WINDOWS PHONE 7 series

loona · Post time 16-2-2010 03:19 PM

Wow! aku teruja nih......
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Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win By Joshua Topolsky

posted Feb 15th 2010 9:00AM
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Windows Phone 7 Series. Get used to the name, because it's now a partof the smartphone vernacular... however verbose it may seem. TodayMicrosoft launches one of its most ambitious (if not most ambitious)projects: the rebranding of Windows Mobile. The company is introducingthe new mobile OS at Mobile World Congress 2010, in Barcelona, and ifthe press is anything to be believed, this is just the beginning. Thephone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap ofprevious mobile efforts from Microsoft, from the look and feel down tothe underlying code -- everything is brand new. 7 Series has rebuiltWindows Mobile from the ground up, featuring a completely altered homescreen and user interface experience, robust Xbox LIVE and Zuneintegration, and vastly new and improved social networking tools. Goneis the familiar Start screen, now replaced with "tiles" which scrollvertically and can be customized as quick launches, links to contacts,or self contained widgets. The look of the OS has also been radicallyupended, mirroring the Zune HD experience closely, replete with thatlarge, iconic text for menus, and content transitions which elegantly(and dimensionally) slide a user into and out of different views. TheOS is also heavily focused on social networking, providing integratedcontact pages which show status updates from multiple services andallow fast jumps to richer cloud content (such as photo galleries). TheXbox integration will include LIVE games, avatars, and profiles, whilethe Zune end of things appears to be a carbon copy of the standalonedevice's features (including FM radio).

Besides just flipping the script on the brand, the company seems to betaking 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 buttonconfiguration), and doing away with carrier or partner UIcustomizations such as Sense or TouchWiz. That's right -- there will bea single Windows Phone identity regardless of carrier or device brand.Those new phones will likely look similar at first, featuring a highres touchscreen, three front-facing buttons (back, start, and perhapsnot shockingly, a Bing key), and little else.

Carrier partnerships are far and wide, including AT&T, DeutscheTelekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra,T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, while hardware partnersinclude Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshibaand Qualcomm. We're told that we likely won't get to see anythird-party devices at MWC, though Microsoft is showing off dev unitsof unknown origin, and the first handsets are supposed to hit themarket by the holidays of this year.

We had chance to go hands-on with a device before the announcement, andwe've got some detail to share on just what the experience is like, so click here to read our hands-on impressions (with lots of pics and video on the way!).

matabelalang · Post time 16-2-2010 04:42 PM

hp keluaran Windows ... ?

loona · Post time 16-2-2010 04:47 PM

hp keluaran Windows ... ?
matabelalang Post at 16/2/2010 04:42 PM

lebih tepat lagi keluaran microsoft...ala macam Zune MP3 dia orang punya tuh!

medangmru · Post time 16-2-2010 06:42 PM

kalau kene dgn harganya....mmg laku la....sebaliknya....kene tunggu lama skit ...

paham2 sendirila kan...Brg microsoft ni harganya mmg boleh bikin mata terbeliak..

budingyun · Post time 16-2-2010 10:11 PM

salah faham..ni bukan phone..ni OS la..

dulu windows mobile, skang panggil windows phone..

Microsoft announces the all new Windows Phone 7 Series platform
Well, the wait is over. Microsoft finally let the cat out of the bag and Windows Mobile 7 (or Windows Phone 7 Series) as MS calls it, is now official. The first phones should start selling by this year’s holiday season.

Microsoft just announced their next mobile OS installment here at the MWC 2010. Meet the new Windows Phone 7 designed for "Life in Motion". Though called that way, the new Windows Phone is not really a phone. It's a new mobile OS. The best about it is that it breaks off with its roots and goes with completely different approach.

Windows Phone 7 is the next generation of the mobile Windows and it promises to deliver the ultimate experience. Windows Phone 7 combines all the today's demands - connecting people, games, multimedia and office - into one really tight, simple and pretty OS.

