New Life for Windows Mobile : Your Life: All Locked Up

By Mary Branscombe , published on February 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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When your new Windows Phone is locked, you don't see the full front screen (because you can’t use it until you unlock the screen). Instead you get this clean new screen with key information like your next appointment and how many messages or missed calls you have.
Touch the lock button with what Microsoft calls a “natural gesture” to get icons for voicemail, missed calls and new messages; you can scroll through them from this screen to see the details without needing to unlock the phone, instead of having to unlock the screen and then wait for a notification or drill down through the interface.

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tntom 02/17/2009 4:17 AM
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Windows Phone why not just WinPhone

Igot1forya 02/18/2009 9:06 PM
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I say call it the "Phone Operating System" or POS for short... and everyone will ask "Is your phone a POS?" and companies will put labels on thier next gen phones saying "POS-Ready"!

hellwig 02/19/2009 11:13 PM
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Hmm.. so I have to hold the TG01 phone perfectly straight to watch movies on it, what a pain.

I remember being at Microsoft and going to a presentation of their smartphone OS (can't recall which version). They had big hopes for the market, but this was 2004. I had figured that marked had all but dried up on them, but this article claims they're the number #1 smart phone OS. When did that happen? Why don't I see more Windows phone advertisements? Seems very contrary to MS's whole philosophy.

redhat 04/17/2009 6:23 AM
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I still do not know very clear what's windows mobile!

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