Rumor: Windows Phone 8 devices to launch this November?

pa href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/19/rumor-windows-phone-8-devices-to-launch-this-november/Rumor: Windows Phone 8 devices to launch this November?/a: p style=text-align:center a href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/19/rumor-windows-phone-8-devices-to-launch-this-november/img alt=Mary Jo Foley Windows Phone 8 devices to launch this November src=http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/07/wp8-partners.jpg style=margin:4px/a/pp Industry rumors usually come with a heaping helping of salt, emunless/em theyre being issued from a trusted source. In this case, its Mary Jo Foley of emZDNet/em spilling some beans regarding Microsofts release roadmap. Though weve already caught wind that a href=http://www.engadget.com/tag/windows%20phone%208/page/2/Windows Phone 8/a devices would be a href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/29/u-s-cellular-pledges-to-carry-windows-phone-8-devices-in-the-fa/arriving sometime this fall/a with nearly a href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/att-mobile-verizon-line-up-to-offer-windows-phone-8-devices/all major carrier support/a, Foleys source is now pegging the RTM build of that mobile OS for September, with the finalized consumer version and accompanying hardware hitting the marketplace in November. Given that timing and an impending a href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/18/microsoft-windows-8-ship-date-october-26-confirmed/October 26th bow for Windows 8/a also on the horizon, any plans Redmond mightve had for a dual platform launch will have to be shelved. Thats all she wrote for now, folks -- well surely find out more concrete details in the coming months. So, take this gossamer morsel for what its worth./ppFiled under: a href=http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/ rel=tagCellphones/a, a href=http://www.engadget.com/category/software/ rel=tagSoftware/a/pp style=padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:botha href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/19/rumor-windows-phone-8-devices-to-launch-this-november/Rumor: Windows Phone 8 devices to launch this November?/a originally appeared on a href=http://www.engadget.comEngadget/a on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:01:00 EDT. Please see our a href=http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style=clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0/h6a href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/19/rumor-windows-phone-8-devices-to-launch-this-november/ rel=bookmark title=Permanent link to this entryPermalink/a img src=http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_VIA.gif alt=spana href=http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/07/19/windows-phone-8-handsets-may-not-land-until-november/TheNextWeb/a/span  |  img src=http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_source.gif alt=sourcespana href=http://www.zdnet.com/here-are-the-latest-whisper-dates-for-microsofts-windows-phone-8-office-2013-7000001239/ZDNet/a/span  | a href=http://www.engadget.com/forward/20281993/ title=Send this entry to a friend via emailEmail this/a | a href=http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/19/rumor-windows-phone-8-devices-to-launch-this-november/#comments title=View reader comments on this entryComments/a/p p(Via a href=http://mobile.engadget.comEngadget Mobile/a.)/p