Actually Windows Phone 7 is based on Windows CE 6 Kernel and is a touch-operated OS and it is news that initial launch it will be available with resolution WVGA (480 x 800) and sooner it will support HVGA (320 x 480). And to run consistently it will need device equipped with

• 1 GHZ CPU
• Min 256 MB RAM
• Finger based Device content Navigation
• WI-FI, GPS, FM-Tuner and High Resolution Camera

Additional to all common feature of today’s phone device, windows phone gives following featured Software’s:

• User Interface:  in this version UI is drastically changed and developed based on interfaces of the ZUNE and Windows Media Center. The home screen viewed as of "tiles", which by default are links to important features such as phone, music and videos, email, office, and contacts.
• Silverlight Support: for Silverlight developers its good new that after long waiting Microsoft introduce Silverlight support in Windows phone series. So developers need to start exploring what and how to do silverlight development for windows phone and there will be defiantly huge requirements for developing silverlight application for Windows phone.
• Browser: Yes you all right it will be Internet Explorer only. Browser will be a modified version of Internet Explorer 7, which will not support Flash, Silverlight and HTML5 at launch. The specialty of this browser will be to automatically update itself and the layout engine.
• Xbox LIVE: Xbox LIVE experience on a phone, including Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight feed and the ability to see a gamers’ avatar, Achievements and gamer profile

• Search: Yes Microsoft Bing will be the only default search engine on Windows Phone 7 devices.

• Email and Calendar: As it will be integrated with light version of office outlook it will  supports outlook POP mail and calendar with some fancy UI.

• Me: this hub will be center to aggregates all social media and XBOX live content – to update Social Networks.
• Software Updates: According to news channel, this phone software updates will be delivered to Windows Phone users via Microsoft Update, as they are for desktop Windows users.
• Zune: Integrated media player is basically the Zune- its look and feel, functionality and the Zune Pass subscription support which allows unlimited music streaming.
• Marketplace: This hub will make you easy to access center for find and download suitable certified software and games for your device. Click here to see more about Marketplace.

It looks Windows Phone 7 devices will work 100% consistently across hardware coming from HTC, Samsung, LG and Dell.

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In next post I will talk more on Windows phone 7 application development.