Windows Phone-based Smart Phones
On November 8, 2010, AT&T and Microsoft released three smarphones using the Windows Phone operating system. One of the devices is the HTC Surround, which features a slide-out Dolby Surround speaker. Another is the Samsung Focus, featuring a 4" Super AMOLED screen and bears similarity to Samsung's Android-powered Galaxy S line. The last is the LG Quantum, which has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. All phones include a 5 megapixel camera with flash, a display with WVGA (800x480) resolution, and a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor. These releases were all part of the official "flagship carrier" status held by AT&T for Windows Phone. However, despite that status, the user community has been critical of the reluctance of AT&T to release updates for their phones, often leaving AT&T Wireless customers far behind those on other carriers with respect to the release of Windows Phone on their devices.
In 2011, HTC released an updated version of the HTC HD7 as the HTC HD7S. It has an 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, a 4.3" screen and HTC Hub, a graphical user interface bearing a slight similarity to HTC Sense. HTC also released the HTC Titan in 2011, with a 4.7" Super-LCD screen. Similarly in 2011, the Samsung Focus S was added as an updated Focus, and the Focus Flash was added as an entry-level device.
In 2012, AT&T added the HTC Titan II and Nokia Lumia 900 as the first two LTE Windows Phones available in the US. Shortly thereafter, the Samsung Focus 2 was made available.
As of August 14, 2012, AT&T Wireless was offering five Windows Phone devices for purchase on their web site: the Lumia 900, Focus Flash, 2, and S, and HTC Titan II.
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