Microsoft launches Windows 7 Mobile2010-02-16 09:34 by DanielaTags: Windows 7 Mobile, iPhone, HTC
Three years after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer - finally - came up with an answer to Apple's monstrously successful smart phone Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Is it too late to kill the iPhone? It's probably too late to even ask that question. Has Microsoft come up with something interesting, however? Definitely. With the exception of the clunky name - Windows 7 Phone Series - this looks like everything the Redmond, Washington-based software company isn't supposed to be: bold, original, and well, fun. The iPhone is built around a screen filled with chiclet-like applications that users can click on to activate. So are phone's based on Google's Android software. Microsoft's new software, by contrast, presents users with six different hubs. Each hub mixes information the phone itself, a user's PC, and web-based services to create a rich mix of options for users to poke at and play around with. A few caveats, of course. Microsoft will be relying on the likes of Dell, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, and Toshiba to build phones around its software. Microsoft has laid down some guidelines on what the phones that are built around its software will look like. Each of these companies, however, will want to make its product unique. That could make the iPhone's tight integration between software and hardware difficult to replicate. Read more -here-
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