Occassional Gamer List Shows Existence of Samsung SGH-i937

Fear not, lovers of the Samsung Galaxy S II's hardware. For Samsung is remodeling it's super-slim flagship device with Microsoft's latest running on it. 

It's real! It's real! I saw it with my own two eyes!It's real!

A recently leaked (probably incomplete) roadmap turned down all such rumors, by revealing that Samsung had only one Windows Phone device in the making, it being the successor to the rather unsuccessful Omnia 7. But evidence unearthed, by yours truly, contradicts this road map. If you remember  Elbert Perez's recent list of phones running his games, you will notice that sitting rather inconspicuously at the bottom is the Samsung SGH-i937. This happens to be the phone rumored to be the Samsung Galaxy S II remake.The super-slim droid was first announced at MWC this year catching everyone's eye with it's dual core processor and 1GB of RAM. However, the Windows Phone handset would probably stick to the Qualcomm processor rather than Samsung's own Exynos chip and a lesser 512MB of RAM. There is no proof or any hint that this device will make it to the US or not. Also, the price and launch date is nowhere to be found. So for all we know it could just be a discontinued prototype. If so, unfortunate.


This list has been reliable before and if it is to be taken seriously, expect some rocking hardware this fall folks.

By Sameer

HD7 Spotted Running Tango Build 8200- On Sale!

 Things are hot in the land of Windows Phone rumors. Although Mango has just gone into RTM stage, rumors are rife about Windows Phone Tango. Tango is expected to be Microsoft's next major update to its Windows Phone platform, expected in fall 2012. Tango is said to be aimed at the Asian market and at pushing Windows Phone in the mid-range price bracket

 An individual, on a Slovakian Facebook page, has caught our attention by saying that he is currently in possession of a HD7 running Windows Phone Tango and is willing to sell it. Incidentally, this is where the last sightings of this mystery Operating system were reported.


 "HTC HD7 16GB (T9292 Schubert) for sale. You can select from three builds of Windows Phone - 7.0.7392, 7.10.7720 (Mango), 7.10.8200 ("Tango"). The first two are stable and functional build, third is dev build (not stable and to continue with official builds you have to flash it using RUUs). Price starts at 150€, you can contact me on my mail which I have on the forums, only through mail, highest price wins, delivery is not included in the price (only express delivery, not post office). In mail, write down which version of the OS you want, RUUs are not included. All accessories, slovak distribution, arrived today :)"

A wild Windows Phone appeared! It has Tango!

 In the image above, if you take a close look at the OS version you will notice that this build was created on July 26, 2011. This is certainly intriguing as this was the time when Mango beta builds were circulating around.

 This certainly puts Tango's credence as Microsoft's big update due next fall. Could it come much earlier? Is Microsoft having secret plans that no one is aware of? Is this all a way to help Nokia get back on it's feet? Interesting days are ahead. Go ahead and buy it if you wish, but remember the old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. And may you get what you want. (from White Collar)

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By Sameer

Samsung Omnia 7 caught running Mango RTM

We spotted the mysterious HTC Mazaa today running WP7 Mango 7720 which is the RTM build. A tipster just sent in an image of About Screen of a Samsung Omnia 7 (GT I8700) device which shows the build number as 7220. Image after the break.

By Rahul Mathur

How to get NoDo update on your Samsung Omnia 7 right now ! [ update : works on other devices too! ]

Nobody does it better than the guys at XDA. I was hovering over the Omnia 7 thread for any NoDo update information and found this post by XDA member Bonebreaker describing the process to get NoDo on your Samsung Omnia 7 and to our delight, it seems it is  working pretty fine for most of the users according to follow up responses on XDA and twitter. More details after the break.

By Rahul Mathur