宏碁(Acer),富士通(Fujitsu)和中興通訊(ZTE)將在他們的智能手機(jī)上搭載Windows Phone 7。微軟發(fā)布的這則消息其實(shí)是一個(gè)預(yù)告,因?yàn)樗麄兘衲昵锛緦l(fā)售Windows Phone 7新版本——芒果(Mango)。
在這三家廠(chǎng)商之前,戴爾(DELL),宏達(dá)電(HTC),LG和三星(SAMSUNG)均開(kāi)始了與微軟的合作,三星更是早在2010年推出第一個(gè)Windows Phone 7手機(jī)。微軟的合作伙伴還包括全球最大的手機(jī)制造商——諾基亞。諾基亞不久前剛宣布,采用Windows Phone為他們的主要智能手機(jī)平臺(tái),并希望以此扭轉(zhuǎn)公司目前的頹勢(shì)。

發(fā)布會(huì)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)的背景墻合作伙伴中,未見(jiàn)到DELL和NokiandZesmc
發(fā)布會(huì)上的背景墻,參與 "Mango" 手機(jī)開(kāi)發(fā)的合作廠(chǎng)商名單中,仔細(xì)一看,“舊朋友”當(dāng)中好像缺了Dell,“新朋友”也沒(méi)把 Nokia 列出來(lái)。但也有人指出Nokia對(duì)微軟而言重要性非同一般,不出意外的話(huà),Nokia 會(huì)在適當(dāng)?shù)臅r(shí)候出現(xiàn)在圖中“正中央”。
而 Dell 缺席這件事情讓大伙感到很奇怪,也許這是Dell 打算將重心放回商務(wù)端的跡象之一。
微軟在這次的Windows Phone 7芒果版本的移動(dòng)應(yīng)用(mobile applications)上依然下足功夫。應(yīng)用的重點(diǎn):音樂(lè),視頻,社交網(wǎng)絡(luò),以及大多數(shù)群體和個(gè)人喜聞樂(lè)見(jiàn)的軟件類(lèi)型。
這一概念最早來(lái)源于Palm的WebOS(已被HP收購(gòu))和Pre手機(jī)(Pre handsets),當(dāng)初Palm和微軟都希望能對(duì)抗蘋(píng)果的IOS和谷歌的Android,但是iOS和Android第三方應(yīng)用程序的支持實(shí)在太多了。微軟表示,現(xiàn)在的Windows Phone已經(jīng)有17000多個(gè)可用的應(yīng)用程序。

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來(lái)自Forward Concepts(亞利桑那州,坦佩)的調(diào)查報(bào)告顯示,微軟在2010年智能手機(jī)操作系統(tǒng)市場(chǎng)份額中占9%, 排名第五位。市場(chǎng)觀察家預(yù)測(cè),2015年這個(gè)份額將擴(kuò)大到11%,但還是繼續(xù)排在第五,位于Symbian,Android,iOS和RIM之后。
芒果將內(nèi)置“語(yǔ)音轉(zhuǎn)文本”和“文本轉(zhuǎn)語(yǔ)音”的支持。它還在支持Internet Explorer 9的同時(shí),支持HTML5和硬件加速。
微軟表示,Windows Phone 7將支持15種新語(yǔ)言,包括巴西葡萄牙文,簡(jiǎn)體和繁體中文,芬蘭文,日文,韓文,挪威語(yǔ),俄羅斯語(yǔ)。并且列出了所有能進(jìn)入其在線(xiàn)應(yīng)用程序商店的國(guó)家清單。
芒果的測(cè)試版和相關(guān)開(kāi)發(fā)工具將在放在網(wǎng)上,供粉絲和開(kāi)發(fā)者下載。
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參考英文原文:Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE dial up WinPhone 7,by Rick Merritt
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Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE dial up WinPhone 7
Rick Merritt
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Acer Inc., Fujitsu Ltd. and ZTE Corp. will make smartphones using Windows Phone 7. The news comes as Microsoft previewed Mango, the next version of the software set to ship this fall.
The three new OEMs join Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung who launched in 2010 the first handsets with the software. Microsoft has also partnered with Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker, who has embraced Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform as part of a corporate turnaround.
The Mango version of Windows Phone 7 continues Microsoft's efforts to put mobile applications in the background. Instead the software focuses on functions such as music, video, social networking and individuals and groups of people with apps and their functions emerging as they become relevant.
The concept was first pioneered by the former Palm with its WebOS and Pre handsets and is used by both companies to counter Apple's iOS and Google's Android which sport more third-party app support. Microsoft said its Windows Phone Marketplace now hosts 17,000 apps.
Microsoft is in fifth place with an estimated nine percent share of the smartphone operating system market in 2010, according to an upcoming report from Forward Concepts (Tempe, Ariz.). It will expand to an 11 percent share in 2015 but remain in fifth place behind Symbian, Android, iOS and RIM, the market watcher predicts.
The Mango software will have built-in voice-to-text and text-to-voice support. It also supports a version of the Internet Explorer 9 browser supporting both HTML5 and hardware acceleration.
Microsoft pledged to support 15 new languages on Windows Phone 7 to including Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, and Russian and expand the list of countries where consumers have access to its online app store.
A beta release of Mango and related developer tools will be available online.
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