On the new Start screen there are now “dynamic tiles” that show up to date application information and can serve as shortcuts.

Content on the Windows Phone 7 is organized in the so-called hubs. They bring together both local and online content and services so they can be accessed more easily.

* People /with social networking/
* Pictures /including both your online and saved albums/
* Games /including full access to your Xbox live profile and rankings/
* Music+Video /rather self-explanatory/
* Marketplace /a revamped version of Microsoft’s app store/
* Office /day to day notes, documents, agendas, and calendars/

People hub will be the connection with all your friends. Microsoft have shown only Facebook and Live service integration, but we suppose that may be expanded to Twitter and such. Other than that, all the usual SNS stuff is onboard - updating status, sending PMs, sharing links, etc. along with the dynamically updated info about your friends.

The multimedia hubs - Pictures and Music + Video look the same as in Zune portable player. In fact the new Windows Phone 7 resembles Zune in almost every aspect - fonts, transitions, graphics, wallpapers, etc. Of course Microsoft managed to push the visual experience even further.
Games hub is where Xbox Live comes in help. Microsoft have integrated their game console service into the new OS. It will allow the gamers to play easily with their friends, share statistics, watch demo videos or trailers, view or participate in all kind of charts, collect points from unlocked achievements or just chat with their game buddies.
The last two hubs are Office and Marketplace. The first one will offer viewing, creating or editing all kind of notes, docs, presentations, agenda, calendar events, etc. - all of your work, documents and organizer in one place.
The Marketplace will be completely revamped and will offer huge number of apps. It will also be an app manager - you will install and update new programs only from here - just like the Apple AppStore (that kinda sucks!).

The new Windows Phone 7 leaves no place for user or firmware customization, except the wallpapers. It's highly probable that Microsoft won't allow custom interfaces over their new OS (TouchWiz, TouchFLO 3D, etc.)

Finally, a few days ago Adobe confirmed that there will be no Flash support on Windows Phone 7. There is still no explanation on that decision, but we hope Microsoft will explain that soon.
So, there you have it - Windows Phone 7 platform. It's definitely the huge step Microsoft promised a long time ago, but it comes with a price - the simplified and unified interface and functionality lead to the logical conclusion - more restrictions. But for the first time from a really long period we think Microsoft are on the right track and we can't wait until the end of the year to see the first Windows Phone 7 handsets.

loona · Post time 16-2-2010 10:35 PM

Post Last Edit by loona at 16-2-2010 22:38

salah faham..ni bukan phone..ni OS la..

dulu windows mobile, skang panggil windows phone..

budingyun Post at 16/2/2010 10:11 PM

"....the best about it is that it breaks off with its roots and goes with completely different approach."

fahammm..tapi sekarang ni kira trend OS dah di panggl phone, macam Google Phone, Iphone, dan terkini Windows Phone! walaupun manufacturer yg buat phone tu nama lain. Dulu2 selalunya kita panggil HTC, LG, NOKIA, OMNIA laaa..bla bla.
Dan dulu2 orang biasanya communicate..symbian based phone...winmo based phone!
Mungkin sebab Apple dan Google dah ubah the culture...dan mungkin jugak Blackberry pun mainkan peranan?
Sekarang ni kalau bercerita pasal in general, orang communicate through OSnya..contohnya Blackberry, Android/Google, Iphone/Apple, dan yg masuk the latest list adalah Windows Phone, walaupun dulu cuma win mobile, tetapi mungkin sebab microsoft nak upkan branding dia.....

budingyun · Post time 16-2-2010 11:02 PM

yala..tp microsoft xkeluarkan phone lg..mcm iphone..

loona · Post time 17-2-2010 02:36 AM

Nampak gayanya Nokia tak dok diam..they patner with intel to create NextGen phone!

Sofar ,
Apple ada Iphone
Google ada Android
Microsoft ada Wndows Phone
Nokia/Intel ada Maemobin?????

