14 DAY TRIAL // On Wednesday, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, took the stage at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and unveiled some details on the company's plans for the Windows Phone 7 operating system, the latest version of their mobile platform.
One of the facts that were unveiled there was that Windows Phone 7 should taste a software update in the coming few months, a recent article on BGR notes.
This would be the long rumored software update set to bring copy&paste functionality to handsets running under the Windows Phone 7 operating system, which is also set to bring into the mix a wide range of other enhancements, as recently reported.
The arrival of this update in the next few months does not sound very encouraging, since it was initially expected to arrive in January or February. Hopefully, Microsoft won't delay the delivery of new features to its Windows Phone 7 users, as it did with the older Windows Mobile platform.
Among the other details Ballmer shared with the audience at CES 2011, we can count the fact that the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace houses over 5,500 applications at the moment, 500 more than it did only about a week ago.
Apparently, around 100 new apps are added to the Marketplace each and every day, and users are also attracted to them, with over half of them already downloading software from the portal each day.
Another important announcement made at CES included the fact that the first CDMA Windows Phone 7 devices are expected to become available for purchase on Sprint and Verizon Wireless in the first half of the ongoing year.
Many were expecting for these smartphones to be released faster than that, that's for sure. Hopefully, they would manage to make the phones available sooner rather than later.
No update on the sales of Windows Phone 7 devices was made official, though the number has certainly passed the 2 million mark since the last announcement.