Microsoft's set the internet ablaze with new information about the Windows Phone 7 Series which was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress today at Barcelona.
The pictures and videos are pouring in and I'm here to help organize some of this mess for everyone.
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It's Official: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/feb10/02-15MWC10PR.mspx
Here is the official press release announcing Microsoft's unveiling of their new smartphone OS. The header of the webpage states; "New phones designed for life in motion to debut at holiday 2010."
In Depth Video: http://gizmodo.com/5472166/an-epic-22+minute-walkthrough-of-windows-phone-7
Now if you want all the information you can get, here's Gizmodo's 22 minute hand's on review of Windows Phone 7 Series.
In Depth Read: http://gizmodo.com/5471805/windows-phone-7-series-everything-is-different-now
Now if videos aren't your thing and you'd rather read here is a long run down of the features present in the Windows Phone 7 Series.
Hands On:
http://gizmodo.com/5472222/windows-phone-7-series-hands+on-pics-and-video
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/windows-phone-7-series-hands-on-and-impressions/
Here is a hands on review by both Gizmodo and Engadget.
Pretty Pictures: http://gizmodo.com/5472229/windows-phone-7-hands+on-pics/
Some people say a picture is worth a thousand words, these may be worth more.
looks just horrid.
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looks just horrid.
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My thoughts exactly. Let's hope some form of 'skinning' is possible.
It's very ugly..Zune HD like....
Super ugly !!!
The homescreen is ugly, but the rest of the OS is very elegant and simple. You guys should watch demos on youtube you will be blown away. MS said that there gonna be tight on OEM customization, but I think their still gonna allow some customization for OEM to stand out from the competition. You guys REALLY need to try out the demo site: http://www.windowsphone7series.com/
i think also it is nice and clear - thats what i want - no overfilling with buttons and things from tabs and options on the "homescreen"
it remember me more of that TouchOne skin - where u move up - down - left and right to reach specific screens instead of using a tabsborder. people often forget that we use such phones also in cars and while walking - so we need a sure and failsafe surface with not to small buttons (at least less).
if anybody knows a good and fast! UI for Wm6.5 let me know - new sense is nice looking but still i search for something simplier to use/touch UI
First impressions...
It looks overly simplified, and more like an art project - or a set of 'design placeholders' that mark areas still needed to be finished in detail.
I question a lot of real-life interactivity with the device, it seems a little silly having the text of the hub cropped off screen.
It wouldn't surprise me if the the API's for this are very basic (aka. simple gadgets) - I have a feeling this isn't designed to run apps in the traditional sense.
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Just found this http://www.ononesoftware.com/blog/2009/05/15/iphone-app-from-onone/, it looks usefull (to me anyway) shame I don't have an Iphone.
It's such a shame there aren't so many cool apps or well polished apps for WM6+ the hardware is probably capable of a lot but i feel apple users and android users too are getting all the fun, new apps all the time, nicely presented, stylish usefull (admittedly some less usefull than others)
I am a very visual person, i'm a photographer and I design websites and dabble in a bit of graphic UI design sometimes, and I find a lot of apps for my phone are visually dull, visually lacking in inspiration and usefull as some may be (currently using pocketwit a lot) they just don't compete with shiny apple/android apps.
The screen shot mock ups for the new HTC Hero look like they are trying to hop onboard the iphone app/widget train and look nice but I tried out a host of different twitter clients for my TP2 before I went for pocketwit (which I can theme a little) but ditched them partly because they looked dull. It's like finding a website that someone created which is the most usefull website you could ever use...but they built it using badly structured tables with garish bouncing animated giffs and wrote it in the late 90's using MS frontpage.
sorry, it's late and i'm a little tired and i felt it had to be said...
bah why not use remote desktop on the TP2 with EOS Utility on the laptop and an adhoc connection between the two. Thats what I do... live preview and all...
If the software that hurts your visual esthetics is freeware, I would suggest that you contact the developer and offer him your help on polishing up the UI. This is meant serious. As being a hobby developer myself, I sometimes find it hard to create the gui in aspects of esthetic. I make it functional from my point of view but it's not looking nice.
On the other site, you just might want to get an iphone or android...
just my 2ct.
offering to glam up apps is an option of course, this was the last ui theme i designed...quite a while ago now but it started a big following of people trying to port it to other music player apps which was quite cool.
