The leaked Microsoft document from Tweakers.net gets into a little detail about minimum hardware requirements for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices. We already had a good idea of what we were looking forward to, but now we are looking at firm minimum requirements, plus a “Performance Chassis” which boasts slightly better numbers.

Minimum specs look as follows:

• ARM v7-based processor
• feature a “back”, “home” and “search” buttons, volume and camera too
• hardware acceleration for DirectX API
• capacitive multi-touch screen
• digital camera
• Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and WiFi b/g
• FM radio
• A-GPS
• accelerometer, compass and proximity sensors

The Windows Phone 7 Performance Chassis adds a strict minimum of 480×800 resolution for the screen and something called “gesture interface” support (no details on what that means). There may also be some memory optimization involved.

So, like much of what has come out of these leaked docs: not much surprise here. Of particular interest, however, is the ARM v7 requirement, which keeps Intel’s Moorestown chips.

Check out these other three posts for more details from the leaked Microsoft documents:

• Leaked Docs Show Windows Phone 7 Architecture
• Windows Phone 7 Update Procedure Detailed in Leaked Docs
• Details on Windows Phone 7 Customization from Leaked Microsoft Docs

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