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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nokia and Intel said they are teaming up in top-end smartphone software and Microsoft finally unveiled its new phone operating system, Windows Phone 7, as they race to keep up with Apple and Google.

Technology | Media

Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile handsets, said on Monday it would merge its Linux Maemo software platform, used in its flagship N900 phone, with Intel's Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-sourced software, to create a new platform, MeeGo.

"They have understood the only way to beat Microsoft, Google and Apple is to do it through scale -- get the platform to more devices," said John Strand, owner and head of Strand Consult after the announcements at the Mobile World Congress fair...

http://www.reuters.com/article/i ... type=technologyNews

budingyun · Post time 17-2-2010 08:35 AM

intel kan blom ada geng lg..jgn tunggu lama2 la, kang diamik org..

cmf_rambutan · Post time 17-2-2010 08:41 AM

serba baru...... kepantasan tak pasti... tengok kat youtube pon biasa2 jerk.... belom ader phone yg diumumkan setakat nieh

Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything Is Different Now

It's astounding that until this moment, three years after the iPhone, the biggest software company in the world basically didn't compete in mobile. Windows Phone 7 Series is more than the Microsoft smartphone we've been waiting for. Everything's different now.
Today, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft is publicly previewing Windows Phone 7 for the first time. The brand new, totally fresh operating system will appear in phones this year, but not until the holidays. All of the major wireless carriers and every likely hardware maker are backing it, and they'd be stupid not to. It's awesome. We've got a serious hands on for you to check out, but here is everything that you need to know:

The name梉url=http://gizmodo.com/tag/windowsphone7series/]Windows Phone 7 Series[/url]梚s a mouthful, and unfortunately, the epitome of Microsoft's worst naming instincts, belying the simple fact that it's the most groundbreaking phone since the iPhone. It's the phone Microsoft should've made three years ago. In the same way that the Windows 7 desktop OS was nearly everything people hoped it would be, Windows Phone 7 is almost everything anyone could've dreamed of in a phone, let alone a Microsoft phone. It changes everything. Why? Now that Microsoft has filled in its gaping chasm of suck with a meaningful phone effort, the three most significant companies in desktop computing桝pple, Google and Microsoft梟ow stand to occupy the same positions in mobile. Phones are officially computers that happen to fit in your pocket.
Windows Phone 7 is also something completely new for Microsoft: A total break from the past. Windows Mobile isn't just dead, the body's been dumped, buried and paved over by a rainbow brick road.

The InterfaceIt's different. The face of Windows Phone 7 is not a rectangular grid of thumbnail-sized glossy-looking icons, arranged in a pattern of 4x4 or so, like basically every other phone. No, instead, an oversized set of bright, superflat squares fill the screen. The pop of the primary colors and exaggerated flatness produces a kind of cutting-edge crispness that feels both incredibly modern and playful. Text is big, and beautiful. The result is a feat no phone has performed before: Making the iPhone's interface feel staid.

If you want to know what it feels like, the Zune HD provides a taste: Interface elements that run off the screen; beautiful, oversized text and graphics; flipping, panning, scrolling, zooming from screen to screen; broken hearts. Some people might think it's gratuitous, but I think it feels natural and just協un. There's an incredible sense of joie de vivre that's just not in any other phone. It makes you wish that this was aesthetic direction all of Microsoft was going in. Another, sorta similar interface, in terms of data presentation, is this Android Slidescreen app, which gives you a bunch of info up top.

Windows Phone 7 is connected in the same sense as Palm's webOS and Android, with live, real-time data seamlessly integrated, though it's even smoother and more natural. Live tiles on the Start screen, which you can totally customize, are updated dynamically with fresh content, like weather, or if you've pinned a person to your Start screen, their latest status updates and photos.

The meat of the phone is organized around a set of hubs: People, Pictures, Games, Music + Video, Marketplace, and Office. They're kind of like uber-applications, in a sense. Massive panoramas with multiple screens that are each kind of like individual apps. People, for instance, isn't just your contacts, but it's also where social networking happens, with a real-time stream of updates pulled in from like Facebook and Windows Live. (No Twitter support announced yet, it appears梐 kind of serious deficiency, but one we're sure will be remedied by ship date.)

