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Windows Phone 7 Looking Better Than Android?

AndroidsOfTara said:
Browsing flickr on Android isn't bad via the browser, but I'd like an app that integrates into the Android Gallery app and also allows bulk direct uploading via the 'share' menu in Gallery.

If I recall from when I had an Eris, they did integrate flickr into the gallery app in Sense, but I could be just having a faulty memory.
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Yep, I've browsed my account through the browser, but I feel like I'm cut off from it on my phone. I really really loved the fact that the Win7 Gallery equivalent just gathered all your pictures together, regardless of source.

Also, I still think that having a strong media ecosystem is a huge help to Win7.
I know that most people don't want movies on their phones, but I am flying in a couple weeks and I'd love to just dl a few without having to go through laborious converting. Win7 might have the ultimate win by being able to dl media through Zune and having divx support, for those slightly less honest. I still can't believe that the "open" Android doesn't support xvid.
 
Theres always going to be new better stuff coming.

Just enjoy your droid for a while and when it is really showing it's age you can look forward to replacing it with a phone that is 2 years more advanced than the one you are oogling over now.
 
Mipmap said:
Theres always going to be new better stuff coming.

Just enjoy your droid for a while and when it is really showing it's age you can look forward to replacing it with a phone that is 2 years more advanced than the one you are oogling over now.
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I'd like to think Motorola will keep the ball rolling and we'll see further iterations of the Droid. Kinda how the iPhone is on it's 3rd iteration now and a 4th is one the way. The Droid is an amazing mobile device with amazing potential. I personally would like to see it grow and thrive to the point where Motorola has no other choice but to keep it going with another one! :)
 
I think the groundbreaking thing about the W7 is the way the icons are also widget-like in their functionality. The visual real estate used by any icon should be used to also carry information. The space is not wasted on the w7 phone.

I have to use an app store widget for Gmail just to get a red envelope that shows the number of unread emails. That's silly -- it should have that feature natively. Almost every app has some kind of info to update you with.

Also, Windows seems to have the right idea that the challenge is seamlessly integrating the work, fun, and family aspects of your life. iPhone gets a FAIL on serving work customers.
 
gwlaw99 said:
The netflix app has me drooling, but we will see what kind of app development it has.
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Once we get the 2.1 update which includes flash, having a Netflix app will be irrelevant to Droid users. Just use your Droid to log on to Netlix like you would your Mac or PC and start streaming. No app required.
 
From watching the videos, it does do some things very very nicely, but it was somewhat irritating to watch them pretend that a lot of stuff that Android (or at least Droid) does already is new and groundbreaking.

"Phone numbers and addresses in web pages will be touchable to help you dial or take you somewhere on the map"

"Wow, really?"

...also...

"When you search, search does a contextual search and provides you local results, say, 'pizza' for instance"

"Wow!"

C'mon, seriously? Is the general viewing public *that* stupid? This phone's potentially a year away and the Droid's been doing that for nearly five months now - I think the novelty will have worn off by then.

Still, though, it looks leaps and bounds better than my last (and only WinMo) phone, the Samsung Omnia. My biggest gripe is that if this is their new interface for Zune and Win7Pho and all, why did it take so long to implement, when it's almost exactly like the Media Center edition of XP they started putting out in 2005 (or earlier - I bought a laptop in 2006 that had Media Center that this is eerily reminiscent of)?
 
djkeller3 said:
Once we get the 2.1 update which includes flash, having a Netflix app will be irrelevant to Droid users. Just use your Droid to log on to Netlix like you would your Mac or PC and start streaming. No app required.
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Can anyone else verify that this will be true? It seems like we would have heard about this. I know that I haven't heard about flash being in 2.1, or coming to 2.1. In fact, I've never seen a phone running Flash well. It always looks so laggy.
 
jamo said:
Can anyone else verify that this will be true? It seems like we would have heard about this. I know that I haven't heard about flash being in 2.1, or coming to 2.1. In fact, I've never seen a phone running Flash well. It always looks so laggy.
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There will be no Flash 10 support for the Hero according to Adobe, the processor can't handle it.
 
jamo said:
Can anyone else verify that this will be true? It seems like we would have heard about this. I know that I haven't heard about flash being in 2.1, or coming to 2.1. In fact, I've never seen a phone running Flash well. It always looks so laggy.
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Well, I can't say for sure who linked the video, but there is an Adobe video linked somewhere in this forum that shows someone from Adobe running flash on a Droid.

