Windows Phone 7 that is preloaded on HTC HD7 is one heck of an OS. The features that were included were never seen on any other phone. OF course there are tons of them but for today, i am just going to talk about the 4 unique features that were implemented. These features amazes me because it is something useful yet Microsoft is able to pull it.
WINDOWS LIVE DEVICE – FIND MY PHONE
Security has been always an issue with it comes to handphones. Handphones nowdays are more than just a tool to call or sms. With Smartphones becoming the talk of the town, many people are using it as an alternative to their PC or Laptop and stores sensitive data in it. What Microsoft has done is to address this concern and came out with what they call “Find My Phone” feature that is intergrated with their online portal, Windows Live.
I know there are a lot of other 3rd party program that tracks your phone on GPS, WP7 is different . Wanna know why?
Yup! There is just more than viewing your location! You will have the ability to ring the phone, lock the phone or even ERASE IT.
MAP IT – FIND YOUR PHONE
When you click on the Map IT, it will use your WIFI/3G signal to locate you and mark your location based on the GPS. The phone will periodically save your location so that if there is no internet connection OR GPS signal, they will display the last location that your phone was seen. Ok, now you guys know where is my workplace already…… TAIPAN! (:
RING IT – RING YOUR PHONE
This ring it feature is a feature to ring your phone to locate it. It will ring your phone with a special ring tone even if your phone is on silent or vibrate. Of course when its off, you cannot ring the phone. Its an awesome feature to locate your phone if you misplace it! Woots… you can also preview your special ringtone so that you’ll know how does it sound like.
LOCK IT – LOCK AND WARN!
Lock it feature allows you to lock your phone with your own pre-defined security code and send a “Please Return” message. Of course the message is also customizable. Its an awesome feature. You can warn him of your knowledge on his location and threaten to call the police!!!! It rings too you know. Imagine annoy the heck out of him till he gives back the phone! 
Here’s the set up screen to lock the phone! Cool right? (:
ERASE IT – DELETE EM’ ALL
The erase it feature will reformat your phone to prevent unauthorized use of sensitive data if you misplace your phone. It will completely wipe the phone and do a factory reset of the phone so be rest assured your sensitive data will not go to the wrong hands (:
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WIRELESS SYNC
Apart from the Windows Live Device, Zune player and WP7 allows synching over WIFI! Thats right, unlike some fruit phone that implements the same concept of having a software on desktop to sync songs and videos to the phone, WP7 can do it wirelessly over WIFI.
One just have to dock the phone at the dock station or charge the phone and after 10 minutes it will be sync automatically!
Hassel free right? (:
Just connect the phone and your computer to the same wireless network and follow the on screen step and viola! (:
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Internet Sharing via Zune Player
Microsoft Actisync is a hell good feature. It allows WP7 to connect to your PC internet via your PC’s wifi/internet connection. All you have to do is to connect the phone to the laptop, fire up ZUNE PLAYER and you can surf the world wide web! Here’s an excerpt on the news i found :
One of the interesting capabilities of Windows Mobile and ActiveSync is that the device can access the Internet via USB and the desktop computer’s network connection. For the original Windows Mobile PDAs that only had WiFi, this ActiveSync passthru provides a way to access the Internet when WiFi is not available. Developers even found a way to take advantage of this capability to remotely control Windows Mobile devices from PCs and display the Windows Mobile screen in a window on desktop computers.
I was surprised to learn today that this ActiveSync “passthru” capability is available with Windows Phone 7 and the Zune desktop software. To try it out, turn on airplane mode on your Windows Phone, connect it to a computer running the Zune desktop software, open Internet Explorer on the phone, and open a web site. I am hopeful that developers will find a way to take advantage of this passthru capability to provide remote display and remote control applications like those that were available for Windows Mobile.
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These features are either not announced or not publicized but it is the feature that will surely have the non tecky and techy users alike to love Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. These features has not been seen on any other phone ( at least the ones i know) and is certainly something welcomed to the mobile smart phones scene. In the next review, i will be summing it up and concluding
WHICH PHONE WILL HAVE MY SIM CARD AT THE END OF THE DAY.
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