UPDATED · News · 30 Sep 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
UK Blogger Michael Gillet sat down with Microsoft UK’s head of marketing for Windows Phone 7, Oled Ran who showed him a demo of an unannounced MSN application that apparently works as an advanced RSS reader for the MSN news services (and lets you stream video through it). Interestingly,Oled also told him and Sony Ericsson is currently working on at least one Windows phone 7 handset. You probably remember that SE announced last week that their main focus will be on Android but that WP7 was still on their road-map so it’s good to have a confirmation coming from Microsoft’s side.
Update: the MSN Celebrity application icon can be seen below (courtesy of Tracy&Matt):
Last but not least: Windows Live Messenger is coming to Windows Phone 7. He didn’t have a chance to see it but Oled also specified that third party partners are also working on Messenger apps (whatever that means)… I briefly saw it a little while ago but decided not to talk about it given that nothing was ever said on this subject. Now that the cat is sort of out of the bag I’ll just give you this ugly picture as a teaser:
Update: I just found out that the French devlopers at Bewise are apparently behind the Windows Live Messenger application for Windows Phone 7 and here’s a screenshot:
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