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some of the apps in the marketplace are like $20... they're nuts if they think people are gonna pay that much. |
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now as for asia, that market has been years ahead of the us market in terms of demand for functions and for the longest time WinMo reigned supreme as the smartphone platform of choice so it seems like WinMo won its popularity not because of what it is but because of a vacuum of choices for so many years, and of course once something is entrenched in the market its hard to make it leave, but again, it'll be interesting to see what happens as development for Android gears up and becomes mainstream |
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Right but my comment meant that HTC is the dominate manufacturer of WM phones. They have a whole lineup of WM phones that are very well known.
However the others, do not. You think WM devices, you think HTC, not samsung or LG. I'm sure they could step their game up, but at this point it's HTC all around. |
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When I was running my 4 TP's Energy was not one of my first choices (not even close really) ~John |
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I also use it for music & I also use it to browse the internet tethered to my TP2 with WMWIFIrouter. ~John |
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and i'll definitely have to side with brownhornet on the apps issue.
seems like development for WinMo, Blackberry, and Symbian (the Old Guard of Smartphones if you will) has just about stopped with OSX Mobile, WebOS, and Android are hitting their stride and its really starting to hurt particularly WinMo |
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will there be a way to get TF3D 2.5 w/out upgrading to 6.5?
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I liked WM6.5 until the TP2 came out and showed me that 6.1 can be just as nice as 6.5 but with more stability.
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The 6.5 out of the box experience will of course be disappointing. However leave it to all the ROM cooks out there to make it the most enjoyable Winmo experience you have ever had. Add to that all the folks that will create customization software & tweaks & you will have a finished product with all the options you could ever want...(aside from full 3D support )
I still love my Ipod for carousing the internet over my TP, but I'll deal with it. It's a small price to pay for such a powerful productivity oriented device. The Winmo development community is huge & I look forward to all the customizations I am going to be making! |
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All the people that are saying you don't like 6.5, the only thing that REALLY changed that you can see is the start menu. And yes, you can customize it and move icons around and create folders for programs.
besides that, 6.5 has better memory management, and MUCH better scrolling capabilities |
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Vista is far superior to XP in every way. Since SP1 I have had ZERO compatibility issues with old software. The interface looks nicer even though i still use windowblinds which has more options/looks better in vista. There are way more functional shortcuts. Search boxes in explorer to find files fast from the directory you are in. It basically fixes itself when there are problems. Its way more secure xp is like a screendoor for vulnerability and not really updated anymore... DX10 is the way to go for gaming... the list goes on and on... Whoever thinks vista sucks really is just holding on to old ways of doing things just like some old family feud. Keep the grudge going! |
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Witout HTC touch flow, winmo is done. that's my two cents
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People are focusing too much on what they see and not enough on what's under the hood. Much like the Vista hating and people saying "Windows 7 is so much more awesome!" Guess what, it's like 80% vista. :P It's just more pretty and has optimizations/fixes/etc. Much like previous WinMo to 6.5 without the pretty.
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or maybe its a way to cut motorola's already declining budget, WinMo has licensing costs whereas Android is free
probably wrong just a thought |
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You want backwards compatibility with thousands of apps or a fancy new flashy interface that does what the old one does but breaks compatibility? You can't have both, has it ever occurred to many of you that the reason the underlying OS hasn't changed much because it gets the job done just fine AND keeps the compatibility flowing? Thats GOOD. WinMo 5 years ago was doing things an iphone STILL can't do, to compare the iphone to WinMo is a complete joke. It's like comparing a dumb good looking athlete to a computer nerd, at the end of the day the nerd is the one making money and actually accomplishing things. :P Embrace the nerdiness. Android is a different beast, but if you sat and did nothing but list all the capabilities of each phone OS, who really wins when it's all added up across the board? Would it be close? 6.5 is hardly the junk people are saying it is.
I have absolutely no issues with WinMo 6.5, it does exactly what I need it to do and more. Don't be fooled by all these naysayers with unnecessary and unrealistic expectations. |
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How are these expectations unrealistic? It's unrealistic because MS can't accomplish these things, but RIM, Google, and Apple can? Who cares if 10 year old applications are going to get broken in WM7? If WM7 is a success, there will be developers developing whatever is needed. That's a non-issue :rolleyes:
I'm not sure you even read these reviews. I'm not sure you even know what you're talking about. All these reviews are saying is that essentially all WM6.5 is, is a new home screen and a new start menu on top of WM6.1. That's it. It's not a new OS, it's not a game changer, it doesn't change anything. What are you even talking about? |
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This is no different than people harping on how much the Iphone sucks saying the same stuff over and over. I would rather have my diamond over a 3GS any day of the week and twice on thursday, but to harp on how much better winmo is gets redundant AND redundant. We get it, 6.5 isn't the second coming, get over it. We don't need a 2,000 word review to tell us that and bashing the same stuff about winmo that's been said a million times over. |
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I would LOVE to have a LEO with a slide-out keyboard, but I doubt that'll ever happen (HTC should write their own OS because they can clearly do it better than MS can). But seriously, I'm not gonna keep spending money on a phone with an operating system that doesn't automatically insert my contact's birthdays into the calendar. I mean come on. |
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that's just preference. I don't see that either have any specific features that WM lacks that I would need. I never use a styles and find everything quite simple on my diamond and get around just fine, as well as apps that I want but can't get ahold of (and all of the wm ones that I want and use are free btw). I think it's just a matter of preference. It just gets annoying when a review is stated as though its a fact that 6.5 is worse or sucks. It could stand improvement like every other OS. It least it can run Flash... |
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I don't mind hearing/knowing things that are bad with 6.5, I have no vested interest and I don't own any microsoft stock, I'm out of contract and could easily get a hero or switch to att and get $100 3G if I wanted. 6.5 is far from perfect and there are things I hate about it, but the pros outweigh the cons and for me its much better than iphone and more preferable than android at the moment. |
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I do agree that government is the problem though :mrgreen:
(I've read that sig so many damn times today) |
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Everyone is grumpy that 6.5 isn't exactly a huge upgrade from 6.1. Well remember that 6.1 wasn't a great upgrade from 6.0 (adding threaded texting only). And in later builds (23017) they redid the Start Menu so you could drag stuff around, so building a ROM off of that build solves the Start Menu issues. 6.5.1 is a little better because the bottom bar but overall it's not too bad. We just need 7.
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I forgot about that, I just take it for granted. |
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microsoft doesn't care about 6.5, im sure they only see it as a stop gap for wm7.
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