Windows Phone 7 Series demoed on video - a lot

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Earlier today Microsoft introduced the world to the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system: Windows Phone 7 Series. While we aren't expecting any phones running this OS to be available until later this year, the company had a number of demo units on-hand at Mobile World Congress, and the web is starting to fill up with videos demonstrating the new UI, including the video at the top of this post which comes straight from Microsoft. The company has also released a much longer, 22 minute video, which requires Silverlight to check out.

Overall, the new user interface looks very much like the UI on the Zune HD. That makes sense, since the Zune HD software has been incorporated pretty tightly with Windows Phone 7 Series. But it's not just the music and movie player that has the Zune-like sheen.

For instance, in a video from CrunchGear, you can clearly see that the Bing search utility lets you shift between "local," "news", "web," and other search results by sliding the titles at the top of the result page. This is exactly the same way you shift between "album," "artist," and other views in the Zune HD software.

But it's not all Zune HD-like. There's also a new series of "hubs," for People, Photos, Xbox, and other ares. For instance, in the People hub, you see a number of tiles with the latest updates from your contacts. In the Xbox hub, you can see your games, devices, and Xbox Live information.

Windows Phone 7 Series demoed on video - a lot originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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