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Windows Phone 7 Press Conference Highlights

Posted by Chris Leckness | 10/11/2010 | 0 Comments

Today is the day that Windows Phone 7 is being launched. There is a very packed house in New York City for the launch. Taking the stage 1st was Steve Ballmer. Steve is very excited about Windows Phone 7 and state that he’s been waiting for this day for a while. I agree Steve, I have too!

Next on stage was AT&T’s Ralph de le Vega. He started off telling us that “this is an exciting day for both customers and companies”. That’s quite obvious. He mentioned that Windows Phone 7 is like none that we’ve ever seen.

Next up was Joe Belfiore. He gave a very thorough, real world demo of Windows Phone 7 live.

Here are some highlights from the press conference:

November 8th, 2010 is the date devices become available.
“We set out to build a phone that was thoroughly modern.” – Steve Ballmer
“Always delightful. Wonderfully mine. Across a range of different hardware devices, situations, applications, experiences…” – Steve Ballmer
AT&T Announces 3 devices at launch. LG Quantum ($199), Samsung Focus ($199), and HTC Surround ($199).
HTC Surround has Dolby speakers, designed for gaming, 16GB internal storage.
All 3 AT&T phone are $199. Very nice price point.
Uverse Mobile App available next month. Allows you to watch Uverse on Windows Phone 7 devices for low monthly fee. – Ralph de le Vega
Uverse will be on Xbox 360 soon. – Ralph de le Vega
“Every picture I take can be automatically set to upload to the web so you can share it fast and easy.” – Joe Belfiore
EA Games onboard with Windows Phone 7

I am getting set to post a wrap up of the coverage so far over on my personal blog now. I will share all the links I posted so far here today. There will be more to come, but so far, so good.

Tags: AT&T, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, WP7

Category: Mobile

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Chris is a former Microsoft MVP, Windows Phone that attempts to live as a platform agnostic smart phone user, but fails badly at it. Often times his love/hate relationship with Microsoft glares through the Android user disguise. Now that he has more time, Chris enjoys spending time with his family, coaching baseball, and watching any sport involving the University of Alabama or Atlanta. Chris works for AT&T, but his thoughts and opinions are his own and that he does not represent AT&T in any capacity online. If you want to yell at him, send him free stuff, or ask him a question, hit him up at chris(at)notebooks.com.