BARCELONA " Microsoft is prepping a leading refurbish for Windows Phone 7, bringing multitasking and a mobile chronicle of Internet Explorer 9 to the mobile working system.
The update, hazily scheduled for "later this year," was demoed currently by Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's clamp boss of Windows Phone.
The greatest new underline is multitasking. Like iOS and webOS, it manifests itself as fast-app-switching. Press the "back" symbol flip to the last-used app, or press and grip to come in a switching screen. This is a lot similar to the webOS "card" embellishment crossed with Apple's casing flow: you flip by shrunken screenshots to obtain to the app you want. It's tidy and, in the beta erect we attempted out, fast.
When you re-enter an app, it resumes instantly. The demo showed Belfiore flipping between a couple of games, and entering correct where he left off. This underline is open to third-party developers.
Another underline will be aware to iOS 4 users: Background audio. Just similar to with iOS, you will right away be able to run any audio app as you juggle not similar actions between apps.
Office is to phone is flattering self-explanatory, but more engaging is the inclusion of Microsoft's cloud-storage service, SkyDrive (above). Users will obtain 25GB of online storage that is deeply scored equally in to both Windows on the Personal Computer and the phone. It is disgraceful that Apple doesn't offer the same already.
And then there's IE9. Current Windows Phone 7 handsets liner with a mobile chronicle of the four-year-old IE7, and IE9 is the ultimate chronicle of Microsoft's browser. IE9 for Windows Phone 7 uses the same digest engine as desktop IE9, so sites will look as great (or bad) in both places.
Better headlines is hardware increase in speed for graphics and video. This hands-off processor-intensive work to the GPU, or graphics processor. This speeds up the opening to a considerably noteworthy degree.
The doubtful might say that the demo animation, that shows many, many fish swimming on screen, shows conventional Microsoft thinking: hurl improved hardware at bad program to make it run swift enough. But in this case, the Windows Phone group has it right: muscle action additional work from the GPU helps opening and battery life.
Microsoft has already set a sincerely high GPU selection in its minimum hardware specs to take caring of its Xbox Live integration. This means even stream phones can gain from the update.
This refurbish is a plain one, and shows that the Windows Phone group is carrying out what Apple and Google are already doing: quick, tiny iterations in the OS to bring hurried improvements, instead of the monolithic juggernaut draw close of desktop Windows. It looks flattering good. Hopefully " with the help of Nokia " may be people will obviously beginning to purchase the phones.
Photos: Charlie Sorrel/Wired.com
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