Microsoft knows what's up...

[xmr405o]

See! Microsoft knows how important the dev community is. It looks like they are looking to the devs to give their smartphone business a boost.
Now, I wished that the manufacturers (ahem, Moto) will get with the program and embrace hacking just like MS.

Apple is fighting jailbreakers, Microsoft embraces them - Phone Arena

 

[lordofthereef]

I can see WP7 developing above and beyond iOS and Android if they openly embrace this sort of thing. Now if only we can scrap the entire GUI and come up with something more useful and nicer looking than a bunch of blue/green/orange rectangles. That extremely simplistic design is what has me (and everyone I talk to) shy away from it. They take apple's rows and columns of icons to a whole new extreme!

 

[txrxio]

The only thing I get from the adverts is that they have what are essentially lots of Android widgets (panels, panes, cells, something like that). When you add the locked-down nature, it makes me wonder if anyone with an Android phone would ever switch to that system.

 

[IOWA]

The only thing I get from the adverts is that they have what are essentially lots of Android widgets (panels, panes, cells, something like that). When you add the locked-down nature, it makes me wonder if anyone with an Android phone would ever switch to that system.

If windows opens it back up like legacy winmo was I can see it taking off in a hurry.

 

[Guamguy]

Pretty sure Google is planning their next generation user interface. Already the Photo Gallery and the leaked Honeycomb music player gives you good hints about it. There are features there that makes WP7 look old.

One is the use of gyroscopes with the interface. If you tilt the phone left or right, the display plane of the interface remains stable, like it is gyroscopically stabilized on a single 3D plane. You can also view tilt effects on the plane, nearest part of the plane looks bigger to you and then recedes to the distance.

If you select an object within the plane, the entire background chances to the theme color of the object, which adds to the positive feedback that it is selected.