WOW!
Really slick looking with its app navigation and multitouch. Curious how responsive the screen is compared to the iPhone as most of the touch phones I have played with have not matched it yet.
Really want to check this thing out tho.
Have you played with any other capacitive touch screens? I always assumed that most of what made the ipod’s so much better was that it’s capacitive when most others are resistive. Proper sizing of icons and things helps too I’m sure.
Ya I only like the capacitive touch screens. I really would hope it becomes the new way phones are going as to me its much more responsive. Hopefully the Win7 phones are that way too
it looks a lot like the zune HD interface and i like that a lot
I will most likely own this before too long. Symbian is just not cutting it right now.
Saw a video on Gizmodo for it…Looks to be less responsive than the iPhone. I’m not sure about the main screen either, not really digging it. I do however like the fact that it’s windows and supports Flash.
This.
As I said in the other thread. Seriously thinking about holding out for the HTC HD2. Eligible for free WP7 upgrade, first phone that should be officially supported spec wise I think too.
Why are you comparing an operating system to a phone? You realize there are hundreds of WM phones out there, and they all perform differently right?
Yes, but so far from that video it’s not as responsive…as to whether that’s a phone issue or an OS issue remains to be seen. Not sure If I should upgrade to the Win7 phones or the Nexus One once they are available via Verizon
Holy crap how cutting edge of microsoft!
WinMo has been epic fail for years every single phone I have had with it blows
I wonder if this version will need daily reboots
that interface looks kind of annoying. I like that it’s clean, but just looking at it, I would have no idea what to do with it.
Motorola Q needed soft resets twice daily. I dont want to get started with my Samsung Omnia. Not sold yet, Ill keep my Blackberry.
Samsung Blackjack 2 with 6.1 and Jack with 6.5 have been very solid for me.
I find critics of WinMo are like people that criticize anything else. The most vocal people often have the least direct experience.
My old 6.1 was very good. Had a LOT of features I miss on my Smbian that I can’t get with apps because they are OS based. Integrated easily and smartly with sExchange, my computer etc.
Less stable than my symbian phone for sure, but from everything I’ve heard seen I’m ready to give it another go I think.
I’m glad your observation of a video on the internet is more applicable than the reviews of people that have actually used the phone :banghead:
My Samsung i730 running Windows Mobile + SPB pocket plus is still my favorite phone ever. I didn’t reboot the thing once for the first 9 months I had it. I didn’t need to.
My i760 running 6.0 sucked but 6.1 was great. A little glitchy compared to the i730 but still good.
Then I tried blackberry and ran screaming.
Now I have my first symbian phone and if it weren’t for all the stoooooopid shit AT&T did to it, it would be my favorite phone.
The video is all I have to go on right now…sorry.
ATT gets first crack but no flash. Seems like its become a hider on mobile devices but since its windows, I am sure they will have a browser addon you can install that enables it.
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What is Windows Phone 7? It’s Microsoft’s new mobile-phone operating system. A total break from the past, it focuses your smartphone life around “hubs” rather than apps – the people you talk to, the pictures they post, or the games you like to play.
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Is it a “Zune Phone?” No, but Zune is one of the built-in “hubs.” So is XBox Live. So is Bing.
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What will the phones look like? There will be many form factors, but they all have to have capacitive, 800-by-480 or greater touch screens and have three buttons at the bottom: Home, Back and Search. They will all have four-point multi-touch displays, compasses and accelerometers. You’ll see phones with and without sliding QWERTY keyboards, but no BlackBerry-style candybars or non-touch phones.
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What carriers will they run on? All four major U.S. carriers, but AT&T will get the first crack with an as-yet unannounced phone.
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How’s the Office and e-mail support? Looking great. WP7 - that’s the new official acronym - supports OneNote, Office, multiple Exchange accounts and SharePoint. But the interface is definitely more about communicating and having fun than about doing spreadsheets.
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Can it sync with a Mac? Not initially. WP7 will require the Zune software to sync, and there’s no Mac Zune software. Look for third parties like Mark/Space to fill in the gaps with a syncing solution.
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Will it run old Windows Mobile apps? I don’t think so. The interfaces are very different. Microsoft promised we’d find out more at their MIX developers’ conference in mid-March.
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Does it have multi-tasking? We can’t tell, but Microsoft said you’d be able to “play music in the background”.
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How about Adobe Flash? Not at launch, but Steve Ballmer himself said that he doesn’t have anything against it.
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When’s it coming? For the holidays, 2010.
I think WP7 looks very promising. The interface looks very similar to the Zune HD. I have one and I LOVE the interface of that. If using WP7 is anything like my Zune, I may have to look into switching.
New ad. lol, it’s so true: