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Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is the first release of the Windows Phone mobile client operating system, released worldwide on October 21, 2010, and in the United States on November 8, 2010. It runs on the Windows CE 6.0 kernel.^[2] It serves as the successor to Windows Mobile 6.5.^[3]

The first major update to Windows Phone 7 was Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed «Mango», which was globally released on September 27, 2011.^[4] Windows Phone 7.x was succeeded by Windows Phone 8, which was released on October 29, 2012; existing Windows Phone 7.x hardware could not upgrade to the incompatible Windows Phone 8 software. As a compromise to existing users, Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.8 on January 31, 2013, adding a few features backported from Windows Phone 8, such as a more customizable start screen and the new bootscreen.^[5][6][7]

Microsoft ended support for Windows Phone 7 on January 8, 2013, and for Windows Phone 7.5 and 7.8 on October 14, 2014.^[1]

Microsoft officially unveiled the new operating system, Windows Phone 7 Series, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 15, 2010,^[8] and revealed additional details at MIX 2010 on March 15, 2010. The final SDK was made available on September 16, 2010.^[9] HP later decided not to build devices for Windows Phone, citing that it wanted to focus on devices for its newly purchased webOS.^[10] As its original name was criticized for being too complex and «wordy», the name of the operating system was officially shortened to just Windows Phone 7 on April 2, 2010.^[11]

On October 11, 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the 10 launch devices for Windows Phone 7 with HTC, Dell, Samsung, and LG Support, with sales beginning on October 21, 2010 in Europe and Australia and November 8, 2010 in the United States. The devices were made available on 60 carriers in 30 countries, with additional devices to be launched in 2011.^[12] Upon the release of Windows Phone 7’s «Mango» revision, additional manufacturers became partners, including Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE.^[13]

Windows Phone initially supported twenty-five languages, with applications being available through Windows Phone Store in 35 countries and regions. Support for additional languages and regions were subsequently brought through both the Mango and Tango updates to the OS respectively.^[14][15]

Windows Phone 7 is the only version of Windows Phone that features the Windows CE kernel, which was also used in Windows Mobile and Pocket PC systems.

Windows Phone 7 features a user interface based on a design system codenamed and commonly referred to as Metro.^[16] The home screen, called «Start screen», is made up of «Live Tiles». Tiles are links to applications, features, functions and individual items (such as contacts, web pages, applications or media items). Users can add, rearrange, or remove tiles.^[17] Tiles are dynamic and update in real time – for example, the tile for an email account would display the number of unread messages or a tile could display a live update of the weather.^[18]

Several key features of Windows Phone 7 are organized into «hubs», which combine local and online content via Windows Phone’s integration with popular social networks such as Facebook, Windows Live, and Twitter.^[18] For example, the Pictures hub shows photos captured with the device’s camera and the user’s Facebook photo albums, and the People hub shows contacts aggregated from multiple sources including Windows Live, Facebook, and Gmail. From the Hub, users can directly comment and ‘like’ on social network updates. The other built-in hubs are Xbox Music and Video, Xbox Live Games, Windows Phone Store, and Microsoft Office.^[18] Due to Facebook Connect service changes, Facebook support is disabled in all bundled apps effective June 8, 2015.^[19]

Windows Phone uses multi-touch technology.^[18] The default Windows Phone user interface has a dark theme that prolongs battery life on OLED screens as fully black pixels do not emit light.^[20] The user may choose a light theme instead, and can also choose from several accent colors.^[21] User interface elements such as tiles are shown in the user’s chosen accent color. Third-party applications can be automatically themed with these colors.^[22]

Users input text by using an on-screen virtual keyboard, which has a dedicated key for inserting emoticons,^[23] and features spell checking^[23] and word prediction.^[24] App developers (both inhouse and ISV) may specify different versions of the virtual keyboard in order to limit users to certain character sets, such as numeric characters alone. Users may change a word after it has been typed by tapping the word,^[25] which will invoke a list of similar words. Pressing and holding certain keys will reveal similar characters. The keys are somewhat larger and spaced farther apart when in landscape mode. Phones may also be made with a hardware keyboard for text input.^[26]

Windows Phone 7’s messaging system is organized into threads. This allows a conversation with a person to be held through multiple platforms (such as Windows Live Messenger, Facebook messaging, or SMS) within a single thread, dynamically switching between services depending on availability.

