Windows Phone Mango People Hub Preview | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 19 июня 2011, 2:31

Before we jump into the People Hub, let's talk about the Me tile a little. With Windows Phone 7, the Me tile was where you went to update your Facebook and Windows Live statuses, as well as see all of your updates and who has commented on them. Now there are a few new features in addition to those things. You now have a pivot tab for the What's New feed, as well as a new tab for notifications. That's right! You now see Facebook notifications right there. The Profile tab shows a little bit of what's new next to your profile picture (which you can still change, except now you can choose from cloud-based photos too). You've also got a few buttons for posting a message (to Facebook or Windows Live currently), Check in, and set chat status. The Check in feature hooks up to the Facebook Places feature and also Windows Live. Hopefully the final version will work with Foursquare as well just like the Check-in feature in the Bing App for iPhone, but we didn't see anywhere to add a Foursquare account in this build.

Once you get into the People hub, you'll see it looks very much the same as before. The recent contacts still show in a horizontal manner, while the all contacts and What's new feeds are vertical lists. As mentioned before, the hardware search button is no longer context sensitive, so now there's a search button at the bottom of the screen on the all contacts listing along with a "new" button (both of those were moved from the top area.) The bottom menu also gives you easy access to the People settings. Something new in the "What's New" feed is a little button for filtering updates. You can show updates from all accounts (Windows Live, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) or just one of them at a time. This will be useful when/if the Twitter feed shows up here. (The "What's New" feed in the Pictures hub can also be filtered this way.)

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