Windows Phone 7 gets a little bit more polish

June 10, 2010 | By Surur

Windows Phone 7 icons get labels, slickness

Long Zheng from the istartedsomething blog reports on another little enhancement he noticed on the latest Windows Phone 7 builds shown at Teched 2010.

In this case, its a feature that removes the guesswork from ambiguous icons by revealing little labels when the user swipes up to see the full menu.

He notes he sees this as an example of real attention to detail from Microsoft, calling the latest build “one of the slickest things I’ve ever seen”.

Hopefully consumers will agree in the coming months.

Read more at Istartedsomething.com here.

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Let me tell you, for ME?, you don't know how HUGE this is. I HATE little pictures! I don't know what the little pictures do until I click on them and then I have clicked the wrong thing. ZUNE software, as much as I love it, would be SO MUCH easier for me and the majority of people I have shown it to, if we knew what the pictures did without having to hover over them. This is awesome, something so little that means SO much.
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Good thinking there, it helps that Metro itself is more text driven instead of more icons all over the place making you guess. For average users being able to read a word is way better than trying to remember or guess what a icon stands for.

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