First Look: Windows Phone 7 Series Hands on Demo | Laura Foy | C. Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything Is Different Now - Windows ph. First Impressions: Windows Mobile 7, now known as Windows Phone. We’re not allowed to say much about it, so we’ll leave it at this: I got a bit of hands-on time with Windows Phone (the official name for what was previously known as Windows Mobile 7) prior to its announcement.
I’ll have a bunch more to say about it once I’ve spent some time with it in a setting that allows for video/photography – but in the mean time, read on for my notes and early impressions. Notes: Windows Mobile 7 is officially known as “Windows Phone”. If you’re talking about this build in specific in relation to others, its “Windows Phone 7 Series”, but Microsoft primarily refers to it as “Windows Phone.” No consumer devices will be shown today, nor is it likely that any will show up this week at Mobile World Congress.
Impressions The interface is a rapid, massive departure from Windows Mobile 6.5. Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on and impressions. Forget everything you know about Windows Mobile. Seriously, throw the whole OS concept in a garbage bin or incinerator or something. Microsoft has done what would have been unthinkable for the company just a few years ago: started from scratch. At least, that's how things look (and feel) with Windows Phone 7 Series. 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. You haven't used an interface like this before (well, okay, if you've used a Zune HD then you've kind of used an interface like this). Still, 7 Series goes wider and deeper than the Zune by a longshot, and it's got some pretty intense ideas about how you're supposed to be interacting with a mobile device.
We had a chance to go hands-on with the dev phone before today's announcement, and hear from some of the people behind the devices, and here's our takeaway. First the look and feel. Windows Phone 7 Series first look See all photos 18 Photos. Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know -- En. Microsoft just planted a massive flag in the ground with the debut of Windows Phone 7 Series. The company's new mobile operating system is a radical and potent departure from the past, and there's a lot to take in -- so we've gathered together all our knowledge and impressions of the device so far and rolled them into a single, concise guide. Of course, there will be plenty more to learn in the coming months, and we're going to be beating down Redmond's door for more details on this thing, but for now let's dive into what Microsoft has revealed so far about its latest and (potentially) greatest phone operating system.
Windows Phone 7 Series Interface See all photos 6 Photos The basic facts Windows Phone 7 Series is the successor to Microsoft's line of Windows Mobile phone operating systems. Windows Phone 7 Series live gallery See all photos 48 Photos Hardware What's the software like? How exactly is Windows Phone 7 Series different than previous versions of Windows Mobile? See all photos. Move over, Australia: France taking 'Net censorship lead. Critics of government-mandated filtering schemes contend that such programs first focus on "child pornography" because it's such an unobjectionable target for censorship—but once the program is in place, it's much easier to extend it to more controversial areas, such as copyright protection. At least the French have the decency to admit that this is what's happening.
The French lower house, the National Assembly, has just passed a security bill known as LOPPSI2, and it's expected that the Senate will follow suit in the next few weeks. As we've previously reported, LOPPSI2 is a grab bag of security items that includes state-sanctioned computer Trojans, a massive new database of citizen data (dubbed "Pericles"), and a requirement that ISPs start censoring sites on a government blacklist.
The Internet censorship provision has received the most coverage to date, and LOPPI2 has been quite controversial in France; it passed the National Assembly 312-214.