Microsoft today unveiled its Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress 2010.
Microsoft promises a "fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the web and applications."
Take a look at the screenshots to see how Windows Phone 7 Series looks.
START SCREEN: The home screen, or Start, can be customised with "live tiles" that show web updates. For example, create a "live tile" of a friend and gain view of that person's latest pictures and posts
PEOPLE HUB: The People Hub lets you see photos and live feeds from social networks. It's also where you post to Facebook and Windows Live
PICTURES HUB: The Pictures Hub brings together photos from phone, PC and online albums into one view. Use this screen to share to social sites such as Facebook and Windows Live, and online albums that friends are sharing
OFFICE HUB: The Office Hub provides access to Office Mobile, SharePoint and OneNote
GAMES HUB: The Games Hub delivers what Microsoft is calling the "Xbox Live experience" on the phone
MUSIC AND VIDEO HUB: The Music + Video Hub is media central - from music to streaming radio to podcasts to video
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duskrider
February 21st 2010
3. @jck0roses:
I really do hope that they get the Office integration right, for people like you. I think that could put them into competition with Blackberry again, which would be nice. Other than that specific market though, I'm not sure how they will fare. The Apple app store is really, really compelling for non-business users (and many business users too) and Android attracts the techie types as well as the power-user types, leaving Windows Phone with a few major hurdles to get over before widespread (re)adoption is going to happen.
On the other hand, Windows 7 proved MS can turn things around if they put their mind to it, so we'll see.
I also hope their app marketplace gets way better than it is, or there is no way Winmo will thrive. It seems this may be what phones are become all about.
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jck0roses
February 21st 2010
2. Sounds like you are not a heavy Outlook user, but for those of us who are, Office integration is a Godsend. So many of my friends have gone to the phone store and had their contacts erased or duplicated or distorted in some way, but this never happens to me- I just go home, sync with my PC, and that's it.
Besides Outlook, I have my voice notes in OneNote, my business projects in Business Contact Manager, sometimes I need to quickly get to a PowerPoint or spreadsheet or Twitter or LinkedIn.. I can see a LOT of use for the Office Hub and the People Hub. The Game thing is useless and I won't bother with the pictures, but I can't wait to see my new Office and People:)
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duskrider
February 15th 2010
1. My 1 1/2 year old Xperia already brought much of this forward, as has HTC with their UI's. I think MS has had to play serious catch-up with the rest of the players and Winmo 7 brings just that, nothing more. What will be interesting to see is how manufacturers revamp this to add their own flavour.
I still don't see this generating much excitement. I feel disjointed from this whole MS phone thing... is this targeting kids, with the XBox integration, business users with the Office integration... who? I suppose all phones have a bit of this nowadays, but I just can't see why I would want this with Android and iPhones already maturing so well in all the areas covered here except maybe the Office part, something I can't see being of much use on a 3" screen.
I guess I'll have to wait for some handsets before I call this a must-have or not.
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