Windows Phone 7 series. Fire in the hole!
Mobile-review have posted a preview of the new Windows Phone 7 series. Here is their final impression.
I think many will agree with me that the new Windows Phone has got boatloads of what we have come to call "wow-effect" - its interface is dazzling and more importantly seems pretty user-friendly at a glance. But that's not the most important thing - finally, after so many years, Microsoft have found enough courage to show not a compilation of their competitors' ideas, but rather something of their own with a very unique face. There is no doubt that Microsoft is taking a lot of risks with it, but these are the risks they had to take to revive their mobile division. As far as I'm concerned, what we were shown at the MWC 2010 by Microsoft is one of the most prominent events in the entire mobile industry that stands in one line with Samsung's brand-new flagship.
However there are still a lot of questions to be answered - what WP 7's hardware requirements are going to be? Will it be flexible? How often will the system need to trade data with online servers? Will it be another bandwidth-hogging monster like the Apple iPhone or Android? This winter will see the first WP7-powered devices, maybe even earlier, so we'll just have to wait a little bit.
P.S. Interestingly, for many years the core of Windows Mobile's philosophy was that it allowed the user to employ this PC experience while working with his phone. In other words, Microsoft tried to convey the idea that It was the same Windows that could fit into your pocket. During the Windows Phone 7 presentation one of the speakers repeated the following phrase around 5 times: "normally, you'd perform this action on a PC like that, but we're dealing here with a phone, right? So for Windows Phone 7 we have come up with the following thing…". Things change, what can you say!
I think many will agree with me that the new Windows Phone has got boatloads of what we have come to call "wow-effect" - its interface is dazzling and more importantly seems pretty user-friendly at a glance. But that's not the most important thing - finally, after so many years, Microsoft have found enough courage to show not a compilation of their competitors' ideas, but rather something of their own with a very unique face. There is no doubt that Microsoft is taking a lot of risks with it, but these are the risks they had to take to revive their mobile division. As far as I'm concerned, what we were shown at the MWC 2010 by Microsoft is one of the most prominent events in the entire mobile industry that stands in one line with Samsung's brand-new flagship.
However there are still a lot of questions to be answered - what WP 7's hardware requirements are going to be? Will it be flexible? How often will the system need to trade data with online servers? Will it be another bandwidth-hogging monster like the Apple iPhone or Android? This winter will see the first WP7-powered devices, maybe even earlier, so we'll just have to wait a little bit.
P.S. Interestingly, for many years the core of Windows Mobile's philosophy was that it allowed the user to employ this PC experience while working with his phone. In other words, Microsoft tried to convey the idea that It was the same Windows that could fit into your pocket. During the Windows Phone 7 presentation one of the speakers repeated the following phrase around 5 times: "normally, you'd perform this action on a PC like that, but we're dealing here with a phone, right? So for Windows Phone 7 we have come up with the following thing…". Things change, what can you say!
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