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According to Pocketlint , “ multiple sources familiar with the matter ” have confirmed Windows Phone 7 will launch officially in New York on 11 October 2010. Pocketlint claims their unnamed sources were all senior figures within the industry that they know and trust. The Austrian DerStandard.at also report that Microsoft will be holding separate presentations in Germany on the same date,  with handsets available on Orange in late October, T-Mobile from the 20th October, from 3 by the end of October, with the other carriers indicating they would also launch  handset running the OS but unwilling to commit to the date due to NDAs

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Windows Phone 7 launching October 11th, coming to Austrian stores 20th October

While the rest of the world is focused on Windows Phone 7, our pals in Norway haven’t forgotten about Windows Mobile. Today, Opera released an updated version of Opera Mini , bringing the version up to 5.1 and adding some new features including: The ability to set Opera Mini as the default browser Support for devices with high-resolution (high DPI) Improved page layout and font rendering Support for auto-rotation/accelerometer support Advanced configuration support for power users While its big brother, Opera Mobile , gets a lot of attention, Opera Mini has gone a long way since its days of needing a separate Java client, making the differences between the two less obvious.

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Opera Mini 5.1 is released for Windows Mobile

According to TMonews.com some Windows Phone 7 smartphone is coming to T-Mobile USA on the 17th November 2010.

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Some Windows Phone 7 device coming to T-Mobile USA on 17th November?

In America, Britain, and other major courtiers… Texting is slowly becoming very dangerous, but now there is a new view on that. This view was made available to Android users then now possible to any Windows Mobile but more specifically HD2 owner.

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RoadSMS- Keeps Things In View Even While Texting

The Xbox Kinect controller will be Microsoft’s major hardware/platform release other than Windows Phone 7 this holiday. Just like the latter, critics have lambasted the effort as copy of the Wii motion gaming capabilities and inferior to the PlayStation Move due the lack of physical controllers. It is also amazing to hear people bemoan the fact that most Kinect games shown so far force you to move around as you play the games (which the Wii also does) The video embedded above (which is unfortunately all in Japanese so if you know the language, please feel free to translate it for us) is called Karada de Kotareu Atarashii Nou-tore, or “Respond With your Body: New Brain Training,”

Above we have another video of the LG E900 carrier test phone being shot on what sounds like a train.  The video from Bulgaria by LittleAllRoad goes through much of the user interface, and passes, unfortunately without opening, the now familiar media sharing and ScanSearch apps which differentiate it from base   Windows Phone 7 builds. Of note is that the System Information, which disappointingly does not state the RAM and Processor speed, does show VDF-UK, which suggests the device is coming to Vodafone UK. Nothing much more to say here, except I cant wait to get my hands on this phone myself

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A Quick Preview of LG E900 with WP7 Glory

I have waited over a year for this to be available (actually more like 4 months). While browsing XDA blog I found a title of an article written by my friend Ben-duder (aka Mr Homer) , this title said “Improve your HD2’s keyboard”. Now that is a very descriptive title, but I did not believe it mainly because I have tried just about everything, but the lag mixed with the annoying space feature, and lastly the cramped keyboard has always been the cornerstone to what is the HD2 typing experience

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Improved HD2 Keyboard Now Finally Here, But Not From HTC

We are learning a little more about the HTC event scheduled for September 15th in London. While we are still expecting a press event to unveil the HTC HD3 Windows Phone 7, we have also learned that HTC will be hosting a public “meetup” as well.

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More on HTC’s September 15th Event

Pocketwit MoTweets HTC claimed, ironically via Twitter, that their HTC Peep client should now be working, after apparently coming to an agreement with Twitter not to shut down their un-updated client. This fixed everything pretty much for HTC Peep Android users,