Windows Phone 7 more info.
- Based on Windows CE 6 kernel
- Completely new interface for finger-based touchscreen input
- Complete social networking intergration.
- Zune and Xbox components
- Outlook + Office support
- Strict hardware requirements
- Large WVGA screen with a single aspect ratio (which means BlackBerry-style devices won’t be readily available to begin with)
- Five specific hardware buttons required: Start, back, search (a dedicated Bing button), camera button, and power — no more, no less
- Capacitive multitouch
- CPU and GPU requirements (beginning with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon as the go-to processor)
- WiFi
- AGPS
- Accelerometer
- FM radio
- High resolution camera
- Emphasis on Cloud computing
- All new touchscreen keyboard
- “People hub” Pulls contacts from your social networking and e-mail accounts into a single view.
- “Pictures hub” pulls photos from your social networking and cloud based photo services
- “Games hub” connection to Xbox Live
- “Music + Video” hub, similar to Zune HD media capabilities
- “Marketplace hub” access the Marketplace, including app-purchasing content.
- “Office hub” office software such as OneNote and SharePoint right on the phone.
- Email, calendar, SMS, phone, Internet Explorer, Bing Search, Bing maps
- Unlikely backwards software compatibility.
