Windows phone 7 looks like a fantastic operating system from Microsoft. It has one or two frustrating things that many people seem to be coming across. For example if you are looking to sync outlook to check e-mail it does not come as a standard feature because the phone has been setup to connect to Zune so you can sync music/video/pictures/podcasts etc. the good news is that the video below will show you exactly how to do this.

When the reasons they have done this is because Windows phone 7 has only been setup so it can sync with Exchange ActiveSync which unfortunately means that you must have an exchange ActiveSync compatible e-mail account. The good news is there is a free way to do this so if you are looking to figure out how this can be done simply check out the video below.

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Today, however, we hear news “because we have very specific requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series, the current phones we have right now will not be upgradeable.” Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region.

Doing a little bit of investigation it seems as if many phones will not be upgradable because they do not have the back, home and search hardware keys required by the new operating system. If this is the reason for example the HTC HD2 pictures of both will not qualify to be upgraded to the new operating system but will however be upgradable to windows mobile 6.5.3.

I’m sure over the next couple of weeks and months it’ll become clearer and we will have more information on this.

The phone that was unveiled is an LG smart phone which is a pre-production units. It was shown up in The Engadget Show over this weekend.

As you can see from the photograph it has a sliding QWERTY keyboard. It’s also believed that it comes with a five megapixel camera and a touchscreen display. I’m sure it can this model goes into production it will be slightly different. Should start to hear more information about the new operating system in the next couple of weeks/months. But, we are not really expecting to see many phones on the market place until towards the end of the year.

Unfortunately we will not see any handsets with this new software until late 2010. We have posted a couple of videos below if you want to have a closer look.

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Via: engadget

Ease of Use features

* Capacitive touchscreen support
* Platform to enable multitouch
* Touch controls throughout system (no need for stylus)
* Consistent Navigation
* Horizontal scroll bar replaces tabs (think settings>system>about
screen)
* Magnifier brings touch support to legacy applications
* Simplified out-of-box experience with fewer steps
* Drag and drop icons on Start Screen

IE Browser Performance

* Page load time decreased
* Memory management improved
* Pan & flick gestures smoothed
* Zoom & rotation speed increased

Quality and Customer Satisfaction features

* Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)
* Arabic read/write document support
* Watson (error reporting) improvements and bug fixes

One of the interesting features that seems to stick out a little bit here is capacitive touch screen support, which I’m sure many people will be happy about.

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