Gone is the old Windows Mobile name, replaced by the rather long Windows Phone 7 Series. Update IV: Channel9 has a 22-minute in-depth demonstration of Windows Phone 7 Series. There is no backwards compatibility at all. Update III: Since I didn’t mention it clearly, here it goes: Windows Phone 7 Series is a clean break. Only videos and music are synced via the Zune software. It’s all done over-the-air, to the internet. Update: Hands-on video from Engadget inside.
I don’t say this lightly – but dear lord, Windows Phone 7 Series is full of win. Hold on to your hats, because uncharacteristically for the Redmond giant, they’ve rebuilt everything from the ground up – this system has little to no connection to the Windows Mobile of yore. So, after much, much speculation and many, many rumours, Microsoft finally took the wraps off Windows Phone 7 Series, its newest mobile operating system.