I will correct myself, and thank you for questioning, but maybe I should have said that it is *possible* but not definite that Flash will be part of the 2.1 update. I suppose Adobe doesn't have to follow the timing of the 2.1 release since they're in their own world. But it's safe to say that at some point, whether its part of the 2.1 update or not, that Droid users will have Flash 10 in this half of 2010 -- at which point we won't need a Netflix app because we will be able to stream straight from the web. :)
 
Krugger said:
wait, no fragmentation?
I think for instance the HTC HD2 users that are going to be stuck on windows mobile 6.5 might disagree with you ;)
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OMG you freaking nailed that one dude. Freaking. Nailed. It. Somehow some blogger started the fragmentation "worry" about Android and it was picked up like a good looking girl in COSPLAY at a WOW convention. Worse still for Windows users, there is and NEVER will be an upgrade for 6.5 users. NEVER. This has been stated flatly. Good catch.
 
djkeller3 said:
Once we get the 2.1 update which includes flash, having a Netflix app will be irrelevant to Droid users. Just use your Droid to log on to Netlix like you would your Mac or PC and start streaming. No app required.
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Netflix uses Silverlight, not Flash
 
Anther iPhone but this time coming from MS!!
i was almost sold on 7 then now it's Apple style win MS on top..what do they think?....sad ..so sad!
 
I was a WinMo user for about 6 years, the ONLY reason I stayed with it for so long was because you could flash custom ROMs.
I figure WinMo7 will be a lot like other OS's, for some, it will serve their needs and running 'stock' will be no issue at all. But for others, a completely locked down system will be a deal breaker.
 
as fonseca said, netflix uses silverlight (an MS product), not flash. win7 phone or whatever it's called will support silverlight. android does not.

when it comes to netflix, flash is not involved in the equation.
 
djkeller3 said:
So does that mean no Netflix streaming after all?:confused:
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That is correct, not until MS releases Silverlight for Android (the same reason why you cannot stream Netflix movies using Linux.

jamo said:
Does anyone know the software behind Netflix streaming on Win7? Is it some type of Silverlight?
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It is Silverlight. Silverlight is like Flash, but developed by MS and is more efficient.
 
Uhm, yay, after launch.

No live wallpapers at launch? Acceptable. Copy and paste coming in an update...? Oh... kay... then.
 
grainysand said:
Uhm, yay, after launch.

No live wallpapers at launch? Acceptable. Copy and paste coming in an update...? Oh... kay... then.
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i agree in theory that copy/paste is a crucial productivity functionality. however, in practice, i have never used copy/paste on my droid. and i've had it since launch day.
 
I use copy-paste quite a bit on my N1--admittedly, my N1 runs Sense, so copy-pasting from the browser is done much, much better than vanilla Android. But still, it's such a basic thing that its exclusion doesn't seem at all sensible.
 
It looks sweet for people who are into that sort of thing, but the whole UI and design is just too weird and minimalistic for me. I think I'm still going to prefer Android, though I will definitely give it a fair shot.
 
grainysand said:
I use copy-paste quite a bit on my N1--admittedly, my N1 runs Sense, so copy-pasting from the browser is done much, much better than vanilla Android. But still, it's such a basic thing that its exclusion doesn't seem at all sensible.
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Not for anything but do you use copy/paste for anything that is not a phone number or address?
 
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