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I love my TP2 and glossy and refined as the iphone and android phones are they just don't cut it with my business and working requirements.
See that link you posted earlier ir803? I don't think it's that impressive. Read the detail, you need to hook a laptop up to the camera over USB then the iPhone application connects to the PC.
You can already do this on the TP2. Just run the same PC-camera software and access it via remote desktop or VNC. If they offer a web interface to it then just connect over the web in your phones browser.
That's the difference between the TP2 and the iPhone. On the latter you can do what someone else has specifically allowed you. On the TP2 you can use generic tools to do just about anything.
But yeah, the aesthetic side of it is poor. Most of the apps I run are reasonably polished but there are a few uglies I use such as PuTTY and VxUtil just because their great functionality outweighs the visual manure that is their UI.
Just noticed this site came up, after waiting for info for a while.
It feels disappointing
windowsphone7series dot com
How disappointing ?
As disappointing as WM6.5 ?
As disappointing as Win7 ? Vista ? Zune ?
It can't be as disappointing as ME !
Perhaps there's a pattern emerging here, much the same as the Microsoft stock price over the last 10 years (-45%)
What's the bets Ballmer will be out of a job by 2011 ?
I personally don't like the new face that its been given...until I try it for my own though I will not judge hastily, because it looks like there could be potential.
touch pro2 cannot run the wp7 series as it is low end device and doesnot meet the requirements so all of you will not be able to try it without changing your phones
Ah, how refreshing, more Microsoft bloat without managing to move forwards or impress anyone
Here's a good example :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat#Examples
How do they do it ?
dik23 said:
Ah, how refreshing, more Microsoft bloat without managing to move forwards or impress anyone
Here's a good example :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat#Examples
How do they do it ?
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yet microsoft is not the only company being pointed out for bloatware as you can see.
I think simple and intuitive is much better than what winmo7 looks like, but once again I won't solidify opinion until I am testing it out on a device.
Gates Law
http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/Gatess-Law.html
And Microsoft isn't the only one disappointing, but they still are
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dik23 said:
Gates Law
http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/Gatess-Law.html
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I never said microsoft wasn't a major contributor either, I was just stating that the information you gave was only half of it (unless they of course read the article). So yes microsoft adds bloatware, but so do many others.
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I see we are on the same page, very unique as I believe this is a first.
What about Blu-Tack ?
There's no bloat in Blu-Tack !
dik23 said:
What about Blu-Tack ?
There's no bloat in Blu-Tack !
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lol
different fields on technology buddy
Now that WP7S is announced, I'm sure someone will make a WP7S UI for Win 6.X just like the iPhone UI back in 07. So, developers get coding.
Hi all, just came across a variety of images showing the below theme for WP7, just wondering if anyone knows of it? Should we be expecting this kind of theme customisation with the update(s)? Is this a photoshop job? Looks very Manilla-ish but much better than the solid colour chioces available atm.
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doesnt seems real to me. But Ms said, they want to give HTC deeper access to the OS...so I do think something like this will come some day
As far as i understand, those dead tiles, uses images, over simple canvas colored with ancient color. If HTC provides non-transparent image, it will be used, to create such an effect. That doesn't even impress me. If MS will give control to change main page of the phone, iPhone will look like a brick.
It's a fake image.
I think that's a HTC HD2 with Fireslave's WP7 Throttlelauncher theme with one of the modifications that's been created for it.
Also, look at the buttons. All current WP7 phones have capacitive buttons, whereas they are hardware ones.
Casey
Concept from a fellow xda member. Search these threads and you'll find it.
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Hi all, just came across a variety of images showing the below theme for WP7, just wondering if anyone knows of it? Should we be expecting this kind of theme customisation with the update(s)? Is this a photoshop job? Looks very Manilla-ish but much better than the solid colour chioces available atm.
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yes, unfortunately, this WP7 theme was a theme dreamt up by a Fanboy. i think it was what he was hoping the HD3/7 would look like. it was/is so good that some companies thought it was for real!
ahh well that's a shame. Cheers for clearing this up then. A lot of companies (particular car kit ones) are using this image, need to put some copyright on that picture!
