The team standing behind the ChevronWP7 jailbreak tool for WP7 announced that after a meeting with Microsoft they decided to discontinue the unlocking tool effective immediately.

In return Brandon Watson, the Windows Phone 7 Director of Developer Experience, agreed to "open the Windows Phone 7 platform for broader access to developers and users". In other words, its only a matter of time for home made apps to come to the Windows Phone 7.

As we Announced before Windows Phone 7 update is planed on January,2011. It is said to be massive and should bring along tons of improvements including support for copy/paste, multi-tasking and more.

Word is the first Windows Phone 7 update is in the works and should be launched some time in January 2011. It is expected to pack a handful of goodies such as copy-and-paste and multi-tasking things that even plenty of cheap feature phones can do but none of the 500-euro WP7 handsets would offer you.

The Bing Maps app is undergoing a facelift as well. It should get turn-by-turn directions as well as some other improvements. The software update should enable custom ringtone support too.

Today and several weeks later than expected, Dell finally launched its first smartphone based on the Windows Phone 7 platform. The Dell Venue Pro is one of the few WP7 handsets equipped with a hardware QWERTY keyboard and what an unusual keyboard it is.

The Dell Venue Pro was first said to start selling on 8 November but, apparently, it took the company a bit longer to launch it. Anyway, what really counts is the phone is already available, at least in the US, and can be had for 450 USD without a contract or for 100 USD with a new 2-year contract with T-Mobile.

Apart from packing a full QWERTY the Venue Pro also sports a zippy 1GHz Snapdragon processor, multiple connectivity options, and a 5MP autofocus camera with HD video recording.

The word on the street, and by street we mean the net, is that Windows Phone 7 is set to get a gargantuan update in January,2011. So big is the update, it is said, that "... Microsoft might as well call the platform “Windows Phone 8" according to Chris Walsh, one of the devs behind the ChevronWP7 unlock tool.

The chatter says that leaked screenshots should be appearing soon, but for the moment the following features lead the pack as being expected in the update:

• Bing turn-by-turn directions
• Copy/paste (why is this always such a big deal with mobile OS?)
• Multi-tasking
• Ringtone customization

When Acer first entered the smartphone business Windows was their weapon of choice and it remained like this for quite a while. Later on Android entered stage and things started cooling off between Acer and Microsoft.

Apparently the limitations of Windows Phone seemed too great to Acer at first. Yet now that Windows Phone 7 has been released Acer’s CEO Gianfranco Lanci went on record saying that his company has realized that the new platform actually offers a lot of customization options. That makes Acer the fifth player in the WP7 game after LG, HTC, Samsung and Dell.

Unfortunately, There is no info on the Acer Wp7 release date yet!