Some facts about Windows Phone 7 platform development- Microsoft has a brand new Windows Mobile/Phone Team
- Microsoft has totally rebooted it's strategy for a Mobile market
- Microsoft is laying its bet on Silverlight
- Microsoft's Windows phone 7 was launched at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona
Input- Finger-based touchscreen input
- Keyboard is optional (not a requirement for hardware manufactures)
- Hardware buttons: Start, Back, Search
User Interface- Windows Phone 7 will implement a new "Zune-like" interface codenamed "Metro" that will include Hubs, Tiles, sliders etc. You can download a PDF file with additional information about Metro here.
- Supported resolutions are 800x480(WVGA) and 480x320(HVGA)
Functionality- Native Silverlight support. (based on Silverlight 3)
- Search integration. Many application will support
- Windows Phone 7 will have a true Multi-touch support. Multi-touch will also be a hardware requirement for Windows Phone 7 devices.
- Xbox Live integration
- Zune Player integration (should act as a Zune HD)
- Integration with social networks like Facebook
- Customizable Start Screen shortcuts and "live tiles" feature(pictures are change on the fly)
- Applications created for previous versions of Windows Mobile will not be supported
- Improved browsing (Internet Explorer) with multi-touch support (you can zoom in and zoom out the text now)
- Bing and Bing Maps are built into the phone as the default search and maps services
- Improved Microsoft Office Mobile
- One Marketplace for Windows Phone 7
- Multitasking will be supported in special way(storing application state, resuming and Push Notifications)
- No copy-paste support. Instead Microsoft introduced Context Clues
- Data-detection service built into the text-handling API
- XNA support (mostly used for game development)
- Flash support ("Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series.
The newest version of Windows Phone won't support Flash at initial availability") - GPS will probably be a hardware requirement also.
Hardware Requirements- Touch Screen (4 or more contact points)
- Sensors (A-GPS, Accelerometer, Compass, Light)
- Camera (5mpx or more, flash)
- Memory (256Mb RAM or more)
- GPU (DirectX9 Acceleration)
- CPU(ARMv7 or greater)
- Hardware buttons: Start, Back, Search
- Probably WiFi and FM Radio
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