CNET has posted a video interview with Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel. It appears that Mr. Kindel got “cornered” for this interview that took place off a busy street in San Francisco but was rather willing to share the handset he had in his pocket running Windows Phone 7. The handset looked very similar to the one seen at Mobile World Congress last month.
Windows Phone 7 appeared to be fast, responsive and finger friendly. The video revealed that Xbox 360 gaming will be a big part of the handset and will allow users to interact with their profile and their friends profile on the phone as previously announced. Kindel also reaffirms that apps from Windows Phone 6.5 will not be backwards compatible, but added some of the code may be used as a base for the new Windows Phone 7 applications. Most of the applications will use Microsoft’s Silverlight platform and XNA platform which will allow developers to build applications with “very rich UI’s and that are fun and interesting.”
