[UPDATED] WP7 LATEST BUILD OS Walk-through Video [UPDATED with NYC 23/06/2010 Demo]

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It looks to be coming along very nicely indeed. Seems much faster and smoother than the build shown at the MIX event some months ago...

http://www.clubic.com/smartphone/win...ows-phone.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cj7LPsd6M8

Looks slick

UPDATED 23/062010

This is the best video yet, which shows a nice example of the deep integration that can be found on WP7. Oh and its even faster, smoother and more responsive than the build shown above.

Nice video. It looks extremely smooth. Even as good as the iphone to me. I can't wait to get one in my hands.

Defiantly faster and has promise but I am not feeling the boxes. It makes the display look thrown together. With both Android and the iPhone providing more vibrant today screens I hope the final release version allows for background images, transparency on tiles and program shortcuts and things of that nature.

Originally Posted by Jokes On You

Defiantly faster and has promise but I am not feeling the boxes. It makes the display look thrown together. With both Android and the iPhone providing more vibrant today screens I hope the final release version allows for background images, transparency on tiles and program shortcuts and things of that nature.

possibily more vibrant, but the live tiles brings more usefulness to the wp7 homescreen.

More usefulness than the iPhone springboard maybe, but certainly a lot less usefulness than the Android homescreen.

And I'm not even sure whether it's more user friendly than the iPhone, because you only get to see 8 tiles without scrolling. With most applications only being representated by icons and not displaying any information, this is a huge waste of space. Normal application icons should only be as big as one quarter of a tile, instead of taking one eighth of the whole home screen.

The Android home screen clearly is a much better concept, with the ability to mix icons and widgets, so that every element on the home screen only takes as much space as it needs.

Originally Posted by gom99

possibily more vibrant, but the live tiles brings more usefulness to the wp7 homescreen.

In the current market this can be a detriment to windows. You cant give functionality and usefulness lessons in a 15 second commercial so what the users see must be something that grips them and doesn't let go. I personally dont think this homescreen does that.

Originally Posted by shaundalglish

More usefulness than the iPhone springboard maybe, but certainly a lot less usefulness than the Android homescreen.

And I'm not even sure whether it's more user friendly than the iPhone, because you only get to see 8 tiles without scrolling. With most applications only being representated by icons and not displaying any information, this is a huge waste of space. Normal application icons should only be as big as one quarter of a tile, instead of taking one eighth of the whole home screen.

The Android home screen clearly is a much better concept, with the ability to mix icons and widgets, so that every element on the home screen only takes as much space as it needs.

That Android method sounds like it can lead to a "cluttered" look if all items would vary in size. I haven't used Android so I dont know its functionality but I definitely agree that the WP7 functionality can be improved.

Well, there is a grid (4x4), the items can't take any size and position.

Also, whether it looks "cluttered" is up to you. If you like, you can place icons only, like on the iPhone, to have it look that clean, or you can arrange icons and widgets in a pattern, or you can mix them... you're free to customize it any way you like.

I agree that the tiles could result in cleaner look, which is good, but not at the expense of functionality. Unfortunately, developers can't choose what size their applications should be on the home screen (the choice between an icon that's a quarter of a tile, a whole tile or a double-wide tile would make sense).

Again, I'm a fan of clean looks, symmetry and not too many colors, but that must not come at the expense of functionality.

Originally Posted by shaundalglish

I agree that the tiles could result in cleaner look, which is good, but not at the expense of functionality.

When you say functionality what do you mean? What functionality does the WP7 screen offer that the others don't?

That's the issue. It does have a cleaner look, but lacks functionality that would make it more user friendly, like e.g. Android's home screen. I think the clean look should not come at the expense of functionality. They must think of ways to have both, e.g. making icon-only tiles smaller and allowing developers to choose from different sizes.

I hate the style of WP7 i prefer android or windows mobile 6 series