Windows Phone 7.5 features a version of Internet Explorer Mobile with a rendering engine that is based on Internet Explorer 9.^[27]

The built-in web browser allows the user to maintain a list of favorite web pages and tiles linking to web pages on the Start screen. The browser supports up to 6 tabs, which can all load in parallel.^[28] Other features include multi-touch gestures, a streamlined UI, smooth zoom in/out animations, the ability to save pictures that are on web pages, share web pages via email, and support for inline search which allows the user to search for a word or phrase in a web page by typing it.^[29] Microsoft has announced plans to regularly update the Windows Phone web browser and its layout engine independently from the Windows Phone Update system.^[30]

Contacts are organized via the People hub, and can be manually entered into contacts or imported from Facebook, Windows Live Contacts, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail. Contacts may be manually imported from Outlook using Windows Live Contacts or Gmail. A «What’s New» section shows a news feed and a «Pictures» section shows pictures from contacts on those social networks. A «Me» section shows the phone user’s own social networks status and wall, allows the user to update their status, and allows checking into Bing and Facebook Places. Contacts can be added to the home screen by pinning them to the start. The contact’s «Live Tile» displays their social network status and profile picture on the homescreen and the contact’s hub displays their Facebook wall as well as all of the rest of their contact information and information from their other social networks.

If a contact has information stored on multiple networks, users can link the two separate contact accounts, allowing the information to be viewed and accessed from a single card.^[31] As of Windows Phone 7.5, contacts can also be sorted into Groups. Here, information from each of the contacts is combined into a single page which can be accessed directly from the Hub or pinned to the Start screen.

Windows Phone supports Outlook.com, Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, and Gmail natively and supports many other services via the POP and IMAP protocols. For the native account types, contacts and calendars may be synced as well. Users can also search through their email by searching in the subject, body, senders, and receivers. Emails are shown in threading view and multiple email inboxes can be combined or kept separate.

The Music + Videos hub allows the user to access music, videos, and podcasts stored on the device, and links directly to the Xbox Music Store to buy music, or rent with the Xbox Music Pass subscription service. When browsing the music by a particular artist, users are able to view artist biographies and photos, provided by the Xbox Music.^[23] This hub integrates with many other apps that provide video and music services, including, but not limited to, iHeartRadio, YouTube, and Vevo. This hub also includes Smart DJ which compiles a playlist of songs stored on the phone similar to the song or artist selected. Purchased movies and other videos can be played through Xbox Video.

The Pictures hub displays the user’s Facebook and SkyDrive (Now OneDrive) photo albums, as well as photos taken with the phone’s built-in camera. Users can also upload photos to social networks, comment on others photos, and tag photos on social networks.^[23] Multi-touch gestures permit zooming in and out of photos.

Windows Phone 7 supports WAV, MP3, WMA, AMR, AAC/MP4/M4A/M4B, and 3GP/3G2 standards. The video file formats supported include WMV, AVI, MP4/M4V, 3GP/3G2, and MOV (QuickTime) standards. These supported audio and video formats would be dependent on the codecs contained inside them. It has also been previously reported that the DivX and Xvid codecs within AVI are also playable on the system.^[32][33] Unlike the previous Windows Mobile operating system, there are currently no third-party applications for handling other video formats. The image file formats that are supported include JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIF and Bitmap (BMP).^[34][35]

After the «Mango» update, Windows Phone 7 added the ability for users to have custom ringtones. Ringtone audio files must be under 1MB and less than 40 seconds long. Custom ringtones still cannot be used for text messages, IMs or emails.

