Microsoft has announced details of Windows Phone 7 Series, related to its application, user interface, and software development. Yet, there is bad news for HTC HD2 users, who cannot upgrade the Windows Phone 7 series on their smartphones.
Microsoft sees Windows Phone 7 Series as a tool to reclaim its mobile groove. As last year, it suffered losses in market in the mobile Operating System. On the contrary, iPhone and Android continued to reap benefits. It offers a user interface that will help integrate applications into “Hubs” for third-party developers.
It will also employ a set of programming tools known as XNA to make it comfortable for game designers to create games for varied Microsoft platforms, which include Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. As Windows Phone 7 Series supports XNA, it will become easy to download Microsoft online games.
Microsoft has fielded Silverlight as an alternative to Adobe Flash. It makes clear that Windows Phone 7 will support more applications with Silverlight and develop graphics-intensive 3D games with XNA, thus giving Windows Phone 7 something to cheer about and boast over other phones, such as iPhone, that fail to support Flash or Silverlight.
EA, Foursquare, Associated Press, Namco, Shazam, Pandora, Sling, Netflix, and Pageonce have offered to develop Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series. There are many other applications on offer. With Windows Phone 7 Series, users will have the option to develop their hubs.
In this regard, Charlie Kindel, manager of Microsoft’s Windows Phone App Platform and Developer Experience program, said, “I think we’ve been very clear since we first started talking about [Windows Phone 7 Series] that it represents a sea change for Microsoft. We’ve revamped just about every aspect of how we build phone software, ranging from how we think about customers to how we do the engineering for the product.”
However, it is unlikely that the HTC HD2 smartphone will be upgraded to the Windows Phone 7 series, as it not ”compliant with the Windows Phone 7 Series hardware specifications.”
Still there is something to cheer about, as three new phones have been unveiled that support the aforementioned application and are very much compliant with Windows Phone 7 Series.
