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The intent is that through the People hub
you have access to information about your
contacts that you care the most about.
Updates to your contacts are drawn from
social networking sites so that you won ’ t miss
what your friends and family are up to.
In Figure 1 - 8, you can see the Pictures hub,
providing you with access to not only the
various galleries you have for photos, but
again a What ’ s New area that draws on photo
information from both your phone and your
online photo stores. You ’ ll notice with the
panoramas that they are a great demonstration
of content, not chrome. There is little in
the way of navigation controls, yet through
clever positioning of text and the content, it is
intuitive for the user to scroll to the left and
right to explore the hubs.
The Music + Video hub is very similar to the Pictures hub in structure.
Building on the success of the ZuneHD, Microsoft has made every
Windows Phone a Zune, and as such, the Music + Video hub is where
you go to organize and play music and video on the device.
Not only did Microsoft integrate the Zune experience for media
playback, but they ’ ve also made the Windows Phone a gaming device.
Through the Games hub, you can access games on the device. Your
Xbox live account is also accessible via this hub, as shown in the focus
area of Figure 1 - 9. This fi gure illustrates how the device acts as a view
into the panoramic experience. The header “ ames ” indicates that there
is content to the left, while the cut off “ C ” on the right of the screen
indicates that there is more to the right as well.
With all the features designed for consumers you may be wondering
whether Windows Phone will make a good corporate device. The answer
is that it will, indeed. The Offi ce hub, shown in
Figure 1 - 10, is where you can go to access your
documents both from the device and via SharePoint.
The last hub, but defi nitely not the least, is
Marketplace. As you can imagine, this is
where users will go to purchase and download
applications that you have written. The
Marketplace will be split into genres such as
music, applications, and podcasts. It will also
support searching for applications via categories,
as well as notifi cations for when there are
application updates.
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