Windows Phone 7 - Emails, Events and Schedule Integration

[DayleLeslieay199]

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[FlavioTeixeiraRJ]

I like it but these animations drive me dizzy! They should have stuck with the "slide" for the simple things.

[AHDT258]

Windows Phone 7 Series Rocks!

[Miyaushka]

Where does this video come from originally? There's no source credit.

[Superharas]

@Miyaushka engadget's website.

[kulakovaleksey]

виндоус еще поборется, да

[Skandar0007]

that would kick Apple's ass !

I'm just sayin' ....

[petemonsy]

full touch screen ? what happen the keyboard ? looks like another iPhone wannabe ... another brain dead product just like the Zune ... un-proven product, save your money, see how it'll do in a few years....

[PAPERCLlPS]

@petemonsy Are you an complete idiot? There were many smartphones without a keyboard before the iPhone you twat. The ZuneHD was a marvelous MP3 player, the best I've ever used. The phone in this video isn't even real genius, it's only a prototype placeholder. In fact, if you knew anything about Windows Phone, you would know that there are going to be many Windows Phones with keyboards, portrait and landscape. Do everyone a favor and just crawl back in your hole.

[petemonsy]

@PAPERCLlPS they have attract brain dead users too.....

[thedivinedecree]

@petemonsy You need to shut up if you don't know your facts kid. MS will allow the OEM to choose between a physical or virtual keyboard on a phone.

[jessiethe3rd]

Simple, elegant, intuitive, productive, integrated... all the things I look for in a business class device.

[Adelwyn]

A really interesting and somewhat exciting demonstration. Looking forward to seeing it in person. Of concern though, is the transitions shown, and what would be the impact on battery performance.

[pgk2006]

Looks very good, but I hope they'll change the way the sender name flies out and back in when opening an email (see a bit after 0:22). That just seems silly.

[dlmaniac]

I don't think it really looks like a cool gadget, and I like MSFT in general.

[ceeam]

It's unbelievable how crappy and unintuitive it looks. I can only imagine that non-english versions, with even longer labels, will be like. Probably totally unusable.

[SergentBannana]

u change the 6 to a 9 but didint bother to change the spelling of san francisco?

[lkmnb432]

Bet its full of viruses and slow as hell.

[jaycc9]

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[ne0huang]

why is "frank wu" a black guy LOL

[bvjorge]

I love windows 7 but some how they male their mobile os so ugly and boring I personaly don't like it

[thatonebeone]

android/iphone OS is the way to go.. android is more mutitaksing then iphone..will see what iphone 4.0 will bring still in beta 2 now

[boofy150]

i really thought windows could make a better phone than apple but this looks like shit

[ConiferColorado]

@boofy150 If you think that this looks like shit, then you never expected Windows to make a better phone.

[boofy150]

@ConiferColorado no because i thought they could do good but turns out they didnt

[ConiferColorado]

@boofy150 Ok, fair enough. Admittedly all black on white is a little boring, but that should be customizable.

[swattkidd]

Looks really cool, hate the name lol

[stylezzzz]

why is there a picture of pharrell williams next to Frank Wu? FAIL

[nwills1]

Good call changing the figure to 9.7... now learn how to spell San Francisco, Microsoft!

[danielsan854]

Time will tell how this works out, there are missing features i'd like to see, but some very cool things in there too. Kudos to MS for taking a risk like this, hopefully it all works out.

Now, all we need is this thing running on some of that sexy HTC hardware.

[LoryLandskipper]

If someone can port this to an HD2, I'm switching to TMobile lol

[KleineNico]

wth, you turn clockwise?

[mozltovcoktail]

Kudos to MS for designing a slick interface that isn't an Apple clone. HOWEVER, it looks sterile and uninviting, and the minimalism actually confuses me a little. Lots of plain text without borders. Verdict: meh

[McConnellHauser]

The zippy graphics I think will confuse people -- there's no sense of 'where' you are at any time, the movements seem arbitrary -- left or right, or 3D flip, or zoom into, I don't see any rhyme or reason. It's a huge step back in terms of GUI.

[appleiph]

Well done!! Keep it up!

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[mitrieD]

It almost seems that Microsoft is using some of apple's ideas and making them better. Nothing wrong with that. Good job Microsoft. I think the economy needs to have a good long lasting competitor to the iphone.

[jessiethe3rd]

@mitrieD I both agree and disagree. APPL took the Smartphone platform and move it to the next level (they are cool.) Did the same with MP3 players. They force MSFT to compete. I think MSFT has stepped the game up to another level.

[elpadroney]

and u get the red ring of death 12 months and 2 days from when you buy it also

[brittanyleighomg]

It looks so...boring.

[salado777]

I don't like it

[Vux911]

Is it just me or does this seem like it would be confusing as hell? How many people will actually use the OS to the fullest? I work in IT and I can certainly say that a person's height within a company, *especially* upper management, has absolutely 0 correlation *whatsoever* to their knowledge about computers / technology. Very, very, very few people will use WP7 to the fullest.

[factionxvt408x]

Interesting, this phone might just look like it can do productive things instead of running pointless 1 dollar apps all day long. I like it.

[republicausp]

I loved the new interface for Windows Mobile/Phone.

My only gripe is that she's sending an updated file. Shouldn't it be on the cloud? Yes, it can be risky, but still.

[nicklassayshi]

"Sent from my Windows Phone". HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!

[np231]

kick ass

[TyPaen]

If this phone come out. I'll buy it!

[t00ny]

so pharrell williams is actually frank wu?

[dominickerley]

wow microsoft is running out of original ideas.

[AdrianWerner]

@dominickerley

Really? Nowadays they seem to be the only company out of the big ones that still has plenty of original ideas left.. Google is eating it's own tail and Apple last fresh thing was shown 3 years ago.

[danielsan854]

@dominickerley What in god's name are you babbling about? Out of ideas? Between windows 7, the 360, the zune HD and this, the largest revision on windows mobile to date. MS are on the streak of their lives, certainly not out of ideas.

[AdrianWerner]

I love how nowadays Microsoft looks like the innovative underdog with fresh ideas, while Apple is this big monolith that's stagnant and hostile to user's freedom. It's bizzare how much has changed in last decade

[RomaniaOverpowered]

@AdrianWerner agreed with you!

[shadowmorman]

@AdrianWerner Well only hand held objects... and creative arts like music and such... it will be a cold day in hell before I use a pc to create music

[AdrianWerner]

@shadowmorman

iPhone was the last semi fresh thing they had and it was 3 years ago. And what do you mean by "creative arts"? You mean how OSX dominates music industry? True. But on the otherh and Windows dominates plenty of other "creative industries" like architecture or 3D.

[IBrokeRules1and2lulz]

@AdrianWerner haha yep, to be fair M$ have been good at innovition over the years with XBL Direct X's, Very easy to develop software, windows vista (even though was broken) ect but Mac have been much better. untill now when Iphone and its over sized clone IPad mac pc laptop pretty much exact same for years Pods exact same for years.

[GR0B13]

@AdrianWerner i couldnt have said that better myself

[ne0huang]

@AdrianWerner because its the truth, apple has so many restrictions on user customization, look at how protective they are on their MP3 formatting and their whole App creation process, its just rediculous now, before apple used to stand for some kind tool for creativity but back then noone knew about the customization that windows could offer in the future, so apple lagged behind

[jacobts]

@AdrianWerner

this is the zune UI.... how is this innovative?

Not trying to be a fanboy here...

but can you explain this? cause I don't understand where or how you are looking at this from as Microsoft has had nothing new for... quite some time now unfortunately. This phoneOS won't change anything.

[jessiethe3rd]

@jacobts Nothing wrong with those thoughts. Nothing new? Maybe you haven't seen all the other pieces on the phone. Grouping approach to applications and activities, social integration at the highest levels (pictures from social networks integrate to one point, contact information combined in a central area, ZunePass subscription possibilities) integration with the Office Suite of products (SharePoint, OneNote, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...)

Not sure what you consider a game changer...

[sixuardianangel]

@AdrianWerner Microsoft innovative? The name "Windows Phone 7 Series" just shouts innovation!

/sarcasm

[NexusTen]

looks good

[plsch]

as an iphone user this really makes me jealous. the well-integratet calendar and email application and the home screen. but hey its still windows. and i dont think i need so much animation on my phone. this shurely costs a lot of battery.

[flarbton]

Apple is the original, this mock-up lol, seems like good competition and Monopolysoft's version of Apple OS, slight graphical differences, not NEARLY the iPhone OS killer human cattle Bill Gates slaves envision it to be. It seems M$laves are far too willing to stay with the Gates herd by supporting simple knock-offs of Apple products. Typical.

Microsoft will have a monopoly, so they have the numbers of human cattle to give iPhone obvious competition, but what's new? it's monopolysoft catte.

[AdamKaoru]

@flarbton Microsoft has made a living off of knocking off Apple products, and when they made Windows, they beat Apple into submission with it's own beast.. Just saying..

[IrateGamingZealot]

@flarbton What on earth are you on about? Apple is the one with the zealous following who buy the new model iPhone every year. Microsoft has had comparitively very little success in the mobile market outside business use. Where are all your "M$laves" then?

Oh that's right, you're just an Apple fanboy who has no idea what he's on about.

[stuffradio]

@flarbton Wow, I sadly can't say I haven't seen so much ignorance in one post by an Apple follower. Have you seen how locked down Apple is? I develop for the iPhone, but haven't released anything yet... sadly Microsoft will copy Apple's locked down nature. It's one of the reasons I won't be getting this phone.

[stuffradio]

@flarbton Also, I'm not sure if you haven't noticed... but Bill Gates doesn't directly work for Microsoft anymore, he retired from Microsoft... and you're stupid for using a $ in place of a real letter. Maybe the Apple ecosystem teaches you how to type poorly.

[krishansy]

@flarbton if u are talking about "iPhone killer" in terms of features, iPhone has already been killed. I have used iPod Touch for 2 years and iPhone for 1 year. I know what I am talking about. If you are talking about iPhone killer in terms of sales, no one can kill iPhone. Marketing is the reason why. iPhone markets its products amazingly. In terms of hardware, there is no comparison whatsoever between an HTC HD2 hardware and an iPhone hardware.

[krishansy]

@flarbton You just seem to be bitter about the monopoly of MS in PC OS segment. I can understand how this can anger you. But let this not impair your judgement. I think people like you have already thought you know it all. But just a suggestion.

[ConiferColorado]

@flarbton It really people like who who make MS fans. I can only speak for myself, but I don't think it would be a strech to say that people hate the arrogence of apple fanboys and apple in general.

When I was deciding between buying another ipod and a zune, I did a lot of research, and on every zune video was some jerk talking about how it copies ipod (even though it can do everything an ipod can do + everything pandora can do + everything Rhapsody can do)

[ConiferColorado]

@flarbton Apple hasn't had a new idea since the itouch/iphone and only through agressive marketing and rediculous rebranding (iphone 3G, really?) has it done so well. If there is one good thing I can say about Apple though, it's that the competition has awoken a sleeping giant in the microsoft corporation, and in some weird way, all you apple fanboys out there not only create windows fans, but all of the new windows products as well. Thanks! :D

[alanwah]

@ConiferColorado okay just for the record, not to be hostile or be seen as a apple fan boy, when was the last time microsoft made a fresh product? windows xp? vista? zune?

and any smart and forward thinking company would use aggressive marketing, especially in such a competitive industry

[ConiferColorado]

@alanwah Zune was pretty cool :), and while agressive marketing is important (I wish microsoft did a little more) Apple ads are so common, there really less about informing the consumer then they are about creating hype.

