Mock up of Windows Mobile 7.
Not all the big news is coming out of CES today: thanks to Nathan Weinberg’s InsideMicrosoft blog, we were able to check out a purported internal document detailing the revolutionary new input methods planned for Windows Mobile 7 as well as a ton of supposed screenshots. If this information is, in fact, accurate, it looks like Redmond is planning at least three methods of interacting with the device aside from pressing the usual buttons. First, as you might expect, is multi-touch capability รก la the iPhone or Microsoft’s own Surface, but it looks like WinMo 7 handsets will also be controllable via shaking and rotating the device, and even at a distance by way of camera-based gesture recognition. Again, no guarantees that any of these features will be included in the final version or that any of this info or images are even legit, but as you can see from the rather large gallery below, the mounting evidence is extremely compelling. Specifically, you’ll definitely want to check out:
- New on-screen keyboard
- Gesture control
- Camera gesture recognition
- Touch-based photo editing
- Media player
Really, it looks nice. Now you might be gasping because I said something nice about something from Microsoft, but really it looks nice. I like how Microsoft is trying to integrate it with Vista. Although why they are still going to try to use Vista, it looks like a huge improvement from WM6, but then again, this is a mock-up, and do you remember Longhorn ladies and gentlemen? Now look at Vista. Longhorn actually looked like something I might have let in my house at the time.
Yes, it looks like a total rip-off of the iPhone. But that is what you need to expect from Microsoft now. Hopefully they keep some of these aspects so that it can actually help the mobile phone industry go forward.
Yet, really, we can only hope.
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