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hey guys John rector for TechnoBuffalo here today February 15th Steve Ballmer and associates took the center stage at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona Spain and unveiled to the world the next version of Windows Mobile which is officially being called Windows Phone 7 Series get used to that name you're gonna be hearing it quite a bit it's a little bit long Windows Phone 7 Series is the name of Microsoft's next mobile operating system see me look guys I got some notes in front of me the conference just ended let's go over some of the recaps first and foremost this is not a update to the 6.5 or a windows mobile 6.1 Windows Phone series that you've seen this is a complete recode rework from the ground up we've seen for a very similar-looking Windows Mobile since all the Pocket PC days of years past and then we had Windows Mobile 5 Windows Mobile 6 they all look relatively similar this day complete utter rework with a entirely new design and user interface so first we've got xbox live and doing integration yeah which is quite nice they're all sort of done with these new tile interface and they're calling these live tiles or smart tiles essentially what they are are little widgets that update in real time so you can have tiles for Facebook updates you could have tiles for email it's sort of these new way that interact with the phone these are those tiles are customizable that you can scroll vertically you can add as many as you'd like you can add tiles for your friends and family let's say you've got a girl friends on Facebook that you have our own tile and actually updates your Facebook profile the tile picture is going to change you'll see some images and I'll put them up as I'm talking about what the home screen looks like to get a sense of what it's going to be to interact with the device it's really got a lot of social networking integration built into this tile interface so I'm a bit skeptical as to how much information you can actually get on what home tree they're gonna be a lot of vertical scrolling which you know may be good or bad depending on what you think but you'll be doing that vertical scrolling on a capacitive multi-touch enabled screen natively which should be a big plus for Windows Mobile fans the past gone will be the resistive sort of squishy touch screens so you can throw those extra style asses out then that'll be rockin and capacitive screen like the iPhone and Android and even blackberry community has for some time so let's talk a little bit more about these tiles like I mentioned they're sort of stand-alone widgets that will update in real time obviously the and internet connection and they'll always be able to give you information as it's coming through so your email updates your Facebook will update Twitter and this sort of brings all these things together all the emails and all the contact lists that you get from you know work email your corporate email personal and all your social networking think of it similar to pumps energy on webOS that's also present throughout the new Windows Phone 7 Series if you've seen what the Zune HD interface looks like that's very similar to what the menu system of Windows Phone 7 series is going to look like which I was a big fan of I really liked the Zune HD interface it is very smooth list-based and it worked very well and I think we're gonna see sort of that same working very well into Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 Series No More Start menu no more sort of lists that you saw on the home screen we're just a bit of icons you're not going to get a very immersive interactive environment of which is quite nice Microsoft's is also going to put a much tighter control over the hardware and software so they're going to be minimum requirements that each vendor is going to have to meet in order to run the new operating systems you're going to see a certain level of performance amongst all the films to be quite nice on the downside if you're a fan of touchflo 3d or TouchWiz or any other user interface that has been put on top of Windows Mobile in the past you'd be disappointed because Microsoft is going to be no longer allowing custom skins on the UI so depending what you think about the opportunity system that's either good or a bad thing sort of on the positive end you're gonna always get this in experience from phone to phone certainly this work back to my very mother now it's got a QWERTY keyboard of let's go keyboard or whatever it might be the experience is going to be similar which I think people may may like this is another cool integration they have you can have all your photos from the web and on your device or to come into one heart getting back to this sort of palm sandy type thing it's everything Microsoft kept saying your whole life on your phones everything that you do online in the digital world sort of be integrated right into your phone sort of nice looking package you're going to sync over Wi-Fi which is another sort of cool feature there's also sort of probably most importantly a completely new browser a new version of Internet Explorer or mobile Internet Explorer as based off the desktop version which is multi-touch enable the funny looks like Microsoft has built a very capable browser when I can compete with the iPhone and the androids of the world they showed it off in a few videos and it looked to be very very nice there's no mention of Flash support although it will not be supported for some time but Adobe and Microsoft as both said the flash will come to Windows Phone 7 Series so overall it looks to be a complete and radical departure from Windows Mobile the past I think it's a very bold move by Microsoft primarily Windows Mobile had been geared at professional so it was aimed at sort of the enterprise crowd I think Microsoft perhaps realize that that crowd was being diluted by a ton of different operating systems and decided to put together package that was more broad reaching the new OS is certainly not geared just at the professionals it's routed everybody sort of taking aim and again at Android iPhone and even you can blackberry with some other email integration it looks to be a very nice package it doesn't look like anything you'd expect from Microsoft with anything to expect from Microsoft from years past it looks to be a very complete feature-rich operating system which certainly will have years and years of support as a very least a fantastic departure from the antiquated six-point-five architecture that we've seen in the past which was based on their 5.0 architecture which is based on Pocket PC it's really stayed the same taken Microsoft a bit of time to get to this point certainly we're three years past introduction of the iPhone or a couple years into Android and sort of many many years into blackberry and we hadn't seen any drastic change to mobile until this point so it's gonna be a brave new world out there for the smartphone loving crowd around the holidays of this year we should start seeing the first phones rule out prices and carriers obviously nobody knows quite yet so what do you guys think about Windows Phone 7 series it's quite a lot to say it looks to be a pretty decent operating system know what I'm looking forward to playing with so what are your thoughts you to pick up a device you excited about are you gonna wait for a new phone or do you have absolutely zero interest maybe you fall somewhere in between kind of curious what you have to say anyway I'm John rende you're from TechnoBuffalo for all your Windows Phone 7 Series a picture check out the channel and TechnoBuffalo comm I'll see you guys in the next video oh my