WP7 Coming This October

Windows Phone 7 is confirmed to be heading our way this October. Microsoft and Asus will be delivering the very first MS branded mobile device and from what we have seen at the Mobile World Congress, the new mobile platform has plenty of promise.

The biggest promise of course is the fact that the new OS will change the way we use mobile phones. For now, the user interface is simply a very stylized reinventing of the touch screen user interfaces that we have been used to having on the Android and the iPhone OS. There are plenty of dynamic elements in the system, doing away with much of what was once static content. The new tiles system replaces widgets as the customizable areas of choice.

WP7 separates phone functions into several categories. First is “people”, which is where users get to send messages, make calls and keep track of their online contacts. Information here is synchronized with user accounts on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools. You can even set a title to show the Facebook updates and Tweets of a specific person you are following.

Another category is Office. Right now, it is still pretty empty with only two existing tools; OneNote and SharePoint. So far, the interface looks impressive, though it would help a lot if the system was on a phone with a physical keyboard.

The Games category currently hosts the Xbox Live Games service, though the lack of existing game demos has yet to show the true value of this new addition. Other features that have also yet to become a standard of WP but are present in this phone are Zune and Bing.

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