With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is approaching the smartphone market in a whole new way. Windows Mobile allowed many different variations of processor performance, screen resolution, touch capability, and sensor hardware, resulting in many different phones in many different form factors, at a range of price points. The huge flexibility offered with Windows Mobile is now gone; at launch, Windows Phone 7 will support only one screen resolution (with a second arriving some time later), will have a range of mandatory sensors (GPS, accelerometer, proximity, camera), and demand particular high-performance ARM processors.
This consistency extends to the software stack, too, a point reinforced by leaked documents last week. Manufacturers will not be able to replace the Windows Phone 7 home screen with custom UIs, and will have a limited ability to preload applications. No more than six applications, occupying no more than 60MB, will be permitted, and all preloaded applications will have to undergo the same Marketplace vetting process as standard third-party software.
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