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First Windows Phone 7 developer handsets handed out

First Windows Phone 7 developer handsets handed out

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Microsoft has just announced that all ImagineCup Finalists (400!) will receive a Windows Phone 7 developer handset today (update:Microsoft has just clarified the situation: only two devices were handed out today and the rest of the finalists will get a retail device this fall). The frist ones have already been handed out to the winning team who developed Beastware . As you can see in the picture above the device is the Samsung Taylor prototype we have already seen many times before (my hands-on can be seen here).

Source: Twitter 1, 2

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