Adam Woodman talks Windows Phone with Mary Branscombe

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Over on Tech Radar, Mary Branscombe has published her CES interview with Adam Woodman from Microsoft's Windows Phone group to talk about the state of play with Windows Phone, the current hardware implementations, and where the future lies for areas such as multi-core, NFC support, and the familiar chant of developers.

There's one "money quote" from the article on the geekerati flashpoint issue of multi-core processors:

We've decided to focus our energy on hardware optimisation. On a single core, I feel like we have better performance than a great deal of the dual core devices out there without having to sacrifice or balance things like battery life.

In a blind test, can you tell if a phone has a dual core or not? And would you pick Windows Phone as not having one? Exactly, the real world tends towards this view, while tech blogs will follow the spec sheet.

The message from Woodman is very much on what is happening now, and any question of updates down the line were batted away, but the other major point stressed is a familiar one. Developers.

"We are absolute dependant on developers falling in love with the product. It's so important to the value we ultimately deliver to the customer that they're always first and we will continue that kind of disclosure and transparency. I feel like - lots more than any other vendor out there – we have been more transparent."

And yes, it does sound like Branscombe has grilled Woodman on the removal of the Updates page on the Windows Phone blog. The short answer is that it was put in place because of the extended time to release NoDo across the Windows Phone range - but with Mango showing it can be done in a short space of time ("compressed" was the phrase used), Microsoft believe the detail in the table will not be needed in the future.

That's a tough judgement call to make, but given the permutations of devices, carriers, version numbers, testing, and a few other factors, it does make sense to fous on simply getting it out to people as fast as possible, with blog posts to alert switched on.

The full interview is up on Tech Radar now.

Source / Credit: Mary Branscombe (Tech Radar)