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| HTC Rio, Accord and Zenith Windows Phone 8 Smartphones Get Detailed… A Bit Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:50 AM PDT
This week was all about Microsoft and its announcement of the Surface Tablet and Windows Phone 8. The later caused quite a stir when it was unveiled that it will not be compatible with current WP models, including the Lumias. Well, now it’s time to start looking into the future, towards models such as those HTC newcomers detailed below.
HTC’s first Windows Phone 8 smartphones will be models called Rio, Accord and Zenith, according to a leak. The first two will hit the market in October, while Zenith is Q4 material, according to The Verge. Rio is an entry level handset with a 4 inch WVGA display, Qualcomm MSM8227 CPU and 512MB of RAM, the classical recipe for a midrange WP device. It also has 5 megapixel camera and for the other two units you can image a retooled version of HTC One S and One X, if you want an idea. Accord is upper middle class, while the Zenith will be a full flagship unit, probably a quad core model. HTC Accord is said to feature a 4.3 inch 720p Super LCD 2 screen, 1GB of RAM, NFC and an 8 megapixel camera, while the Zenith has a quad core CPU, a 4.7 inch display and other than that the specs are similar. Nothing exciting here, honestly speaking… Related posts:
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| Early Build of Windows Phone 7.8 Gets Pictured on Nokia Lumia 900 Posted: 23 Jun 2012 04:12 AM PDT
This week Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8 and announced the fact that this OS won’t come as an update to any current WP devices, including the Lumias. This leaves them with a consolation update called Windows Phone 7.8, that brings some of the features of WP8 to the older devices. Apparently, the update has began surfacing on some devices, albeit for testing purposes.
The image you see above is the proof of that, showing a Lumia 900 with the WP7.8 build. How can you tell? Well, this early build gives the user more tile sizes, including a smaller one and the wider tile, as big as two medium ones. Microsoft employees are the ones playing with this release, since they’ve posted the picture to Twitter. The handset shown here is the US version of the Stormtrooper Lumia 900 and this is a very early build, so don’t get your hopes up. Rumors say that the software will arrive around July, at best. Among others it should bring a more flexible Start screen, camera sharing features, contact sharing, counters and PlayTo (DLNA) function. Zynga games will also come to the Lumia series, but I can’t guarantee it’s related to this release. Related posts:
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