camera from Omnivision which features anti-shake/image stabilization and a Lumi LED flash. It comes with 256 MB DDR RAM and 8 GB Flash memory. In addition to Verizon's excepted CDMA and Vodafone's expected WCDMA support, the KIN Two features Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, USB 2.0 and WiFi b/g. Furthermore the device features a GPS receiver, an FM radio and an accelerometer. The battery is said to be 1390 mAh.

So there you have it.

Source: TheUnwired

You probably already heard that the Windows Phone 7 won't be support copy and paste right out of the spot.  Now it seems after the many complaints from potential users, program group manager, Charlie Kindel, has said that Microsoft is working on a good implementation of the copy-paste functionality for Windows Phone 7.

Considering that when the iPhone finally got the copy-paste functionality, it was a joy to use, hopefully Windows Phone 7 will also come up with a great way of offering copy-paste.

source: ubergizmo

Microsoft has official changed their name of the new OS to Windows Phone 7 instead of Windows Phone 7 Series.  I think it's a great decision because Windows Phone 7 Series is a little hard to remember.  Dropping the "Series" makes it really easy to reganize and remembered.

Here's statement from Microsoft Windows Phone's twitter account.

Tis the season for Series finales. We've got one too - dropping the ‘Series' and keeping the 'Windows Phone 7.' Done.

The videos show someone was to installed Windows Phone 7 Operating System into a Windows Mobile 6.1 device HTC Touch Diamond.

Srlek replied "Offcourse it's RDP, but so is every other WP7S video running on current hardware :) ", so obviously this is an RDP, performance isn't very good as you can see from this video, since WP7 requires a more powerful processor/hardware to suppor it.

source: engadgetmobile

See the video below:

Go ahead and stare the user interface of the Windows Phone 7 Series deserves it. Thats the reaction we got at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona when we revealed this new holistic design system that brings together form and function based on key principles - informing every aspect of the phone. See what everyone is talking about by checking out this video.

gizmodo did an awesome review of the Windows Phone 7 operation system, I don't think you can get more detail than what they posted.

check it out at gizmodo.com