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Windows Phone 7 makes cinema debut

by Sarah Griffiths on 7 September 2010, 10:46

Tags: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)

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Windows wonder?

Microsoft has released a teaser for its eagerly anticipated Windows Phone 7.

The film is reportedly a themed offering shown before a cinema screening of Lawrence of Arabia. Microsoft has previously said the phone is planned for European release in October while the handset is set to hit the States in November.

According to Engadget the phone boasts high performance graphics, a touch screen, great camera, snappy user interface and a high res screen as well as services like Xbox Live, Zune and Office. However, it is not expected to support third-party app multitasking and to lack copy and paste functionality, which might be surprising from the maker of Word.

While few apps for the Windows Phone 7 have surfaced so far Recombu has revealed a preview of a 3D zombie game for the handset.

The game, called Bye Bye Brain is reportedly modelled on a standard tower defence-type game only the towers have been replaced by varying zombie killers.

Bye Bye Brain is said to be built using Microsoft's free XNA development kit but reportedly has plenty of exciting features like camera control where gamers can pinch the screen to zoom in on the action, plus internal mini games.

Check out the teaser video below.



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This needs to be excellent, my last few phones have been based on WM6 and my old Axim WM5 before that, since Android has hit the market MS has this last chance to really do something with WM7, if it doesnt then there essentially out of the game IMHO, I've tried Froyo on my HD2 and its brilliant by comparison, dont get me wrong, HTC's sense interface has given new life to WM6 but the game has changed since Android arrived and MS are already playing catch up WM7 needs to be at least 70% as good as Android, the Marketplace, the customisability of the screens everything..

My next phone will be an HTC, so far I'm looking at the Desire HD or, whatever the WM7 equivalent is…
lack copy and paste functionality

Wait, what? :eek: :confused:
Can so see myself with three phones now … One to be the Dell Lightning.

And yes the copy/paste functionality is the joke part. I'm gonna wait and see how many complaints this gets. I use it a lot.
I use it a fair bit as well, perhaps MS are taking a leaf out of Apples book seeing as they are apparently reinventing the wheel again…