Windows Phone 7 Is finished [Windows Phone 7]

Microsoft’s releasing Windows Phone 7 to manufacturing today-in other words, it’s done. Final. Complete. Microsoft managed to add a couple of new bits before shrink-wrapping it, too.

What RTM means is hardware makers and carriers can start finalizing their own plans for Windows Phone 7-tweaking drivers, preparing carrier-specific services for integration, that more or less thing. Gettings things able to go. What that doesn’t mean, however, is that Microsoft is telling us when Windows Phone 7 will actually land in our grippy hands. Octoberish, as previously rumored, still looks like the safe bet.

Microsoft had time to add a handful of recent things to the general build, based on feedback from the version I had an opportunity to check. Nothing monumental-like multitasking, or to a few people, copy and paste-but helpful. There’s a handful of UI tweaks, to make stuff like search more obvious within the UI. ” Discoverable” is Microsoft’s word. Aaaaand there’s several Facebook add-ons: You can still filter Facebook contacts from your main contact list, ridding it of Facebook contact pollution; you may post to people’s walls from their contact card within the People hub; and for sure, you’ll now ” Like” things.

What’s still missing that we hope we’d see? Built-in Twitter support. The official word now could be that it’ll need to come from apps. Sort of a letdown. But hey, no less than this thing is finished. [ Microsoft ]

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