Windows Phone 7 Discussion

[Biggzz]

I am not being negative but i will say with all the hype and build up i am truly disappointed in W7. Maybe i will change my mind someday but for now they didn't give us anything we have not already seen from palm, iphone or LG

[fixxxer2012]

Originally Posted by gcianc

dead wrong.... i'm NOT easily impressed.

if this looks like iPhone to you then you're either totally biased, a hater or blind.

in fact though, i despise TF3D/Sense and most geek garbage posted. iPhone is a decent but clumsy start... YAWN.

Even more though i HATE NO INTEGRATION and jumping thru hoops to get basic stuff working. i do consider myself clue'd into the real world though. If you sold (ie. customers payed YOU for software YOU developed) then perhaps you'd be there too.

The WM7 phone showed today - if it did NOTHING MORE - would SELL ITSELF on all carriers over palm and 'droid and blackberry as well as do great on ATT/iPhone.

android is now poised to be the "give it away to geeks" platform that carriers will shun (once wp7 ships in mass) unless they get serious payola.

Vendors NEED product to sell and WP7 will sell, sell, sell based on what you already saw. Anyone with a clue will recognize this.

sorry WP7 is a GAME CHANGER more than i myself actually ever expected.

if i read your post right? your wrong, the android fan base is growing by the day and after the announcement of iphone users being blocked from the market if jailbroken yeah android will hold it's own just fine. im glad you like the winmo 7 interface i myself don't like what i see and ill stick to android. what microsoft needs is htc to step in and help them design a interface.

[gcianc]

no problem, they all are really poor in comparison... sorry cooks but as Tuna (bill parcells) once said so eloquently

"if i'm going to be the cook then i want to buy the groceries".

Custom ROMs were sometimes better than the Verizon/Sprint/Att/etc roms... they were not perfect or anything special given the groceries the cooks had to work with.

Originally Posted by amw1972

I'll bump all the IMPRESSED posts...but here's my take...

As much as its nice to see M$ taking a giant LEAP with WinPho7...they basically closed the book on 6.5 and 6.5.x. All the custom ROM's that we love to run...the custom interfaces...most of those if NOT all will be moot within the next couple of years.

[Tim Smith]

Originally Posted by fixxxer2008

just keep telling yourself wm7 rocks man.

So if I like it and am happy with it I'm wrong? I wasn't aware your opinion was the official one that everyone had to adopt.

[gcianc]

Originally Posted by fixxxer2008

if i read your post right? your wrong, the android fan base is growing by the day and after the announcement of iphone users being blocked from the market if jailbroken yeah android will hold it's own just fine. im glad you like the winmo 7 interface i myself don't like what i see and ill stick to android. what microsoft needs is htc to step in and help them design a interface.

"growing by the day"... ROTF ... we're just out of the starting gate. a month or two of sales data does not make a long-term patter

jailbreakers and GEEKS are a SMALL PERCENT of smartphone purchasing for 2010, 2011, etc.

HTC software is pure garbage by comparison to what you saw today. Microsoft has bit it's tongue, swallowed it's corporate pride and helped vendors ship devices for xmas 2009 (wm6.5, imagio, tp2, make-shift facebook app & 6.x marketplace ) while putting a HUGE EFFORT in what really matters... LONG TERM... WP7.

sorry haters.

move past the hate... it's really lame and life too short

[Tim Smith]

Originally Posted by Noir

What would be nice is a global strategic release of the software and hardware (something we didn't see with wp6.5). So all that said, I think I may jump ship just to get a new experience thereof. All in all, time will tell of the changes made. I think maybe there should be some time. I can definitely now see wp7 phone in the htc hd3 and the hd2 too despite the no search button requirement. I have a lot of questions at MIX and I hope they will be answered. But so far, I went from totally hating it when I think about it, its not so bad

From what they've said I get the impression Microsoft is going to push HARD to make sure this launch is as clean and universal as possible. In my opinion the launch is as important if not more important than the OS development itself. Doesn't matter how great it is if you **** up the launch and turn people off.

[Tpimp420]

Great JOB MS you broke WinMo.


First off if windows phone 7 turns out like it seems it will:

-no multitasking
-little oem customization
-apps installed from app store only
-social network integration is key
- 3 hardware button phones
- ZUNE HD + tiles

Then I'm going to be pissed. WTF Microsoft? You took everything I loved about WinMo and through it out the window? And so you can cover everything in a non-original Zune Theme? Why oh Why?

I expected-

1.A new kernal with support for things like

• Multi-core processors
• 2gb of memory space per application (thats a minimum)
• Multi-touch and capacitive screen support
• backwards compatability for winmo 6.X apps
• hardware acceleration and accelerometer APIs

2.Higher resolution screens 1024X720 or something of that nature.
3.Better built-in web browser pocket IE 8 or something of that nature
4.Larger rom support with common rom sizes at 2gb, 1gb for Winmo7 1gb for apps.
5.Better format and codec support (flv, avi, etc.)
6.xbox live integration.
7. more capable media player (i.e. Zune player)
8. Performance tweaks, stability tweaks, better hardware support.

DID I GET ANY OF THOSE?
Yes, but only the least important ones!!! WTF Microsoft?? I don't know if I can jump ship to Android for this because that OS is still made of Java and obviously no more PocketPc than the iPhone. But I don't think I'm upgrading to winmo 7 either. I'm seriously dissapointed at this pile of crap. I wanted next generation windows mobile, not Zune HD+ tiles. This sucks Microsoft! I hope things are cleared up at MIX10. Because I'm not carrying around a Zune with microphone and internet connection. MY Touch pro 2 is nicer than that!

[Existentialism]

lmao, tpimp420 crystallized my thoughts exactly. Well said.

[fixxxer2012]

Originally Posted by Existentialism

lmao, tpimp420 crystallized my thoughts exactly. Well said.

amen +1000 here

i really hope this thing doesn't look like it does at launch. they need a good team of designers to give a better a UI. i watched the video again and it seems sorta comlex for a average user.

[brownhornet]

Originally Posted by fixxxer2008

lmao..between microsoft and this BIG FAIL and apple locking out any jailbroken users from the app store i guess androids fanbase will grow 10x as fast now. it's almost like they want android to dominate the market this year.

Well I have to disagree with you there... I have a TP2 and 3Gs 32 gig and i'm jailbroken and use itunes just fine.