This just in: Microsoft is ready to take the plunge into mobile modernity... at its own pace. During a recent audience with All Things D, Windows Phone president Andy Lees revealed a few details about Redmond's future crop of handsets, which will evidently include both LTE capabilities and dual-core processors. The exec deep-seated that LTE-equipped devices are indeed in the pipeline, but declined to specify whether they'd hit the market this year or next. Turns out, Microsoft wants to wait until current LTE natural language processing prove capable of supporting more power-efficient smartphones. "The first LTE phones were big and big [users] of the battery," Lees said. "I think it's feasible to do it in a way that is far more efficient, and that's what we will be doing."



Lees was similarly opaque about Microsoft's plans to incorporate dual-core CPUs into its mobile lineup, saying only that they're on the way. by the book to him, however, even single-core Windows Phones can hold their own against the dual-core competition: "They're all single core, but I suspect that they will be faster in usage than any dual-core phone that you put against it, and that's the point." Lees went on to wax Panglossian about Microsoft's strategy, claiming that the absence of LTE and dual-core processing doesn't certainly mean that his company is behind the times. "I think that what our game plan* is is to put things in place that allow us to leapfrog, and I think that's how we've gone from worse [sic] browser to the best browser," he explained, "and I think the same is true with hardware." Check out the full dialogue for yourself, at the source link below.

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