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Windows Phone 7: Hands On Tour

2010-10-11
hi I'm Liz Lemon and with the Windows Phone teams out of New York City today and we're excited showing off our newest windows phone 7 that are coming out this holiday we go through what I'm going to show you here is the Samsung Focus renounced it today with a TMT it'll be for 199 and will be on the market this holiday season this is my Start screen I bring that was a little bit more on the Start screen action absolutely 3300 enjoy do doha the law kyrenia absolutely so let me show you my lockscreen first so what you see with the lock screen here is you'll see that all the information that I actually care about is right here on this lock screen you see the time the Davis Barry stamina have friends with lunch with friends at the cafe at twelve o'clock my messages are coming through so there's our 66 new email messages that I got this morning with them right from the launcher is your new text you can't so you actually need to pull up the lock screen and come right on in and find the child to get that information you'll see out here I bring up my lai my Start screen and what's on my Start screen is completely different than anything out there on phones today and what you see is all of my live tiles I put several different live tiles on my screen so I came to ask I pinned my workout mix that I did this morning when I went out on a run it was being brought in from the zune I pinned some office documents and you can order these your hands really easy to customize I can change the color and then I can also change the order so if I decide that I want to put Fandango up closer because I want to go out and watch a movie later I can move it up or if I decide that I went delete it all I need to do is press the delete button and it's gone from my screen and I can also change the color so sometimes i decide that i wanted to like a pink I can head on over here to my settings it's easy as pressing my cuddle time around and my screen is now so I can decide the way that I want it to look and I can make it look like my own phone if it bring into my people hug what this does is this brings all the people that I care about into one place you'll see it brings them all into the local contact information so i can sort down or i can press the Search button and I can easily get to one of my friends contact cards and this is putting information from social networks it's pulling it from my facebook account and my windows live account from those two accounts as well as it's calling the Miss case is pulling from my outlook to be falling for my hotmail yahoo etc if i go back to the house you'll see I pull over to the right what this is is bringing in a feed from my facebook as well as my windows blind so as my friends are updating their status updates just posting pictures on facebook in real time I get that update tube assembly to my people hub I can scroll down and I can find that when my friend please say I just posted this picture of my friend Craig right from that screen I can go to that picture and then i can post a comment or i can post interpersonal multi-touch alone was right from here okay whoa look at that eyeball Craig looking good resuming is very serious something's very smooth it's very serious so that's what people have i'll show you two other things that i love i think i go back to my Start screen I go to my calendar what this is doing is just ringing in the calendars with travel to places for me it's windows live as well as my outlook calendar what i can do is i think our code it so my personal went to orange and my work ones are purple I could go down and I can find it to meeting that's happening later tonight you'll see that the address here I have a late model where I would have had a written it down take it all i need to do is press on the window and it's going to bring up my map so i don't even need to do that one's for you to get to this map location it brings that's straight from here and when I can do my hair as i can say fine where I'm located address this button to pull out it's going to bring me out to New York City show me exactly where I'm located and i'm going to say giving driving directions all right definitely don't want to drive its location today but if i wanted to it's going to pull it turn-by-turn driving directions tell me how much time is gonna take karate so that's the calendar one of the features i personally love and use all the time it's games greatest baby into our experience not all of our mouths I press the Search nuts and it brings up the big experience that you would see on your desktop I don't know if you're a big user of things that I am and it brings up all these fun pictures what I love to see every day in this case i can find out if this is weasel or ferry or whatever this thing is and then from there I can search right from biggs i can do that two ways i can either take it in and search I can decide that I'm going to use voice recognition and say pizza this house it's hard collapse let's type in it today but it works fast that's right hand from tell me it works fantastically so here what it's doing is it's bringing in pewter and what you'll see here is at the top the panorama is I can go from naught to write and I can decide how I want to search for pete's like a full of all the latest news on pizza I can go over and find out keeps a website or i can see that there are all these locations nearby because i'm jory and I wanted or have pizza if I decide that I want to go on a pizza and I want to make sure that it's a place that's sort of reputable I can see that their start and that's actually bringing him reviews so I just bring up here famous original rates by death I can find all the information and pictures they're ours on their website i can use ours down there giving me my maths and I directions and then i can scroll over and it would be no with you i also use a lot when i'm done with pizza I can't decide you know what I need to run a few more errands and they can find all the places near lie I could decide that I can we go have those days hey after pizza for him to head on to the theological seminary or whatever it is that's okay thank you very much you
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