Draft:Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 is a mobile operating system released by Microsoft in 2010. It is the first operating system in the Windows Phone series, replacing Windows Mobile. It was succeeded by Windows Phone 8 in 2012.

Lock screen wallpapers
Windows Phone 7 features an entirely new interface named Metro, which does not use a wallpaper on the home screen, instead opting for a pure black background. However, Phone 7 introduces a lock screen, which has a selection of wallpapers to pick from. While the first 16 of these are photos, the last 10 are simple colors, which were later reused in Phone 8. Many of these are known to have been licensed from Getty Images and Corbis, however many of them have unknown origins, so they could possibly have been taken by Microsoft employees.

Windows Phone 7.5 and 7.8
Phone 7.5 slightly refreshed the wallpaper set, replacing a portion of them with new ones. [todo: table]

Build 6077
Early builds such as build 6077 had a completely different set of wallpapers consisting of only six, very likely intended as placeholders. All of these seem to have been taken by Microsoft employees; camera metadata is still present in most of them. [todo: table]

Sample pictures
Phone 7 has a set of sample pictures that can be seen on the tile for the Photos app. Many of these were later reused in Phone 8. Oddly, it also includes the two sample pictures present in Mobile 5.0 to 6.1 Professional, despite these being replaced in 6.1 Standard and all versions of 6.5. [todo: table]

Build 6077
The sample picture set in build 6077 is also completely different. These also include camera metadata, so they were likely produced in-house too. [todo: table]

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