Saturday, February 19, 2011

Roadmap wp7: CDMA support, IE9, SkyDrive, Twitter, multitasking

The big news last week was that Nokia was the transition to Windows phone as its primary smartphone platform. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, however, Microsoft had much more to share regarding the future of WP7. Here are several new features and features coming this year: first important update: a free account will be made available for all Windows phones in the first two weeks of March, which includes new features like copy & paste and the performance of your application faster.Availability on CDMA Networks: with the addition of support for networks CDMA phone Windows will also be available for multiple customers on mobile operators such as Verizon and Sprint in the first half of 2011. Twitter integration Hub people: the popular social networking service Twitter will be integrated into the hub people in the second half of 2011. storage in the cloud Office document: document sharing and archiving in the cloud via Windows Live SkyDrive to Windows phone will be added in the second half of 2011. Next generation browsing with Internet Explorer 9: Windows phone, you will add a browser of Internet Explorer 9 greatly improved in the second half of 2011. It will feature the same support standards (HTML5, etc.) and hardware accelerated graphics as the PC version.More Multitasking: we will add the ability to quickly switch between applications, run apps in the background (like listening to music), with a number of other features in the second half of 2011. Developers will learn much more about this during the MIX conference in April.

Microsoft also has the opportunity to announce that now has over 30,000 registered Windows Phone developers. They have built 8000 apps for date, adding approximately 100 new titles every day.

In the video above you can see how multitasking will work on WP7. Below, the image on the left shows how integrating SkyDrive will appear while the image on the right shows an obvious IE9 mobile performs GPU acceleration demonstration.

A spokesperson for Microsoft, "was only a year ago that we unveiled Windows Phone 7 in the world for the first time," he said in the statement. "Was more than the launch of a new product. Windows Phone 7 represents the best from Microsoft including Xbox LIVE, Office, Bing, Hotmail and Windows Live, adding that deep integration of third-party experiences more like Facebook, as well as thousands of developers. For consumers, we set out to make Windows easier to use and most delicious phones in the market. With the Windows phone, our priority was to build phones that people love. Our phones are diversified so that are designed and how that experiences are beautifully integrated and seamless. This focus on smart design makes it easier and faster to get the information you care about. And with Windows phone Hubs, we organize information, applications and services in one place. "



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