Microsoft today at Mix officially revealed the hardware specifications of Windows Phone 7 Series. So, now all the manufacturers have to follow these minimum set of specifications for every Windows Phone 7 Series device.

• 3 hardware buttons – Start, Search, and Back
• Capacitive touch screen with 4 or more contact points
• Only two possible screen resolutions – 800×480 and 480×320
• A-GPS, Accelerometer, Compass, Light, Proximity
• 5 MP camera with flash and dedicated camera button
• Codec acceleration for multimedia
• 256MB RAM with 8GB flash for storage
• DirectX 9 accelerated GPU
• ARMv7 Cortex/Scorpion

[via Neowin]

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