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Found under: Rhapsody, Music, BlackBerry, App World, , Rhapsody is finally ready to bring its music app to BlackBerry handsets so youll be thrilled to find out that one of your favorite music apps has decided to start streaming its music collection to BlackBerry handsets.The Rhapsody music app is available in the App World right now and in order to get access to over 10 million tracks either via 3G or WiFi you will have to agree to a 10month subscription. Songs can also be purchased and youll certainly want to purchase some of themRead MoreRead more in mobile format

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As Microsoft preps for Monday's public unveiling of the first devices featuring Windows Phone 7 -- its latest effort to assert mobile-industry leadership -- CEO Steve Ballmer has made clear what will define success for this radically redesigned operating system.

"Job one here will be selling a lot of phones, and if we sell a lot of phones, good things are going to happen," he told the Wall Street Journal.  

In the United States, you can expect at least a handful of phone models, with different prices and form factors, on the two main GSM cellular networks: AT&T and T-Mobile (it's not clear when T-Mobile will start selling the phones). The publicly announced Windows Phone handset makers include Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung, the latter three with strong commitments to Google Android handsets. All handsets will comply with a foundation hardware specification -- CPU, memory and so on -- designed to ensure that every Windows Phone device will perform consistently and well.

Photos and documents purporting to be of the new phones have been surfacing, all showing roughly similar devices: big-screen touch phones, with the trademark trio of Windows Phone 7 buttons at the bottom. But expect a much more diverse group of devices, in terms of size, weight, and design, targeted at different groups of users.

Given Windows Phone 7's built-in cluster (or "hub" in Microsoft parlance) of Microsoft Office applications, a native Microsoft SharePoint client and nearly complete implementation of Exchange ActiveSync for linking the phone to corporate Exchange Servers, the new handsets are likely to find ready acceptance in the enterprise market. (See: "The top 6 enterprise issues for Windows Phone 7")

"Disaster", "doomed", "a step back"

Plenty of people fervently believe that by Balmer's yardstick Windows phones will fall well short of success, ending up like Microsoft's ill-fated Kin phones, which were based on different software and lasted just two months on the market earlier this year, or Palm's webOS phones, which despite good reviews failed to spark consumer interest.

Windows Phone 7 already has been declared a "disaster," and a "doomed" enterprise with a failed business model. It's a "step back" according to some number of developers and users of the older, and now incompatible, Windows Mobile OS.

Analyst firm Gartner forecasts about 12.6 million Windows Phone handsets sold in 2010, jumping to 21.3 million next year, but market share climbing from just 4.7% to 5.2%, and dropping back to 3.9% in 2014. IDC is more optimistic, forecasting a 9.8% share in 2014.

But Microsoft has so far fulfilled its two top priorities, which Ballmer repeated in the same Journal interview, and it's worth quoting at length: "In the time frame since the last significant release [of the older Windows Mobile OS] certainly the industry has moved, the technology has moved, the hardware has moved. We said 'we've got to move forward, not shoot for yesterday. We've got to shoot ahead in a way that's delightful to users, accessible to developers, and prioritize everything else we do around those [two] elements.' "

The "delightful" mobile OS

"Delightful" isn't usually a design goal for software engineers. But since the early 2009 unveiling of the redesigned OS, Microsoft has been evangelizing its benefits to the legions of Windows developers. Starting Monday, its marketing program will do the same for consumers.

The Windows Phone 7 user interface represents a fundamental innovation in how the user interacts with a smartphone and how the phone interacts with network-based services. The distinctive UI is dramatically different not just from Windows Mobile but from its rivals, Apple iOS, Google Android and BlackBerry OS.

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Found under: NokiaPedia 2010, Application, Symbian, Nokia, , Are you looking to change your current Symbian Nokia phone with a different Nokia phone Or do you simply want to know more about current and past Nokia handsets andor to provide better carrier customer care services If thats the case then we have an application for you NokiaPedia 2010 which knows everything there is to know about those handsets.NokiaPedia 2010 is available in the store for 1.56 Euros and the app will not require an active Internet connection to tell you everythiRead MoreRead more in mobile format

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Found under: Verizon, Windows Phone 7, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, , Windows Phone 7 is about to debut but it looks like not every customer out there will be able to enjoy such a phone from their carrier. This goes especially for Verizons over 90 million subscribers that wont have access to CDMA WP7 devices until 2011. The news comes unexpectedly and it looks like T-Mobile and ATT the two important GSM carriers in the USA will be the only providers of such Windows Phone 7 smartphones at least until later in 2011. That also means that Sprint will be Read MoreRead more in mobile format

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