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Windows Phone 7 Series to Bring Plenty of Changes

The presentation of Windows Phone 7 at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, Spain showed off plenty of impressive new features, an innovative user interface and Microsoft’s determination to take a hold of the mobile phone industry.

For many years, the Windows Mobile operating system was trailing far behind other operating systems such as the Apple iPhone OS and the Google Android. Even among business class users, WinMo was still a far second to the Palm OS. Because the old mobile platform was reliant on using the stylus input, WinMo was used more on phones that used resistive touch screen displays.

This made the OS feel very backwards when compared to newer platforms that were compatible with capacitive touch screen user interfaces. The bottom line was that WinMo is outdated and outside of the enterprise clients, no one wanted to use it. With the new WinMo 6.5.3 Maldives update, the OS now supports capacitive displays, but the change may be a little too late sine WinMo already has a bad reputation.

WP7 brings a whole new approach to mobile platforms, Microsoft’s motto of “the phone is not a PC” is turning into reality with the new OS as it makes the most of the capacitive touch screen user interface and real time live updates. This new OS takes away everything that was originally wrong with the old operating system and brings all new features that are bringing the new platform up to par with the Android and iPhone OS.

New to WP7 is the inclusion of Bing, Zune and XBL Games. Microsoft is also adding in a new MSN player with Silverlight for media and for games, the XNA Games Studio demonstrates full 3D capabilities.

Get to know more about the new features and capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series mobile platform at Mobile Choice UK.