The Games hub provides access to games on a phone along with Xbox Live functionality, including the ability for a user to interact with their avatar, view and edit their profile, see their achievements and view leaderboards, and send messages to friends on Xbox Live. The Games hub also features an area for managing invitations and turn notifications in turn-based multiplayer games.^[36]

Microsoft’s hardware requirements stipulate that every device running Windows Phone 7 must have a dedicated Search button on the front of the device that performs different actions.^[18] Pressing the search button while an application is open allows users to search within applications that take advantage of this feature; for example, pressing Search in the People hub lets users search their contact list for specific people.^[37] This has been changed in Windows Phone 7.5 however – as the search button is reserved for Bing – so applications that previously used this feature (such as the Marketplace) now include soft search buttons.

In other cases, pressing the Search button will allow the user to perform a search of web sites, news, and map locations using the Bing application.^[38]

Windows Phone also has a voice recognition function, powered by TellMe, which allows the user to perform a Bing search, call contacts or launch applications simply by speaking. This can be activated by pressing and holding the phone’s Start button.

Bing is the default search engine on Windows Phone handsets due to its deep integration of functions into the OS (which also include the utilization of its map service for location-based searches and queries). However, Microsoft has stated that other search engine applications can be used.^[38][39]

Aside from location-based searches, Bing Maps on Windows Phone 7 also provide turn-by-turn navigation service to Windows Phone users, and Local Scout shows interest points such as attractions and restaurants in the nearby area. Bing Audio also allows the user to match a song with its name, while Bing Vision allows the user to read barcodes, QR codes, and tags.

The Office hub organizes all Microsoft Office apps and documents. Microsoft Office Mobile provides interoperability between Windows Phone and the desktop version of Microsoft Office. Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, OneNote Mobile, and SharePoint Workspace Mobile allow most Microsoft Office file formats to be viewed and edited directly on a Windows Phone device.

Microsoft Office can also open files from SkyDrive and Office 365, as well as files stored locally on the phone. Office files on Windows Phone 7 are sorted by tiles: Word documents (blue tile), Excel spreadsheets (green tile), PowerPoint presentations (red tile), and OneNote documents (purple tile).

Windows Phone 7 features a card-based task switcher which can be accessed by pressing and holding the back button. The screenshots of last five open apps are shown as cards. Apps can be kept running even when out of view through «Live Agents».^[40]

Zune software is used to manage and sync content on Windows Phone 7 devices with PCs. Windows Phone 7 can wirelessly sync with the software. In addition to accessing Windows Phone devices, Zune software can also access the Zune Marketplace to purchase music, videos, and apps for Windows Phone and Zune products. While music and videos are both stored locally on the PC and on the phone, apps are only stored on the phone even if purchased from the Zune software. Zune software is also used to deliver software updates to all Windows Phone 7 devices.

The Zune software is unavailable for Mac OS X, but Microsoft has released Windows Phone Connector, which allows Windows Phone devices to sync with iTunes and iPhoto.^[41][42][43] This has since been succeeded by the Windows Phone App, which is designed for Windows Phone 8 but can sync with Windows Phone 7 devices as well.

While Windows Phone contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of previous versions up to Windows Mobile 6.5 were removed or changed.^[44][45]

The following is a list of features which were present in Windows Mobile 6.5 but were removed in Windows Phone 7.0.

