Windows Phone 7 Series Hands On: Interface and Internet Explorer

**A Hands-On Walkthrough of Windows Phone 7 Series: A Detailed Look at Internet Explorer Emulator**

---

### Introduction to the Demo

Hey guys, what's up? It's Duncan, and today I'm here with a hands-on look at the Windows Phone 7 Series. Recently, they've released a ton of new information, including the full developer's kit and the emulator. Today, I'll give you a quick walk-through of the emulator, specifically focusing on the only app that's included right now—Internet Explorer. Despite being limited to just this app, there are already a lot of really cool features that we can expect in the final version of Windows Phone 7.

So, let's get started!

---

### The Hardware Buttons

To begin with, I'll show you a quick walk-through of the hardware buttons on the emulator. On the left button is the back button—it functions exactly as you'd think it does. It exits out of an app or backs you up through menus or pages. Pretty straightforward.

In the middle, you have the Windows or start button. This works similarly to the home button on an iPhone—it takes you back to the main interface. Simple and effective.

On the right is the search button. While it isn't working in this emulator yet (obviously, since there's not much to search), when you get the actual phone, it will allow you to pull up a full search interface to search through your data on the device.

---

### The Browser Interface

Looking up here, we have Internet Explorer. Let's go ahead and open it up. It has a very cool interface—everything flips and turns, making it feel dynamic and engaging.

There are three or four buttons at the bottom, but I'll get to those in just a second. For now, let's dive into the browsing experience.

---

### Browsing Experience

When we click on Internet Explorer, a keyboard pops up, allowing you to navigate to any website. Let's go to Google as an example. As this is an emulator, it's not exactly how it will run on a real device, but from what we can see in the demo, it works really well.

The browser auto-completes your input, so you don't have to type everything out manually. Clicking on "Google" loads up the page quickly—snappy and responsive.

If you want to type something on a web page, you just click on the specific field. The interface zooms in automatically, making it easy to read and navigate.

---

### Text Input and Search

As you can see, auto-zoom happens naturally when typing or searching. Let's try searching for "end gadget." The browser attempts to auto-complete your text, offering suggestions as you type—a handy feature. Unlike the iPhone, which does this automatically, here you have control over what you select.

Clicking on "End Gadget" and searching takes a moment to load, but it's still quite snappy. From my limited hands-on experience with the emulator, it seems comparable to Internet Explorer 8 on a computer.

---

### Navigation and Multi-touch Gestures

Scrolling is straightforward—just click and drag along the page. If you want to zoom in, double-click, and it will magnify the text or image.

While this is an emulator, multi-touch gestures aren't available yet. However, from what I can tell, the browsing experience looks solid. It's on par with the iPhone 3GS, and the interface animations make it feel polished.

---

### Opening New Tabs

Let's explore some more features. Clicking on "New Tab" opens a new page where you can load additional websites. You can close tabs or open new ones as needed. If you want to go back to the tab overview, you can continue loading new tabs whenever you like.

There's also a favorites button that pulls up a cool-looking interface for your favorite sites and browsing history. For example, you can navigate to Amazon or any other website by clicking on it.

---

### Settings and Customization

Pulling up the drop-down menu in Internet Explorer gives you options like "Find on Page," "Pin to Start," and "Settings." Let's dive into settings to see what's available.

Clicking on "Settings" brings you to a basic configuration page. You can adjust your browser settings here, such as turning on tracking protection or managing your sync settings. Unfortunately, some features aren't working in the emulator right now, but it's clear that there's potential for customization.

One neat feature is the ability to pin websites directly to the home screen. Clicking on a website and then selecting "Pin to Start" adds it to your home screen for quick access.

---

### Overall Impressions

From my limited hands-on experience with the emulator, Internet Explorer in Windows Phone 7 looks solid. The interface is sleek, and the animations make it feel polished and modern. While there's no multi-touch functionality yet, the browser feels fast and responsive.

I'm excited to see how this translates to a real device with all the apps and features fully integrated. Based on what I've seen so far in videos and this hands-on demo, Windows Phone 7 looks like it has a lot of potential.

---

### Conclusion

That's a quick hands-on walkthrough of the Windows Phone 7 Series emulator. I know that Internet Explorer is just one app right now, but the features we've explored give us a glimpse into what's to come. I can't wait to get my hands on a real device and try it out with all the apps and features built in.

