Comments on: Windows Phone 7 Series: what’s new, what’s old, what’s here and what’s missing

By: J o K e R

J o K e R — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:57:40 +0000

Wow OS ..

By: kick

kick — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:10:07 +0000

HTC has said that no phones produced at this date (which was march 16th) did not meet microsofts technical requirements for WP7S. Inlcuding HD2, Desire, and Google N1.

By: Midhun

Midhun — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:12:12 +0000

This is Windows7 S/w. Its just as O/s not a cemara.

By: A.J

A.J — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:13:19 +0000

nah even if htc cant work on windows phone 7 … so simple … company in this size would simply make its own OS and they can even make it better than the 7 with usability and that stuff so i dont think that will be right hehehe just personal view

By: sameer chavan

sameer chavan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:22:01 +0000

One good news that i liked is Operators are told to do their own job and not to design UI for phones. Most of time, i have seen these Fuxxkr operators hire some half baked designes and screw the whole design of phone.

By: i2

i2 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:22:40 +0000

no, too many buttons for the interface, 3 is max so ive heard.

By: Boiled

Boiled — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:00:20 +0000

It’s not an animation, it is an actual phone, and the Call or End buttons are gone far as I know. On every WP7S phone there are three buttons: Back, Windows/Start/Home, Search and I thought no more. Yeah of course an on/off button and volume buttons, but only three buttons on the front.

By: VladG

VladG — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:43:00 +0000

2 Major points I feel I must make:

1 Microsoft has a notorious attitude towards product improvement, always relying on they superior market share, never upgrading their products until they start loosing serious ground to the always improving competition. Just to name a few examples: IE, currently the slowest and arguably the least secure browser , The repeated fiascoes with PC OS’ like Millennium and Vista (both slow, resource hungry, poorly optimized, buggy experiences, when one would expect improvements over older versions, especially given Microsoft’s experience with OS) and even WinMo that has seen no real overhaul in so many years, reaching the point where it was embarrassingly ugly, user-unfriendly, slow, complicated, all that even after Apple’s ground-breaking new phone OS, android, the numerous successful WinMo modification brought by HTC and to lesser extent Samsung, Asus, Acer, and pretty much every WinMo phone manufacturer out there. Even when Microsoft decided to upgrade WinMo they hardly improved anything, repeating the Vista experience, meaning mostly you were better off with the old, ugly, decrepit version. By restricting Producer modifications Microsoft might very well dig it’s own grave in Smartphone land because those were what kept it alive for so long

2 Multitasking has been a staple of WinMo and coupled with it’s malleability towards user customization, app development and mostly endless possibility is what made WinMo devices true SMARTPHONES. Microsoft is now going for an Apple-like finish, making their OS pretty on the outside, but “dead” on the inside. I do not understand why the iPhone is called a Smartphone. The first iteration of the device was painfully limited providing little more than a shiny user interface and a very good(at that time) multimedia experience. It appears that Microsoft is decided on imposing every limitation there is on what once was the most limitless mobile device out there

By: Paladin

Paladin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:29:56 +0000

Actually there is, which is the BlackBerry OS and perhaps future itinerations of Symbian/Maemo.

By: rtimi

rtimi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:29:51 +0000

actually if all other phone OS manufacturers are not careful the bada os will outsell them. The reason I say this is because the OS is being used with the Touchwiz interface which will be used on all samsung phones from now except maybe wp7 and this makes it easy for people who already have a similar UI to upgrade and have all the benefits of a smartphone on a feature phone at a much much less price.

The one thing that might kill the Bada is if enough developers don’t get into it, however don’t forget that major software developers are already on board e.g EA games, and so on. Others will certainly follow when they see how good the performance is on a game like Half life.