Photo Credit: Engadget November 8. Microsoft appears to have been so excited about Windows Phone 7 the company leaked its planned November 8 release date a little bit early, according to Engadget. Microsoft reportedly had this image sitting on its own Website. However, the ad matches the size of similar Microsoft ads, and November 8 has been a long rumored street date for Phone 7.
Alongside the street date, Engadget also reportedly spotted an ad for a Windows Phone 7 device called the Samsung Focus. The gadget blog believes this is the same device as the previously spotted Samsung prototype code named Cetus. LG Optimus 7. LG has since realized its mistake but not before the eagle eyed bloggers at Slashgear caught the mistake.
Google was also on top of things, and you can find a cached version of the press release here. The Optimus 7 features a 3. LG also says the device will have several LG exclusives including DLNA-based multimedia sharing; augmented reality features to enhance real-time search; and voice-to-text transcription for SMS, Facebook and Twitter updates, e-mail and memos. This should be an easy one to not screw up. It's exactly like the Zune HD experience. You're able to utilize Zune Pass here too, including the ability to browse and download new music over WiFi and 3G.
Video is a go too, and we assume that means rentals as well as purchases, but it's still unclear how this will interact with your desktop, Xbox, or Media Center setup. Microsoft initially said it was working with partners like Pandora to integrate with the hub, utilizing the Zune player to tap into Pandora's streaming service, but they've backed off that message dramatically, and it's not clear at all if this feature will still make it into the launch release.
Divx playback will be supported out of the box, something that a number of higher-end featurephones and smartphones have integrated in recent years.
Marketplace hub: Microsoft is deeply rethinking its Marketplace strategy for Windows Phone 7 right down to the name -- it's now officially "Windows Phone Marketplace," a minor tweak from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile moniker they'd used before.
The revised Marketplace will be much more than an app store -- instead, it'll be billed as a one-stop shop for a variety of content from apps and Xbox games to music, and carriers will also have the ability to customize it by adding their own highlighted content. Much more on Marketplace below. Office hub: Microsoft's bread and butter, but so far we've just seen the hub itself -- none of its deeper functionality like document editing.
Ultimately, based on the new UI paradigms and user experience directives of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is going to have to rebuild these applications from the ground up. As long as they're able to make them super functional while keeping the Metro look intact, this should be a real win -- we're still curious as to how the company plans to cram all that information into a UI which is focused on doing away with visual noise, and the lack of system-wide clipboard functionality is going to be an issue here, no matter how much Microsoft insists users only want to view documents and add comments.
Seesmic: This is more or less a straight port of the same experience Seesmic offers on Windows on Mac, a testament to how easily they were able to port their Silverlight-based client. Shazam: Shazam's been pretty great at making sure that it has presence on every mobile platform of note, and Windows Phone 7 is no exception -- they took the stage at MIX10 to commit to the platform, so you can rest easy knowing that you'll have no trouble identifying songs with your shiny new WP7S handset.
Microsoft on copy and paste in Windows Phone 7 Series: 'people don't do that'. Editorial: Engadget on Windows Phone 7 Series. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company.
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