Sep 11, 2010 08:38 GMT  ·  By

As the launch date of Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system approaches, more info on the platform make it into the wild, as the company brought various handset prototypes to tech events around the world to showcase the capabilities of its new OS.

Among these capabilities, we can count the integration with Xbox Live, meant to offer a new approach to mobile gaming when compared to other similar services available for mobile phones.

We've already learned a wide range of details on the gaming capabilities of Windows Phone 7, but nothing seems to compare with seeing a device in action, that's for sure.

The videos embedded at the bottom of this article are meant to offer us a glimpse at what the Xbox Live integration on Windows Phone 7 is all about.

Moreover, it would also offer us the possibility to take another look at one Windows Phone prototype from Samsung, and at the manner in which it plays along with the upcoming OS, even if both the hardware and the software are not finished releases.

A recent article on MobileTechWorld notes that the handset that can be seen in the first video below might be the Samsung Taylor that we've seen before into the wild, and that the video was probably shot during the GamesCom event in Germany.

As for the second video, it comes from Tested.com (via MobileTechWorld), and was shot at a Windows Phone 7 booth at PAX 2010 this year.

The 14 minutes long video offers us hands-on with a series of pretty appealing games, including Ilomilo, The Harvest, Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst and Zombies!.

The main character in the video is once again the Samsung Taylor prototype, which reportedly performs a little faster than LG's GW910, even if they pack the same CPU inside.

All in all, the one thing that seems to be certain is that upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices would be able to offer a nice experience when it comes to their gaming capabilities.

In all fairness, Microsoft tried to make sure that this would happen through setting certain minimum requirements for upcoming devices, though it remains to be seen how well would these phones perform when in users' hands.