Thanks for watching!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what is up it's duncan and today i'm here with a hands-on of windows phone 7 series recently they've put out a ton of new information and included in that is the full developers kit as well as the emulator so today i will go ahead and give you guys a quick walk through of the emulator or more specifically the only app that's included which is internet explorer but still though you guys can tell a lot of really cool features that will be included in windows phone 7. so go ahead and walk you guys through it and show you guys what to expect anyway let's get this one started okay so to begin with i'll go ahead and just show you guys a quick walk through um so if you look down here on the the left button is the back button um pretty much exactly as you think it functions as a back button for a variety of different apps it'll exit out of an app or it can back up or whatever pretty much however you want to use it in the middle you have the windows or the start button this functions similarly to a basically to the uh home button in an iphone um really basic you know nothing exciting and on the right is the search button now the search button isn't working in this right now obviously because there's not a whole lot to search for but uh when you get the windows phone it will actually go ahead and allow you to pull up a full search and allow you to go ahead and search through your phone and search through all the kinds of data you have on it so look up here we have internet explorer so let's go ahead and open it up so you see here it's got a very cool interface everything flips and turns and uh it's it's pretty cool looking so now that we're into the interface we'll go ahead and go ahead and show you guys real quick um there's three four buttons rather on the bottom but i'll get to those in just a second let's just go ahead and give you guys a quick demo over the browsing so we click on it and then we pull up this keyboard so we can go to any website we want let's go to google so we just type it out and of course this is an emulator so it's not exactly how it will run but just from what we know from the emulator it works really well so go ahead and auto completes it so we just go ahead and click it and it will open it up you can see here it loads very very snappy and of course if we want to go ahead and type something on a web page we just click on the specific thing so there we go so and as you guys can see auto zooms in so now we can search anything we want so we can search in gadget so we need you punch in and of course if you can see here right here you see it i'll actually try to auto complete your text it'll try to auto complete slash spell check which is really really handy and of course it it's very nice where it allows you actually to pick it whereas on the iphone actually go ahead and just does it for you so we'll go ahead and just of course it doesn't know end gadget so let's go ahead and click search okay so just give it just a second and now go ahead and pulls it up so let's go ahead and go to end gadget and show you guys what it looks like on a full browser or rather a full website so it does take just a moment to load but it's really quite snappy um definitely i mean just for my limited hands on with this and of course it's an emulator but it seems just about as fast as internet explorer 8 on the computer so uh i got to be thinking they're doing something here so it's real simple we go ahead and scroll by just clicking and dragging along and if we want we can double click and it will go ahead and zoom in and of course it is still loading right now so it's just a little bit slow but uh you see here guys there's a lot of uh it's pretty cool so when you scroll through here um go ahead and click on a link it wants to now it's a little bit slow of course it is still loading but uh okay there we go so yes you can kind of see the the web browsing is pretty decent i mean not something hugely ahead of the iphone and obviously we don't have any kind of multi-touch gestures being that this is obviously not a full thing it's just the emulator but from what i can tell so far it looks really solid uh you know it looks the browsing looks to be a bad on par with the 3gs so now let's go ahead and show you guys some more of the features squad just get it to stop loading real quick so a couple more of the features are uh let's go ahead and open up the new tab page so now you can load up a lot of new tabs go ahead and kill them or you can go ahead and add a new one so let's go ahead and add a new one and then we'll just bring us up a new page and of course we can do whatever we want and if we want to go back to the new tab page we can continue to load new tabs up however however long we like and there's also a favorites button so it pulls up a really really cool looking thing favorites history so we can go through here and pick whatever we want so you know you can go to amazon or whatever so let's go ahead and just go ahead and click on so as you right there you might have seen a little bit of the interface and you can see how it's very very similar to the zoom hd and it's a really really solid interface i like it a lot um and you can see here it actually loads up really nicely back out just like with any of the other tabs go ahead so let's just jump over to our gizmodo tab or i'm sorry our engadget tab um so let's go ahead and pull up our little drop down menu where it gives us a few things that we can afford i suppose that's not working right now i'm guessing that you're going to need to wait once the uh email you go ahead and forward it you can share find on page pin to start and settings let's go ahead and click on settings and see what that's about so it's going to load maybe not okay well it doesn't look like that's working right now and i don't think can the start is going to work either oh wait yes it is okay cool i didn't know that so you can see here guys this would be the home page obviously it's very very bare right now but if we want we can go ahead and pin a website to the home page so if you want to click on it it will go ahead and load it up in the browser of course we have a bunch of tabs up right now let's go ahead and kill some of them so you can see it's very very slick looking interface i mean everything you do has an animation or something but yeah guys that is a quick hands-on of the windows phone 7 series i hate that name of the web browser obviously internet explorer um now of course this is an emulator so we haven't actually tried it out on a real device but from what we can tell it looks very very solid so i know from what i've seen here in all the videos windows phone 7 series looks really really solid and i can't wait to get a real hands-on actually use it on a phone with the full apps and everything built into it but anyway