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Except iPhone which is extremely secretive, probably the rest of mobile phone images and details will leaked as the launch date nearer. Latest phone to join the list is HTC’s Windows Phone 7 more. Windows platform is nothing new to HTC, who have collaborated with them since the Windows Mobile days before, but as I said, this is gonna their first smart book related to Windows Phone 7. Unfortunately, that’s the info available and, nothing else.
via : Engadget
Who else is better than Microsoft own employees to test out the new Windows Phone 7, right? It is their pride an possibly the next big thing after Windows OS and Office suite that will drive the future of mobile business is. If this is true, Microsoft decision to give away Windows Phone 7 is timely. 90k manpower employed by Microsoft is obviously huge enough to provide sufficient feedback for any bug or enhancement if necessary. Apple and Google did the same way before with iPhone 2G and HTC G1, and well, their phone is huge success, so why can’t Microsoft? And to all Microsoft employees, enjoy your (future) new phone folks!
via:mashable
image credit to Gizmodo
The next big thing in smartphone industry, if any is probably Windows Phone 7. The phone concept demonstrated by Microsoft early this year showing a lot of potential in the new OS, such uniquely designed UI never see in any mobile OS before. But that alone will not convince people to jump alone. After embarrassed by Kin exit early this month, Windows Phone 7 is the last weapon that Microsoft had to revive their presence in mobile OS, that faded after arrival of fiercest competition from the like of iPhone, Blackberry, Android and even WebOS.
Last week Microsoft has started delivering the Windows Phone 7 prototype phone to developers and tech blogers. And since yesterday Windows Phone 7 review can be seen in almost all top tech blogs. It would need great effort to read all of them, but generally the review is quite positive as the phone build is not yet finalized. The are few point of interest, one that caught most attention is obviously the GUI – called Metro originated from Zune but giving a fresh looks in phone. Great looks without functional purpose doesn’t serve anything but hate. You would be surprise that it came from Microsoft. The movement as demoed, from one to another screen is as smooth as it should. It is so intuitive.
Not much can be talk about the hardware, as it depends on the vendor that build the phone. But in general, there are 3 buttons which is standard on all phone, home , back and search. If you Android user, you should familiar with these arrangement.
Apps in Windows Phone 7 is called hub instead, and that’s not the only one with unique name here, there are more new terms introduced such as People, which actually refer to phonebook. They keyboard is as good as iPhone if you wondering. There is also integration with, what else if not Office… to make this phone appeal to enterprise.
Couple of thing that still not working, the marketplace, aka application store is still in progress. I’m curios how many application will available when the phone start shipping in the next few months.. Xbox Live integration is not yet ready as well, there got to be lots of works still required from Microsoft.
With the massive cash, engineers, talent, marketing arm that Microsoft had, it’s hard to believe that Microsoft only sell 503 units of Kin phones since the day it was launched. That’s less than 1K and I think CSL (the local phone manufacturer) is doing better with their Blueberry phones. But given that fact came from the guy behind daring fireball, who’re not building his reputation overnight, you can’t hardly argue about that figure. This is the huge blow to Microsoft, and no wonder Microsoft waste no time killing Kin Phones, before it’s too late. Years of efforts and millions of spending end up nowhere, what’s left is tarnished image. Pity..
Update 8-July-2010 : It appears that Kin Phones are actually sold more than that, read here
source: Business Insider
The Beta version of new Microsoft Live Essential has been made available for download by Microsoft last week. The powerful but fairly low profile (given the fact that MS product rarely got coverage but tech blogs) is specifically designed for only Windows Vista and Windows 7 (going to disappoint Windows XP users), focus on cloud services integration as well as simplify the everyday task.
Microsoft Live Essentials provide you the desktop tools for the most frequently task done only daily basis although not all is necessarily valuable to most. It got Messenger for chatting, Photo Gallery to manage your photo, Mail as email client, Movie Maker for movie editing, Writer to compost blog post to various blogging platform , Family Safety to monitor internet usage, and Toolbar, Microsoft Office Outlook Connector to bring Hotmail and Live Calendar to your Outlook email client, Office Live Add-in, and Microsoft Silverlight.
With focus to integrate existing cloud services in use, Windows Live Essential is now able to connect to various cloud services and social networking websites such as Youtube, Flickr, Facebook and etc. The addition of what could be seen as the biggest enhancement of Windows Live Essential is timely when integration between various web services is common to other services, and very critical to appeal to the mass.
Most tools also have undergone quite extensive modification to simplify the task to get job done. Backing the storage of most tools above is Windows Live Skydrive, on the free on cloud storage with up to 25GB space.
If you new to Windows Live Essential, the video below should provide you an adequate overview about this service.
