Chinese Windows Phones Manufactures—Huawei And ZTE

In this year's Mobile World Congress, Huawei released the new Ascend series of smart phones, such as quad-core mobile phone Huawei of Ascend D the quad and dual-core ultra-thin strong machine Huawei of Ascend P1, S and so on, but they are equipped with the Android operating system. Today, the news from Huawei, Huawei will launch a smartphone using Windows Phone 8 (WP8) operating system.

Microsoft has released a brand new Windows Phone operating system (Preview) in WP8 (Known as the best windows phones) of the conference, which saw the Huawei appear in the Windows Phone hardware support vendor list. While the message is displayed from within the Huawei, Huawei will join Microsoft to jointly develop a smartphone powered by Windows Phone operating system will be Huawei Windows Phone smartphone into a unified Huawei Ascend product family.

In addition, Huawei, the Huawei Ascend smartphone powered by Windows Phone operating system will be listed for sale in Europe, China, the United States and other markets, while their time to market, Huawei is not being disclosed. But you can see, in addition to the Android system, Huawei began to try to take into account more operating systems, as the Huawei terminal chief marketing officer, Shao Yang said, "It will be Huawei's product portfolio of smartphones, consumers around the world to provide more personalization options.”

ZTE V965W is a candy bar touch screen mobile phone, it is known as the ZTE by Tania. Qualcomm MSM8255 single-core processors in the configuration, the phone uses a 4.3 inches WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) grade touch screen, powered by the 1.4GHz frequency, compared to the overseas edition of the configuration is more robust and equipped with 512MB RAM and 4GB body memory, running Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, also has a 5 million pixel camera, the overall configuration is similar to the Nokia 900.

As the biggest Chinese Windows phone manufactures, they start to open up the electronic gadgets market, according to this action, we know that there is much profit in Windows phone market and their will be more competition is this market. So, for our customers, we just need observed the competition and grasp the best chance to get a high quality and cheap phone.

OPPO Can Be A Windows Phones’ Manufacture?

The first echelon of the Windows Phone manufacturers system has been identified as Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, and HTC four second tier vendors system is equally curious. Microsoft Windows Phones division has dedicated team of vendors to business, has been examined a number of local mobile phone manufacturers on the domestic, which Oppo this mysterious team certainly, it is possible to move into the Windows Phone 8 in 2013 manufacturers echelon.

Microsoft Windows Phone system vendors charge licensing fees, but also from Microsoft Office to get the support of the promotion, and so if the Oppo into the Windows Phone camp, whether full payment of licensing fees, and whether it will get special treatment, being unable to do conclusive.

Oppo recently launched a 6.65 mm thick Finder known as the world's thinnest smartphone, its industrial design than other smart phone manufacturers a large part of this Windows Phone assignment by the team strongly optimistic about the Oppo's an important reasons.

Reference came before the relatively low hardware specifications wp8 device HTC Rio, Oppo the Finder powered by 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8260 processor and 1GB of RAM beyond the Windows Phone 8 minimum requirements. Retail price according to the the Oppo official of 2,498 yuan, according to this specification directly to the Oppo Finder 3 transition to the Windows Phone 8 platform, then the cost of the Oppo production Windows Phone devices, selling prices and profit margins will be able to get from the Finder 3 must reference.

In addition, another reason why Microsoft Oppo such a small phone manufacturers upstart value is not strong in its UI customization needs. Compared to UI customization, Microsoft would prefer to see the manufacturers to break out of the hardware, industrial design and product differentiation to avoid the formation of a differentiated way to produce re-dependent UI customization, Oppo in this regard is Microsoft appetite.

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The History of Windows Phones

Windows phones as a new generation cell phone, we may enjoy the moment when we hold it, but do you know the history of Windows Phones? Are you curious about it?

As early as in 2004, Microsoft began to plan codenamed "Photon" and develop Windows Mobile as a major release update, but progress is slow, and finally the whole project was canceled.

Until 2008, Microsoft re-organize the Windows Mobile team and renamed Windows Phone, and continue to develop a new mobile operating system. The original plan it's the official version was released in 2009, but many aspects of the delay to make Microsoft's decision to use Windows Mobile 6.5 to the transition. Windows Phone R & D overnight. One of the consequences is that the old Windows Mobile application not work correctly in Windows Phone system. Larry Lieberman (Larry Lieberman), a mobile operating system in Microsoft's product manager, said: "If we had more time and resources, perhaps we can do to improve its backward compatibility." Lieberman pointed out that Microsoft had tried to wait and see the mobile phone market with a new perspective and pay more attention to the use of end-users (End-user) experience, rather than as in the past to focus on the intranet. Windows Phone development department, vice president Terry Myerson (Terry Myerson) said: "In order to borrow not to use the stylus to shift the capacitance-type touch screen, and other hardware changes to improve the Windows Phone system user experience, we have to break the Windows Mobile 6.5 application compatibility. "

In February 2010, Microsoft formally to show the Windows Phone operating system. In October 2010, Microsoft officially released Windows Phone smartphone operating system, the first version of Windows Phone 7, referred to as of WP7, and hardware devices based on this platform by the end of 2010. The major manufacturers: Nokia, Samsung, HTC, which announced the Windows Mobile series completely out of the phone operating system market. Brand new WP7 completely give up the WM5 Preview 6X user interface, and the program is not compatible with each other, and Microsoft has completely re-code and visual of the entire system, but because of its worry about the continuity of mobile products and the overall brand, the The name of WP7 ". This version improves the original user interface, multi-touch features, and motion sensor capabilities, several companies have introduced a touch phone for Windows Phone system. Windows Phone 7 in February 16, 2010, changed its name to "Windows Phone 7 Series", subsequently canceled on April 2 "Series", and changed back to "Windows Phone 7".

September 27, 2011, Microsoft released a major update to Windows Phone system version of Windows Phone 7.5 "for the first time to support the Chinese. Windows Phone7.5 is an upgraded version of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 on the basis of substantial optimization to improve, which contains the fixes and new features of many systems, including Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, including 17 kinds of new language.

June 21, 2012, Microsoft held a conference in San Francisco, USA officially released the new operating system Windows Phone 8 (hereinafter referred to WP8). Windows Phone 8 to give up the WinCE kernel, switch to the same NT kernel with Windows 8. However, because the kernel changes, WP8 will not support the current the WP7.5 system phone upgrade, and now the the WP7.5 phone can only upgrade to WP7.8 system. Microsoft officially confirmed the Windows Phone will be listed in the fall.

After we have a comprehensive understanding about the history of Windows Phones, we are able to make full use of our cell phones better. And if you are interested in Windows Phones or other consumer electronics, please read other articles in my blog. (Best Windows Phones)