Verizon won't sell Windows 7 phones until 20112010-09-17 09:50 by DanielaTags: Verizon, Windows 7 phone
Shock! It seems as if Verizon is relatively unenthusiastic about Windows Phone 7. Indeed, the carrier has refused to sell devices based on Redmond's latest (crappy) mobile OS until at least 2011. "[This is clearly] a blow to the software maker's efforts to reach a broad market. Microsoft overhauled its mobile-phone operating system to stem [heavy] market-share losses to Apple's iPhone and [devices] with Google's Android software," wrote Bloomberg's Dina Bass and Amy Thomson. "[But remember], Microsoft and Verizon's most recent mobile collaboration on [the] Kin phone ended when the software maker pulled the phone after two months due to disappointing sales." Meanwhile, Engadget's Nilay Patel noted Microsoft was "twisting the knife" of failure by confirming that the new platform will be GSM-only in 2010. Read more -here-
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