Consumer electronics

Windows Phone had a fantastic week last week at CES. 2 new 4G LTE-enabled Windows Phones were announced for AT&T: the HTC Titan II and Nokia Lumia 900.

When Annie Wang the Co-founder, CTO and Creative Director of HerCampus.com agreed to join Windows in Vegas for the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, I literally jumped out of my seat! Annie, a Windows Champion and known student blogger, knows exactly what students want, what students are thinking about and asks questions that help students figure out what they really need to know. The following video recaps Annie’s first day at CES.

It’s big. It’s fast. It’s got a killer camera. The first major Windows Phone announcement to emerge from the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today was positively drool-worthy: The HTC Titan II, a new 4G LTE-equipped phone, is coming to AT&T.

Hi everyone. Just a quick update to let you know that today we began delivering Windows Phone 7.5 to customers with Samsung Omnia 7 phones on Telefonica in Spain.  For questions about installing or manually checking for an update, please visit Update Central.

Eric Hautala, General Manager, Customer Experience Engineering

Hello everyone. Busy week—here’s what’s going on:

We’re now sending out Windows Phone 7.5 updates to customers with Samsung Focus 1.4 phones on AT&T. We’re also scheduling the update for Samsung Omnia 7 owners on Telefonica in Spain. Expect us to expedite the scheduling process, now that it’s been fully tested.

Have you registered for the San Francisco Windows Phone Inner Circle event yet? If not, and you want to hang out with Windows Phone and T-Mobile to celebrate the arrival of the HTC Radar 4G, go do it. If you already registered, nice work. We will throw down like we did in L.A.

Hi everyone.  Today we made the Windows Phone 7.5 update available to Samsung Omnia 7 phones on Deutsche Telekom in Europe.  If you don’t want to wait for a notification, Update Central has instructions for manually checking for and installing the software on your device.

Lots of new stuff this week to chat about in the podcast, including the Xbox LIVE companion app for Windows Phone and the announcement of the Jil Sander Windows Phone from LG.

Rock on, Canada! Starting Monday, the Zune Music Marketplace and Zune Music Pass is expanding north, giving Windows Phone owners in Canada access to more than 14 million tracks from all the major labels, as well as tens of thousands of indie tunes.

Hi everybody. Given all the recent speculation around the timing of our Mango update, I wanted to bring you up to speed on what to expect next. 

For months, we and dozens of our partner companies have been laying the groundwork for the Windows Phone 7.5 update—and making solid progress. As a result, we now expect to start rolling it out in the next week or two. At that time, we’ll also refresh the Where’s My Phone Update? table to reflect the worldwide rollout status.