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Now that Windows Phone 7 Series has been unveiled more and more info about the previeous version of WM7 (codenamed Photon) that was scrapped more than 18…

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Now that Windows Phone 7 Series has been unveiled more and more info about the previeous version of WM7 (codenamed Photon) that was scrapped more than 18 months is starting to come too light. A couple of screenshots and a video have been posted on the XDA-Devs forums a couple of hours ago. Looking at thoes I think that we can all agree that Microsoft took the right decision… Check out the video here.

Source: XDA

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