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Windows Phone 7 nears the finish line with SDK release date

Even as Windows Phone 7′s launch rapidly approaches—currently expected to be October for the EU, November for the US—developers are still using incomplete beta tools for creating applications for Microsoft’s new phone platform. Though the company has still not announced exact launch dates for the phones, it has revealed a few more key developer details. The final, complete developer tools will ship on September 16, and Marketplace will start accepting application submissions from early October.

The updated SDK will give developers long-awaited built-in support for two of the new OS’s key user interface concepts: “panoramas,” the sideways-panning mechanism for building the OS’s hubs; and “pivots,” the building block for showing filtered views of data, seen in the e-mail client. These two concepts are found throughout the built-in applications in Windows Phone 7, and are a key part of its striking appearance—a look many third parties want to replicate. Their inclusion in the SDK is sure to be welcomed by the platform’s developers.

And it seems that there will be quite a few to do the welcoming. Microsoft says that the betas have been downloaded some 300,000 times. This figure spans three betas and is sure to include a substantial number of people downloading more than once and people downloading to take a look but not actually create any applications. Still, the number implies that there has been substantial interest, in spite of the fact that no one can buy Windows Phone 7 hardware yet.

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CDMA2000 has a relatively long technical history, and remains compatible with the older CDMA telephony methods (such as cdmaOne) first developed by Qualcomm, a commercial company, and holder of several key international patents on the technology.

The CDMA2000 standards CDMA2000 1xRTT, CDMA2000 EV-DO, and CDMA2000 EV-DV are approved radio interfaces for the ITU’s IMT-2000 standard and a direct successor to 2G CDMA, IS-95 (cdmaOne). CDMA2000 is standardized by 3GPP2.

CDMA2000 is a registered trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA-USA) in the United States, not a generic term like CDMA. (This is similar to how TIA has branded their 2G CDMA standard, IS-95, as cdmaOne.)

CDMA2000 is an incompatible competitor of the other major 3G standard UMTS. It is defined to operate at 450 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1700 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz, and 2100 MHz.

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 is a new mobile phone developed by Research In Motion. Its project name was Javelin. The official release on T-Mobile USA is February 11, 2009.[1] It was first thought to be a part of the latest 9000 series phones, however it was revealed to be an 8900 series due to the lack of 3G, unlike the BlackBerry Bold, and will officially be called the BlackBerry Curve 8900.[2] The Curve 8900 is a Quad-band GSM/EDGE phone, unlike the BlackBerry Niagara which is an EV-DO device, both with WI-FI and GPS. In the Blackberry model lineup, the Curve 8900 appears is a replacement for the very popular older BlackBerry Curve 8300 and appears to be an upgrade in most all aspects and features. The most significant differences to the recently released and related Blackberry Bold is the Curve 8900 is smaller and has a better camera, but lacks the faster 3G support of the Bold. Other less significant differences compared to the Bold are smaller but higher resolution Curve 8900 screen, different USB port (mini vs. micro), Curve 8900′s smaller keyboard, Curve 8900′s improved “Atomic” trackball, Curve 8900′s less impressive speaker performance, Curve 8900′s more internal memory, Curve 8900′s slightly slower processor, and a speculated lower price for the Curve 8900.

[edit] Specifications
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 has the following features:

3.2 Mega Pixel camera with flash and autofocus (best BlackBerry camera to date, same as new touchscreen Blackberry Storm)
GPS – internal GPS with extended ephemeris, BB Maps is standard
MP3/WMA/AAC+ media player
DivX/WMV/XviD/3gp video player
WiFi/UMA
Bluetooth v2.0, Bluetooth Stereo Audio via A2DP and AVCRP
Browser – HTML browsing, View Movies/Clips from websites built for mobile streaming, RSS feed support

The HTC Touch Diamond, also known as the HTC P3700 or its codename the HTC Diamond[1], is a Windows Mobile 6.1-powered luxury Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC. It is the first device to feature TouchFLO 3D – a new version of the TouchFLO interface, unique to the Touch family.[2] The HTC Touch Diamond was first available in Hong Kong in late May 2008.[3][4] It was available across all major European carriers in June 2008, and will be available later in the year in other parts of the world[5]. The American Touch Diamond was launched on September 14th 2008 on the Sprint[6] network. Verizon Wireless[7] will also carry the Touch Diamond in the U.S.. The European release date was slightly delayed by a last-minute ROM update.[8] The carrier bound names for this phone include T-Mobile MDA Compact IV[3], O2 XDA Diamond[9] and O2 XDA Ignito.[10] It is the official successor of the HTC Touch.[11]

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