Understanding what WP7 is and the true pros/cons.

[JamesHulsmann]

Originally Posted by itster

let me explain windows mobile to you if you haven't gotten the idea all these years. It's not a gameboy or any other type of toy you may be thinking of, it's a business device and the OS was designed to compete with Palm OS and symbian smartphones. MS got lazy because it was their market and no one cant touch it. Then Apple came along with the Ipod with a built in phone idea that many thought would not take off, but it did.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with windows mobile at it's current state. If your phone crashes it's because you screw around with the OS by downloading beta's all day/week/month/year. The OS is very fast if you dont have junk like Sense running on top of it that slow it down drastically. I know it's not cute like the cute buttons on android and iphone devices, but it's a business device and the main screen on windows mobile is meant to be direct and to the point. that's something microsoft has been very successful at for many years.

Those of you that think MS takes the market back, you better think again because MS went into the smartphone business with palm holding almost 90% of the market and took it over quickly.

also windows phone 7 devices do have multi-tasking abilities but not refined. look at this example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5G-Jj33XQI

although i will not purchase a windows phone7 device until the usb drive option has been implimented, i still think it's the best OS out there hands down.

those of you that point out the kin: the reason the Kin failed is because verizon was charging the smartphone $30 fee on top of this device if you wanted it. Smart parents would not pay $30 for that device and ultimately it failed. I blame MS because they should have know better than to launch this device on verizon network instead of T-Mobile and/or sprint because of their price points. the kin would have been very successful as were the sidekicks were when they lanched only on t-mobile.

rumor has it that delays in MS to deliver the Kin are what ultimatety got Verizon to charage more than they were going to, in other worde - the origianl deal included pricing that would probably have been successfull, but after the delays, its basicalyl became "why should I get a Kin if I can get a full smar tphone for the same rates?"...