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When Microsoft mentioned that the near ubiquitous cut-and-paste smartphone feature would not be available on Windows Phone 7 Series, folks around the blogosphere threw up their arms in frustration at Microsoft’s seeming oversight. But, as we mentioned a couple days ago, Microsoft was merely referring to the lack of cutting and pasting in the initial…
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If you’ve been keeping up with Windows Phone 7 Series, you probably already know that the mobile operating system’s completely re-thought start screen is its greatest weapon against the grid-based, app-filled homescreen designs that have been proliferating throughout the smartphone space for the past few years. So, we thought we’d give you another look at…
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As we start to learn more and more about the truly innovative and paradigm-shifting Windows Phone 7 Series platform, the more we start to become disappointed with what we’ll be seeing on the initial release. First, the HTC HD2 got the WP7 cold-shoulder. Then we heard that non-native apps would not be able to multi-task,…
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Microsoft is banking their future on cloud-based services and integrating those services seamlessly into their products. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, handles online photo albums with ease. The yet-to-be-launched mobile operating system will succeed the ancient Windows Mobile platform with a sleek new user interface paradigm and a focus on cloud-connectivity. One of the…
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Auto-rotation is nothing new. Almost all smartphones these days have accelerometers integrated into their hardware, allowing them to detect orientation (landscape or portrait) changes – that allows them to automatically rotate the screen when the user rotates the handset. But, not all smartphones do auto-rotation the same way. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, concentrates…
by Marin Perez - 7 Comments
It looks like it’s one step forward and two steps backwards because Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series will be ditching full third-party multitasking, removable storage and the ability to add applications from places other than the Windows Phone Marketplace. Microsoft is obviously taking cues from Apple, Research In Motion and Palm (to a certain extent)…
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We’ve already heard about the three chassis that are required for handsets that run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series, but the software giant has revealed a few more details. As we already know, the handsets will have to sport a capacitive touchscreen with at least four points of contacts and a minimum resolution of…
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Windows Phone 7 Series owes a lot of its design aesthetic and features to the Zune music player from Microsoft. From the sleek user interface to the incredibly integrated Zune music hub, it’s clear that Microsoft is really trying hard to give Apple and its iPhone’s iTunes-based music ecosystem some hard-hitting competition. As such, the…
We just got a juicy little scoop on a previously unknown Windows Phone 7 Series handset during Joe Belfiore’s UI demo at MIX10. We all know about the LG WP7 handset, but we were surprised to see a new Samsung jobby rocking the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system! Mr. Belfiore didn’t mention the name…
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There’s a ton of news today about Windows Phone 7 Series and the revamped Windows Phone Marketplace really caught my eye. Like the latest mobile operating system, the Marketplace is going to be pretty. Like any app store, you’ll be able to see a wide view of categories and there are smooth-looking transition animations when…