HTC Brings HD7 and Mozart to Hong Kong Loaded with Windows Phone 7

Not one but two Windows 7 mobile phones!

HTC Hong Kong unleashed a one-two combo punch by releasing two new Windows 7 mobile powered phones, the HTC HD7, and the HTC 7 Mozart. On hand to help launch the two phones was singer/actress Ella Koo who always makes us “coo.”

Yes, it’s true HTC has gone goo goo for Microsoft. If this news wasn’t bad enough Neonpunch was subjected to advanced torture techniques at the launch event, a long winded and boring demo of the new mobile OS, for the second time! What made this even more horrendous was that this was the exact same demo that was done at the LG Optimus 7 E900 launch demo the week before.

No exact launch date has been announced by HTC other than fourth quarter this year which we are already in, so expect these mobile phones to be in the shops sometime soon. As for prices the HD7 has a SRP of HK$4,998 and the Mozart HK$4,498.

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Be One the First 400 to ‘Kinect’ with the Microsoft Xbox 360 in Hong Kong

Special pre-sale is happening in City Plaza.

If you are like us and cannot wait to get your hand on the motion controller for the Xbox 360 called the Kinect – and if you are fanboy enough you can obtain bragging rights over the rest of us.

Microsoft is selling 400 special Kinect bundles hours ahead of the official launch. So if you want to be the first to connect with Kinect you’re going to want to get yourself down to Tai Koo Shing in the late afternoon the day before the launch.

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Microsoft Uses Hallowe’en to Sell Xbox 360 Christmas Package

Because sexy zombies are better than fat old men in red.

We’re surprised at how much Hallowe’en has become a national holiday in Hong Kong. But why not? Cosplay is so popular why not use it sell more than candy! Microsoft took the charge yesterday by rolling out some sexy monsters to promote a bundle package for the Xbox 360 250GB model.

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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 Beta in Hong Kong

Microsoft plays catch-up but comes out swinging!

For something as big as major new browser from Microsoft to be launched at the Philia Lounge in Central seemed a bit anti-climatic.

Sure, the US had the launch 12 hours ahead of Hong Kong but it seems like the key point of a web browser is to show off the web, um, online – and not necessarily in person? It seems that Microsoft wanted to hold an event just to show off to the press how fast their new Internet Explorer 9 could load OpenRice.com.

Ironic Explorer, no?

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Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 Shipping in October

Which office suite do you use the most?

Finally a new version of Microsoft Office is coming out for the Mac in a couple of months. If you buy the current Office package now you can upgrade to this new version for free. The prices are quite reasonable as compared to what they used to charge for Office but still way more than iWork, Open Office and Google Docs.

So if you or your company lives within Microsoft and the only way you can use a Mac is if you succumb to using Office, we can think of worse deaths but we’re interested to find out which office suite you use and if these new features for Office: Mac 2011 will get you to buy it?

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