Samsung will be offering a WP7 phone
21st March, 2010 by adina
Tags: Mobiles, Phones, Samsung, Windows, Windows Phone 7
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As part of a MIX10 talk about hardware specifications, Microsoft has declared that Samsung will be one of the main companies to make a Windows Phone 7 handset. Joe Belfiore, the company’s key mobile UI architect, claims that this is the third known device, apart from the ASUS reference model and the LG slider. The touch-only Samsung handset has no mentioned hard data yet, but it is expected to benefit from an AMOLED display and a large camera. Belfiore has mentioned something about the minimum hardware of the first version of the WP7 devices. Every handset has to have at least an ARM7-, Cortex- or Scorpion-based processor and a DirectX 9-class graphics core. The devices should also have a minimum 5-megapixel camera, 256MB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory, as well as sensors for acceleration, compass direction, light and proximity. A 480×320 screen is a minimum requirement, even if the 800×480 is the only other variant.
Some of these new phones will most likely be shown in late 2010. The LG handset may be available sometime in September.
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Yes, just one WP7S phone, compared to a multitude of Android phones coming from each manufacturer. Microsoft has given incentives to OEMs to make WP7S phones, but still each manufacturer only wants to make one. There are already 50 Android handsets on the market, and by the end of 2010 that should double, swamping any WP7S release. Microsoft is just too late to market, with an unfinished device that will have very few software titles, and not be compelling. Android and iPhone are already entrenched, and Microsoft will be unable to dislodge them. WP7S will fail.
@Binko Apple has only a single offering, and they were late for the party, but look where the iPhone is now. Makes you think, doesn’t it?