At Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next propagation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. With this new chopines, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software system, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the aerofoil the depicted object people care about from the Web and applications. For the first base time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video recording experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers volition be able to leverage the first phones in stores by vacation 2010.
“Today, I’m proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 Series, the next generation of Windows Phones,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive military officer at Microsoft. “In a crowded market filled with phones that look the same and do the same things, I challenged the squad to deliver a different kind of mobile experience. Windows Phone 7 Series marks a turn point toward phones that truly reflect the hurrying of people’s lives and their need to connect to other people and all kinds of seamless experiences.”
Designed for Life in Motion
With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different coming to phone software. Smart design begins with a new, holistic design organisation that informs every aspect of the earpiece, from its visually appealing layout and motion to its function and computer hardware desegregation. On the Start blind, dynamically updated “live tiles” appearance users real-metre content directly, break the mold of atmospheric static icons that service as an intermediate measure on the agency to an diligence. Create a tile of a friend, and the substance abuser gains a readable, up-to-engagement sight of a friend’s latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at Start.
Every Windows Phone 7 Series earpiece volition come with a dedicated hardware push for Bing, providing I-mouse click approach to hunting from anywhere on the earpiece, piece a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the eccentric of query.
Windows Phone 7 Series creates an unrivaled set of integrated experiences on a earpiece through Windows Phone hubs. Hubs bring together related content from the Web, applications and services into a single sight to simplify commons tasks. Windows Phone 7 Series includes VI hubs built on specific themes reflecting activities that matter most to people:
•People. This hub delivers an engaging social experience by delivery together relevant depicted object based on the someone, including his or her live feeds from social networks and photos. It also provides a exchange place from which to berth updates to Facebook and Windows Live in one measure.
•Pictures. This hub makes it easy to share pictures and video recording to a social network in one step. Windows Phone 7 Series also brings together a user’s photos by integrating with the Web and PC, making the earpiece the ideal place to view a person’s stallion painting and video collection.
•Games. This hub delivers the first and only functionary Xbox LIVE experience on a earpiece, including Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight provender and the ability to see a gamer’s incarnation, Achievements and gamer visibility. With more than 23 one thousand thousand active members around the world, Xbox LIVE unlocks a world of friends, games and entertainment on Xbox 360, and now also on Windows Phone 7 Series.
•Music + Video. This hub creates an incredible media experience that brings the topper of Zune, including content from a user’s PC, online music services and even a built-in FM radio into I simple post that is all about medicine and video. Users can turn their media experience into a social one with Zune Social on a PC and part their media recommendations with like-minded medicine lovers. The playback experience is rich and easy to navigate, and immerses the hearer in the depicted object.
•Marketplace. This hub allows the substance abuser to easily discover and load the earpiece with certified applications and games.
•Office. This hub brings the familiar experience of the world’s leadership productiveness software system to the Windows Phone. With access to Office, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace all in I post, users can easily read, edit and part documents. With the additional power of Outlook Mobile River, users stay productive and up to date piece on the go.
Availability
Partners from around the earthly concern wealthy person committed to include Windows Phone 7 Series in their portfolio plans. They include mobile operators AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange River, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italy, Telefуnica, Telstra, T-Mobile River USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, and manufacturers Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC Corp., HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm Inc. The first base phones volition be available by vacation 2010. Customers who would like to receive additional entropy about Windows Phone 7 Series and be notified when it is available tin can register at http://www.windowsphone7series.com.
