While you’re listening to music on a Windows Phone 7 device, you might be wondering how easy it is to get to the next track. It turns out there’s a mini-player that you can access from the Start screen for your music controlling ease of use. Check out this screen capture from Long Zheng’s walkthrough.
It reminds me a bit of the Web OS notification area that also included media player controls. This should be a big improvement over existing media player controls that require navigating to the specific application. If pressing the volume control hardware buttons make this mini-player immediately visible in all applications, that would be great. Hopefully there will be a hands-free voice interface for controlling music too. Then you won’t have to touch the device at all!
Originally published on Pocketnow on July 13, 2010. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.