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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Handsets

I love tech!
I have the ps3 250 gig, the iphone 4, psp god or war edition, 13 inch AL macbook before it became the macbook pro. So I'm not a hater or a rabbit Apple fanboy. But this crap from MS make me nauseous. All them phones and not one will be available on all carriers. And with al the talk about xbox, where the hell are the dedicated gaming controls?
HTC is supposed to be sooooo innovative but where are the controls needed to play them high end xbox games like Halo? Opps. Not!
Fail. Epic fail.
And by the way, you'll be buying the same Android hardware cause don't believe for a second that those 3rd party celly makers built them winmo phones from scratch just for windows.
 
So many negative comments! Competition is good and Apple could learn a thing or two from the other people in the smartphone market. Personally, I think Apple had the best hardware and the worst UI. I'd love the today screen from way back in Windows Mobile 5 (I think it was 5) on my iPhone. I like the customisable home screens on all the other major Phone OSs. Why Apple decided to have the application-centric home screen and navigation is beyond me to be honest.
Don't get me wrong, I don't really want a Windows phone, I just want Apple to look at the market and see that they way they have designed the UI might just not be the best for all users.
You've given us truly terrific hardware, Apple, now please give us the software to match.
 
roland.g said:
And the paralysis of Flash.
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Yeah, that's the spirit, I knew you'd come around and realise choice was good. :D

(Btw, Flash is a Market app and it has an option to set its run mode : Off, OnDemand and On. Upgrading to 2.2 does not automatically mean that Flash is On all the time. It's completely optional.)
 
spazzcat said:
No, I don't want my personal info on my lock screen. That is why its a locked screen.
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Fantastic - my question was don't you want to control what goes on there? If you had control, you wouldn't have to put your SSN on there.

But you could, like that lifelock guy. ;)
 
customization

roland.g said:
I don't need clutter on my home screen. I unlock it and use it and go on my way. I use my folders, my multitasking, and it all works quite well for me.
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Agreed, over-customizeability can complicate and ultimately ruin a product.
If thats what you're looking for, theres this company called microsoft.
 
roland.g said:
Have you seen market share. Sure they might get their toe in the door, then Apple will release iOS 5 and break it clean off.

Try to sell me a phone with Facebook built into the homescreen and you've already failed.
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The way I see it, as long as I can install/uninstall homescreen items, themes, apps, plugins, hacks, addons, modules whatever - it'll go me. The iphone has Apps. Thats it. You cant have homescreen 'widgets' or extras...its very limiting being confined to an app and a popup box.

This is where I think android hits the nail on the head - apps can run on the homescreen, you can download widgets, etc. Speed isn't an issue as you can close stuff whenever you like (something Apple only just added) and you can make your phone as bogged down, or as slick as you like. Freedom of choice is power. Restricting people to what 1 guy wants is dictatorship.
 
KnightWRX said:
*sigh*, so should we list the Kodak, Motorola, HTC and Nokia patents Apple are infringing ? :rolleyes:
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At least in this narrow case, Apple did pay for Exchange. Good money that Google should have paid for. We just upgraded to Exchange '10 and only the iPhones went seemlessly. The Androids had to be manually changed by hand.
 
dankedieter said:
Agreed, over-customizeability can complicate and ultimately ruin a product.
If thats what you're looking for, theres this company called microsoft.
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Under-customizeability can render a product useless too. Have you looked at the Settings in an iPhone lately ? The thing just scrolls on forever. What is one pane more or less with the already dozens of pages...
 
For those who keep wondering why there are 9 (but I think 10 different phones), that's because Microsoft just developed the OS, different companies produce the phone.

Note: I do think it's funny how they try to criticize that there are too many phone, trying hard to put it in the same category as the different versions of Windows. But the bottom line, Microsoft just makes the OS.
 
I believe WP7 has onenote, xbox live. Stuff that quite a few Mac users use. In fact a lot of mac users tend to have a xbox 360. So stop hating just because it's MS.
 
flopticalcube said:
Makes the ios home screen look dull and dated. Maybe Apple has something in the works for the next release. Android and WP7 should be able to keep Apple on it's ios toes.
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I agree. It is a shame that the iPhone requires you to launch an app for any function other than time and date, and date may require scrolling. Information density is very low, which forces you to either have multiple apps for trivial functions, or to scroll multiple pages. Apple's weather and stock apps are good examples. It is fine for some things, but I have no desire to download 10 apps and still need to go to a website for more information.

The home screen is a good spot for people to access information quickly that is important to them! This is one of the good things about jail breaking the iPhone.
 
roland.g said:
Have you seen market share. Sure they might get their toe in the door, then Apple will release iOS 5 and break it clean off.

Try to sell me a phone with Facebook built into the homescreen and you've already failed.
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Shortsighted and pointless comment. Remove the tile.

roland.g said:
I don't need clutter on my home screen. I unlock it and use it and go on my way. I use my folders, my multitasking, and it all works quite well for me.
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Your life is simple. Good for you. Others may need/want a little more.
 
Johnny2009 said:
I think this is great... The more competition the better! We will see IF, MS can catch Apple in market share with their business model. Competition is good for everyone!
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I Agree.

Good competition is good for every body. Crappy competition is good for no one !!
 
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It looks kind of good. I'd rather go with this than with Android (but I'm not leaving iPhone in a good while. While other people yell about the greatness of "open" I'm very satisfied with the way Apple handle iPhone. One refresh a year for the phone and OS, and it will be supported with all updates for at least two years. In the meanwhile I can be pretty certain that whatever app I hear about I can run on my phone. And the hardware is great).

In an optimal world, tablet and smartphone OS market share would end up with 3-5 big players (iOS, Android, WP7, webOS and possibly MeeGo looks most promising right now) as well as possibly some niche players. I think this would be great for everyone (and I hope HP goes the Apple way with webOS, refresh once a year, limited amount of different hardware etc).
 
Noted!

KnightWRX said:
Under-customizeability can render a product useless too. Have you looked at the Settings in an iPhone lately ? The thing just scrolls on forever. What is one pane more or less with the already dozens of pages...
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It is notable. It could/should/might/please-will-they be addressed in future releases. Apple did the OS and have been evolving it for 4+years. They are also on their 4th solid generation.

Let's see how stable this WP7 is.
 
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