Saturday, September 18, 2010
Only GSM version of Windows 7 Phone for now
Microsoft has announced that only the GSM version of the Windows 7 Phone will be released into the market his year. The long-awaited operating system for smartphones will be heading to the CDMA carriers only next year.
Greg Sullivan, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft said, "The new operating system, Windows Phone 7, will initially work only with cellular networks based on a technology called GSM." He further stated that the company decided to focus on that wireless standard because the company is placing high-quality customer experiences above all else.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the first phones running Windows Phone7 are expected to go on sale next month. Sullivan said Microsoft plans to deliver a version of its software compatible with CDMA during the first half of 2011.
"For the worldwide market, the vast majority of phones are GSM phones, so we focused on GSM first and then plan to deliver an update that will have great CDMA support in the first half of 2011. That's device availability in the first half and we're very confident of that. That's probably a conservative estimate," Sullivan said.
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