{"id":354956,"date":"2010-02-23T17:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=57901"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:45:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:45:55","slug":"windows-phone-7-series-has-three-chassis-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354956","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone 7 Series Has Three Chassis Designs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/windows-phone-7-series-home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"windows-phone-7-series-home\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/windows-phone-7-series-home.jpg?w=180&#038;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-57911\" \/><\/a>Last week, Microsoft reinvented itself in the phone by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2010\/02\/15\/windows-phone-7-series-announced-eoy-availability\/\">announcing its Windows Phone 7 Series<\/a>, due out for the holidays this year. Part of the news included a loose set of hardware requirements for a supported chassis. Series in the product name implies more than one device type and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noisetosignal.com.au\/franklyspeaking\/?p=121\">the &#8220;Frankly Speaking&#8221; podcast<\/a> might have tipped information about other chassis requirements. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=5356\">Mary Jo Foley gave the show a listen<\/a> as did I. The podcast offers Michael Kordahi and Andrew Coates chatting &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noisetosignal.com.au\/franklyspeaking\/?page_id=2\">both are Microsoft Australia developer evangelists<\/a> &#8212; they state we&#8217;ll see three main chassis designs from Microsoft. And three is the perfect number for both chassis designs and for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holy_Hand_Grenade_of_Antioch\">Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch<\/a> &#8212; any more and Microsoft risks an explosion of too many designs beyond control.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inline-related-posts-57901\" class=\"widget inline-related-posts alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"widget-title-wrap clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\">More on <span><a class=\"category-link\" href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/topic\/smartphones\" title=\"Smartphones\">Smartphones<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"inline-related-posts\">\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2010\/02\/25\/skype-windows-mobile\/\">Why Skype Just Hung Up on Windows&nbsp;Mobile<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon jk-run\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\" title=\"Visit: jkOnTheRun - This is a description.\">Gadget Gurus<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2010\/02\/24\/motorola-devour-appears-on-camera\/\">Motorola Devour Appears on&nbsp;Camera<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon jk-run\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\" title=\"Visit: jkOnTheRun - This is a description.\">Gadget Gurus<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2010\/02\/24\/do-you-wi-fi-on-your-phone\/\">Do You Wi-Fi on Your&nbsp;Phone?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon jk-run\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\" title=\"Visit: jkOnTheRun - This is a description.\">Gadget Gurus<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2010\/02\/24\/iphone-for-deaf\/\">IP-Relay Brings iPhone Calls to the&nbsp;Deaf<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon jk-run\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\" title=\"Visit: jkOnTheRun - This is a description.\">Gadget Gurus<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"widget-bottom clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Obviously, the first is the one that was already announced and shown off as a prototype &#8212; a &#8220;big screen&#8221; touch device with no physical keyboard, 1 GHz processor and dedicated graphics chip. Chassis number two is expected to offer a sliding QWERTY keyboard along with a touchscreen and while the third chassis isn&#8217;t specified, both hosts predict a candy bar style device. Since boys from down under only hit the varying form factors, my hope is that the required guts don&#8217;t change much across the chassis designs. By creating a common minimum specification set, Microsoft can nearly guarantee the user experience and performance across the entire series. How carriers will differentiate these designs is another good question, though.<\/p>\n<p>While the hardware requirements for other chassis designs are still murky, <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/15\/windows-phone-7\/\">some think it&#8217;s clear that Microsoft still needs to woo developers<\/a> or the level of success will be tempered. <a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/2010\/02\/23\/why-worldwide-smartphone-sales-figures-matter-to-you\/\">I noted the importance of the development community just this morning when looking at the 2009 smartphone market share numbers<\/a>, but I think Microsoft is actually in good shape here. Mobile Tech World says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobiletechworld.com\/2010\/02\/22\/windows-phone-7-series-has-everything-to-succeed\/\">apps for Windows Phone 7 Series are built on Silverlight, XNA and .Net Compact Framework<\/a>, so these aren&#8217;t brand new tools that devs have to learn from scratch. We&#8217;ll know more for sure in a few weeks &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/events\/mix\/default.aspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s MIX10 event for devs<\/a> takes place from March 13 through 15.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone7series.com\/\"><em>Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req\u2019d):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/as-windows-mobile-stumbles-which-smartphone-os-will-seize-the-lead\/\">As Windows Mobile Stumbles, Which Smartphone OS Will Seize the Lead?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/57901\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=jkontherun.com&#038;blog=4479943&#038;post=57901&#038;subd=jkontherun&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Microsoft reinvented itself in the phone by\u00a0announcing its Windows Phone 7 Series, due out for the holidays this year. 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