Windows @ MWC

These are my notes from watching the Microsoft keynote at MWC.

• Global Smartphone penetration in developing world to increase to 50%
• People want a single phone, not one for work & one for personal
• Windows Mobile needs to move to another level - MS want to put the full Windows experience on a phone.
• Make phone unique to the individual
• A Windows phone which meets everyones needs.
• End to end connectivity experience
• What are now being called Windows Phones.
• 1st announcement: Windows Phones will run the Windwos Mobile 6.5 Operating System
• It's not how the phone works by itself but how it combines with PC and Internet
• 2nd announcement : MyPhone - web backup of device settings & storage
• 3rd Announcement : Windows Marketplace - freedom & convenience to allow developers to distribute apps

• "Windows Phone" is a "Strategy"
• "Your life in your pocket"
• Improved Finger navigation
• Latest IE Browser? - but what is it really? Pocket IE 6? More than what's on 6.1.4 (gestures)
• WM6.5 = 1st generation Windows Phone
• Time, appointments & notifications on the lock screen
• Same experience as on Windows PC???
• Gestures in IE
• Trying to create exact same browser experience on Phone & PC

New HTC devices: Touch Diamond 2 & Touch Pro 2 - free upgrade to WM6.5 when available. (Subject to operator support no doubt!)

LG & MSFT R&D partnership


MSFT - very committed to mobile computing.


All devices - at least 3 buttons: windows button, call & hangup

Professional, Standard, Classic names to go.!?

WM7 not on the same time frame as Window7