Announcement post on the new OS can be found here, video demo’s for your viewing pleasure are below.
Update:
Engadget’s hands on video:
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Gorgeous? I admit it looks better than it used to. But gorgeous?
I've always thought the Zune looked gorgeous and this is essentially the Zune Phone. Plus, they splatter helvetica all over it…love me some helvetica. :)
yeah, totally agree. It's improvements are most likely beyond the aesthetics of the interface. Looks like the interface is more reactive and speedy. This is still not a great interface I would trade my iPhone for. :)
As for a speedier interface: don't forget this is a movie and not the original. Those iPhone commercials are also always blazing fast. Compare that to actually finding a contact on an iPhone. ;-)
I have my doubts on this one. It looks ok, but it seems to be in lack of that easy to use interface of Android (and iPhone i guess). And its still Microsoft…
I'm talking mainly about the design and simplicity of an iPhone interface. I know that the advert will “shorten the time taken to do a task”. They even display that at the bottom of the TV ad. :)
Ha, so not even a slight chance this redesign could be Microsoft's best chance so far? I agree it's not perfect, but go and compare it to other versions of Windows Mobile and see what I mean. :)
Regardless of whether this is betters the current iPhone, having something able to compete and drive the feature set for all phones forward is a plus in my book.
The typography is decent, clean. Hate to burst your bubble though: it's Arial. :( Microsoft has never licensed Helvetica.
I hate Arial. LOL *typography nerd*
It sure is. It is just that with Microsoft we are all holding our breath to see if they come up with something really original or something which is just a copy of something else. hard to judge how revolutionary this is beyond 'better than what we had'. Can't wait to play with one and make up my mind…
Typeface is more that acceptable imo. gorgeous? Yes! Very well done MS. I thought you were dead and buried. Nothing wrong with having a good MS mobile OS. Giving some heat means Android, Palm and iPhone have to rock even more. That is good for everyone
It's a nice demo. I noticed they left out a lot of things in the demo that would make this competitive with other smartphones, such as the on-screen keyboard, browser functionality, phone functionality, multi-touch, 3rd party application support, etc. In essence it was a demo of “What would a Zune be if it also had Facebook and SMS integration?”
How do you Ctrl-Alt-Delete the it?
Terrible interface!
Do you have a soul? I think not. THIS IS GORGEOUS.
hmmm … smooth and shinny, like anything new and on a video demo.
still, I find it somewhat of a webpage (see on how some menus just get close to others when they shift left or right)…
homescreen, though, is what's missing on the default iPhone (got mine cracked, so I got a decent homescreen from cydia) and Android just nailed it perfectly. but the most important thing here is that android and windows are on homescreen fight, while iphone and vodafone 360 (yes, that bulky, useless device that has the best phonebook and call manager ever) fight for apps.
another thing is that windows mobile always were for the enterprise droids that like to extend outlook and exchange, while opening word and excel, but this new WM7 is somewhat more game/”bling”, contradicting their regular market, which don't give a sh*t about games/shinny stuff.
oh yeah, why isn't there already a wide view of the phone ? does the keyboard rotates or should we still use a stylus ? ;)
Except that it's not Arial either. It's Zegoe, the Zune variant of Segoe, a Microsoft font that reminisces of Frutiger…
Of course I have a soul. What does it have to do with the fact that I find the interface old fashioned, amateurish, and ugly. Perhaps you should start looking at real modern phones like the iPhone and Android before making comparisons. Comparing to the previous Windows Phones perhaps then it is gorgeous.
IT IS UGLY AND NOT ORIGINAL!!
It's always fun to see Apple fanboys blindly bash products made by Microsoft. Go use a Zune HD and the Zune Marketplace and see what you're missing out on with iTunes.
Where's the app store? And I hope they base their mobile browser on Webkit!
Lame. It might help if what was on the screen actually fit…. And who cares who is online w/ xbox live?
Thumbs up for Microsoft for finally creating something that Apple brought to market 3 years ago. They copied it good though, even the non-multitasking the iPhone has right now and which causes the mail complaint on the iPhone is in there(!).
However, Apple will move away from that and will offer true multitasking in iPhone OS4.0 in June. Which will make Windows 7 Phone Edition (horribale name) old fashioned at it's launch already. The only big king here is Android, which offers everything the other two platform offer in a very nice package… and more.
Dear Microsoft, if you copy something you can't create, plz don't screw it but make it better. For once.
Copied from Apple? May be in your dreams…
Android copied iphone, like Steve mentioned there are lot of phones in the market looks the same and does the same. Win 7 doesn't look like iPhone clone and does lot of cool things atleast based on what they have shown…
About 23M users do care who is online or not on xbox live
Does a lot of cool things…. like what?
I do agree with you that they have not copied anything from Apple. If only they did, because the interface is terrible; badly designed. Looks like the content doesn't fit on the screen most of the time. Perhaps you haven't noticed or do not agree, but it's probably because you compare it to previous Windows versions.
How do you know that? The majority of XBox owners will definately not by a badly designed mobile phone just to have that gimmicky functionality. They will by a proper phone, like the iPhone and download software from the Apple Store that provides the same functionality.
How do you know that Xbox Live on Win 7 is badly designed? Let the phone come out and see what it offers.
Just FYI, I am an iPhone user and love my phone. Some of the features listed as part of Win 7 are Integrated social networking instead of opening an app for each functionality, location aware search, XBox live gaming platform, Zune services etc.,
That is not what I said. I said the user interface of the phone is badly design based on what I see from this demo.
It looks innovative, still there are something not impressive!
Apple will move away from it, will real progress in dealing with OS4.0 iPhone in June. Which will make Windows 7 Phone Edition (the name horribale) old-fashioned at all, it already. King only significant here is the robot, which offers everything platform to offer the other two in a very nice.
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