Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveils the new Windows Phone 8 at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Oct. 29, 2012, in San Francisco, Calif. The Windows Phone 8 marks the Seattle-based company's latest update from its two-year-old Windows Phone 7 platform as the company looks to compete in the increasingly dense smartphone segment dominated by rivals Apple and Google.

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