How Windows 7 Phones Use Apple and RIM's Powers Against Them

At a launch event today, Microsoft showed how it's using two secret weapons to challenge Apple and RIM's smartphone dominance--ideas it co-opted from them. Business app integration inspired by the BlackBerry, and AT&T's U-Verse to take on Apple TV.

AT&T's UVerse
AT&T's Ralph de la Vega showed off a handful of Windows 7 phones that'll be arriving on his network over the next month or so, and revealed an attractive $199 price point for all three--aimed squarely at competing with the iPhone 4 and many of the Android army of smartphones.

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