Microsoft sure is aiming high with their Windows Phone 7 OS, that is if you believe expected sales numbers during year 2011.
Microsoft yesterday told at the ReMIX event in France that they will sell 30 million WP7 units before the end of 2011. By comparison, Apple has sold 51+ million iPhones in three years. But, Apple’s strategy is a little bit different when they only target one device at a time, and Microsoft again will fight this with a full front battle with many devices.
Guess they could do this, and I will be one of those 30 million buyers :)
I will tomorrow attend Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Developer Hub in Helsinki, so there won’t be as many posts as normally. I’ll post something in the morning and in the evening, but you won’t see any posts between 9am and 19pm.
I will let you know if I learn anything new and interesting at the event :)
Found this today while digging around Channel9. It is a Training Kit aimed at those interested in development for Windows Phone 7. It is a 46.6MB download, and includes the following lessons:
Hello Windows Phone
Building Your First Windows Phone Application
Silverlight for Windows Phone
XNA Framework 4.0 on Windows Phone
Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Training Kit
Windows Phone 7 Series promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. With a myriad of new devices, a powerful and immersive software platform, and a new marketplace to attract developers and provide easy access to applications, consumer demand for Windows Phones will be high, and developers will quickly adopt the Windows Phone platform to capitalize on this growing mobile marketplace. This Training Kit will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.
WMPoweruser has found an interesting video showing a spinner control in Windows Phone 7. The spinner isn’t available in the current emulator builds that are distributed by Microsoft. This feature could make it into coming developer tools.
The spinner could be used in data input of for instance date and time.
Microsoft today told on their official twitter channel that they are dropping the ‘Series’ from Windows Phone 7 Series. So from this day on, we should all talk about Windows Phone 7, not Windows Phone 7 Series.
I personally think this was a good choice, since it never sounded good to say the series at the end. Although, it still is a little bit weird to say “Yeah, it’s a Windows Phone 7 Phone..”.
In the leaked video you can see what the Windows Mobile 7 UI would have looked like, if Microsoft hadn’t decided to scrap the plans of a new Windows Mobile, and go with a whole new design that we today know as Metro UI on Windows Phone 7 Series.
The Metro UI seen in Windows Phone 7 Series is much more user friendly than what the WiMo7 UI. I think it was a good decision to start the whole work from scratch, which led to the fact that we today are waiting for Windows Phone 7 Series.
Microsoft sure is aiming high with their Windows Phone 7 OS, that is if you believe expected sales numbers during year 2011.
