adamlovesu
Well-Known Member
years ago microsoft was the leader? so yes lets applaud making an os 2 times more polished than yours and 2 and a half years in the making compared to your 6 mts lol.
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years ago microsoft was the leader? so yes lets applaud making an os 2 times more polished than yours and 2 and a half years in the making compared to your 6 mts lol.
adamlovesu
Well-Known Member
supersonic im sure doesnt exist all of those pics re just altered hd2's
and why get a bravo when the legend is better? and confirmed?
Pitamakan
Android Enthusiast
wankingweiner
Well-Known Member
umm the legend's rumored specs include a 600 mhz processor, so i think i'll pass. Besides it looks like the Bravo is bound for Europe, but we'll have to wait and see what happens.
Sorry i just realized im off topic
grainysand
Android Expert
Bravo now confirmed as "HTC Desire" (aww their naming scheme), will be revealed tomorrow, according to here. I don't really like the look: a Nexus with physical keys and a so-so design.
wankingweiner
Well-Known Member
wow the desire (bravo) is beautiful! Thanks for the link
Looking at the microsoft pages, I really dont like it. It's everything I hate about windows mobile with cherries on.
http://www.windowsphone7series.com/
http://www.windowsphone7series.com/
mcbtrain929
Android Expert
i can't take you seriously after these 2 statements.
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daffyduck
Guest
While it is a brave move, I hate the UI......reminds of Sense but with all the widgets stuck at full-size.
Doesn't look particularly easy to get to a particular app quickly.....
Doesn't look particularly easy to get to a particular app quickly.....
lekky
Lover
Holy wow. I love Windows 7.
Its like my Sexy ZuneHD has come alive! The interface, taken straight from the ZuneHD is fantastic, its the best interface I've ever used and this on the phone just blows my mind.
It just flows, it works.
However. I won't be changing my android, the Windows 7 OS is too locked down to replace my zune, too tied in with Bing, and office integration ugh (I hate sharepoint)
But I HOPE my company brings this in as the corporate phone, the sharepoint (our intranet), office and outlook integration will make it very attractive. Because I'd love to have this phone replace my ZuneHD.
On a side note, is Steve Ballmer ******ed? He seems like a dude with a mental age of 12, so excited (but in a drunk uncle way) to be on stage. Steve Ballmer just doesn't work as a human.
Its like my Sexy ZuneHD has come alive! The interface, taken straight from the ZuneHD is fantastic, its the best interface I've ever used and this on the phone just blows my mind.
It just flows, it works.
However. I won't be changing my android, the Windows 7 OS is too locked down to replace my zune, too tied in with Bing, and office integration ugh (I hate sharepoint)
But I HOPE my company brings this in as the corporate phone, the sharepoint (our intranet), office and outlook integration will make it very attractive. Because I'd love to have this phone replace my ZuneHD.
On a side note, is Steve Ballmer ******ed? He seems like a dude with a mental age of 12, so excited (but in a drunk uncle way) to be on stage. Steve Ballmer just doesn't work as a human.
Pitamakan
Android Enthusiast
cooolone2
Android Enthusiast
REALLY??? No, NOT... Considering that MS drops the OS in your lap and then leaves you hanging, forget about it. I came to Android OS FROM WinMo and what a relief, at LEAST there is the promise of an update.
WinMo has issues and will continue to have them. They are trying to re-enter a little late in the game now. Sure, they will get the Loyal Business user trying to maintain what they already have on the Windows platform, but it's just not worth repeating the HORROR, of living through ANOTHER MS experience... Waiting years for the WinMo update... nothing working but 3rd party software, no support... and THEN remember MS announcing they were making a MEDIA PLAYER to function on the iPHone?!?!?!!!!!! When the Media Player in WinMo 6.1+ absolutely sucked!!! Yeah, I'll breathe life into a dead platform.