guys thanks for watching foreignhey guys what is up it's duncan and today i'm here with a hands-on of windows phone 7 series recently they've put out a ton of new information and included in that is the full developers kit as well as the emulator so today i will go ahead and give you guys a quick walk through of the emulator or more specifically the only app that's included which is internet explorer but still though you guys can tell a lot of really cool features that will be included in windows phone 7. so go ahead and walk you guys through it and show you guys what to expect anyway let's get this one started okay so to begin with i'll go ahead and just show you guys a quick walk through um so if you look down here on the the left button is the back button um pretty much exactly as you think it functions as a back button for a variety of different apps it'll exit out of an app or it can back up or whatever pretty much however you want to use it in the middle you have the windows or the start button this functions similarly to a basically to the uh home button in an iphone um really basic you know nothing exciting and on the right is the search button now the search button isn't working in this right now obviously because there's not a whole lot to search for but uh when you get the windows phone it will actually go ahead and allow you to pull up a full search and allow you to go ahead and search through your phone and search through all the kinds of data you have on it so look up here we have internet explorer so let's go ahead and open it up so you see here it's got a very cool interface everything flips and turns and uh it's it's pretty cool looking so now that we're into the interface we'll go ahead and go ahead and show you guys real quick um there's three four buttons rather on the bottom but i'll get to those in just a second let's just go ahead and give you guys a quick demo over the browsing so we click on it and then we pull up this keyboard so we can go to any website we want let's go to google so we just type it out and of course this is an emulator so it's not exactly how it will run but just from what we know from the emulator it works really well so go ahead and auto completes it so we just go ahead and click it and it will open it up you can see here it loads very very snappy and of course if we want to go ahead and type something on a web page we just click on the specific thing so there we go so and as you guys can see auto zooms in so now we can search anything we want so we can search in gadget so we need you punch in and of course if you can see here right here you see it i'll actually try to auto complete your text it'll try to auto complete slash spell check which is really really handy and of course it it's very nice where it allows you actually to pick it whereas on the iphone actually go ahead and just does it for you so we'll go ahead and just of course it doesn't know end gadget so let's go ahead and click search okay so just give it just a second and now go ahead and pulls it up so let's go ahead and go to end gadget and show you guys what it looks like on a full browser or rather a full website so it does take just a moment to load but it's really quite snappy um definitely i mean just for my limited hands on with this and of course it's an emulator but it seems just about as fast as internet explorer 8 on the computer so uh i got to be thinking they're doing something here so it's real simple we go ahead and scroll by just clicking and dragging along and if we want we can double click and it will go ahead and zoom in and of course it is still loading right now so it's just a little bit slow but uh you see here guys there's a lot of uh it's pretty cool so when you scroll through here um go ahead and click on a link it wants to now it's a little bit slow of course it is still loading but uh okay there we go so yes you can kind of see the the web browsing is pretty decent i mean not something hugely ahead of the iphone and obviously we don't have any kind of multi-touch gestures being that this is obviously not a full thing it's just the emulator but from what i can tell so far it looks really solid uh you know it looks the browsing looks to be a bad on par with the 3gs so now let's go ahead and show you guys some more of the features squad just get it to stop loading real quick so a couple more of the features are uh let's go ahead and open up the new tab page so now you can load up a lot of new tabs go ahead and kill them or you can go ahead and add a new one so let's go ahead and add a new one and then we'll just bring us up a new page and of course we can do whatever we want and if we want to go back to the new tab page we can continue to load new tabs up however however long we like and there's also a favorites button so it pulls up a really really cool looking thing favorites history so we can go through here and pick whatever we want so you know you can go to amazon or whatever so let's go ahead and just go ahead and click on so as you right there you might have seen a little bit of the interface and you can see how it's very very similar to the zoom hd and it's a really really solid interface i like it a lot um and you can see here it actually loads up really nicely back out just like with any of the other tabs go ahead so let's just jump over to our gizmodo tab or i'm sorry our engadget tab um so let's go ahead and pull up our little drop down menu where it gives us a few things that we can afford i suppose that's not working right now i'm guessing that you're going to need to wait once the uh email you go ahead and forward it you can share find on page pin to start and settings let's go ahead and click on settings and see what that's about so it's going to load maybe not okay well it doesn't look like that's working right now and i don't think can the start is going to work either oh wait yes it is okay cool i didn't know that so you can see here guys this would be the home page obviously it's very very bare right now but if we want we can go ahead and pin a website to the home page so if you want to click on it it will go ahead and load it up in the browser of course we have a bunch of tabs up right now let's go ahead and kill some of them so you can see it's very very slick looking interface i mean everything you do has an animation or something but yeah guys that is a quick hands-on of the windows phone 7 series i hate that name of the web browser obviously internet explorer um now of course this is an emulator so we haven't actually tried it out on a real device but from what we can tell it looks very very solid so i know from what i've seen here in all the videos windows phone 7 series looks really really solid and i can't wait to get a real hands-on actually use it on a phone with the full apps and everything built into it but anyway guys thanks for watching foreign