In my previous post I compared all the major out of the box features of the upcoming Windows Phone “Mango” release vs the upcoming “iOS5”. Now I have decided to focus a little more specifically on the social media features of each of the phone operating systems out of the box.

I do realise that a lot of the features that iOS is lacking out of the box can be done using an “App”. However having an integrated experience in the phone with these does make it a lot easier for the end users.  I would also argues that Apple knows that having an integrated experience is much better for the user as this is exactly why they are adding inbuilt features such as Twitter to iOS platform.

Clearly the winner here as to what phone is the better “Social” device is Windows Phone. Even when you compare the current NoDo release with iOS there is much better social integration out of the box. This table also shows that Windows Phone “Mango” is definitely the closet thing a consumer can have to having a truly native “Facebook” phone.

Microsoft’s Channel 9 video site has posted a video about Windows Phone 7 Series. They actually confirm some hardware requirements of Windows Phone 7 Devices. This is also a really good demo of the Internet Explorer on normal web sites.

• Requires GPS
• Requires Touch Screen – Capasitive
• Options Keyboard
• WVGA Screen Resolution (800×480, 848×480, or 854×480)

Also confirmed was that the device would fully support Exchange, Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo email,contact and calendar services.

Another touch feature showing off the integration with social networks was the Facebook photo gallery integration that automatically works by only having to sign in once into Facebook.

The predictive text was also very impressive how you could go back and easily pick the correct word if you did a mistype. While it was not mentioned you can also see that it support the pushing of status messages to multiple services (Windows Live & Facebook) with one post. Presumably this means other third-party could extend this services like twitter and foursquare.

Source http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/First-Look-Windows-Phone-7-Series-Hands-on-Demo/