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With Mango peeking over the horizon, the Windows Phone 7 application store is going through a monumental slowdown. But don’t fret, the reason is in fact quite simple: Developers are waiting to send in new applications because the gates for submitting apps designed to run on Mango, the next Windows Phone upgrade, are not yet open. And don’t expect the situation to change; Developers cannot submit Mango applications until the 22nd of August, almost a month away....

To those of you who aren’t developers, Microsoft has a website for WP7 applications and Games submission called theApp Hubwhere developers/companies register in order to submit their apps and get paid through the site. Since its launch and until this day many countries have not been included in the App Hub membership registration forms. Developers can download WP7 development SDKs and all the tools needed for building apps for WP7 devices....

TNW Quick Hit: Good news WP7 faithful, if you have been waiting for the phone line to finally land on Verizon, your days of expectation might be coming to a quick close. According to what appears to be aleaked internal memo, the HTC Trophy might be coming to Verizon on the 24th of March, less than two weeks from the current date. Judging from our email flow, there is quite a bit of pent up demand for a WP7 handset on ‘Big Red,’ so if true, a big day for the mobile platform is darn close....

By now, no one expects Microsoft to give Windows Phone 7 less than its full support. The company has put all its eggs into the proverbial single basket, and it will be damned to be completely pushed out on the world of mobile. However,new data from Chitikashould be enough to make any fan of Microsoft’s new mobile platform nervous. According to the ad network, Windows Phone 7 has only grown its market share a paltry 10% or so since they last checked up on the OS last month:...

With Microsoft’s recent move to release Windows Phone 7’s Mango update to certain publications (read TNW’s reviewhere), the upgrade is undergoing its first real market testing. Important for the growth of Windows Phone 7 as a platform is its coming support for several Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Microsoft wishes for WP7 to become a global smartphone player, and is taking the steps to make that possible. Sadly, the new languages are tied to Mango, and are thus not due to reach the market until the end of the calendar year....