{"id":540336,"date":"2010-04-22T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=15587"},"modified":"2010-04-22T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:23:00","slug":"no-windows-phone-7-for-low-end-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540336","title":{"rendered":"No Windows Phone 7 for low end devices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" alt=\"windowsphone\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/edward\/mwcpubpic\/PressReleaseMicrosoftUnveilsWindowsPhone_E572\/windowsphone_thumb.jpg\" \/>We previously posted about the possibility of there being low end Windows Phone 7 devices for emerging markets, where the prohibitive cost of modern smartphones has led to minimal adoption.<\/p>\n<p>The Register have been told by Microsoft that there are no such plans:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft is working with OEM and MO partners to provide customers and developers with a consistent hardware experience across all devices. As part of this, there is a single Windows Phone 7 hardware specification that includes guidelines around screen options, storage, camera functionality, and processing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t rule out WP6 continuing on lower end devices, but does pretty obviously state that WP7 and the hardware it runs on will be very controlled by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/04\/22\/dell_lightning_windows_phone_7_android\/\">The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 336x280, created 1\/7\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0551502062\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We previously posted about the possibility of there being low end Windows Phone 7 devices for emerging markets, where the prohibitive cost of modern smartphones has led to minimal adoption. The Register have been told by Microsoft that there are no such plans: Microsoft is working with OEM and MO partners to provide customers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}