• The list of past phone calls is now a single list, and cannot be separated into inbound, outbound or missed calls^[46]

• Windows Phone does not support USB sync with Microsoft Outlook’s Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes as opposed to older versions of Windows Mobile with Desktop ActiveSync.^[47][48] Syncing Contacts and Appointments is done via cloud-based services (Windows Live, Google, or Exchange Server), and no method to sync this information directly with a PC is provided.^[49] Third party software, such as Akruto Sync, provides some of this functionality.^[50][51] A petition to Microsoft was filed to reinstate USB sync for Outlook.^[52]

• Adobe Flash^[53]

• Internet sockets^[54]
• Cut, copy, and paste^[55]
• Partial multitasking for 3rd party apps^[56]
• Connecting to Wi-Fi (wireless) access points with hidden SSID, but without WPA^[57][58][59]
• Tethering to a computer^[60][62][63]
• Custom ringtones^[64]
• Universal email inbox^[65]
• USSD messages^[66]
• VoIP calling through a separate app^[54][67]

• Removable SD cards^[68][71]
• USB mass-storage^[72]
• Bluetooth file transfers^[73]
• Connecting to Wi-Fi (wireless) access points with both a hidden SSID and WPA protection^[58]
• Sideloading for corporate apps^[68]
• VoIP and IP Videocalling integrated in the Phone app^[73][74]
• Support for Office documents with security permissions^{[note 1]}
• On-device encryption^[76]
• Strong passwords^[46]
• Full Exchange support^{[note 2]}
• Native applications
• Full background multitasking^[78]

• IPsec security (VPN)
• System-wide file manager
• The ‘Weekly’ view in the Calendar app
• Universal search
• UMTS/LTE Videocalling^[79]

To provide a more consistent experience between devices, Windows Phone 7 devices are required to meet a certain set of hardware requirements, which Andy Lees, Microsoft’s senior vice president of mobile communications business, described as being «tough, but fair.»^[80] All Windows Phone 7 devices, at minimum, must include the following:^[81][82]

Minimum Windows Phone 7 device requirements

Previously, Windows Phone 7 devices were required to have 512 MB of RAM. As of the «Tango» update, the requirements were revised to allow for chipsets with slower processors, and for devices to have a minimum of 256 MB of RAM. Certain features of the operating system, and the ability to install certain resource-intensive apps are disabled on Windows Phone devices with under 512 MB of RAM.^[83]

What Engadget and Gizmodo felt were notable omissions in a modern smartphone OS^{[citation needed]} have largely been addressed in the Mango update.^{[citation needed]} ZDNet praised the OS’s virtual keyboard and noted the excellent touch precision as well as powerful auto-correct and revision software.^[23][84] The touch responsiveness of the OS has also been universally praised by all three sites with reviewers noting the smoothness of scrolling and gestures like pinch to zoom in web browsing.^[85]
PCWorld ran an article called «Windows Phone 7: Microsoft’s Disaster» citing what they call a «lack of security, shockingly bad Office apps, an interface not backed up under the hood and abandonment of the full Microsoft customer base.»^[86]

The reception to the «Metro» UI (also called Modern-Style UI) and overall interface of the OS has also been highly praised for its style, with ZDNet noting its originality and fresh clean look.^[85] Engadget and ZDNet applauded the integration of Facebook into the People Hub as well as other built-in capabilities, such as Windows Live, etc.

Windows Phone 7 was presented with a total of three awards at the 2011 International Design Excellence Awards, voted by an independent jury^[87] at an event co-sponsored by Microsoft, among others;^[88] Gold in Interactive Product Experience, Silver in Research and Bronze in the Design Strategy.

«The Windows Phone 7 was built around the idea that the end user is king. The design team began by defining and understanding the people who would use this phone. It was convinced that there could be a better user experience for a phone, one that revolves more around who the users are rather than what they do. The Windows Phone 7 lets users quickly get in, get out and back to their lives.»^[89]

At the awards ceremony, Windows Phone 7 was given «the noteworthy People’s Choice Award, an award handed to the favorite IDEA 2011 gold award winner.»^[90]

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Believe it or not, you can actually run Windows 7 on Android, and you don’t even have to root your device. In this article, we’ll show you how and provide you links to everything you need to download and get Windows 7 up and running on your device.

Disclaimer

Before we proceed, you should know that this is only a proof of concept demonstration of what’s possible with emulation. Don’t expect Windows 7 to actually be usable after you install it on your Android device.

