Thanks to a prescribed spec for running certain operating systems, your average Windows Phone 7-powered device should be pretty similar to everyone else’s WP7 devices, save for differing screen sizes and a few tweaked specs. Nokia had something special up the Lumia’s drives to give them an edge over the rest of the WP7-running crowd:

Here’s a good deal that you might want to look into: Microsoft is giving away free Windows Phones after you spend $499 or more at their stores. The catch? None. Unless you consider getting a relatively old, first-gen WP7-running smartphone for free without a contract a “downside.” Otherwise, the deal sounds awesome if you’re planning

Back in April, Microsoft put out a demo showing Windows Phone Mango’s web performance, running their own Windows Phone (running IE9 mobile) up against the iPhone 4 and Android-based Nexus S in a who-can-run-this-HTML5 demo-the-fastest contest. You can still check out the demo video here, but if you don’t have the time, the Windows Phone

Hey look, cheap smartphones! Three smartphones running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform, to be exact. And when we say “cheap,” we mean “as cheap as you can get without technically being free.” Microsoft just dropped the price of three WP7 handsets from three US carriers, offering the Verizon HTC Trophy , Sprint’s HTC Arrive,

Before we jump to any conclusions, let’s lay out a few details on the test just so you get a bit of perspective: The benchmark demo was done during Microsoft’s MIX11 developer conference, and Windows Phone program director Joe Belfiore used the HTML5 speed reading demo from Microsoft’s own ietestdrive site. We also don’t know