Two ads for the HTC Mondrian, one of the Windows Phone 7 smartphones expected to be announced at launch have surfaced. Microsoft along with HTC, look to be playing up the benefits of live tiles on the home screen of Windows Phone 7 devices, with the slogan: “More glance and go”.

The Windows Phone 7 live tiles contain info in real time – tiles will show what’s going on in that hub. You can pin other functions, contacts, games etc, onto the main screen, and whatever is there will be updated and shown. The two US Windows Phone 7 ads take pains to point out that this means you can view content without having to go into various hubs, meaning you’re less likely to trip over waiters, or spill someone else’s coffee, apparently.

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What the ads do point to though, is that due to the tight hardware specs demanded by Windows Phone 7 from the device manufacturers like HTC, when Windows Phone 7 launches, there’s a possibility that we’ll end up with a lot of devices that all look remarkably similar – compare the HTC Mondrian to the LG E900 to get the idea. Whatever happens, after today’s save the date mail out, we’ll only be waiting a fortnight.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Johan-Ekblom/100000533781474 Johan Ekblom

    Too bad it's going to miss this, plus much more, as Android has already.

    No Tethering
    No Copy & Paster
    No Unified Inbox
    No Third Party Multitasking
    No Fast app switching
    No HTML5 or Flash
    No CDMA phones till 2011
    No 16GB phones announced
    No Swype
    No Spotify
    No Flexible
    Not Free and Open

    This is just getting ridiculous !!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/aerosmillie David Smillie

      I was going to argue some of your points but instead will just say this…… wait until its released and then judge!!

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