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Is this what Windows Mobile 7 will look like?
It looks like the battery and volume meters have moved to the bottom of the display, while a WiFi indicator is still visible at the top of the screen. The home screen has a series of icons that users can flip through to launch programs, and perhaps most intriguingly, nothing that looks like a Windows Start Menu. There's also a picture of a map application that doesn't look quite like any existing app available for Windows Mobile.
I'd take these images with a grain of salt. They could be real, but they could also be concept designs from Microsoft or just a mockup from some random person who enjoys spreading rumors on the internet.
[via Electronista]
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Subscribe to commentsD3V89Mar 25th 2009 4:41PM
Anyone noticed that the battery at the bottom is changing places? It would be expected that they keep the meters at the same place at all time? Or is that just me?
QuikboyMar 25th 2009 7:15PM
I they should get rid of the 2-pane menu system in Windows Mobile, at least for the touchscreen version. It just gets in the way, and pressing extending menus is just annoying. There has to be a better way of getting around a mobile OS, considering the UI versatility with touchscreens.
2nd screenshot seems very messy, and kinda ugly.
Whatever Microsoft comes out with, it better be good enough to compete with the user-friendly features that the latest smartphone OS's have been coming out with.
Christopher SouveyMar 25th 2009 9:16PM
A bit of evidence of it being real:
I managed to read some of the super blurred text in the map and find the location in Live Search Maps.
Here is a link to the location:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=47.617316~-122.348192&style=r&lvl=16&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=37545260&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
The interesting part is that the picture on the device was not just someone taking a screenshot and shrinking it onto a mockup. On Live Search Maps, the park in green (Denny Park) is not labeled until the zoom level is extremely high, at which point it takes up very little space in the park. Most of the labeling (sizes, etc) is different in the screenshot than on Live Search Maps, making it more likely that it is real.
There may be another way of accessing Live Maps that provides a view like that (perhaps a mobile version), but the current mobile version (http://www.livesearchmobile.com/windows_mobile.htm) appears to have very different styled maps.
Therefore, IMO, that screenshot is real
PhoenixMar 25th 2009 10:35PM
These screenshots look like they may be a skin that someone developed for Nokia's mosh service or possibly even a homebrew skin for a Motorola phone. The graphics look somewhat like WinMo 6, and the style looks somewhat Vista-esque, but this looks a lot more like it could be a homebrew skin for a Moto cell.