Windows Phone 7 Hubs

The Windows Phone 7 interface is organized in a series of screens known as “hubs,” which offer information and tasks in related areas. As with the Zune HD, which uses a simpler variant of the same “Metro” interface, horizontal menus on the phone can stretch across several screen-widths, and some elements appear partially obscured at the edge of the screen to remind the user that more commands are available if they scroll to the side. The most common commands for any given feature in the phone interface will be available on the screen; additional commands can be “pulled up” by moving a finger from the bottom of the screen.

Every Windows Phone 7 will have at least six hubs, as follows.

People (shown here) will include contact menus in different configurations (e.g., all contacts, recently accessed contacts) with live tiles representing each one. Clicking on a contact will deliver a menu with all the ways the user might want to communicate, including making a phone call, sending a text message, or sending an e-mail.