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Updated: Windows Phone 8 release date and latest details

techradar.com (10 months and 28 days ago)

Jun 20, 2012

Microsoft has officially announced the first details of Windows Phone 8 (which you may know better as Apollo) and confirming many of the rumours about the new operating system at the Windows Phone Summit. However, don't get too excited - this is a 'sneak peek' rather than the full details of the new version and there's still a lot of information that we don't know. Windows Phone 8 appsThe problem for Windows Phone is less the existing users –... full story

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Updated: Windows Phone 8 release date and latest details

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