Apple sold crazy numbers through 3rd Qtr last year, but interestingly when the 4th Qtr came around and all the Android OS phones came to market, Apple flatlined... Guess who suffered the loss in market share??? That's right, WinMo. All the Android Gains were mostly at the expense of WinMo, no new handsets out, those that still carried the aged OS were specialized and directed at the costly business segment of the market and all those handsets hand nothing NEW to offer. Tisk, Tisk... MS...
Sorry MS, but you lost one user here who is NEVER looking back!!!
Go Android!!!
HaunteD CoucH
Member
ha! green with envy, its funny cuz microsoft and i associate green with windows, ill stop now
IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
I cannot describe how wrong this post really is.
VZW is not the entire mobile industry. ATT, VZW, Sprint, & Tmo have to buy it to it, and they will. They have for years, why stop now?
LTE has to do with hardware/software integration, and why they wouldn't or couldn't make it compatible is beyond words. LTE is still a wet dream, and won't be around for 2 years, so not really an issue yet *anyway*. VZW *may* have LTE deployed in 3/4 markets by year end, at best, just to be able to say they did, but thats not much. By then WiMax will be near NATIONWIDE COVERAGE. Especially if the walmart deal goes through. (Which is might, since it is rumored walmart is an investor in wimax!)
Um Verizon CEO just announced deployment of LTE this summer for lap tops and it should be in over 30 markets by the end of this year. Phones will follow next year and will have a combination of both CDMA 3G and LTE so that you'll always have coverage even in cities that don't have LTE yet. And you finally be able to talk and surf the web at the same time.
As for this Windows Mobile 7, I have to say it looks nice and is a big improvement. I won't be giving up my Android for it though because I still like the fact that I can do whatever I want with my Android because it's open source. And WM7 will be starting over with apps. That's a no no for me especially when Android is at 30,000 right now and growing. It might be a great media player though I do like how those Zune HD looks.
funkdoctor
Member
Just an FYI, I couldn't respond to this because I could not make any sense of what you wrote. I just find it amazing that people are super excited that Microsoft made a phone....that isn't really any different from any other smartphone. From everything I saw, it's just a much more polished UI. And the first phone is not supposed to be released until the holidays...which gives the Android's and the Apple's almost 10 months to make more innovations. Microsoft is playing catch up, not leading the way. But it looks nicer than the older WinMo phones. I just cannot get excited about a phone that is coming out in almost a year, that does what I expect phones that came out last year to do.
clitrenta
Android Enthusiast
Well, on the plus side, it also gives them a year to put more bells and whistles in it. I'm all for MS stepping up and giving Apple a run for their money. iPhone is great and all that but I'm just really tired of them (and their customers) thinking they're all that. I've always like WinMo, warts and all and I hope this really works for them.
Pitamakan
Android Enthusiast
You know, the more I look at the Win7 phone interface, the less I like it. Seems like their primary goal was to make something visually striking, and they achieved that ... but everything seems dumbed-down, and it's a pretty inefficient use of screen real estate. I'd need to customize the hell out of it to make it usable, but Microsoft won't let you.
But I suppose there are a lot of people out there who just want something easy and shiny.
But I suppose there are a lot of people out there who just want something easy and shiny.
aximtreo
Member
I have the Droid and love it. I will consider the Win 7 platform for one major reason. I have used Outlook for many years. Every phone and PDA I have ever owned except the Droid syncs seamlessly. Is it important to everyone to be able to sync Outlook without having to go through google; maybe not but it will be one of the first things I look at in my next phone next December.
Wow, talk about a major flop.
Microsoft has another Zune type dud on their hands with their latest incompetent attempt to stop their marketshare evaporating.
It's almost an exact repeat of the last Zune release and subsequent marketplace flop:
* Microsoft unveiling that gets the standard single day coverage
* Over the top astroturfing from the marketing companies Microsoft hires to pay people to sit around in forums pretending to be real life people blown away by the latest Microsoft turd of a product
* And a day later the product is completely forgotten about due to almost complete lack of interest from consumers or the media.
