Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 7 Series

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Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.

After a successful launch of Windows 7 for PC,  Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer at MWC 2010 unveiled the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.

With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers will be able to purchase the first phones in stores by holiday 2010.

Today, Im proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 Series, the next generation of Windows Phones, said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft. In a crowded market filled with phones that look the same and do the same things, I challenged the team to deliver a different kind of mobi

le experience. Windows Phone 7 Series marks a turning point toward phones that truly reflect the speed of peoples lives and their need to connect to other people and all kinds of seamless experiences.
With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different approach to phone software. Smart design begins with a new, holistic design system that informs every aspect of the phone, from its visually appealing layout and motion to its function and hardware integration. On the Start screen, dynamically updated live tiles show users real-time content directly, breaking the mold of static icons that serve as an intermediate step on the way to an application. Create a tile of a friend, and the user gains a readable, up-to-date view of a friends latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at Start.

Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special i

mplementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.

Partners from around the world have committed to include Windows Phone 7 Series in their portfolio plans. They include mobile operators AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, and manufacturers Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC Corp., HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm Inc. The first phones will be available by holiday 2010.