Over 3,000 Windows Phone 7 devices in the wild; jealous yet?

While we know a lot of developer units for Windows Phone 7 would be sent out in the last few weeks, we didn't know exactly how many.

Turns out it's just above 3,000. That's a lot of non-production prototypes if you think about it. Then again, it's a drop in the bucket in terms of developers who still want a device and who are needed to beat back the Android craze.

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Then there's probably the ten or twelve people like myself who don't have Facebook, natch. So more like 3,088.

[iStartedSomething via Crenk.com]

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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-Chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and lead analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007, when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and wearable tech. He has reviewed laptops for over 10 years and is particularly fond of Qualcomm processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics studying brain and syntax, performed polysomnographs in NYC, and was a motion-picture operator for 17 years.