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microsoft already hiring for windows phone 8 development Windows Phone 7 mango rtm gets leaked and Microsoft canceling their reader ebook division all the two more coming up right now hello everyone I'm hi Mary veteran with pocketnow.com and welcome to Windows Phone view the show we go through all this week's good and bad inside the world of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform let's start this week off with the good well with news of Windows Phone 7 mango and tango in the mix it's interesting to see Microsoft already working on their Apollo project which is Windows Phone 8 there's already a job posting out there for engineers to become part of the developer program of Windows Phone 8 and it seems very enthusiastic now Windows Phone 7 was launched in fall of last year windows phone 7 mango is scheduled for fall of this year and well we could assume that Windows Phone Apollo or 8 is scheduled for the fall of next year but then whatever is going to happen to tango we're still wondering if that tango project is really to bring cheap hardware and a cheaper version of Windows Phone for a nokia devices and well everything is good news let's hope that it does happen and let's hope that they get some really good people on that team speaking of software releases Windows Phone 7 mango rtm build 7720 was recently leaked and interesting enough remember rtm means released to manufacturers it's currently available in a thread on XDA developers and according to the threat everything works like a charm obviously there are some things that need to be worked on yet and it's not really simple to update though it's up to you you can update your device's if you want then well let's hope that everything works for the best rtm is real it's good news because even though it's hard to update it means that Microsoft is pretty much just one step away from releasing now let's hope that the manufacturers hurry up that the OEM carriers and everybody else just hurries up because we want mango on our phones now and well FF Etta's famous game developer just posted some images of different phones that are testing his games over at Redmond it's interesting to see that in the lists we have a nokia 800 in an acer m310 and though we do know what to make of the nokia device which is most probably see ray that converted n9 to Windows Phone device that we're all expecting but we really can't make much out of the Acer device there were other devices on the list so it's really interesting and good to see that Microsoft has a really broad list of phones that are probably going to be launched with the mango release let's hope there are more than less release because people already know what Windows Phone 7 is and people really like what they see well Microsoft has announced 14 new game titles coming to Xbox Live and you can expect them in the marketplace in the next coming months now be sure to hit pocketnow.com for the full list in a brief description of the all of these 14 games because well the list is quite long all the games are really quite good so we take too long and posting them on the video but it's really interesting to see that Microsoft is working hard on breaking more games to the platform and they're clear that the future lies on mobile so expect these games really soon hopefully and most likely will see them when mango comes to life well does it follow up to our previous coverage on the site regarding compound communications becoming the manufacturing partner for nokia and masers windows phones the deal is solid and it's already planned to ship two million nokia windows phones in September talk about a really good way to know when mango will be released officially and an interesting note from Chris Webber which is Nokia's head of the American sales division is that they're not planning to sell unlocked phones in the United States they're planning to go all over carriers and be totally aggressive about it they don't find to be aggressive enough to sell windows phones nokia windows phones that are actually cheaper than the cheapest android handset in the market so that's really interesting but Chris rubbers actually mentioning that they're planning to make this the biggest comeback in history and hey my money is down and really saved up to be up there and in line buying milky windows phones once their lives so hurry up guys so one of the things we've noticed ly leaves the aggressiveness that Microsoft is using to launch Windows Phone 7 so aggressive we really didn't see that in Windows Mobile in all the years that it existed we've heard the facts that Microsoft actually paying developer from the port applications and even more things but interesting enough we have microsoft tech sec Brandon Watson who's been contacting celebrities like Blake Griffin for example who's in sports cartoonist Scott Adams and even seen its mollywood and hook them up with Windows Phone sevens running the mango built for them to tell people what they think about the new devices so far we've been receiving really good feedback on mango and what they like about mango and to be honest with you windows phone 7 in my case particularly was something that I really needed to test before i could say yeah i like it or not and to be honest with you it's something you just can't put down once you get it it's so immersive so mr. Brandon Watson I mean my dell venue pro is becoming a bit heavy if you don't mind the samsung focus would be really nice if you could hook me up well that that's it for the good let's continue on with what's bad microsoft is just announced they'll be cancelling their Microsoft Reader program as of now pretty much you can still use your Microsoft reader books but the platform will not be working as of late next year sadly these are very sad news in particular places like for example mine Rock purchased almost 40 microsoft reader compliant books that I can't read anymore I'm actually carrying an old HP ipaq to 10 from the year of the dark ages because well first of all Microsoft reader never made it to Windows Phone 7 it's only being supported for windows 7 and windows in the past then tablets and pretty much um pcs but that's it it never made it to Windows Phone 7 it's kind of ironic considering that the Kindle is now being such a success that Apple wouldn't sell ebooks as of two years ago is now making a lot of money with ebooks and well Microsoft you've been in the business almost for 10 years and you're pulling back from it um really don't understand then I'm really expecting for you to at least contact me and tell me hey you paid so much money for your books and here's your refund there here's a copy of an Adobe compliant Booker probably ereader from friction wise or at least the kindle book man and we were all happy with the recent rumors that microsoft was releasing windows phone 7 mango as of September first and everybody was cheering and everything and then came Joe Belfiore over Twitter and said sorry guys it's only a rumor for that launch date and well the interesting part is that he said it's only a rumor he didn't say it's not going to launch on that date he didn't say that no it's not going to happen he just said it is a rumor so hopefully we were right and the platform will be launching so early but again rtm is barely out there we haven't received any feedback from manufacturers or carrier so not really sure what the make of it hopefully it will happen at least close to September first I mean hopefully and yeah we were all excited about the fujitsu toshiba au is 12t device making it to our shores eventually but hey now we want that thing to stay in Japan and the reason why is because they've just priced it and it's going to cost you a thousand bucks off contract and we're wondering I mean what are you thinking about I mean first of all your joint venture is actually cancelled second of all the device isn't even in the market yet there aren't any reviews of people going crazy making lines after it you're actually expecting to charge people a thousand bucks for phone either you guys are totally wrong with the pricing or some of us need to move to Japan to be able to afford that much amount of money just for phone that's it for today's show thank you very much for watching I'm Hyneman we better remember to give us a thumbs up if you liked what you saw that's it for now