Windows Phone 7... Doomed? - Page 4

timezone · #31 (**permalink**) 08-01-2010, 02:12 PM

This is going to be wildly successful. First, this isn't a from scratch OS since it is built oo top of CE. It also isn't a copy from Apple when you take into account that they are just finally tackling the capacitive screen features of the phone. Not to mentioned realized after too many years that a start button does not make a Microsoft OS.

**brownhornet** · #32 (**permalink**) 08-02-2010, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by timezone

This is going to be wildly successful. First, this isn't a from scratch OS since it is built oo top of CE. It also isn't a copy from Apple when you take into account that they are just finally tackling the capacitive screen features of the phone. Not to mentioned realized after too many years that a start button does not make a Microsoft OS.

Wildly successful based on what? I have to disagree.. and not even based on what the OS may or may not be able to do.. but moreso on the fact that they took WAY too long to debut it. And November is STILL 3 months away and who knows how many phones will have come out by then. On top of that winmo lost a ton of users to Android.. and with the plethora of phones droid has been pumping out lately I dont see many people making the switch back to windows.

Im sure they wont bomb, but timing is everything and microsoft pretty much blew it in that retrospect. Had it made a debut around the summer I probably would've checked it out since I wasnt too far gone from the tp2.. but at this point and after having my evo for a while I have no desire to go back. Especially with the news of how they've practically closed off the OS and made it a social networking phone.

Tiberius85 · #33 (**permalink**) 08-07-2010, 11:02 AM

Well really, nothing right now is out that is as smooth as the iphone experience. Even Android's UI is inconsistant at times, the pinch to zoom can be a little choppy.. but if you want an iphone-like experience on another carrier without the price tag of an iphone you really have just android. And as far as the 'well WP7 isnt as tweakable, mutlitasking, etc' i really dont think most consumers care about those things. Heck i dont really care about those things much anymore. Multitasking has NEVER been a feature i like on WM. Either it slows down the device, its useless when the two programs you want to switch between close each other when you open one, or it drains your battery.

Oh and dont forget, Android was a dud up until the droid marketing campaign. It was then that a real iphone competitor hit a major national carrier.

I just really hope they dont market it with the typical bright color generic happy music that seems to permeate windows marketing these days. They need something cool and unique.

**Mr.KLeen** · #34 (**permalink**) 08-07-2010, 09:08 PM

id say wp7 is more responsive than andriod, and just as good as ios4, or yet even better.
here are recent reviews of it
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/w...depth-preview/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt72pnfAPvE

**brownhornet** · #35 (**permalink**) 08-10-2010, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr.KLeen

id say wp7 is more responsive than andriod, and just as good as ios4, or yet even better.
here are recent reviews of it
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/w...depth-preview/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt72pnfAPvE

Are we watching the same videos?

cyclical · #36 (**permalink**) 08-11-2010, 08:35 AM

I looks like a refreshing change to me, I plan on getting one for my wife and waiting for the ones with a keyboard for myself.

**fixxxer2012** · #37 (**permalink**) 08-11-2010, 10:57 PM

you couldn't even pay me to own a wp7. that UI looks like it was drawn up by a 2nd grader. i talked to sprint the other day and they tell me they aren't even planning to carry those phones to their knowledge. winmo isn't a hot seller for them android is.

**fixxxer2012** · #38 (**permalink**) 08-11-2010, 10:59 PM

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741131

now if it looked like that, maybe?

**Mr.KLeen** · #39 (**permalink**) 08-12-2010, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by fixxxer2008

you couldn't even pay me to own a wp7. that UI looks like it was drawn up by a 2nd grader. i talked to sprint the other day and they tell me they aren't even planning to carry those phones to their knowledge. winmo isn't a hot seller for them android is.

thats your opinion, i think the ui looks great. and you never know it may come to sprint, just not at launch date.

check this petition out
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/199792#199792

2 Bunny · #40 (**permalink**) 08-15-2010, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by fixxxer2008

you couldn't even pay me to own a wp7. that UI looks like it was drawn up by a 2nd grader. i talked to sprint the other day and they tell me they aren't even planning to carry those phones to their knowledge. winmo isn't a hot seller for them android is.

Maybe there is just too much "toilet paper" in GUIs in Mobile Operating systems nowadays. There's a reason we don't have it on the desktop, and that happens to be the same reason I hate it on a mobile. IMO.

- 2 Bunny