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Windows Mobile vs Android

Which Mobile OS you Like

  • Windows Mobile

    Votes: 87 36.0%

  • IOS

    Votes: 31 12.8%

  • Android

    Votes: 166 68.6%

  • Meego

    Votes: 10 4.1%
  • Total voters
    242
YeuEmMaiMai said:
can't win either way but I am glad that the media player pauses when you switch away from it. be big old pitb to talk on the phone with a video playing at the same time... :D
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Yeah though truth be told I have wished it would work sometimes (listening to a video review while surfing the web).

I dunno I like having a picture of my wife as the background on my phone's home screen and another one of her on the lock screen
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I have a picture of my wife on a live tile at the top, and a wide tile of my wife and kids (picture hub link) further down. I get what you're saying. It's just with the list of things I thought I'd miss moving over from Android, constantly switching wallpapers/re-positioning icons around wallpapers all the time wasn't one of them. When I turn on my phone I get a nice almost fully unobstructed wallpaper (of my wife incidentally), and then I swipe up and it's time to get to it. Best of both worlds I'd say, in fact having live tiles is almost more lively and colorful.

Oh I almost forgot, there are actually creative ways to do things with it if you do want more customization. See this example:

http://www.wiztiles.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nMtS_aopY

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That's what I would consider wallpaper (well not using Halo but the general idea).
 
I might get my hands on a friend's Lumia 800 review unit soon (damn guy gets lots of love from Nokia for spamming Symbian forums years ago :cool:)

Anything you guys want to know on the phone (if I get hold of that)? I'm also seeking to get his N9 as well as a comparison device.
 
Unknown-One said:
The Lumia 900 is nice, though it's a bit large. Wish it were 4.0" rather than 4.3"

Guess I'll just have to get my hands on one to check out the feel. Who knows, might be fine.
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I have 4.7" Titan right now and that's just a little too big for one handed use.

From what I saw in videos 900 would fit perfectly in one hand (my hand).
 
OldPueblo said:
A phone should be a great PHONE. A great communication device, easy to use, fast to accomplish tasks, etc. It shouldn't try to be a laptop and I shouldn't have to squint or give the screen tons of attention to be able to get things done. WP7 is just fast at what it does. Communicate.
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Haven't watched the video you linked yet, but how well does WP7 integrate with Gmail? From some videos I have seen it looked like the home screen notification was hooked into Exchange? I assume that can be customized to use Gmail?
 
Thuleman said:
Haven't watched the video you linked yet, but how well does WP7 integrate with Gmail? From some videos I have seen it looked like the home screen notification was hooked into Exchange? I assume that can be customized to use Gmail?
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Gmail is one of the supported services right out of the box and works fine, I have two Gmail accounts that sync with mine. It even supports multiple google calendars. I have those inbox's linked with two other hotmail inboxes so that one tile on my home screen takes me to all of my personal e-mail. I keep my work Exchange account separate. In that 800 video I linked above he shows the account list with everything already integrated. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, etc.

Some people said the Gmail didn't sync right, but you have to setup your account to properly sync on the google side or something. It was a google issue. This has some more info:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/people/set-up-an-email-account.aspx
 
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Gmail has always synced perfectly (mail, contacts, even the calendar) with Windows Phone 7. Google had some sort of server-side issue that cropped up when you tried to use multiple calendars on one account at the same time.

The multiple-calendar issues have been fixed for some time now.
 
Not true. when you deleted a mail on the phone it did not delete it but archived it. I believe Goog recently fixed this.
 
I had an android phone and now have a windows phone. I think WP7 could be better IMO with just a few things.
I miss default apps in android and the notification LED that was on my atrix.

I miss the shear volume of apps. I do have most of the apps I want on WP7 however there is a handful that don't exist for WP7 that I really wish did. I have contacted the developers for all of these apps and some said they are working on it but so far nothing. The rest never responded to me.

Need a notification system. Some tiles show notifications on them. Some don't yet give me a brief toast notification. And for apps you don't have on your home screen you get nothing for them.

I am a heavy google voice user and while there are many 3rd party apps for WP7 they break often. I have 3 of them installed and non are 100% working at the moment. I wish there was a native google voice app. I'd also like to see gtalk integrated into the native messaging app. Rumor is that may happen in tango.
 
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Looks like Windows Phone 8 Apollo looks promising. I just read that just like Android it has global search functionality. Hope they add smart dialing and assignment of customized ringtone for contact along with much advanced and updated maps
 
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