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Originally Posted by champ052005
How is WP7 a dumbphone? What defines WM6.x from being a smartphone and WP7 being a dumbphone?
You are bashing WP7, and that is your right to voice your opinion, but I don't understand why. I can understand if you don't like the UI but what can't WP7 do that WM6.x do? The truth is, we don't have any details to call it a dumbphone.
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It has to do with the interaction of the OS and the software on it. From what they showed and how they said that oems wont be able to customize the UI points toward dumb phone. Not to mention it sounded like they are gonna take the "app store" approach. Not to mention they clearly said its not a pocket pc...so if its not a pocket pc its a dumbphone..don't take "dumbphone" as a bashing..its just a slang term to refer to a phone thats not a "smartphone"
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Reason they probably called it 7 rather then giving it a new name is probably to trick people into thinking its a new version that 7 and not a new OS altogether..like a lot of criticism for WebOS was that while many liked it, many felt uncertain because it had no version behind it. By claiming its 7.0 your showing "development".. some companies do same thing and skip version 1.0 and release 2.0 just not to show that the software is in its infancy.
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Also you don't want windows XP on your phone, as XP is not made for such small screens making some things untouchable.