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Dell Venue Pro Will Cost $149.99 On The 14th, $500 Without Contract (update: pulled!)
The Dell Venue Pro is the best looking Windows Phone 7 device. In fact (and I’m not joking) but my contacts at Dell feel so bad that the Venue Pro is hard to find (lol?). And so do I. Turns out, we’ll all be happy (well, at least you) when it launches on December 14th on a two-year agreement with T-Mobile — for $149.99. That gets you a 4.1-inch multitouch LCD, slide-up QWERTY, Windows Phone 7, 5MP camera with 720p HD recording, 16GB of internal storage, and some very, very pretty looks. The page is live now, if you’re wondering. Via: TNW, Dell
Update: This one came straight from Dell and into the inbox. It turns out this was just a “test”:
“Dell routinely tests its online capabilities before releasing products via its direct channel. What’s been reported was a test, and we’ll provide additional information when it’s available.”
Oh, fudge.
Oh, lookie! It’s been a few days for a new laptop not to get announced by some company, so it turns out Dell will have a crack at it. The Dell Vostro V130 is a thin 13.3-inch WLED display beast with Core i3 or i5 ULV processors, Bluetooth 3.0/WiMAX/Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, HDMI port, 2 USB ports, E-SATA/USB port, and finally a 5-in-one SD card reader. And it starts at — $429. Nice.
Look, it’s the LG Star! Considering phones like these never get to keep their prototype naming when going to retail, you can stop dreaming of owning a Star (no pun intended) but LG’s star is pretty powerful because this new leak confirms some of the specs: a Tegra 2 processor, 8MP Camera, 1080p video, front-facing camera, Android 2.2 with LG skin (insert joke about crappy skins other than Sense and Blur here) and lastly — that’s it. Check out the source below for the full plethora of photos.
According to what seems like insider knowledge from Microsoft WP7 dev Chris Walsh, the first ever update for Windows Phone 7 will be “massive” and could be considered Windows Phone 8. Keep in mind Microsoft learned from Google and Android, and that every once in a while when a software update is needed on the platform, Microsoft will independently send you the update without much carrier oversight, like an Windows 7 software update. And purportedly what will be in the new update would be some heavily requested user features like Bing turn-by-turn voice directions, custom ringtone support (yeah, Microsoft forgot), copy/paste (they “forgot”that too), and multi-tasking (of some form, maybe 3rd party access). So, now we wait for the things that Microsoft’s new platform should have had from the beginning. Via: 
