Windows Phone 7 - Home

Windows Phone 7 is the latest mobile operating system from Microsoft.  With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft offers a new user interface with its design language named Metro, integrates the operating system with 3rd party and other Microsoft services, and plans to strictly control which hardware it runs on.  Microsoft at first announced its new platform as "Windows Phone 7 Series" which initially came under criticism as being too wordy and difficult to say casually. Microsoft later announced that the "Series" would be dropped from the name, leaving the platform named Windows Phone 7.

Languages Supported : Windows Phone 7 supports five languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

Windows Phone Marketplace allows buying and selling applications in 17 countries and regions: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, and United States.

User interface :

The home screen, called the "Start screen", is made up of "Tiles". Tiles are links to applications, features, functions and individual items. Users can add, rearrange, or remove Tiles. Features of Windows Phone 7 are organized into "hubs". For example, the Pictures hub shows photos captured with the device's camera and the user's Facebook photo albums, and the People hub shows contacts aggregated from multiple sources including Windows Live, Facebook, and Gmail. Users input text by using an on-screen virtual keyboard, The keys are somewhat larger and spaced farther apart when in landscape mode.

Browser :

Internet Explorer is the default browser. The browser supports up to 6 tabs, which can all load in parallel. A version of the currently unreleased Internet Explorer 9 is also in development for the Windows Phone OS, which is to include better HTML, CSS and JavaScript standards support, as well as hardware acceleration.

Multimedia:

The "Music + Videos hub" plays music, videos, and podcasts, and allows users to access the Zune Marketplace to buy music or rent it with the Zune Pass subscription service, and view artist biographies and photos. The "Pictures hub" displays the user's Facebook and Windows Live photo albums alongside photos taken with the phone's camera.

Games :

 Microsoft brings X-Box live in to the phone. Via "Games Hub", the users are able to interact with the avatar, view gamerscore and leaderboards, message Xbox Live friends, and Spotlight. Multiplayer gaming with live multiplayer are also released.

E-mail : 

Windows Phone 7 supports Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail natively and supports many other services via the POP and IMAP protocols.

Contacts :

Contacts can be manually entered or can be imported via "peoples hub"

System requirement to use Windows Phone 7 OS :

• 1 GHz ARM v7 or better processor
• 256 MB of RAM with at least 8 GB of Flash memory
• 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash
• 6 dedicated hardware buttons - back, Start, search, camera, power/sleep and Volume Up and Down