It is going to be a few short weeks before the Windows Phone 7 mobile platform is officially launched and with all the new teasers and leaks being brought out, one cannot help but get really excited over the new operating system.
Of course, as exciting as the OS can be, there is even greater cause for excitement with all the new phones that are being offered. Microsoft will be launching the OS on several handsets from various mobile phone manufacturers. Confirmed to be present at launch date Asus, LG, Motorola and of course HTC (some reports also add in Sony Ericsson and Samsung, though that could simply be speculation).
HTC is surprising everyone with a recent video that seems to take a quick roundabout way of fitting through Microsoft’s prerequisites for a Windows Phone 7 handset. While they have been pretty strict about the hardware specs that are needed for the OS, there is only one rule for the software side: no custom user interfaces. HTC seems to have been able plenty of Sense UI elements into their WP7 platform –turning the UI into some bizarre hybrid never seen before.
Currently, there are two videos of the UI; first simply showing how the interface looks like, and the other, an actual demonstration on an upcoming HTC WP7 device.
So far, the actual specs on the handset that was revealed in the video is still unknown. Though there are some who have said that this might just be the HTC Mondrian. In any case, the video showed the OS running at full speed with no slowdowns. The animation of transitions was smooth and easy to follow while the entire UI seemed very responsive to the touch screen commands.
It would certainly be interesting to see if other mobile phone manufacturers have been able to integrate some of their custom UI features into their own versions of the WP7 OS.
Tags: HTC, HTC-Mondrian, HTC-Sense, Windows-Phone-7