Windows Phone 7 Mobile User Interface Review

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After beaten by Apple and Google in mobile operating system arena, Microsoft finally reveal their new Operating System for smart phone which inevitably called Windows Phone 7. Although technical details is still sparse and Microsoft didn’t reveal much about what changes except the obvious glossy new user interface. Let’s not talk about technical details, new kernel, the next SDK, or developer policies. Let’s just admire the new user interface which I admit looks very much alike Zune/Zune HD.

In my opinion the interface is much more better than current iPhone and basically every other phone in the market where thumbnail-sized glossy-looking icons arranged in a pattern. Instead Microsoft developer opt to using oversized set of bright squares that fill the screen. Beautiful user interface combined with crisp wide screen made this phone aesthetically pleasant yet very practical. It’s combining unusual practices like big size text, interface elements that run off the screen, oversized text and graphics, flipping, panning, scrolling, zooming from screen to screen. This made iPhone user interface feels conservative by comparison.

Overall it’s very fun and playful phone to use, yet it’s still maintain “corporate fell” since there will be a new Office and app store.

Bogor Agricultural University

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