Microsoft presented his Windows Phone 7 Series today at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona and one thing I can tell you: it’s amazing.
When you watch videos about the Windows Phone 7 Series experience you’ll immediately see that the UI (User Interface) has a lot in common with the Zune HD, but is also very different.
The Windows Phone UI goes much deeper than the Zune HD’s. I was already amazed by the UI of the Zune HD, but this design takes mobile Operation Systems to a whole new level. You wanted a Zune Phone, well here, you got it. Not as a hardware device, but as a piece of software. This video makes me want to bury my old Nokia 3220 – which still works great after 5 years – and buy a Windows Phone right away.
The Windows Phone 7 Series will feature Zune and Xbox Live integration. So you’ll be able to get the best mobile video and music experience along with games on-the-go from Xbox LIVE, this means your phone will automatically be a “Xbox portable”.
According to Microsoft’s press release partners are already building phones for the new mobile OS and consumers would be able to buy a Windows Phone from Holidays 2010. Mobile operators AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, and manufacturers Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC Corp., HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm Inc are working on future Windows Phone 7 phones.
Microsoft tried to make a phone-experience that worked the way people want, they did that even from the hardware. Every Windows Phone will feature three buttons on the front: a back button, a home/windows button and a search button. Something else that’ll be on every Windows Phone is a capacitive touch screen (finger friendly) that enables multi-touch.
The great UI experience is brought to us by what Microsoft calls Windows Phone hubs.
This is what Microsoft says about them in their press release:
