Windows Phone 7 Series is official!

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Windows Phone 7 Series. Get used to the name, because it's now a part of the smartphone vernacular... however verbose it may seem. Today Microsoft launches one of its most ambitious (if not most ambitious) projects: the rebranding of Windows Mobile. The company is introducing the new mobile OS at Mobile World Congress 2010, in Barcelona, and if the press is anything to be believed, this is just the beginning. The phone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap of previous mobile efforts from Microsoft, from the look and feel down to the underlying code -- everything is brand new. 7 Series has rebuilt Windows Mobile from the ground up, featuring a completely altered home screen and user interface experience, robust Xbox LIVE and Zune integration, and vastly new and improved social networking tools. Gone is the familiar Start screen, now replaced with "tiles" which scroll vertically and can be customized as quick launches, links to contacts, or self contained widgets. The look of the OS has also been radically upended, mirroring the Zune HD experience closely, replete with that large, iconic text for menus, and content transitions which elegantly (and dimensionally) slide a user into and out of different views. The OS is also heavily focused on social networking, providing integrated contact pages which show status updates from multiple services and allow fast jumps to richer cloud content (such as photo galleries). The Xbox integration will include LIVE games, avatars, and profiles, while the Zune end of things appears to be a carbon copy of the standalone device's features (including FM radio).

Besides just flipping the script on the brand, the company seems to be taking a much more vertical approach with hardware and user experience, dictating rigid specs for 7 Series devices (a specific CPU and speed, screen aspect ratio and resolution, memory, and even button configuration), and doing away with carrier or partner UI customizations such as Sense or TouchWiz. That's right -- there will be a single Windows Phone identity regardless of carrier or device brand. Those new phones will likely look similar at first, featuring a high res touchscreen, three front-facing buttons (back, start, and perhaps not shockingly, a Bing key), and little else.

Carrier partnerships are far and wide, including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, while hardware partners include Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm. We're told that we likely won't get to see any third-party devices at MWC, though Microsoft is showing off dev units of unknown origin, and the first handsets are supposed to hit the market by the holidays of this year.
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Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on and impressions (updated) -- Engadget
 
1) the UI looks really fresh. by giving importance to text over icons, MS brought in a new look to mobile UI

2) social networking on mobile phone has a new path. integrated right into contacts shows the importance that MS now gave for internet and communication

3) Zune and xbox live integrated means that it is lot more media centric than any other mobile platform

4) Syncs with zune client means bye bye to pathetic Active Sync

5) tighter control over h/w means better optimization which in turn will be better experience for the user

6) Panoramic home screen is something that was never seen before and puts android and iphone OS homescreens to shame.
 
I have not read the whole article but wanna know does windows mobile 7 supports multitouch or not coz last time I read somewhere that it does not support multitouch & multitasking?
 
from what I know, phone should have multitouch, capacitive touch display to run wimo7. And there won't be any restriction of color depth I think.
 
Well it looks different, no doubt. From whatever videos I have seen, I don't quite like the UI. Ofcourse, thats just subjective, but I will reserve my final opinion till I have seen the 22 min video that MS has released.
 
^^yes. it's still not completely refined and there is lot of time for MS and partners to get everything optimized.

I hope that MS let h/w manufacturers put custom UI like sense UI in winmo7.
 
UI comes a breath of fresh air. Frankly departure from 3D icons is a welcome change. Minimal UI as a matter of fact looks very chic and it also means more speed and less clutter. It takes lot of courage to mark a shift from the current trend. Microsoft have def. put their b@lls on line with this one.
 
ed.hardy said:
UI comes a breath of fresh air. Frankly departure from 3D icons is a welcome change. Minimal UI as a matter of fact looks very chic and it also means more speed and less clutter. It takes lot of courage to mark a shift from the current trend. Microsoft have def. put their b@lls on line with this one.
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MS was desperate to get back into the race. And they will go nowhere if they take evolutionary path of upgrading from exising winmo that has become stale. And so they chose the revolutionary road and am sure that many are stunned by the UI of winmo7 and now, they truly stand alongside WebOS,Android.

Apple's iphone OS 3.x will soon become boring. They need to pull out something refreshing in a year or .....
 
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