LOL ,it has to be fake because it has a CHT/Android music player and a cut down sense weather widget .
but it still looks real cool
I will confirm it was a concept drawing...
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Also, look at the buttons. All current WP7 phones have capacitive buttons, whereas they are hardware ones.
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My Omnia 7 disagrees!
Nokia will reveal the Windows phone made by Nokia the 8/17 so in two weeks now
invitations are send to journalist to assist to the event in germany
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http://www.theunwired.net/?item=rum...s-first-microsoft-windows-phone-mid-of-august
I'm from Cologne (Köln).
Maybe the event will be at the (2008 opnened) Microsoft building at the Rhein in Cologne.
Yes, it's a giant M(icrosoft) with its own Lufthansa Check in and Marina.
If its in a smaller location it can be at 4010 (a new Concept Stor by Deutsche Telekom).
http://4010.com/home?loc=Köln
sorry but Nokia do not show any devices to this event
http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/02/nokia-microsoft-windows-phone-gamescom/
I really hope we see some WP7 devices from Nokia, soon. I always liked their phones in the pre-Smartphone area and hope that their Windows phones will be as good as their old stuff used to be.
More to the point, Nokia need to get there devices now, certainly before the next iphone, as soon as that comes out it will be game over as far as building any momentum is concerned. If it comes out before hand and its the n9 design as leaked (great design by the way) and its pushed heavily with advertising across the board then they might stand a chance.
Its all well and good being hush hush on future devices, but on a launch like this with a new phone on a new os (for them at least), they need lots of stock, lots of advertising, and they need confirmed dates that the public can await and look forward to. So far Nokia have been far to slow yet again to react, which is the reason there in this mess to begin with.
my 2cents anyway.
Unless I am WOWed, I'll stick with old HTC...good dependable phones for the most part....
I hope the first Noika models to the US are fully maxed out with front camera and all the bells you can wish for. Not the low end, low price point models they are talking about.
Mayby they show a N-GAGE like Windows Phone 7.5 for Gamers!?
IMO a phone with Joypad-like Buttons and Xbox LIVE (more great games will come after Mango release with all the new API) would be THE phone for Gamers.
Day one for me!
I will be there with my hawkeyes. Strength of the hawk
Check out todays BING picture!
This can't be randomly...
I'm excited they've always had the best hw
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Nice, intentional.
Sup people, id like to introduce myself, I'm a hobbyist 3d artist and graphic designer. "Not so much good at the design part" but for now on im gonna "try" to design wallpapers, lock screens, and Themes optimized for the Nexus 7. I'm not very proficient in coding but I have a friend who both has the nexus 7 and is a semi recognized developer here on XDA. "you probably know him he is the creator of Dandroid" "I actually came up with that name =P"
Here is just a few things I have done "I know not impressive yet" But at least it gives me some credibility to what im saying.
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If at all possible since im new here anyone can suggest things that are worth developing for on the nexus 7 id be very grateful.
I know zilch about coding or desinging 3d models but I will say that
a lot of the design work I've seen on here tend to lead toward
embossed, shiny, 3D-like styles. The pictures you posted look pretty decent,
I would like it even more if you had the green in a lighter shade though like
the original androids colour. Anyway this is going a bit off topic but I think it would be interesting to
see how you can merge 3D design skills into things like wallpapers
and lock screens and also into future apps your friend can help you develop.
We have a Themes and Apps subforum for this kind of thing.
Good luck with your wallpapers. And welcome to xda
As you seem to have posted some images already ive moved this thread to themes. If you add more wallpapers to the thread rather than start another it keeps things tidy
Regards
Chris
Hah I like the Ics. Gj and gl
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Thanks and sorry for being such a noob, I always seem to be this way when I enter an unfamiliar "to me" community, ill try to be more aware of things like this.
Anyway Here is some of my other work, I used to be more into Gundam 3d modeling so here is some of my more impressive work that isnt client work. "sorry ahead of time, I haven't enough posts so add links yet".
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Ive also made other things like tablet designs and such a while back "This is a pic of when a tablet was unheard of" This is what my vision at the time a tablet should be.
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Here is also a sample of some of the graphics I made for a theme I was working on that got lost due to time, I plan on useing this as a basis for my first theme.
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