![]() ![]() In September 27, 2011, Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. In March 22, 2011, was released the first feature update, called NoDo, which added CDMA support and Copy and Paste feature. Windows Phone 7 was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on February 15, 2010, and released publicly on Novemin the United States. Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE, in addition to Nokia, released their first Windows Phones based on the first major upgrade to Windows Phone platform. ![]() Microsoft, on May 25, 2011, has announced expansion of partners who plan to release Windows Phone. The partnership involves "funds changing hands for royalties, marketing and ad-revenue sharing", which Microsoft later announced was, "measured in billions of dollars." The first Nokia Windows phones, the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710, were announced in October 2011 at Nokia World 2011 event. Integration of Microsoft services with Nokia's own services were announced specifically that Bing would power search across Nokia devices, and an integration of Nokia Maps with Bing Maps, as well as Nokia's Ovi store being integrated with the Windows Phone Marketplace. The event was largely focused on creating "a new global mobile ecosystem", suggesting competition with Android and iOS by saying "It is now a three horse race". On 11 February 2011, at a press event in London, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced a partnership between their companies in which Windows Phone would become the primary smartphone operating system for Nokia. The devices were available on 60 carriers in 30 countries, with additional devices to be launched in 2011. On October 11, 2010, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer announced 10 devices operating Windows Phone, made by HTC, Dell, Samsung, and LG, with sales beginning on Octoin Europe and Australia and Novemin the United States. Windows Phone supports twenty-five languages and Windows Phone Marketplace allows buying and selling applications in 35 countries and regions. HP later decided not to build devices for Windows Phone, citing that it wanted to focus on devices for its newly purchased webOS. The final SDK was made available on September 16, 2010. Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone on February 15, 2010, at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona and revealed additional details at MIX 2010 on March 15, 2010. Many hardware makers were listed in the release. In February 2010, a Microsoft press release listed the companies that would help make and operate Windows Phone. The important thing is keeping the focus on the Windows Phone brand, which we introduced in October and will continue investing in through Windows Phone 7 and beyond." "Customers want a simpler way to say and use the name consistently. The official statement on the matter was: Responding to this, on ApMicrosoft announced that the "Series" would be dropped from the name, leaving the platform named Windows Phone 7. Microsoft at first announced its new platform as "Windows Phone 7 Series" which initially came under criticism as being too wordy and difficult to say casually. Before the official announcement of 'Windows Phone 7', Microsoft began to refer to devices running Windows Mobile as "Windows Phones". The name 'Windows Phone' is a rebranding of Microsoft's old mobile OS called ' Windows Mobile'. ![]() Terry Myerson, corporate VP of Windows Phone engineering, said, "With the move to capacitive touch screens, away from the stylus, and the moves to some of the hardware choices we made for the Windows Phone 7 experience, we had to break application compatibility with Windows Mobile 6.5." Naming Larry Lieberman, senior product manager for Microsoft's Mobile Developer Experience, told eWeek: "If we'd had more time and resources, we may have been able to do something in terms of backward compatibility." Lieberman said that Microsoft was attempting to look at the mobile phone market in a new way, with the end user in mind as well as the enterprise network. One result was that Windows Mobile applications do not run on it. The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone, but several delays prompted Microsoft to develop Windows Mobile 6.5 as an interim release. In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on a new mobile operating system. ![]() Work on a major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename "Photon", but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled. ![]()
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