Depending on the performance of your smartphone or tablet, the boot time alone might be several hours long (yes, hours—not minutes), and you likely won’t be able to launch anything besides a few basic applications such as Notepad or Calculator. You also won’t be able to connect to the internet or fully take advantage of your device’s capabilities.

Demo video

Requirements:

• A capable Android device running Android 4.1 or higher (dual core CPU or better)
• The Bochs android app
• SDL.zip file download it here
• Windows 7 ISO file
• A lot of patience

Installation:

In order to get started download the SDL.zip file and extract the folder using an archiving tool such as 7zip or the built-in windows archive viewer. Once extracted move onto the next step to download Windows 7.

Next up, you need to download a Windows 7 disc image from Microsoft’s website. Simply scroll to the very bottom of the page, enter your Windows 7 product key, and click Verify to download a copy.

Alternatively you can create a Windows PE iso from your computer in the event you can’t remember your product key or the page above doesn’t work correctly.

Follow this guide if you wish to follow this route: How to create a Windows PE ISO file

This alternative method creates a portable Windows environment which doesn’t require installation and will run a little faster as it is a slightly stripped down version of Windows 7.

Once you have finished downloading a copy of Windows 7 or followed the alternative method you will end up with a .iso file in your downloads folder or else where, rename this file to “7pe_x86_E” without the quotes. Upon renaming move the iso file you downloaded or created into the SDL folder extracted earlier.

Inside this folder you will have a file named “bochesrc.txt” which contains the default configuration for the boche app. To edit the amount of RAM dedicated to the app open the file and adjust the following line in a text editor of your choice.

Change the 512 to whatever amount of ram you would prefer, for my LG G4 with 3GB of ram I decided to allocate approximately 750 of ram remember it is calculated in MB so make the appropriate conversions depending on your device.

NOTE: AFTER TESTING THIS MYSELF SETTING THE RAM OVER 700-800 MB CAUSED BOCHES TO CRASH, DO TRY A HIGHER NUMBER ON YOUR DEVICE IF YOU CAN BUT IF IT CRASHES THEN PLEASE REVERT TO 700MB OR 800MB TO WORK.

Copying everything to your phone/tablet

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Next plug in your Android phone/tablet to your computer via micro usb cable (Windows users will require a driver which should auto-install or require downloading from the OEM’s website)

Now locate your internal storage and copy the SDL folder  to the root of your internal storage (not in any folders)

NOTE: IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE INTERNAL STORAGE NOT EXTERNAL OR ELSE IT WON’T WORK

Once copied safely remove your phone or tablet from your PC and proceed with the next steps to run windows 7 on android.

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On your phone/tablet

Head over to the Google Play and search for Bochs. Click the Install button to install the app. Bochs is a powerful open source PC emulator  that runs on most popular platforms and can emulate most recent x86-64 Intel and AMD processors. The great thing about Bochs is that it runs without root permissions, allowing you to run Windows XP, 7, 8, and 10 without too much hassle.

Also check out: How to run Windows XP on Android

Launch Bochs and if all goes well Windows 7 should begin to boot. At this point, you may also want to go to the Hardware tab and check whether you like the default options. If not, you can change them as you see fit. By far the most important option is  CPU Model, but you should also pay attention to Chipset and Memory.

Once you’re ready to boot into Windows 7, tap the Start button in the top-right corner. A full-screen SDL logo should appear, followed by the Windows 7 boot screen. Windows 7 is designed for x86 CPUs, Bochs has to emulate the x86 architecture, which is a very hardware-demanding process. Don’t be surprised if it takes more than an hour for the boot process to finish.

Conclusion

The reward for your patience will be a functioning version of the Windows 7 operating system running directly on your Android device.

While not very practical, this proof of concept serves as an excellent demonstration of how far Android smartphones and tablets have come since the first Android device, the HTC Dream, which was released in 2008. We can only guess how long it will take before it becomes possible to run various Windows applications and games on Android and the future possibilities of this great operating system.

