Links to the biggest stories of the week in one place Want to know what’s been hot in the world of technology and gadgets this week? It’s been pretty phone heavy in the roundup this week as we’ve covered a whole host of news relating to the Android and upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series platform. To start us off we take a look at the HTC HD3, which was reported to be coming to the WP7S OS – just rumours and speculation?

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NEWS: Weekly news roundup: Windows Phone 7 Series guide, Android: reasons to switch and more

We were all pretty intrigued to see what Ballmer would reveal at Mobile World Congress. Ee knew it was going to be Windows Mobile 7, but would it be up to scratch?Let’s face it, we’re annoyed at the long-winded Windows Phone 7 Series …

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In Depth: 10 more things we've learned about Windows Phone 7 Series

Samsung will be adding some rather cool and snazzy TVs to their PDP TV 5 and PDP TV 4 series of TVs. The series 5 will include the PN50C550G1F TV while the series 4 will have the PN42C430A1D and the PN50C430A1D models. The new models will aim to improve the quality of images by introducing the ‘Clear Panel Technology’ for clear images

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Samsung’s 3 new hybrid PDP TVs to be launched in Korea

Samsung will be adding some rather cool and snazzy TVs to their PDP TV 5 and PDP TV 4 series of TVs. The series 5 will include the PN50C550G1F TV while the series 4 will have the PN42C430A1D and the PN50C430A1D models.

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Samsung’s 3 new hybrid PDP TVs to be launched in Korea

It’s hard to argue that Windows Phone 7 Series’ Metro UI concept isn’t utterly unique in the mobile world, but it was wasn’t the only option Microsoft considered — far from it, in fact. The company has published a bunch a design concepts it churned through on its wild, wacky journey to finalizing Metro as we know it today, and one thing’s for certain: they’d clearly planned on simple, square lines, partially-obscured typography, and in-your-face colors pretty much from day one.

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Windows Phone 7 Series’ cutting room floor is an extravaganza of bright colors and chunky fonts

It’s hard to argue that Windows Phone 7 Series’ Metro UI concept isn’t utterly unique in the mobile world, but it was wasn’t the only option Microsoft considered — far from it, in fact. The company has published a bunch a design concepts it churned through on its wild, wacky journey to finalizing Metro as we know it today, and one thing’s for certain: they’d clearly planned on simple, square lines, partially-obscured typography, and in-your-face colors pretty much from day one. After careful consideration of everything they’ve got here, we still think we like the production design best, but that’s kind of besides the point — why, pray tell, couldn’t these have just been user-selectable themes?

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Windows Phone 7 Series’ cutting room floor is an extravaganza of bright colors and chunky fonts

We’ve definitely learned a ton about Windows Phone 7 Series here at MIX , but getting the full picture on multitasking has been difficult, since the OS isn’t ready, no one has final hardware, and the emulator seems to behave differently than actual devices and Microsoft’s descriptions. So let’s set the record straight on multitasking: it’s not going to happen, at least not in the traditional way.

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Windows Phone 7 Series multitasking: the real deal

We’ve definitely learned a ton about Windows Phone 7 Series here at MIX , but getting the full picture on multitasking has been difficult, since the OS isn’t ready, no one has final hardware, and the emulator seems to behave differently than actual devices and Microsoft’s descriptions.

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Windows Phone 7 Series multitasking: the real deal

We’ve definitely learned a ton about Windows Phone 7 Series here at MIX , but getting the full picture on multitasking has been difficult, since the OS isn’t ready, no one has final hardware, and the emulator seems to behave differently than actual devices and Microsoft’s descriptions. So let’s set the record straight on multitasking: it’s not going to happen, at least not in the traditional way.

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Windows Phone 7 Series multitasking: the real deal

Much like iPhone OS, Windows Phone 7 Series is not supposed to support multi-tasking. Only native applications will be able to multi-task at all. Despite this, PocketNow reports that a 3rd party video player manages to handle multi-tasking in the Windows …

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Windows Phone 7 Series Spotted Multitasking

Microsoft has announced it plans to remove copy and paste functionality with the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series, its ground-up revamp of the clunky Windows Mobile OS.

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Microsoft: No Copy and Paste for Windows Phone 7 Series – Gearlog

I haven’t been keeping that close of tabs on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series Mobile OS except to notice that most of what I hear coming out of tech blogs and Microsoft itself is how noteworthy it is for what it doesn’t do. …

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Windows Phone 7 Series gaming, all up in the club (video!)

Sure, we’ve been pushing Microsoft hard for Windows Phone 7 Series details like copy and paste (no) and multitasking (no), but we just realized that we’ve never actually seen a 7 Series device… make a phone call.

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Yes, Windows Phone 7 Series can make a phone call

It’s no TouchFLO or SPB Mobile Shell, but it turns out you will be able theme Windows Phone 7 Series … a little

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Windows Phone 7 Series will have themes… sort of