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Here is what windows 7 phone would look like.

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Here is what windows 7 phone would look like.

Here is muck up on what windows 7 phone would look like.

Microsoft missed the train.
 

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When iOS was still upholstered in green felt and Android looked liked the forgotten Fratelli OS that had to be locked in the basement, Windows Phone 7 felt like the future. The flat design aesthetic, borrowed from transport signage was a breath of fresh air and went on to influence nearly every facet of graphic design. Unlike the plodding performance of its rivals, WP7 worked. Press the search key and Bing swept in from the side in an instant. Hold down the shutter key and the camera was there. Having Facebook, Twitter and SMS all rolled into the People Hub made communications clean. Click on a contact and you could see all their posts, chronologically.

It was the last great challenger to the Apple/Google duopoly and gave both of them the kick in the pants they needed. Apple re-envisioned the iPhone with iOS7 and Google realised homogeny wasn't so bad and released Lollipop (Android 5).

Windows Phone 8 built on the success of 7 with some much-needed improvements but they took a lot of it in the wrong direction with the 8.1 release. Games no longer needed Xbox certification and thus populated the apps menu instead of the neat Games Hub. Facebook pulled support for the People Hub. They added a notification shade that was never needed because Live Tiles were always a better solution. The Groove music app slowed to a crawl (ironically forcing a dev to release a shortcut to the old music app, still buried in the OS) and Cortana was a brave but foolish step.

People blame Google for not supporting the platform but it made no difference. Microsoft shot themselves in the foot so many times they couldn't recover.

Its a shame really. For a minute there the Windows Phone/Surface/Xbox 360 ecosystem was brilliant. All the devices worked together yet still stood apart. Something often overlooked when looking when people say they are bored with the iPhone is the samey-ness of Apple devices.
 
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When iOS was still upholstered in green felt and Android looked liked the forgotten Fratelli OS that had to be locked in the basement, Windows Phone 7 felt like the future. The flat design aesthetic, borrowed from transport signage was a breath of fresh air and went on to influence nearly every facet of graphic design. Unlike the plodding performance of its rivals, WP7 worked. Press the search key and Bing swept in from the side in an instant. Hold down the shutter key and the camera was there. Having Facebook, Twitter and SMS all rolled into the People Hub made communications clean. Click on a contact and you could see all their posts, chronologically.

It was the last great challenger to the Apple/Google duopoly and gave both of them the kick in the pants they needed. Apple re-envisioned the iPhone with iOS7 and Google realised homogeny wasn't so bad and released Lollipop (Android 5).

Windows Phone 8 built on the success of 7 with some much-needed improvements but they took a lot of it in the wrong direction with the 8.1 release. Games no longer needed Xbox certification and thus populated the apps menu instead of the neat Games Hub. Facebook pulled support for the People Hub. They added a notification shade that was never needed because Live Tiles were always a better solution. The Groove music app slowed to a crawl (ironically forcing a dev to release a shortcut to the old music app, still buried in the OS) and Cortana was a brave but foolish step.

People blame Google for not supporting the platform but it made no difference. Microsoft shot themselves in the foot so many times they couldn't recover.

Its a shame really. For a minute there the Windows Phone/Surface/Xbox 360 ecosystem was brilliant. All the devices worked together yet still stood apart. Something often overlooked when looking when people say they are bored with the iPhone is the samey-ness of Apple devices.
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Back around the iPhone 4S/5 days when I was really craving a bigger phone and the iPhone 5 felt like the wrong direction to take with it's "taller not wider" approach, I briefly jumped to Windows Phone with the Nokia Lumia 900, android at the time didn't feel mature enough with it's stuttery animations. I loved it, it's too bad Google chose to actively sabotage it by refusing to release any Google apps for it, and repeatedly change how their services worked so that 3rd party apps would repeatedly break.

Microsoft even paid Devs to make apps for then platform but the majority of them would take the money and make a barebones port and then never update it again. The final straw was when Microsoft pulled a Windows Phone 8 and announced any existing WP7 devices wouldn't get it, mine would be stuck on 7. Having a flagship phone declared obsolete and unsupported a few months after ownership really stung.

Eventually Android Jelly Bean launched with "project butter" to smooth out the animations, and I jumped ship to the Nexus 4.
 
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Back around the iPhone 4S/5 days when I was really craving a bigger phone and the iPhone 5 felt like the wrong direction to take with it's "taller not wider" approach, I briefly jumped to Windows Phone with the Nokia Lumia 900, android at the time didn't feel mature enough with it's stuttery animations. I loved it, it's too bad Google chose to actively sabotage it by refusing to release any Google apps for it, and repeatedly change how their services worked so that 3rd party apps would repeatedly break.

Microsoft even paid Devs to make apps for then platform but the majority of them would take the money and make a barebones port and then never update it again. The final straw was when Microsoft pulled a Windows Phone 8 and announced any existing WP7 devices wouldn't get it, mine would be stuck on 7. Having a flagship phone declared obsolete and unsupported a few months after ownership really stung.

Eventually Android Jelly Bean launched with "project butter" to smooth out the animations, and I jumped ship to the Nexus 4.
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Was that the one with the rubbery grip on it? I could never get passed that myself. The Nexus 5 though was an absolute beast of a phone and one of the best I've ever owned.
 
eltoslightfoot said:
SO MANY!

The Zune, smartwatch, smartphone, tablet (which it kind of has).

Heck even selling music and movies. Like why give that up?
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Have you seen the moonraker watch project? talk about apple ripping something off. It's the apple watch years before the apple watch was released. But yes. Zune was way better than apple ipod for ease of use, sound quality, repairability etc, Windows mobile was the best, Microslop just had nobody with the testicular fortitude to see the projects continue to grow. They released something (especially under Nadumba) then 6 months later before it could even mature and grow they would cancel it. He's a useless CEO for consumer and business. All he's about it mass profits instead of having both. He would have all the profits they are enjoying, but more with consumer and enterprise hardware/software/services. He's to short sighted to see the forest through the trees.
 
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Was that the one with the rubbery grip on it? I could never get passed that myself. The Nexus 5 though was an absolute beast of a phone and one of the best I've ever owned.
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I don't recall any rubber on it, it had a glass back with a glitter effect, and plastic sides.
 
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