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Microsoft has changed the branding from Windows Phone
7 Series to Windows Phone 7.
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End User Experience Philosophy - Joe Belfiore
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Deliver a smart design that anticipates they
things they need and makes a phone easy to use
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integrated experiences - Brings together the best
of the web and applications on your phone.
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Design Philosophy focuses on balancing 3 core
principles per
Albert Shum, Director of Mobile Design for Windows Phone 7 Series:
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Personal - Expressing the experience the way you
want it.
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Making it relevant - knowing where you are and who
you are with.
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Always connected - Phone connected to the
internet, connect to yourself, connected to the cloud
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UI Design Core Principles
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Designed the UI design language before coding
screens. It's all about the flow and not about the landing
spots. This language is the foundation that developers will
use in their applications.
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Alive in motion is critical to the UI.
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Making it authentically digitial - not about
applying chrome.
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The homepage is compose of live tiles
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Users can customize what tiles are displayed
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Tiles are dynamically updated - Displays latest
status from user, calendar event, etc.
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Organizes data into hubs (integrated experiences).
The idea of a hub is to create a central location that is task oriented
around a data type. Hubs use a panormaic experience where the
screen overflows to the right indicating there are more options. Here is
a list of the hubs:
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People - This is all your contacts across all data
sources
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Pictures - This is a collection of pictures that
are local and remote at locations like Facebook or Windows Live
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Music & Video - The Zune HD experience
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Office - Microsoft Office applications
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Games - On device games and online games.
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Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace - Online
marketplace for applications
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Data is integrated across all applications visually
while it is stored separately.
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Navigating the menus
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Uses pivots to organize the content being
presented based on common views such as most recent
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A button bar is displayed across the bottom in
applications that need more optuons
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Windows Phone 7 Series supports gestures and flicks
such as Press and Hold. These gestures and flicks are identical to
the ones that are supported in Windows 7.
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Integrates with Bing, Windows Live and Facebook
throughout the applications.
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Includes identical functionality to the Zune HD
including synchronization with Zune Desktop on your PC
and Zune Marketplace.
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Supports push e-mail from Exchange including multiple
Exchange e-mail accounts. Also, supports other e-mail systems such
as GMail, Yahoo and Facebook.
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In calendar, there's an "I'll be Late" option that
allows you to e-mail all the participants quickly.
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Windows Phone 7 Series is not backward compatible with
Windows Mobile 6.5 or earlier. Applications are not
compatible because Windows Phone 7 Series now uses Silverlight and XNA
for all applications. See the Developer
FAQ for details.
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Windows Phone 7 Series does not allow end user
applications to multitask. This is to provide the best user
experience.
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Cut, Copy and Paste are not supported.
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Microsoft continues to plan on investing in Windows
Mobile 6.x. (per Steve Ballmer at the end of the keynote).
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Adobe is working on developing Flash for Windows Phone
7 Series.
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Windows Phone 7Series is expected to ship in Q4. HTC
has committed to delivering a Windows Phone 7 Series device.
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Existing Windows Mobile 6.5 devices will not be
upgradeable to Windows Phone 7 Series.
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Windows Phone 7 Series does not support removeable
storage (including flash cards)
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Currently no upgrades for existing devices have been
announced.