[azwan1992]

nice interface, i'd like to have one

[ramasubbu]

Pretty good for corporate users

[rysterf8]

Great. I now have to look at Xbox Live advertisement on my homescreen. >_>

[jessiethe3rd]

@rysterf8 Just turn it off... it's flexible.

[josidhe]

@rysterf8 My understanding is that it's not an ad. It's what you press to use XBox Live. In case you weren't up to speed, XBox Live will be fully integrated into WP7, and many, many downloadable games will be cross-platform between WP7, PC and Xbox.

[AdamKaoru]

Very awesome! My problem with Windows Phone 7 is that it seriously lacks features. It's like iPhone 1.0 but with a really nice skin on it. Also, people will quickly get bored of this skin, and manufacturers can't change it... So, that's going to be a problem.

[kindiboy]

@AdamKaoru I've been thinking the same, but there is nothing as "can't change it". As long as it's a software it is changeable.

[AdamKaoru]

@kindiboy Yeah but Microsoft is stubborn, and they've received praise for Windows Phone 7. The likelihood of them changing anything about it now until 2.0 is very little.

And if you're referring to rooting the phones, well, that's not something consumers can rely on, and not everyone can figure it out / take advantage of it.

[anispace86]

@AdamKaoru

hmm so what kind of custom skins are u using on the iphone. as far as features are concerned, everything thats needed is already present and more features will be provided by apps.

[AdamKaoru]

@anispace86

Errrr.. at least iPhone 4.0 allows wallpapers, which WP7 actually doesn't. WP7 also doesn't have copy and paste, and it flat out does not have multitasking no matter what fancy way Microsoft has to say that ("pausing" apps is exactly how iPhone currently works).

And there is such a huge jailbreak community for iPhone you can make it do almost anything. And, trust me, the app store on WP7 is not going to be big. It will be smaller than Android's market with less variety.

[anispace86]

@AdamKaoru

atleast let it release first b4 going on a tirade against it. wallpapers and copy-paste will be there will its released. And have u ever heard about XDA-dev.. google it. yeah rt.. the app store will be smaller than ANdroid.. lol.. looks like ur a apple fanboy..

[AdamKaoru]

@anispace86 Not by a long shot. I'm not an Apple fanboy at all. I'm a realist. iPhone has the market cornered: Highest sales, fastest improvements, highest customer satisfaction ratings, largest app store, highest developer interest, and it's not slowing down at all. Hate to be the barer of bad news fandroid/winphan/anything that's not iPhone fanboy.

[anispace86]

@AdamKaoru

well it will slow down once HTC releases its killer WP7 devices later this year. just look at those new Dell phones for a taste of whats in store. iphone is history. And fastest improvements...yeah rt..lol..

[anispace86]

@anispace86

although i do agree that the iphone was the one which brought about the Touchscreen revolution. b4 the iphone.. touchscreen phones really sucked. But if it isnt able to catch up now its gonna be history.

[AdamKaoru]

@anispace86 Ok Miss Cleo. Thank you for your prediction of the future, it will be noted. I'd prefer to focus on statistics that actually represent the current trends, not assuming what will happen based on ridiculous fanboy fantasies.

And by fastest improvements I am talking about app sales, phone sales, etc... They have been skyrocketing since the release of the phone and the app store.

[krishansy]

@AdamKaoru Not fastest improvements. Other than that you are right.

[ConiferColorado]

@AdamKaoru

RIM Blackberry has the highest sales by far, and android is growing much faster than iPhone.

[AdamKaoru]

@ConiferColorado Highest sales of a single product? I don't think so. Blackberry is still shamelessly pimping 5 year old OS 4 devices as if they are new...

