With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different approach to phone software.
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In October, T-Mobile began selling the G1, a handset built around Google's smart phone software.
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Google developed the Android operating system, Microsoft developed smart phone software, and Blackberry improved their Internet capabilities.
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Here's the scuttlebutt: Google engineers have reportedly been working hard on mobile phone software that will hook phones into its online services.
In Internet search and mobile-phone software, the company has been relegated to also-ran status, behind Google ( GOOG) and Apple ( AAPL).
Apple have the best phone software to get the best picture from a number of shots the TimeShift application which is generations ahead.
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The two Silicon Valley giants have been at odds since Google launched its Android mobile phone software, a direct challenge to Apple's popular iPhone.
Google just wanted to develop mobile-phone software that worked well, he argued, adding that existing Java-based phones at the time Android was developed were lacking.
Microsoft has been plugging away for five years on its Windows Mobile phone software and now has 40 devicemakers and 380, 000 developers writing for it.
That meant making Windows Phone software smarter and easier, said Lees.
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The Windows Phone software itself on this new phone hasn't changed.
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Windows Phone software to attract consumers in low-end and emerging markets.
Rubin's team is building custom mobile-phone software atop the free Linux operating system that will bind the phone tightly to Google's online applications and advertising services, sources say.
Snapdragon is an application processor, which is an integral part of a smartphone and is used for giving the computing power for handling mobile phone software and applications.
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From the beginning of Microsoft's mobile efforts in the PDA era, its touchscreen phone software has had a Start button and windows that could be minimized like the classic Windows desktop.
It will start to advertise Ovi in 2009, but it will not be easy to create a brand that can rival the coolness of Apple's iPhone or Google's new mobile-phone software, called Android.
With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications.
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If Apple starts selling its iPhone through Verizon, Apple chief Steve Jobs could damage the momentum Google has built up for its Android smart phone software, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner wrote in a note to investors Wednesday.
In other words, there would appear to be an opening here for Microsoft to gain some traction with its Windows Phone software with handset makers who fear that competing with Motorola in the Android phone market will no longer be a fair fight.
That said, Microsoft began working on KIN before it started developing its (yet to be released) Windows Phone 7 software and KIN One and Two are not Windows Phone 7 phones.
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Mr. Lewis, the data forensic expert in New York, says he recently worked on one case where the spouse enabled the "find my phone" software on all of her family's smartphones, which lets you pinpoint the location of the phone using GPS. She quickly learned of her husband's frequent trips to an ATM, where he withdrew cash she didn't know about.
GadgetTrak founder Ken Westin, for example, gave up an effort to put his mobile-phone tracking software onto Sony Ericsson handsets last year.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is tinkering with a new version of its Windows Phone 7 software that will allow mobile payments.
Engadget reported last week that LG is working with Microsoft on possibly the first handset to be released with Windows Phone 7 software.
One such elusive item is a phone running software from Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) new Android mobile-software platform.
Unlocking a phone is distinct from a practice known as "jail-breaking" that opens up a phone so software from unofficial sources can be run on it.
The virus infects the Symbian OS found on Nokia Series 60 handsets and affects the phone directory software, selecting one directory profile at random and sending a copy of itself to that person.
Employees at computer, phone and software company Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) have filed a patent to place solar cells on portable devices, Trade the News reported Monday.
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