It will help Nokia make a "direct assault" on the enormous momentum behind Google's Android and Chrome, and will help Intel attack the ARM chip architecture used in smartphones and other smart personal devices, he said. Gold called the Meego announcement a positive for both Intel and Nokia.
He also argued that "free" software in open operating systems such as Android might not really be free.
Windows Phone 7 will also provide a touchscreen Qwerty keyboard as in some Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, Ballmer said.Įven with new innovations, Microsoft will continue to employ a licensing model where phone manufacturers pay a fee for Microsoft software, Ballmer said, offering no details.
Other hubs will be labeled "office" for note-taking and synchronizing documents with a PC "games," for integrating with the Microsoft Xbox live online community and "music+video" for synchronizing the smartphone with Microsoft's desktop Zune jukebox and music store software. Updated user functions in Windows Phone 7 include concepts such as "hubs" that display a page of contacts called "people," for example. "We had to step back and recast."īallmer also didn't go as far as he did last fall when he told investors that Microsoft had "screwed up with Windows Mobile" and had shuffled its Windows Mobile team to regain lost ground. "We have a chance to make a major impact on the market.
Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 100, 1 x 1 802.11bg/nįeatures and specifications are subject to change without prior notification.Ballmer did not describe Windows Phone 7 Series as a start-over, of course, but implied it comes in reaction to past criticism of Windows Mobile OS and its decline in sales in late 2009.
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