For Windows Phone, the stakes were high in
terms of Microsoft’s ability to not only create the software but also
encourage its partners to build the phone. Learning a lesson from its
past Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft decided to be very specific
about the hardware to ensure a great user experience while giving phone
designers some flexibility with feature sets so that they could compete
with one another. Table 1 shows the hardware requirements.
Table 1. Hardware Specifications
In addition, Windows Phone has physical
requirements. The most obvious of these is that each phone must have
seven standard inputs, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Seven points of input
Table 2 lists and describes these seven hardware inputs.
Table 2. Hardware Inputs
Now that we have seen what the phone consists of, let’s see how users will interact with the phone.
