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Originally Posted by birddseedd
in fact no customizing AT ALL. the ugly home screen is the way it is and thats it. no changing it, no customizing it to the way you use the device. people are saying wp7 is a real step down,
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what they officially meant is there's no overlay to run on top of / in place of Metro such as Sense/TouchWiz/etc, there probably will be some customizable elements although we don't know to what extent, yet
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Originally Posted by birddseedd
no multitasking
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multitasks just as much as the iphone and android. it doesn't necessarily run everything all at once (although same apps will run in the background uninterrupted) but if you leave an app without actually closing it the phone "freezes" the app in its exact position to pick up where you left it
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Originally Posted by birddseedd
no cut copy paste
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microsoft actually said they left it out because they're trying to make the OS smart enough to not need it. for example if you were to copy/paste an address from the browser to maps/navigation you'd just have to tap the address and the OS would know what you want to do with it. that may be a situational menu where it wants to know if youre navigating or just saving the information but the idea is to eliminate the need for copy/paste
and they've implied they have true copy/paste on standby just in case their experiment doesn't work
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Originally Posted by birddseedd
doesent even have a usb connection to your pc.
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i haven't seen anything about that claim, do you have a source? and it doesn't really make sense to eliminate a pc connection because some people still plug in to sync with the pc, however the Zune HD can sync over wifi and they may have carried that function over to WP7.
but they have to charge the phone somewhere and since the new standard is microusb we could assume that WP7 phones will have that port and at that point its only a matter of driver to make it sync to a pc so why wouldn't they just put them in
as for the original question, yes for the moment you have the home screen of tiles on the left then you can "slide" right and there is a single column list of the installed apps that are not otherwise associated with a system hub. i can post a screen shot of the emulator MS released if everyone is that interested