As another example, Music + Video is essentially the entirety of Zune HD's software, tucked inside of Windows Phone 7.
A piece of interface that's shockingly not there: A desktop syncing app. If anyone would be expected to tie their phone to a desktop, you'd think it'd be Microsoft, but they're actually moving forward here. All of your contacts and info sync over the air. The only thing you'll be syncing through your computer is music and videos, which is mercifully done via the Zune desktop client.

Hello, Connected WorldThe People hub might be the best social networking implementation yet on a phone: It's a single place to see all of your friends' status updates from multiple services in a single stream, and to update your own Facebook and Windows Live status. Needs. Twitter support. Badly. But you have neat things going on, like the aforementioned Live tiles梚f you really like someone or want to stalk them hardcore, you can make them a tile on your Start screen, which will update in realtime with whatever they're posting, and pull down their photos from whatever service. There's also your very own profile page, where you can scan your current social state and post updates to multiple services simultaneously.
All of your contacts are synced and backed up over-the-air, Android and webOS style, and can be pulled from multiple sources, like Windows Live, Exchange, etc. Makes certain other phones seem a little antiquated with their out-of-the-box Contacts situation.

Holy Crap! The Zune Phone!Microsoft's vision of Zune is finally clear with Windows Phone 7. It's an app, just like iPod is on the iPhone, though the Zune Marketplace is integrated with it into the music + video hub, not separated into its own little application. It's just like the Zune HD, so you can check out our review of that to see what it's like. But you get third-party stuff like Pandora, too, built-in here. Oh, and worth mentioning, there will be an FM radio in every phone (more on that in a bit).

Pictures is a little different though, and gets its very own hub. That's because it's intensely connected梱ou can share photos and video with social networks straight from the hub, and via the cloud, they're kept in sync with your PC and web galleries. The latest photos your friends post also show up here. Of course, you get around with multitouch zoom and zip-zip scrolling stuff.

cmf_rambutan · Post time 17-2-2010 08:43 AM

Xbox, on a PhoneI'll admit, I very nearly needed to change my pants when I saw the Xbox tile on the phone for the first time. Obviously, you're not going to be playing Halo 3 on your smartphone (at least not this year), but yes, Xbox Live on a phone! It's tied to your Live profile, and there are achievements and gamer points for the games you can play on your phone, which will be tied to games back on your Xbox 360.
If Microsoft's got an ace-in-hole with Windows Phone 7, it's Xbox Live. Gamers have talked about a portable Xbox for years梩his is the most logical way to do it. The N-Gage was ahead of its time. (Okay, and it sucked.) The DS and PSP are the past. The iPhone showed us that the future of mobile gaming was going to be on your phone, and now that just got a lot more interesting. The potential's there, and hopefully the games will be plentiful and awesome enough to meet it.

Browser and EmailYes, the browser is Internet Exploder. And yes, the rumor's true: It won't be as fast as Mobile Safari. Not to start. But it's not bad! Hey, least it's got multitouch powers right out of the box. Naturally, you've got multiple browser windows, and you can pin web pages to the Start screen, like any other decent mobile browser.
The Outlook email app makes me question how people read email on a BlackBerry. It is stunning. I never thought I'd call a mail app "stunning," but, well, it kind of is. It's the best looking mobile mail app around. Text is huge. Gorgeous. Ultrareadable. Of course, it's got Exchange support too.

Apps, Office and MarketplaceRemember what I said earlier about Windows Mobile being dead? So are all the apps. They won't work on WP7. Sorry Windows Mobile developers, it's for the best. Deep down, we all knew a clean break was the only way Windows Phone wasn't going to suck total balls.
Apps will have some standardized interface elements, like the app bar on the bottom for common commands. But here's a question: Will they multitask? Um, that depends on your definition of multitasking! When we asked Joe Belfiore, the guy running Windows Phone, he alluded to live tiles and feeds as some ofthe ways that third-parties will be able to "bring value to the user, even when their apps aren't running." Which sounds to us like a big ol' "shnope," but we'll see more next month at Microsoft's developer event MIX.

