Tuesday, December 9, 2014

What is windows phone ?


What is windows phone ?

  • Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for use in smartphones.

  • Microsoft created a new user interface, it’s called Metro design.

  • Windows Phone and Windows 8 user interface is completely flat design


Version History

  • Microsoft released first Windows Phone 7.0 OS on October 21st,2010

  • Windows Phone 7.5 released on May 24th, 2011

  • Windows Phone 8.0 released on October 29th, 2012

  • Windows Phone 7.8 released on January 2013.

  • Windows Phone 8.1 released on April 14th,2014.

Hardware Requirements For Windows Phone


  • Multi Touch (4 Point) Capacitive Screen

  • DirectX 9 [Collection of interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming]

  • Accelerometer

  • 5 Mega-pixel Camera with Flash

  • 256 MB of RAM with at least 4GB of Flash Memory.
Six (6) dedicated hardware buttons

Developer tools for  Windows Phone


Windows Phone 7x :
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

  • Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Assemblies

  • Silverlight 4 SDK

Windows Phone 8:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone

  • Windows Phone SDK 8 Assemblies

  • Silverlight 5 SDK

Windows Phone 8.1:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows with update 2 or later.


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System Requirements For Windows Phone 7


Hardware :
  • Minimum 4 GB hard disk space

  • Minimum 3 GB RAM

  • DirectX 10 or above capable graphics card with a WDDM

Software :
  • Support all Editions(Windows vista and Windows 7)

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System Requirements For Windows Phone 8

Hardware :
  • Minimum 20 GB free hard disk space

  • Minimum 4 GB RAM

  • 64-bit (x64) CPU 

Software :
  • Windows 8 64-bit (x64)

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System Requirements For Windows Phone 8.1

Hardware :
  • Minimum 6.5 GB free hard disk space

  • Minimum 4 GB RAM

  • DirectX 9-capable video card that runs at 1024 x 768 or higher display resolution

Software :
  • Windows 8.1 64-bit (x64)




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