What is “it”, you may ask? I have three words to answer you with: Windows. Phone. 7.
I might have just had a bit of a nerd-boy moment… more than usual, that is.
A lot of you are probably familiar with the massive collection of fail that is the typical Windows Mobile operating system, at least when compared to other mobile OS’s. To quote the folks over at Engadget, though: “This really is a completely new OS -- and not just Microsoft's new OS, it's a new smartphone OS, like webOS new, like iPhone OS new.”
If you’ve used a Zune HD (which I have, and wanted to buy SO badly when I was in Chicago), you know that the interface and general user-friendliness of the device is awesome. Windows Phone 7 Series uses a similar, albeit deeper and more intense, interface. It wants you to be interacting with it in new and exciting ways (and no, not those ways*), and I say ‘lead the way!’
Microsoft seems to almost be harking back to it’s DOS days in a good way, with the lack of shaded icons, background, faux-3D, drop shadows, and all that other mess. Joshua over at Engadget describes it as “almost Tron-like in its primary color simplicity”, and I agree with him when he says that it’s “rather exciting”.
Rather than let my text do all the talking, how about I let you check out the pictures and see for yourself?
*Seriously, go outside or something. No piece of technology should ever give a man a double Polaroid…
All images in today’s post courtesy of Engadget. More pictures, and videos, on
this subject can be found on the Engadget source post (linked here).
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