Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is celebrating the next achievement: now it has over 10,000 (10,191) applications developed for the Windows Phone 7 platform available for downloads.

A rumor has been flowing that the Finnish multinational communications corporation was about to undergo drastic changes. The new Chairman of the company, Stephen Elop, was believed to be intending to change the platform for Nokia’s smartphones. The company has been having trouble with the Symbian OS which has been naturally holding back the potential of Nokia.

At least now there is something to foster Windows Mobile application development. Although both Apple and Google did not cease to encourage their developers with numerous releases and splendid news, Microsoft kept haughtily silent, though Steve Ballmer really had promised lots of magic and wonders last Christmas.

Great plans are nice, especially if and when they find their realization. Microsoft's next big bold goal is not only to compete with Apple at the smartphone market but also to win the competition selling 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices by the end of 2011.

The Kin One which resembles a pebble is quite unusual, and though worth exploring, it may raise customers’ concerns about its potential shortcomings. The Kin Two is an utterly orthodox QWERTY slider, so nothing new here. Somebody will like them, somebody will call them sluggish and middle-of-the-road. In general, except for the form factors, there are no hardware features to discuss. The installed software is much more interesting.

Apple has changed the terms of its iPhone 4.0 software developer kit license thus leaving no place for Flash products at the iPhone and iPad devices.

Windows Mobile 7 has been in work since the end of 2005. Being under hard pressure from the main competitors, Apple and Google, the company tried to create anything that will beat its rivals at the first shot. According to Steve Ballmer, their latest product stands out in an overcrowded smartphone market and delivers a different kind of mobile experience to its users.

The mobile industry survives the outburst of innovations and  creativity that’s why the Mobile World Congress 2010 that is to take place next week tends to be one of the greatest events of the coming year. Traditionally  it is considered the best way to make some  striking statements  or slip out promissing comments that will be discussed  in the Net for weeks if not for months. It is rumoured that  the biggest news to come out of the annual Congress  might not even be on the hardware front, but rather software (quite unlike the previous years).

The biggest players at the mobile market are Apple iPhone and Google Nexus. Now Microsoft decided to carve out its own share of the mobile market pie. In partnership with OEM they are planning to launch  Microsoft Zune Phone  soon, which  is expected to run Windows Mobile 7 version.