British manufacturer shows Windows Phone device without Windows button
The British manufacturer My Go has shown a Windows Phone without a Windows key. That indicates that Microsoft has dropped the requirement for a Windows button on Windows Phones. The back also no longer has the Windows Phone logo.
Instead of a Windows key, as all Windows Phones have invariably had in recent years, there is a capacitive button with just a circle in the images of the GoFone GFW47. The circle is similar to the home button icon on Firefox OS phones and some Android devices.
As far as we know, this is the first Windows Phone to exchange its distinctive Windows key for a more general button. The Windows key has long been a requirement from Microsoft, but recently the software giant has relaxed the rules to allow manufacturers to switch devices with Android, for example, to Windows Phone without much effort. An example of this is the HTC One (M8) for Windows, which appeared on the US market last month.
On the back is not a Windows Phone logo like other devices, but simply a Windows logo. This further substantiates a recent rumor that Microsoft wants to drop the Windows Phone brand name.
The GoFone is a device from a fledgling British smartphone maker, with a 4.7″ screen, a resolution of 1280×720 pixels and a 7.2mm thin casing. The phone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200-soc with four Cortex A7 cores at 1GHz. and an Adreno 203 GPU, which seems to be a cheaper device.