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Another "Industry first"???
- Thread starter Whiskeypawz
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Whiskeypawz
Android Enthusiast
I saw that post! Doesn't Android already do that??
That post makes it sound more & more like a Windows phone.
RoboMonkey
Android Expert
I had a WP7 for exactly 1 day and sent it back and I really wanted to like it.
It was like going back in time (no task manager to be found), so when you start playing music the only way to stop it is to go back to the app and stop it.
My god even apple lets you double tap to bring up the task list.
Needs more cooking.
It was like going back in time (no task manager to be found), so when you start playing music the only way to stop it is to go back to the app and stop it.
My god even apple lets you double tap to bring up the task list.
Needs more cooking.
MissJennell
Android Enthusiast
bobbyhuSTLe
Lurker
I think Viber is right on...I didn't know it was called "The Arrive" though
Sprint's coming soon page pretty much confirms it is the HTC Arrive.
Sprint | Coming Soon
I expect Sprint will launch the HP/Palm Pre3 next.
The Evo2 will probably be last in line to be shown because it is probably Sprint's most important phone. The Epic2 will probably come around the same time.
Looks like the word is getting out. However, if the Arrive is a straight port of the 7-Pro, I wonder if there will be 4G or a bigger screen, or if the CDMA version will sport any additional perks over the Euro GSM model
Sprint renames the HTC 7 Pro the Arrive, launching it tomorrow -- Engadget
Video preview from October of 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxrX8dbV4wE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZrSRrCwD6I&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Sprint renames the HTC 7 Pro the Arrive, launching it tomorrow -- Engadget
Video preview from October of 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxrX8dbV4wE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZrSRrCwD6I&NR=1&feature=fvwp
I've got to use WP7 and in some ways I thought it was better than android, and it other ways it felt lacking compared to android.
What I like based upon my limited experience:
-Mandatory requirements to ensure a positive user experience on all devices. Unlike android which has dozens of garbage, slow, poor performing devices that make android feel awful
-No fragmentation
-Doesn't pretend to be or aspire to be iOS like android
-Great keyboard
-Looks great, highly polished and professional. Even better than Android on an Epic 4G by a huge margin. Runs buttery smooth even with an old 1ghz QSD8250 and Adreno 200. The Evo shift has better hardware and looks like butt in comparison.
-Netflix
What I don't like:
-No multitasking
-No flash support
-No native youtube
-No copy and paste
I know this is an android site, but people here are really sleeping on WP7. Once more people get to finger bang the WP7, it will attract more users and gain a following. It feels really nice to use in terms of user experience
Whiskeypawz
Android Enthusiast
Could someone explain to me the purpose of that feature? I don't own an Xbox & don't ever plan to but I can't imagine what one would have to do with the other. Am I missing something??
Xbox 360 has been the best thing MSFT has had going for it in the last 5-7 years. The phone launches have been lackluster to say the least so integration was a planned way to try to get existing MSFT/Xbox junkies to stay mainlined to their gaming addiction.
It's not going to work.
Listen, I tried to hold out for WP7 and give it a fair chance. I gave up the minute MSFT announced that it would not be an open system and when MSFT didn't make an upgrade path (or reasonable trade-in program) for people who got late-gen Win systems like the HD2.
I think the entire development, rollout, and design of WP7 is going to be a massive Kin-like failure.
MissJennell
Android Enthusiast
The fact that it is the Arrive is pretty lame. Talk about a boring phone. I hope next month we hear some better announcements.
Whiskeypawz
Android Enthusiast
Ok, that's what I thinking but it made no sense to me. I guess if you're big into your Xbox it's a cool feature. I don't see that being a big market but then again, no one asked my opinion when they designed the phones!
Hasn't WP7 already failed? If I'm not mistaken they've been taking on water pretty quickly since their big comeback.
Ok, that's what I thinking but it made no sense to me. I guess if you're big into your Xbox it's a cool feature. I don't see that being a big market but then again, no one asked my opinion when they designed the phones!
Hasn't WP7 already failed? If I'm not mistaken they've been taking on water pretty quickly since their big comeback.
I wouldn't be so sure about in NOT being a big market.. There are currently over 15mil unique users on Xbox live market place, I am a huge Xbox fan boy, and would love to have this feature on an android phone.
It is enticing, with access to the market you have access to movies, music, news regarding games and studios, and I believe I read you can play market arcade games..
Like I said I'm a huge fan boy of Xbox, and I think the xbox market offers tons of content, but it is still not enough to make me want the phone..
It's only been available for a couple of months so its too early to know.
It's hard to know where WP7 will sit until Q4 2011. The Nokia deal is going to be huge.
Also, there are no garbage phones for WP7 due to the MSFT minimum specs standards, so we can assume it will always sell less than Android. At the same time, every WP7 owner can be assured their phone will run the OS as it was intended.
The Nokia deal isn't going to make a huge difference. When two dinosaurs mate, they still created another dinosaur. Evolution came outside the species. That's what's happened in the mobile space. Micro-Nok won't flourish.
That said if MSFT wanted to make moves more quickly, Moto approached the end but managed a bit of a comeback. That comeback came really from using Android. Moto even almost let MotoBlah get in the way but finally toned it down.
WP7 may survive in some sort of niche way, but it's too far behind and too closed to be a huge seller.
Sprint shouldn't be so excited to jump on this bandwagon. It's going nowhere.
That said if MSFT wanted to make moves more quickly, Moto approached the end but managed a bit of a comeback. That comeback came really from using Android. Moto even almost let MotoBlah get in the way but finally toned it down.
WP7 may survive in some sort of niche way, but it's too far behind and too closed to be a huge seller.
Sprint shouldn't be so excited to jump on this bandwagon. It's going nowhere.
Nokia with a dead OS (Symbian), no app support, and no buzz at all sold 461,318,000 phones last year. That is more than Samsung, Apple, HTC, and Blackberry combined. Dinosaurs don't move nearly half a billion in product.
This equated to a whooping 29% market share. And this is during a bad year for Nokia. HTC would love to have a bad year with that many units sold.
The closest in terms of overall sales is Samsung with 17%. Everyone else is measured in small amounts by comparison
Nokia's global market penetration is utterly huge. Even if Mircokia does a modest 20% of what it did last year, that is 98,000,000 WP7 phones sold globally, not including WP7 phones sold by LG, HTC, and Samsung. That is still far more than Android did in 2010, without relying on low end crap devices that run android like an Atari 2600, because remember the minimum spec requirement mandates that all WP7 phones be mid-range at worst, but never total crap
IBM once had that same market share. So did GM. So did RCA. So did AT&T. Dinosaurs just like Nokia.
and you have seen companies at the edge .. make it back to a big player... with the right change at the right time with the right implementation.
apple