Windows Phone 7 Series Requires 800×480, HTC HD2 Users Still Hoping

March 12th, 2010

Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7 Series and said that it will become the next generation mobile platform with incredible multimedia, gaming, and social media integration capabilities. We’ve seen a demo of the mobile OS and we were impressed. Why? Because Microsoft has outdone Apple and the user interface of the WP7S looks amazing. The problem with current Windows Mobile phones is that they won’t be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7 because of hardware requirements.

There is one phone that might support Windows Phone 7 Series, the HTC HD2, but sadly it features five buttons instead of three. Could this really be the reason? I don’t really think so. There are other concerns like the Windows CE. Anyway, Shawn Hargreaves from Microsoft, announced that Windows Phone 7 Series smartphones will have to be based on 800 x 480 toucschreens. The WVGA resolution will be the only one supported at launch, but HVGA 480 x 320 resolution will be supported thanks to a patch coming in early 2011.

Other Windows Phone 7 requirements are dedicated hardware and a powerful processor. This is great for game developers who can let their imagination run wild as there will be a GPU in WP7S phones.

Read a great post about the XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone 7 right here.