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[Merged] Windows Mobile running on iPhone / iPod touch
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calm down pismodude2, as cal6n says it could be a choreographed video (i have a few on my ipod touch to catch out gullible people) or it could be really (i hope it is)well just have to wait and see
whats this about the earth being round, youre not a witch are you?
whats this about the earth being round, youre not a witch are you?
Indeed, it obviously is a hoax. Just look at the other videos on that site.
All viral marketing.
http://myphone2008.com/impressum.html
You can use MS Office apps on the iPod Touch. If you are talking about editing spreadsheets then it would be ridiculous to do that on a smart phone's small screen. There are nearly 4000 apps on the App Store and more than half of them are fantastic and satisfy most users.
Bwahahaha
That's a sneaky trick there, Sesshi, quoting yourself like that to prove a point.
Um-do you have any support for this comment? Have you ever used WM? There is no way it is "much more powerful". If you had said "much more lame" I would agree-and I used to own the T-Mobile Dash-so yes I HAVE had experience with it.
I've used it daily since the 700w came out then used a 700wx for the last 2.5+ years since that came out.
A Tmobile dash is such a poor implementation with WM, that you, my friend are the one that has no experience with it. The dash is mostly considered a joke by those that use WM. No offense. Doesn't it use WM smarphone edition rather than WM pocket pc edition? Not sure there. Anyhow a dash isn't even close to a treo in capability.
A WM phone can do 10x the things an iPhone can do, and I use both on a daily or near daily basis. As I said, and I fully stand behind it, the only thing iPhone does better than WM is media, but even then there are many cool media things iPhone can't do. Iphone is slicker, and all marketing, imho. Nearly everything that apple lists on their ads as "revolutionary" and "going to change everything" is something you've been able to do on WM for years/at least since WM5.
I've had my iPhones since day 2 of 3g launch.
If you'd like me to start rattling off those features feel free, but you're only going to look silly.
Maybe they've got nothing better to do in Norway...
I saw a guy with a Black MacBook that has Vista on it...
I dunno- a friend of mine has the 700wx (I think, is this the HST (could have that name wrong too) phone?) and he has iPhone envy. I am a life long windows person, just recently switching to all Mac-and I must say-Apple's old ad line of a Mac "just working" seems true to me on both the phone and the Mac Mini.
That's ludicrous. I had iPhone envy too before I got one. Envy makes not a valid comparison. It's a fine device, but again, it's not nearly as capable. I think you mean HTC. That's not the Treo 700wx which is made by palm. Just working? You jest...like Mobile Me? the constant dropped calls? Safari crashing, and any number of basic things still missing like cut and paste? Apple has solved the bulk of iPhone problems in short order, much faster than palm has ever solved anything by tenfold. And I don't buy into the WM/Apple stability issue. Sure some ppl had some problems, I did, too, but compared to the what, roughly 25million units/licenses out there? It works very, very well. Both iPhone and WM "just work" for the overwhelming number of consumers.
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but the site is obviously a viral marketing site for the only real product on there - Sonic Emotion: have a look here
The WinMo product is clearly a choreographed video but I was more impressed with the other "products":
real time food analyzer that gives accurate calorie count from a picture?
strap on metal detector / xray machine?
The WinMo product is clearly a choreographed video but I was more impressed with the other "products":
real time food analyzer that gives accurate calorie count from a picture?
strap on metal detector / xray machine?
It's most likely choreographed, but not for the reason you state.
WM does run on an ARM device, and it's documented enough that a good hacker could do a port, at the least by using some of the Apple code. (I once ported a specialized GUI to the Atari ST, using some of the ST ROM code in situ for low level graphics initialization and mouse input.)
After looking at it again, it may simply be an iPhone app running that displays the appropriate screens and actions in a choreographed video.
Not enough functions were shown to make a true assessment. It does, however, seem to boot faster than the real version.
Could there be a port?
Interesting.
I guess he has the time to do it.
totally fake....
1. He did the "Slide to Unlock Swipe" on the screen before he shows the camera the iPhone screen (I thought the phone was just booted in order to work)
2. After he shows the calendar he touch's the screen once, but another screen pops up with no other touch.
PS - he never really touches the screen (primarially because the Video Controls would pop up) He also pretends to touch the home button, but barely makes contact with no real push. Anybody that has an iPhone knows that if you are holding the phone with one hand it takes a pretty decent push to trigger the home button (his iPhone didn't even budge)
Explanation: This is probably just a video (rendered vertically) being played that they practiced and synced.
1. He did the "Slide to Unlock Swipe" on the screen before he shows the camera the iPhone screen (I thought the phone was just booted in order to work)
2. After he shows the calendar he touch's the screen once, but another screen pops up with no other touch.
PS - he never really touches the screen (primarially because the Video Controls would pop up) He also pretends to touch the home button, but barely makes contact with no real push. Anybody that has an iPhone knows that if you are holding the phone with one hand it takes a pretty decent push to trigger the home button (his iPhone didn't even budge)
Explanation: This is probably just a video (rendered vertically) being played that they practiced and synced.
Am I the only one who thought the "host" was a complete bitch?
"...And you don't have girlfriends in ...?"
Pretty much saying the guy has no life. Bitch.
"...And you don't have girlfriends in ...?"
Pretty much saying the guy has no life. Bitch.
Its a pretty basic one, much like the BlackJack or Moto Q. Not amazing, but hardly poor.
Yes, all WM meet on a committee and decide what is a joke phone and what is amazing phone. I spend a large amount of time on smartphone forums, and there isn't a "Dash is a joke" feeling. I'll admit people don't go around talking about how its the best WM device out there, but its hardly a bad one.
Wanna back that up? They run (basically) the same OS, and big thing the Treo has is a touch screen, and higher specs. But they are indeed "close in capability"
I just like the idea of being able to choose which OS to use... for functionality's sake, sometimes its just easier to use WinMo.
I mean, I love the iPhone OS, but still, there comes certain times where the option would be nice.
I mean, I love the iPhone OS, but still, there comes certain times where the option would be nice.
I would expect that in the future, more powerful and capable apps will be introduced.
Basically is not the same. I've played with a Q many times and a blackjack twice. I'd call them a poor implementation of WM.
I also participate on two WM forums, and you're right, they don't blatantly say it's a joke. However none of the power users and forum's leaders/developers use it. They all use touch screen devices implementing WM like treo, HTC, etc.
Regardless of the above, I stand by what I said, WM has 10x the capability of iPhone on everything but media. Customizing it does not require jailbreaking, and generally I find that despite iPhone's cool UI, WM is faster and easier to get many basic things done.
I have to agree with you, after watching the other video's It looks like this convention should be in a next Chevy Chase "Vacation" film, or added to the Vegas Vacation film where he goes into that casino with his brother in law and tries to win some money playing "War", Fish, Paper & scissors and some other kids games, At least they had the convention in the right city..