While MIX10 goes on, we here at SlashPhone are really only interested in one, big part of it: Windows Phone 7 Series. And thankfully, Microsoft has not disappointed, even in the slightest. They showcased their software system in today’s keynote, and displayed for all those watching just what it will feel like to navigate through the earphone, its applications, and explained in visuals just why you’ll enjoy it so much.
Microsoft’s very own Joe Belfiore took the stage to base on balls us through the experience, and he started off with the bedrock. The habitation blind, or Start screen, is where you’ll beginning off your experience with Microsoft’s newest mobile Operating System. It’s put together by tiles and Hubs, where you can vigil as most Hubs ar updated in real-time. These hubs ar job-oriented, and dive deeper into the mass of an application or feature of the earphone with a simpleton pressure. Also, the Start screen is completely customizable. As in, you may move the Hubs and tiles around as you see burst, so that you can make your earphone your own, and it doesn’t have to looking like anyone else’s.
They expanded the visuals on the Calendar and Email clients as wellspring, and made it interesting enough to get our interest significantly piqued. Within the email, you tin utilize all the same functions that ar available in the Microsoft Outlook electronic mail node, such as flagging an electronic mail. You can also use the pivots at the top of the screen, and navigate between all mail, unread chain armour, and what not. Utilizing the pivots at the circus tent of any diligence is the easiest means to see where you ar within the application, as well as an easy way to navigate. And inside the Calendar diligence, one distinct lineament includes the single-touching “I’ll be late” lineament, which tells other members of the calendar event that you’ll be late.
Microsoft also showcased a turn more of the “App Bar,” which is located at the freighter of most applications available. With this application bar, you tin approach the most commonly used actions in an application, as well as expand it to reach more services, such as the settings of an diligence, or other options. It’s an easy way to reaching the options of an application, and it’s easy to find.
One of the most interesting features that we can see, is the fact that navigation through the phones are in a more panoramic viewscape. Meaning, instead of navigating your menus from the top to the bottom and vice versa, you move to the left and right. From what we can see, it seems like a more natural means to navigate, and we can’t waiting to finally get our hands on it, on a more “full-time” basis.
One of the third political party applications that Microsoft showed off was the AP Mobile application, powered by Silverlight and optimized for the Windows Phone 7 Series platform. And while it has the same style as all the other applications, it had a few promising features. The first, is the 3D effigy showcase that appears when you select a photo within a specific application. It actually pops out, and then displays any additional images. Second, advertisements. While they were displaying the AP app, a cable car showed up at the bottom of the screen, and then it turned into an advertisement for Henry Ford. It was very interesting to watch, and it’s great that they ar integrated with the applications. Lastly, if a breaking news lineament comes in piece you’re in the AP application, a red pop music-up appears at the bottom of the screen, letting you know.
Netflix is also advent to Windows Phone 7 Series, with not only the ability to get notified when you rich person new things on your list available, but also to vigil titles right field from your phone.
And finally, one of the features that citizenry are most interested in: Xbox LIVE integration. We’ve already shown the way that games tin be played from the phone, computer, and Xbox 360, so Belfiore wanted to show a full 3D biz run on the hardware. It was a claim named Harvest, and it was a fully 3D claim. It also offered Achievements, just like the ones you discovery with Xbox 360 games. The games also offer push notifications, so that asynchronous twist-based games are possible.
We distillery rich person more advent, so stay tuned. MIX10 is still going, and the newsworthiness isn’t departure to stopover any time soon. And if you wish to discuss Windows Phone 7 Series with other individuals, then drumhead on over to Windows Phone Forums and join in!