And, in what way is Android growing faster than iPhone? Yes Android reached 50,000 apps recently, but apple has gained another 100,000 apps in the time it took Android to go from 20 to 50 thousand.... So, is Android really growing faster? I don't think so.

[ConiferColorado]

@AdamKaoru RIM is bigger in terms of OS market share (which seems more pertinent since this vid is about an OS). About pimping old devices, that's what Apples done for years with the exception of the first gen iTouch, the first gen Ipod, and a couple of it's macs. And once again, market share. That's how android is growing faster than iphone.

[AdamKaoru]

@ConiferColorado First, Blackberry has been around a lot longer than iPhone. Second, they are losing market share every month, 40% of Blackberry users polled want to go to iPhone. They only stay because they think Blackberry is the only device that does secure and push email (WRONG), or they're obsessed with BBM.

Apple never pimps old products! When they introduce a new version, they do not leave the old one on the shelves. They did so with iPhone 3G only to reach a lower price point.

[ConiferColorado]

@AdamKaoru All apple does is refurbish old tech. All apple products today are more or less the same as either the original ipod, the original itouch, or the imac from five years ago. There's been virtually no new innovation in the company for years.

[AdamKaoru]

@ConiferColorado ok, if you want a comparison let's make one: An Mp3 player can only do so much. Recent iPods do much more than the original iPods. iMacs from 5 years ago were overpriced and underpowered. iMacs today are not only 100x more powerful, but they are way less expensive! And, 10 hour battery life in a 13" notebook isn't innovative? Are you fucking nuts?

You can call me a fanboy for being realistic or whatever you want, but you are just a hater.

[krishansy]

@AdamKaoru I don't care about about the size of app store as long as it has relevant apps and not the fart apps. If the app store is beyond 20k, extra additions may not have much to offer anyway. Many will be repeats. Regarding wallpapers, we don't know anything yet. Regarding multitasking, both WM7 and iPhone 4 provide pseudo multitasking capability. So, choose Palm Pixi, N900, Windows 6.5 or Android. And xda community will beat the SHIT out of any iPhone jailbreak community ANY DAY.

[AdamKaoru]

@krishansy You're wrong actually, WP7 does not have multitasking at all, in any form. iPhone OS 4.0 multitasks as much as you could possibly want it to, it just doesn't keep apps open when they have no reason to be open, but it still launches them quickly and saves their state as if they were open.

WP7 saves states (just like iPhone OS 3.0 does!), but it doesn't allow ANY background functionality. No streaming music from pandora, no skype incoming calls, no local notifications, nothing.

[davidmuful]

@AdamKaoru It does allow background functionality. Don't believe every blog you read. iPhone OS 4 and WP7 multitasking are very similar, with the use of APIs for the background feeds and inputs/outputs. It's just that Apple call it multitasking and Microsoft don't, because they don't like to use hyperbole and spin. Magical and revolutionary, no?

[AdamKaoru]

@davidmuful I'm not believing what I read, I'm believing exactly what Microsoft told us! Microsoft said themselves there will be no support for listening to third party music apps, and they haven't announced any other background functionality at all. iPhone OS 4.0 multitasking is not limited at all, the only sense that it is limited is that it doesn't senselessly keep apps running when they have no reason to be open. And that's a good thing for memory and battery life.

[davidmuful]

@AdamKaoru Well I can tell you that there are APIs to support almost all of the same multitasking uses as the iPhone. Both use saved states most of the time, but can filter data from the app. This is how WP7 can update the live tiles on the start page that aren't just RSS feeds, pulling cloud data. I'm sure the choice to limit music apps is to do with Microsoft pushing the ZunePass streaming functionality that is available to the phone. We'll see ZunePass included at discount within data plans.

[AdamKaoru]

@davidmuful Yeah, we'll see about that. Looks like you're another prediciting Miss Cleo, I'd rather just go by what Microsoft has told us, not speculation.

[liamrdaly]

looks great