Microsoft at Mobile World Congress 2011 spoke about the upcoming updated to their Windows Phone 7 operating system. Starting March 2011 , Microsoft plans to bring out a series of software updates which will make the operating system competitive with Android and the Apple iPhone.
| • | Copy and paste functionality via first major update, coming in the next month |
| • | Twitter integration directly into the People Hub in 2011 |
| • | Support for Office documents in the cloud in 2011 |
| • | Dramatically enhanced Web browser experience based on IE9 in 2011 |
| • | A new wave of multitasking applications in 2011 |
| • | Targeting significant volume of Nokia Windows Phones in 2012 |
Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft will result in bringing Navteq sourced maps to both WP7 as well as Bing Maps. Microsoft also demoed their upcoming integration with the Kinect gaming system. Watch our video from the event below.
ViewSonic has already given a sneak peek even before the start of the MWC 2011. The first one in their lineup is the ViewSonic V350 smartphone, a dual-SIM sleek phone with a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touch screen, Android 2.2, five megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and A-GPS. 
Today at the CES event in Las Vegas, Lenovo officially launched the Lenovo LePad and Lenovo IdeaPad U1. Let’s talk about the LePad first. Lenovo LePad is a tablet, and the best thing about this tablet is that it can run both Android OS and Windows 7, which means that if you are a fan of both Windows 7 and Android OS, then this tablet is a jackpot for you. 