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Bill Gates makes the jump to Windows Phone 7

2nd November 2010 by Alex Wilhelm

From the ‘water is wet’ and ‘Google is rich’ department, Bill Gates is now using a Windows Phone 7 handset, bringing him on board the latest phone platform from the company that he founded.

According to TwitPic information given up by his phone, captured by the company IdentityMine, the one and only Mr. Gates is using a Samsung Focus. Check out the data:

And just in case you forgot, this is what a Samsung Focus looks like:

I am sure that Samsung does not mind the endorsement. Do you have a Samsung Focus? Do you like it?

Sources: Bottom Image Credit, WPCentral

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Holly Martins said on November 2, 2010:
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FYI. That photo is not the Samsung Focus. That is a developer pre-production phone that won’t be sold.
identitymine said on November 8, 2010:
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Thanks for the shoutout. Credit for figuring out what kind of phone Bill’s using should go to the folks at Neowin. @bdsams posted the photo originally here http://www.neowin.net/news/bill-gates-adopts-wp7-for-his-personal-device. Thanks for all the great work!

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