The final word on the new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform: expect to see it on mobile devices by the holidays this year.
With that said, it’s a bit of a wonder why anyone would even want to see the new operating system. After all, the Windows Mobile operating system has been the subject of criticism because of its user interface. While the platform still thrived through the business market (Microsoft is second only to RIM), the general public wanted almost nothing to do with the OS.
Now, it looks like things are about to change. The presentation made by Steve Ballmer and his crew has shown how they totally reinvented the whole mobile phone experience. Their mantra: the phone is not a PC. And the new OS certainly does not look like anything we have seen before. It practically makes desktop systems boring and even makes you feel the age of the Google Android and the iPhone OS. Never have we seen a platform as stylized and as dynamic as the one shown off last Sunday.
Features wise, this is still pretty much a pile of promises and potential capabilities. With almost a full year before the launch of the actual product, it is pretty much expected that it still has plenty of holes. It is surprising however, that they already have existing contents and that they have begun incorporating the new features such as Zune and Xbox Live Games into the demonstration.
On the hardware side, it has been confirmed that Qualcomm will be backing up Windows Phone 7 heavily and that HTC is already promising to have Windows Phone devices ready by the end of this year. Sadly, existing WinMo devices will not be compatible with an update to the new OS (with the possible exception of the HTC HD2).
Read more about the new Windows Phone 7 series platform at GSM Arena.
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