WP7 to Get Hardware Requirements
“Minimum hardware requirements” is something you would expect from PC software. But considering the performance requirements of today’s modern mobile platforms, it is not surprising that the upcoming Windows Phone 7 series mobile platform would need a very specific minimum to perform optimally.
The demonstration given by Steve Ballmer and his team at the Mobile World Congress showed an operating system that was far from finished, but already needed some heavy duty hardware. The level of intricacy and volume of dynamic elements and animations present has shown that the device would have to be using a 1GHz Snapdragon processor to keep up with all the details.
It is not surprising; Microsoft has gone all out on this one in order to reinvent the mobile industry. They did say that “the phone is not a PC” which explains the completely new approach into delivering a user interface that we have never seen before. Even the tiles system is very impressive –we do not even miss widgets because of it.
Aside from the processing power, it is commonly known that the UI will need a big display screen. Current estimates place it at a 3.6 inch capacitive WVGA display, though it would be so much more fitting for an AMOLED screen to be used for this OS.
In terms of form, the most generally accepted look would be the touch screen format which we often see in screenshot of the user interface. The type 2 is also interesting thanks to its slide out QWERTY keyboard. The type 3 on the other hand does not seem to fit the plans since the Treo-form is not fitting for the user interface of Window Phone 7 series.
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