The Marketplace is where you'll buy apps. Since we've got like 6 months 'til Windows Phone 7 launches and people should be excited to develop for it, hopefully there'll be plenty of stuff to buy there on day one.

Naturally, Bing and Bing Maps are built into the phone as the default search and maps services. They're nice, smartly contextual, and very location-oriented. Bing's also used for universal search on the phone, via a dedicated Bing button. (There is no search but Bing search, BTW.) Bing Maps is multitouchable, with pinch-to-zoom. It's rich, with built-in listings with reviews and clever ways of searching for stuff. And yeah, Office! It's connected to that cloud thing, for OTA syncing and such. Business people should be happy.
Hardware and PartnahsAnother way the old Windows Mobile is dead is how Microsoft's handling partners and hardware situation. With Windows Mobile, a phonemaker handed Microsoft their monies, and Microsoft tossed them a software kit, and that was that. Which is why a lot of Windows Mobile phones felt and ran like crap. And why it took HTC like two years to produce the HD2, the most genuinely usable rendition of Windows Mobile ever.

Microsoft's not building their own phones, but they're going to be picky, to say the least, with Windows Phone 7. Ballmer phrases it as "taking more accountability" for people's experiences. There's a strict set of minimum hardware requirements: a capacitive, multitouchable screen with at least four points of touch; accelerometer; 5-megapixel camera; FM radio; and the like. There are serious benchmarks that have to be met. And only chosen OEMs get to build the phones now, not like before, when anybody with $20 could get a license. The OEMs that Microsoft's announcing they're working with at launch are: Qualcomm, LG, Samsung, Garmin Asus, HTC, HP, Dell, Sony Ericsson, and Toshiba. AT&T's their "premiere partner" in the US (dammit). (Take note people! Premiere does not mean exclusive!)
Every phone will have a Bing (search) button and a Start button. Custom skins, like the minor miracles HTC worked, are now banned. The message to hardware makers is clear: It's a Windows Phone, you're just putting it together. Basically, phonemakers get to decide the shape of the phone, and whether or not there's a keyboard.
One other word on hardware, in a manner of speaking. Hardware it won't work with? Macs. Which is kind of stupid to us梐 lot of the people Microsoft wants to use Windows Phone 7, like college students, have been going Mac in droves. You wanna lure them back Microsoft? Let them use your phone with any OS.

The Big PictureWindows Phone 7 Series is, from what we've seen, exactly what Microsoft's phone should be. It's actually good. It brings together a bunch of different Microsoft services梈une, Xbox, Bing梚n a way that actually makes sense and just works. But there's a real, lingering question: Are they too late? The first Windows Phone 7 Series卲hone梘oddamn that is a stupid name梬on't hit until the end of this year. That's more than three years after the iPhone, two years after Android, hell, even a year after Palm, the industry's sickly but persistent dwarf.
History is on Microsoft's side here梬e know what happened the last time Apple had a massive head start. (Update: To be clear, in computing.) Microsoft is, if nothing else, incredibly patient. Remember the first Xbox? Back when it was crazy that Microsoft was getting into videogames? It's cost them about a billion dollars and taken nearly 10 years, but now, with Xbox Live, Project Natal and their massive software ecosystem, they arguably have the most impressive gaming console you can buy. That was a pet project. Now, mobile is the future of computing. What do you think Microsoft will sink into that?

The mobile picture is now officially a three-way dance: Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The same people who dominate desktop computing. Everybody else is screwed. Former Palm CEO Ed Colligan famously said a few years ago: "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." That's precisely what's just happened. Phones are the new PCs. PC guys are the new phone guys.

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