10:30AM Okay, we’re running an HTML5 benchmark, Speed Reading. The Torch = 5fps, the Charge is ready 10, and the iPhone hasn’t started yet…
10:29AM Guess which one’s going to look faster? We won’t wait to determine.
10:29AM Okay, we have now a BBerry Torch, iPhone 4, and the Droid Charge up at the prompter — all lined up in a row next to a Mango device.
10:28AM Time to Bing, yo!
10:28AM Time to speak search again, Derek’s back for an additional demo, blending search into the OS itself.
10:28AM Like, you understand, a pleasant pair of gloves!
10:27AM Now IE9 at the browser will “tailor the internet on your palm.”
10:27AM Time to chat browsing. IE9 is on deck, “widely considered the leading desktop browser.” Their words, note. Their words.
10:26AM Which probably means they’re out wandering the pasture somewhere.
10:26AM Andy’s back, reminding us that third-party apps were “free of their silos.”
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10:25AM Nobody desires to hear that Captain Jack went on a weekend bender before your Sunday red-eye.
10:25AM Wow, you can too see the menu, the movie selection, and the captain’s name. Doesn’t appear as if you may link to his Facebook profile, that may be for the proper.
10:24AM Ooh, 3D walkthrough of the plane to select your seat. Gratuitous use of polygons!
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10:24AM That sounds lovely for those who fly BA a great deallots, but how concerning the integration we were hearing most a couple of moment ago? Will be lovely to do that on all airlines…
10:23AM Tap it and also you naturally jump in and notice all of your upcoming flights, get updates, see your seat, etc.
10:23AM There is a live tile for the app, which supplies time and date and other details.
10:23AM Okay, watching a British Airways app now. Who’s up for a bit of Eurotripping?
10:22AM Gaming would be a “really social experience” — like the Xbox 360.
10:22AM We’ll ask later.
10:21AM Well, his avatar does anyway. Uncertain if he does.
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10:21AM Oh, look, he dressed like his avatar. And he has a pet monkey.
10:21AM Now you can jump out of a game quickly and back in again without losing your progress.
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10:19AM Okay, moving into Xbox. Now some fun stuff.
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10:19AM Numbers, data, excitement.
10:19AM a spreadsheet now inside Office, pulled down from SkyDrive.
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10:18AM Or, you recognize, not tag it in the event that your friends would rather not be linked to your socially mild misdeeds.
10:18AM We saw slightly Pictures before, and now we’re seeing how to upload to Facebook. It has face detection right in there so that you can tag it and send it.
10:17AM We’ll be Pictures, Office, and Xbox hubs.
10:17AM Derek is back, how apps will integrate into the hubs.
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10:17AM Andy Lees is saying the disconnect from one application to a better is like “walking in the course of the front door” when looking to go from the lounge to the kitchen.
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10:16AM “With other smartphones, applications are only silos — you’re presented with a grid of icons and a sea of applications.”
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10:15AM Now that we have got that down, let’s talk apps!
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10:15AM Making a delicious, delightful mango tart.
10:14AM We’re being reminded that each one of here’s built into the OS. We still haven’t seen a single app outside of the core experience. Facebook, Exchange, Twitter, LinkedIn, all baked right in there.
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10:14AM Never touched the telephone, which would make texting while driving a bit safer… but just a little.
10:13AM He just received a text while being attentive to music and the telephone read it to him. He spoke the response and it converted it to text.
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10:13AM Text to speech and voice recognition getting some screen time.
10:12AM Calendar integration time, which now shows Facebook events too, meaning you can also make sure that 5:00 concall ends before your 6:00 binge with buds on the bar.
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10:12AM He’s talking up “rich information management tools” of the device, like flagging an e-mail as don’t forward.
10:11AM Totally.
10:11AM Note here from Bill Gates: “You owe me $10.” Totally not a pretend e-mail.
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10:10AM Okay, e-mail time.
10:10AM You could reply with a text and it will occur within the same conversation window. Nice!
10:10AM Threads now handle communications across messaging platforms. Get a Facebook message but don’t respond before your BFF heads off to work? No problem.
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10:09AM Type “you’re” it suggests “fired” — maybe. If it’s Trump’s phone.
10:09AM Type “happy” it suggests “birthday.”
10:08AM Showing off a wiser keyboard, “rather more intuitive typing experience” here that predicts the following word for you.
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10:08AM He’s specifically calling out BBM, calling this a far more open system attributable to its compatibility with Live Messenger and Facebook Chat.
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10:07AM It automatically pulls pictures of these tagged within the group, which helps you re-live all those more enjoyable times, even if you’re stuck in a basement, like we form of are actually.
10:07AM There is a new feature called Groups, letting you bunch related people together right into a grid. Live Tiles illuminate, flip around.
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10:06AM Your friend who changes their profile pic each time the elements changes? You are going to be seeing tons of them.
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10:06AM Now at the People Hub you will see pictures from all of the social networks, whatever they’re uploading, all integrated together.
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10:05AM Twitter and LinkedIn at the moment are integrated, so that you can see what’s up together with your buds and your office mates collectively.
10:05AM Notifications are being pushed into “smarter” live tiles up front, letting you recognize what is going on even if you’ve gotten you own thing occurring.
10:05AM “We needed to set people on the center of our focus by bringing people forward.”
10:04AM Demo time!
10:04AM Derek Snyder is up now, Senior Project Manager.
10:04AM Yeah, that’s you.
10:04AM The difficulty, he says, is that doing this through a group of apps is disjointed. Mango has a “people-centric approach” that ties it across the predominant thing.
10:03AM You recognize, the inane stuff that provides us a reason to exist.
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10:03AM We’re hearing in regards to the evolution of the telephone now, how it’s less about actually talking and more about doing such things as capturing, tagging, sharing.
10:03AM There are three big aspects here: communications (with family and friends), software (apps and such) and internet (you recognize, the ‘tubes).
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10:02AM Mango is to “make the smartphone smarter and easier”
10:02AM “We would have liked to give innovation and selection without fragmentation and frustration” — burn!
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10:01AM His job? To deliver a fixed of “complete experiences” — something we predict we’ll be hearing an awful lot about tonight.
10:00AM Andy Lees from Microsoft is up on stage, talking a couple of crowded market.
10:00AM And here we go!
10:00AM This can be a particularly small event, maybe 40 – 50 people in here.
9:57AM Paying attention to some light folksy pop. Lifting the mood as we slowly sink into these cushions.
9:52AM And we’re in! Seated in perhaps the foremost comfortable chairs we’ve ever had the distinction of liveblogging from.
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