Very impressive
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/windows-phone-7-in-depth-preview/
To bad it doesn't have multi-tasking yet
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/windows-phone-7-in-depth-preview/
To bad it doesn't have multi-tasking yet
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I find it funny how people are saying that this phone has to be perfect. It just needs to do what people need and look good for a time and then there's the next big thing. This phone has that in spades.
After having worked with the developer tools it's really just a matter of time, there'll be thousands and thousands of apps in no time, hell it's just .NET and C#, tons of Windows desktop code will ALREADY work on this thing.
This is a work of art. The iPhone and Android are going to lose a few customers, not droves but a few.
I think that because of the copy and paste and multi tasking it won't be as adopted as readily as it would be out of the gate. This will cause problems in gaining market share, which is exactly what MS needs to do out of the gate.
They said the same about iPhone when it was first released. As long as MS doesn't wait an eternity to bring those items to the table in a future update it won't really matter.
Windows Mobile was a complete wreck for many years ...
The big difference comes down to consumer perception. Apple customers believe that bug fixes and features that should've been there from the start being added later for free is the greatest boon ever bestowed. WinMo and droid customers believe that the same bug/feature fixes should've been expected from initial release. IE. Apple customers feel grateful for any updates. WinMo/Droid customers feel entitled to updates.
Somehow Apple, on the other hand, has gotten its users trained like Pavlov's dog into craving every tiny update as soon as it comes out.
The big difference comes down to consumer perception. Apple customers believe that bug fixes and features that should've been there from the start being added later for free is the greatest boon ever bestowed. WinMo and droid customers believe that the same bug/feature fixes should've been expected from initial release. IE. Apple customers feel grateful for any updates. WinMo/Droid customers feel entitled to updates.
When companies want to sell these things as smart phones, it is important that they can all run the latest apps.
The best thing that MS could do here would be to work out a system where any 7 series phone would be able to install WP7 OS updates.
I find it funny how people are saying that this phone has to be perfect. It just needs to do what people need and look good for a time and then there's the next big thing. This phone has that in spades.
After having worked with the developer tools it's really just a matter of time, there'll be thousands and thousands of apps in no time, hell it's just .NET and C#, tons of Windows desktop code will ALREADY work on this thing.
This is a work of art. The iPhone and Android are going to lose a few customers, not droves but a few.
Joe Belfiore said:Not having the ability to play Pandora music in the background didn't prevent the iPhone from getting a lot of growth...
Good interview. Nice to see a little honesty out of a company that works on phones!
Hey ocellaris...
It doesn't count when the OS update cripples the phone (iOS 4.0.x and the iPhone 3G)
Having used Windows Mobile for years, the platform was just fine. What wasn't fine was peoples expectation of it. I rely heavily on exchange and office for work and WinMo is the best platform for that. They kept the basics the same for backwards compatibility. It was more a business mans phone and it did very well for that. They are merely going after a different market now after putting minimal effort into the previous platform for the average person.
Apple customer support just earned MS a pre-order for a 7. The fucking bitch laughed at me...
Exactly. Microsoft never got WinMo up to consumer level standards and expectations. Since I think 99% of what people do on phones is stupid time wasting and productive stuff anyway, I never felt the urge to get an iPhone or Droid. Indeed the #1 killer feature on my Touch Pro 2 is the speaker phone, which it FAR more important to me than a bunch of mostly time wasting apps, I waste enough time on this forum!
But 7 is almost most toally consumer oriented. I look forward to having Zune on my phone in the coming months.
there's no excuse to lack features that your competition has already implemented via updates, not to mention previous versions of your phone OS have had them. none.
Sure there is, people simply don't use that stuff much on phones. I'm not saying that I it shouldn't be there but its more important to get the phone one the door and in peoples and developers hands than it is to finish a feature that isn't used by as most people and there are better ways to implement some of that functionality anyway.
For me Zune is FAR more important than copy and paste as it's the main reason I'm getting a Win 7 Phone. As long as it doesn't take two years like Apple (and it didn't bother the iPhone did it?) and hopefully a lot less that will be fine for most users. This phone has so many other things going for it that it a minor issue.
don't get me wrong. I would love to have a win7 phone myself. from what i've seen and heard, its totally amazing and definitely sounding like something worth waiting for. but not if its going the "we'll get to x feature when we feel like caring" route that seems to be going around the smartphone platform devs. sorry, but I don't put faith in promises.
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