With this new OS, Microsoft will present a service that will assist locate missing phones. And if phone can't be recover, a free service will as well lock or swab phone so information can't be access by others, said Andy Lees, Microsoft senior vice president of mobile.
Lees stated this characteristic through his appearance of Windows Phone 7 Tuesday at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C. Even though Microsoft has confessed to falling after in the heated race for smartphone OSes, it is working to leapfrog Apple iOS and Google Android with its next generation smartphone OS. The corporation has planned WP7 for launch near by the end of the year.
One of the services that Microsoft will present with every running copy of WP7 will be an escort Web page, Lees said. From this Web page, a user can call their phone and listen for its ring, or obtain information regarding its position. "If you misplaced your phone, it will inform you where it is. You can ring it, lock it, swab it anything you prefer," Lees said.
For the viewers, Lees confirmed WP7, which is noticeably dissimilar from the iPhone and android. In its place of filling the monitor with entity app icons, phone interface will be based on tiles, or small blocks that serve as clickable entry points to topics, or "hubs," as Lees called them.
One center may be for people. One may be devoted to photos. One more could be for music. One may be for office application. Every center will bring together data from multiple local and cloud-based applications. A contacts hub, for example, can group work contacts from Microsoft Exchange, beside with private contacts from Facebook.



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