Microsoft : New Features for Windows Mobile 7

Since October , there are smartphones with Windows Mobile 7, a first update to various rumors in January still appear. Microsoft has on a site now called a few points which should improve the update.

Back in August was known , the first version of Windows Mobile 7, no system-wide support for copy and paste that will offer. The Microsoft now provides for: words you marked with your finger, wipe with a gesture used to extend the area to be marked. Whether all currently available applications will benefit from the new function without any programming work is not yet known.

Continue to run applications faster after the update, even the closing of apps is more rapid. This should result in the system, such as when switching between different applications, feels faster. The search feature in Microsoft’s software store, the Market Place, will also work better, can currently be identified in the search is not apps, music or playlists in the future, for example, users can search for specific applications or scan for games. A search in the music section of the Marketplace then conveys only produce music.

A date for the update did not mention Microsoft. Users of a smartphone with Windows Mobile 7 should, however, automatically receive a message on the display when it is available. The update itself must be – similar to the iPhone – via the desktop PC. The necessary Windows Zune software requires at least Windows XP SP3.

Microsoft, according to U.S. media can also a fault on the track, eating away at the UMTS data volume: Turns out the screen of a Windows Mobile 7, is also the wireless connection of phones are switched off. After restarting your phone scans for available wireless networks and logs in automatically. If the phone is off screen as the background data synchronization, this would be done through the radio interface and not via the WLAN