November 23, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Windows Phone 7
November 24, 2010 at 12:39 am
Steve, you make no mention of the BlackBerry in your article. While it may not be quite as much fun to use as Android, iPhone, WP7, it's a pretty efficient business tool and the latest models are getting more up to date on the UI side.
It's not my phone of choice (my company graciously gave me one 🙂 ), but it does the job well.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
November 24, 2010 at 3:25 am
Jeepers - what an editorial. That link to the review set me off on a 20-minute reading session. Now I want a Windows Phone, although like Steve I see no real reason (yet) to switch from iPhone. But, developing for WinPho would (for me) be much easier than iPhone dev with its Objectionable-C language!
Interesting stuff indeed.
November 24, 2010 at 6:02 am
Although I just refuse to be drawn into becoming enslaved to a cell phone...
One of marketing guys came in with the WP7 last week. Everyone was excited to see it, but within a short time the comments were all the same - and these are the same comments I have heard all my career...
"Thank God for Apple!!! They invent something great and 3 years later Microsoft copies it so that they can have something mildly great..."
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery - just copying your competitor is being out of any original ideas...
November 24, 2010 at 6:10 am
i love phone debates\discussions\reviews.
It all comes down to what you want from your device. Blackberry said it best... it isn't about the apps... it is about the web. And frankly if you think about it they are totally true. If you have a superior web browsing ability you don't need an app to digest the web content for you just to spit it back out.
I use a WebOS device... Love it. Have a ton of apps on it and really only use one to track my fuel usage in my vehicle. Otherwise i use the mail, calendar, contacts and other standard smartphone items. The web is fantastic on it... but didn't feel like i was missing out when it was new and there weren't as many apps.
The iphone has the glamour of apple behind it. It is a great device as apple doesn't play if it isn't great. But who cares if you have 10M apps. When 9 of 10 apps are useless. Android and WebOS also suffer from this.
Really it comes down to what you want. The winner for me being webos becasue of the sync'ing capabilites. I love the calendar and contact management. The email is good and the web is great in my opinion.
November 24, 2010 at 7:28 am
While I get decent, not great, coverage from T-Mobile, I am tempted to switch to Sprint or Verizon as they seem to do a much better job. If they had an iPhone, I'd move tomorrow.
You have an iphone on T-Mobile? I thought they were only available from AT&T.
November 24, 2010 at 7:58 am
Good artists copy Great artists steal! Micorosoft's recipe of success
November 24, 2010 at 8:50 am
I don't think it is JUST about the web. Apps are important. For example using facebook on my iphone app is a thousand times nicer than using the facebook website from my phone, and generally more directly productive and thus nicer than even using the website from my computer.
In particular the ability to get push notifications and not having to login to a website make apps blow the web by itself out of the water.
Also some websites require browser add ins I could not run on my phone unless I had a full fledged browser and I don't know of any smart phones that have that. I am thinking of LogMeIn in particular which I use for remote desktop access and just love the app for.
I could give half a dozen more examples but you get the point. And this hasn't even touched the apps that don't need connectivity to the web in order to work.
November 24, 2010 at 8:55 am
Robert Hermsen (11/24/2010)
But who cares if you have 10M apps. When 9 of 10 apps are useless. Android and WebOS also suffer from this.
9 out of 10 windows programs are probably useless too, if not more. I think this is a ratio we will just have to live with, it takes 9 or so lousy applications being built and published for the programming community to learn enough to create one great one. Sometimes these are all from the same programmer, the learning curve for programming being what it is.
So having 10M apps out there drastically increases the chances of the one good app you need being available.
November 24, 2010 at 9:08 am
AT&T sucks,
Glad I have Verizon now,
Network beats iPhone.
The network sold me. AT&T only worked while driving from and to work -- not in my office or in my house.
Had WM 6.0 phone on AT&T and it was nowhere near as usable as Android. In switching, I've already brushed back up on Java and was surprised how easy it is to write for Android.
Android has worked well for me. Was given an iTouch and after initially playing with it, it has set in the drawer. It doesn't offer anything my 'Droid doesn't.
I'm sure the iPhone could do just as well when it comes to Verizon, but I don't like the thought of not being able to write an application for my phone without going through a lot of hassle to push it to it.
My $0.02.
November 24, 2010 at 9:41 am
Steve says that these smart phones "have made me much more productive over the last few years."
How? I don't get it.
November 24, 2010 at 9:45 am
The ability to work from anywhere anytime would be the biggest game changer for me.
If I can read and if necessary reply to an email right off my phone instead of waiting till I get back to the office then I don't have to deal with a pile of email before I can get any work done, and that is just the start of the possibilities.
November 24, 2010 at 11:11 am
my samsung epic is the truth.. i don't see how people like the iphone over the latest androids.. not sure about windows phone since it's new.. but the way the android put everything is a easy to get to format, and the pull down screen is the gospel - 🙂
November 24, 2010 at 12:30 pm
IMO Win7 is or soon will be the best OS on any phone. The first major patch is coming in December, the second one in March. Microsoft listened to the developers and even third party apps will be able to multitask. (Curently they cannot.)
Microsoft's competitive disdvantage is that they control software and only the baseline for hardware. Apple spent enormous time on usability testing to figure out the just rigt radius of every edge and corner and, not so obviously, the "correct" weight of the device to make it feel right in your hand.
Windows phones are designed by phone companies that do not go to such length.
November 24, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Who wants to start a pool on how long it will be before we have the first windows phone 7 virus? lol just kidding, sort of.
While I love the IDEA of a more open platform and hate how apple is so controlling of what I can put on MY phone, I do wonder if the openness will come with a price.
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