So for a cellphone manufacturer you have Android vs Microsoft's latest offering:
Android
* Completely free to use
* Completely open source. No strings attached to taking the source and customizing it as much as you want
* Development can be done on any platform Linux,Mac,Windows and with industry standard Java and OpenGL ES
Microsoft
* Licensing fees to use
* No source code
* Can't modify the phone's OS in any way
* Locked into having to use only Microsoft OS's and tools to develop on
* All your standard OpenGL ES code from your iPhone and Android app has to be rewritten
And for a cellphone user you have:
Android
* Massive choice of cellphone hardware with most of the industry standardizing on Android
* Choice of OS customizations that fit you personally best
* A rapidly expanding set of applications
iPhone
* Apple marketing and hype
* 100 thousand+ apps to choose from
* Easy iTunes media integration that most people already use
Microsoft
* No app library. All old apps don't work on the new OS
* Locked into Microsoft's single version of their OS
* Tiny number of phones to choose from
So unless you are:
1. Some one who absolutely has to have some feature that is locked out of non-Microsoft phones having to do with Microsoft office software or email or the like
2. Some dumbass college kid with a POS Xbox 360
this phone OS offers you nothing.
Microsoft has another Zune type dud on their hands with their latest incompetent attempt to stop their marketshare evaporating.
It's almost an exact repeat of the last Zune release and subsequent marketplace flop:
* Microsoft unveiling that gets the standard single day coverage
* Over the top astroturfing from the marketing companies Microsoft hires to pay people to sit around in forums pretending to be real life people blown away by the latest Microsoft turd of a product
* And a day later the product is completely forgotten about due to almost complete lack of interest from consumers or the media.
So for a cellphone manufacturer you have Android vs Microsoft's latest offering:
Android
* Completely free to use
* Completely open source. No strings attached to taking the source and customizing it as much as you want
* Development can be done on any platform Linux,Mac,Windows and with industry standard Java and OpenGL ES
Microsoft
* Licensing fees to use
* No source code
* Can't modify the phone's OS in any way
* Locked into having to use only Microsoft OS's and tools to develop on
* All your standard OpenGL ES code from your iPhone and Android app has to be rewritten
And for a cellphone user you have:
Android
* Massive choice of cellphone hardware with most of the industry standardizing on Android
* Choice of OS customizations that fit you personally best
* A rapidly expanding set of applications
iPhone
* Apple marketing and hype
* 100 thousand+ apps to choose from
* Easy iTunes media integration that most people already use
Microsoft
* No app library. All old apps don't work on the new OS
* Locked into Microsoft's single version of their OS
* Tiny number of phones to choose from
So unless you are:
1. Some one who absolutely has to have some feature that is locked out of non-Microsoft phones having to do with Microsoft office software or email or the like
2. Some dumbass college kid with a POS Xbox 360
this phone OS offers you nothing.
IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
No, what's a major flop is the quoted post... LOL.
This OS is a major step up from what has been around. The WinMo dev community is much, much, much larger than Android & Apple combined. I wouldn't be surprised to see 100k+ *.cabs in the first 24 months.
MNewmansnow
Newbie
Win Phone 7 looks good, and the competition is good for all smartphone users. I do think the home screen choice isn't the best in terms of usability though.
I really hope the zune integration will push google into revamping (or at least improving) the music player.
I really hope the zune integration will push google into revamping (or at least improving) the music player.
3devious
Android Expert
You are right, you can't.
When other carriers maintain a history of reliability and coverage as VZW has, I'll consider the rest of the "entire mobile industry" a factor in something like this. Besides, people have considered android a wet dream about 18 months ago, so there is no harm in speculating on LTE.
There are 4th generation wireless networks out there and if they had followed the original design, there wouldn't be an issue with compatible equipment, but there is, so putting that stipulation on whether or not a WinMo 7 phone would be worth a damn is more than fair and to gloss over that would be beyond naive (like people whose jaws hit the floor when yet another android 1.6 phone comes out. 2.1 is out, why wouldn't/shouldn't all new phones adopt it?)