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How To Run Windows 7 on Android Phone: Hello friends, if you want to run windows 7 on android, you are at the right place. This post will provide you a complete guide on how to run windows 7 on android phone.

To do so, we need a Limbo emulator for android and also a windows 7 image or iso file. Don’t worry; all the links are provided for every file.

how to run windows 7 on android using limbo pc emulator

Step 1. Friends, first you have to download the Limbo pc emulator, So click on this link and you will be redirected to another website (4shared).

Step 2. Now you will see a download button under limbo pc emulator apk, but if you are unable to see the download button, sign in using your Google account. Then the button will appear. So, download the apk file.

Note: if the x86 version of limbo apk crashes on your android device, you can also try the x64 version of the limbo application. Both the versions of this app are added to the download folder.

Step 3. After download, click on the install button to start the installation; if you see the application installation blocked message, click on the got button.

Now go to system settings>application manager>Google Play Store> now disable it, but you can enable it after this installation.

After that again try to install limbo apk and it will be installed successfully but don’t open it yet.

Step 4. Now you need a iso or img file of windows 7 to run windows 7 on android.

Click on this link to download that file. It will be sized around 1 to 1.8 GB in size.

Step 5. After downloading iso file, it’s time to open limbo pc emulator.

Open it and allow all permissions such as storage, etc.

Step 6. Now we have to setup all settings to run windows 7 on android.

Let’ start:

Name of the Machine:

1. First, click on None button at the top right side of the screen and select New
2. Name it as Windows 7

CPU/BOARD:

1. Architecture: select x86 bit
2. Machine Type: PC
3. CPU Model: Core Duo
4. CPU Cores: 4
5. RAM Memory: 1000 MB

Note: if your phone has low ram like 1-1.5 gb, you have to select low size of ram like 512 or lower size.

Storage:

1. Select Hard Disk A: Click on None and it will open your file manager. Now select the iso or img file of windows 7, that you have just downloaded.

Removable Storage:

No need to setup Removable Storage settings.

Misc:

1. VGA Display: here you have to select std option but if you are unable to see the running windows on emulator, you can try other settings as well like VMware.
2. Sound Card: None
3. Network: User
4. Network Card: ne2k_pci

Boot Settings:

1. Boot from Device: select Hard Disk option
2. Kernel: None
3. Initrd: None

User Interface:

1. User Interface: select VNC and you can also try other settings if the emulator failed to run.
2. Orientation: select Landscape
3. Keyboard Layout: English
4. Fullscreen: you have to tick mark the fullscreen option

Advance:

1. High Priority: you have to tick mark high priority setting, but this uses high ram and cpu. If your phone heats up, disable this option.

Now Limbo PC Emulator settings are done. Scroll up and now it’s time to start the emulator.

You will see a Play button, click on it and it will start windows 7.

Note: If the emulator crashed, just lower the ram and it will run properly.

Windows 7 setup and First Boot:

Step 7. Now you will see windows starting setup.

Here you have to select Start Windows Normally option.

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To select it:

1. Press back key on your android phone.
2. A new menu will pop-up above the screen
3. Select the keyboard option
4. Now press the enter key on keyboard

Step 8. Now wait until you see a booting screen and after that a user icon.

When you see a user icon, click on it.

Now you are successfully logged in to windows 7 on android emulator.

What you can do on windows 7 emulator on Limbo:

This is a light version of windows 7 and you will see less programs as compared to original windows for pc.

1. You can connect a USB mouse via OTG cable.
2. You can open and manage My Computer on it.
3. You can open and access the control panel.
4. You can Paint in it.
5. You can access the internet in it.

How to check windows version

You can check windows version on this emulator easily. You will see a shortcut on the desktop names as About Windows, click on it.

Now you will see the version of this windows 7, as shown in the image below its Windows Embedded Standard 7.

So, Friends, I hope now you are able to run windows 7 on android. If not feel free to comment below, I will do my best to help you.

Watch YouTube video for better understanding: