AT&T Announces New Windows Mango Devices: Samsung Focus S, HTC Titan, Samsung Focus Flash

It takes three to Mango, apparently.

AT&T has taken the wraps off three new smartphone phones that will run Windows' heavily-anticipated Windows Phone 7.5 OS (code name: Mango). The devices are called the HTC Titan, the Samsung Focus S and the Samsung Focus Flash, according to an AT&T press release, which does not give a price estimate pr launch date for any of the phones but says to expect the new handsets "some time in the fourth quarter."

The Samsung Focus Flash will feature a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display, a 5MP front-facing camera and a 1.4 GHz processor. The Samsung Focus S, which will sport a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display, a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera and rear-facing 8 megapixel camera, as well as that familiar 1.4 GHz processor. The recently unveiled HTC Titan, with a truly titanic 4.7-inch screen, will have the largest screen of any AT&T smartphone (until, by some miracle, they get the Samsung Note); it will also feature a 1.5 gHZ processor and an 8 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash.

Also of note from the press release: these three devices will all run on AT&T's new 4G network, which the carrier is currently piloting in a few American cities and which has demonstrated impressive speeds in trials; also, all current Windows Phones sold at AT&T, including the HTC Surround and the LG Quantum, will get a software upgrade to support Mango. When will Mango be ready to roll out? The latest rumors say that September 15 could be the day the new Windows OS falls from the vine.

Microsoft currently lags badly behind Android and iOS in terms of American market share. According to June 2011 data from comScore, Windows Phone 7 captured just 6 percent of smartphone users, compared to 40 percent for Android and 26.5 percent for iOS.

For a preview of the new Mango OS, WATCH:

Comments

[hassia]

03:52 PM on 09/13/2011

I would like to add I like Windows phone 7, and I really do not care about those that will post that the system is DOA. I can not wait untill the Nokia comes on teh market even though there is a toss up between the HTC Titan and when Samsung comes out with there's. http://www.urban-society.de/index.php?s=htc+titan

[helioszephyr]

03:23 PM on 09/13/2011

great, just what we need... more smartphone models.

[Chuck Dick]

11:52 PM on 09/12/2011

Ugggggh! Just keep quiet until it's ready!! Any company can say "We have This Thing...but it won't be ready for 13 months."

[Thomas River]

08:22 PM on 09/12/2011

And we all thought T-Paw's support for Mitt would be the day's most boring story.

[billy the kid]

07:24 PM on 09/12/2011

love my wp7, i'd recommend these to anyone. office apps are so business savvy

[EricBishop]

07:11 PM on 09/12/2011

In analogous stories, McG has been attached to three new movies, Goldman Sachs has three new derivative securities that they'd like to sell to your pension fund, and I left you a three pound present in the bathroom.

Is Microsoft deranged? People have been desperate to get away from their products for about 5 seconds after Win 95 came out, and they think they'll be able to lure people into using their products on something that people have to carry with them 24/7?

[garumphul]

07:20 PM on 09/12/2011

*HAaaa haa ha ha*

300 million copies of Windows 7 sold in 2010, an estimated 400 million PC shipments for 2012, the *vast* majority of which will be running Windows 7.

So... um... yeah, people are running from Microsoft like... I dunno... snails?

You're a complete, utter donkey.

[CaptainObvvious]

08:35 AM on 09/13/2011

I don't agree that people are rushing away from Windows but Win7 sales figures don't mean much when the average user doesn't have a real choice.

Yea there is Linux but really what average user is going to figure all that out?

Windows is for all intents a purposes the only OS available to most people. You can get a PC DIRT cheap and they have Windows 7 already installed and if people are going to update they will almost always go to the newer version of Windows.

[StinkyPete0279]

07:46 PM on 09/12/2011

Yes, *so* desperate to get away that their desktop share is still in the 90s. Take that!

[jgeurian21]

05:33 PM on 09/12/2011

With this and Windows 8, Windows is really hitting on all cylinders. I have quite a few friends who are making the jump to WP7 and we are all waiting for the new phones. My wife dropped Apple after she got the dreaded headphone mode problem and AppleCare said it was due to her using "non-Apple approved headphones". She laughed all the way to a WP7 phone and loves it. As a Day 1 iOS user I was very impressed and the software feels light years ahead of anything else. It actually seems that MS integrated services into the OS instead of relying on developers and apps which I really like. My wife has a handful of apps and can do the same things I do yet I have 5X the number of apps. Can't wait!

[KarateKid]

05:10 PM on 09/12/2011

Here we go, the merry go round starts up. Planned obsolescence to the max. Innovative to obsolete in less than a year.

[garumphul]

07:22 PM on 09/12/2011

The cool-to-obsolete timespan with these new smartphones amazes me. I know people who drop hundreds of dollars to get out of a 2-year contract because they want a *new* contract with the latest phone (on the grounds it's cheaper to buy out the contract and get the new phone for free).

It's crazy. I don't get it. I have a Tracfone :)

[Infinitytomorrow]

04:25 AM on 09/14/2011

you mean, just like any smart phone?