Why Look Forward to Windows Phone 7?
There are plenty of reasons why LG’s upcoming Panther smart phone is much anticipated; mostly because the device going to be running the new Windows Phone 7 series.
The Windows Phone 7 mobile platform first came out at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. There, Steve Ballmer showed off their work in progress, gave their new motto “the phone is not a PC” and showed to us that Microsoft is still one of the best operating system developers (despite the fact that the Windows Mobile series was a total disappointment).
Admittedly, there are plenty of things to like about WP7. First off, the tiles system is a great way to customize the content on the phone’s home page. The expanding pages are also pretty important. It groups all the contents and allows you to easily browse and filter through phone content to get to the stuff you want.
Other features of the OS still lack the main features –such as the Office Menu which online contained the OneNote and SharePoint functions, other features were already functional: like the “People” page already incorporated Facebook integration. It was also shown that Bing and Zune would be present in the mobile platform as well.
A demo at the Tech Ed 2010 delves deeper into the capabilities of the OS. The big advantage is the addition of the new XBL service. While it was revealed at the MWC that XBL would be part of WP7, it was only at Tech Ed that an actual game was shown. The good thing about having full Microsoft devices such as a Windows PC, an Xbox 360 and a smart phone with WP7 is that you can play the same game on all three platforms.
Read more about Windows Phone 7’s features and capabilities at Softpedia.
