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Windows Phone 7 copy and paste shown on video

Windows Phone 7 copy and paste shown on video

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Here’s a short video demonstrating the Windows Phone 7 copy and paste feature that was pushed out a few days ago to the Samsung Taylor Windows Phone 7 devices. The firmware version which was pushed out is numbered 7.0.7338 but interestingly back in August the internal Microsoft builds that were being tested a where already around 71XX (remember that the shipping build is 7004..) so you can only image where it is now…. Check it out after the break:

This looks a bit clumsy IMO. A magnifying glass (like on the iPhone and Android) would be a better solution IMO.

Here’s an internal MS build on a Samsung Taylor back in August (notice it was already at 7112 more than 2 months before the retail launch):

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