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Will Windows Phone 7 save us from our phones? | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Time is getting closer to the release of Windows Phone 7, but we still have not heard of any solid release dates or even specific devices on US carriers. The folks over at WMPoweruser.com posted a couple of YouTube videos, embedded below, that I wanted to share with you. The advertisements are for an AT&T HTC device, but are much more focused on the message than the phone itself. As you can see in each there are people distracted by their various phones in many typical situations with the message that Windows Phone lets you “glance and go” or have a “phone that saves us from our phones”. | ||
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| #1 By 79018 (67.252.61.198) at 9/27/2010 8:51:20 AM |
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It is going to be very hard to catch the iPhone.
Their best chance is to make an offer that's to good to pass up. Almost give it away, for the first 30 days. I own an Android, and am very happy with it, but Windows Phone7 looks great. But then again the iPhone is great and has a huge head start. They need to target (in the beginning) people like me who can't afford the iPhone. |
| #2 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 9/27/2010 11:37:23 AM |
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Not interested: WP7 is as locked down as the iPhone and with plenty of missing functionalities, again as the first edition of Apple phone.
Hopefully by the time my HD2 will die MS will have reconsidered its strategy and correct big steps back like lack of removable storage, no cabs apps etc. If not I will jump on the Android bandwagon. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at 9/28/2010 9:56:53 AM |
| #2, Fritz, download the free dev tools and have a look - look at how the notification service works and how the pivot controls work. What I think you'd find is that there is so much you CAN do that before you exhaust that, they'll ship more controls and updates that allow you do to even more (sockets, etc...). With the way that they have access to the notifiction services worked up and how you can shape any data source you want, it's hard to argue against it right now. You get the ease and conistency of managed code, with the results and performance of native code. You end up writing a lot closer to the metal than you think, or at least the end results are so very close - here's a look at our wireless industry infrastructure PM software on an early build. It's in the emulator, but you can see we've wrapped buckets of data http://blog.libertech.net/photos/wp7/images/221/original.aspx |
| #4 By 16797 (99.236.143.109) at 9/29/2010 7:45:50 AM |
| #3 Will you be able to use that app with your fingers? |
| #5 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 9/29/2010 8:08:59 AM |
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#3: Thanks for the link Iketchum, the app looks intriguing indeed. My problem with WP7 is that there too many things missed compared with my HD2 and Wm6.5.
Just as example: Unable to sync tasks and OneNote with the desktop ( I do not care to sync in the cloud). No unified inbox No Tethering No removable storage Etc. Etc. My plan is simple: for the time being my HD2 will do it; in the meantime I will monitor what happens. Will MS add missing features as they stated? If so I will consider it for sure; I am agnostic by nature: I buy what works for me. As a first impression I like the new UI; I do not know if it is, in a dayly scenario, a valid paradigm. I will give it a try to verify it. What I do not understand is this frenzyness to port WP7 to Tablet computers. Although there is surely room for improvements I would rather have W7 than WP7 on my Convertible. |
| #6 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at 9/30/2010 12:42:17 AM |
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#5, I see new tools and new controls exposed pretty regularly. The platform is there as is the update mechanism. Once the rules around the dispatcher and scheduler are decided by partners (largely - MS is both leading and following here) we'll have access to the metal via native code and sockets. (Feb 2011 is my bet at the latest, because the demand is so high and the justification is there - the testing and validation of apps leveraging this is trailing a bit, in my view, but I think that will be sorted out by launch and we'll have the complete spec and our own version of test tools). //ya'll remember many decades ago turning in code to be run and you'd get it back with a big fat backward C on it indicating that it didn't run? - sucked... and it was up to you to debug it without any tools at all... did I say it sucked?//
Any case, Fritz, the unified inbox is already done as is OneNote to BOTH your desktop and the cloud via the Office HUB and platform client extensions in Office 2010 - WSS/SPS and the Sync/Upload Center. That much I have seen (no embargo). Tethering is power and carrier driven. It'll come - maybe. Removable storage is all about enterprise compliance and leak-down - and MS bending to big business and govt. - as if EXISTING GPO can't address that - that one infuriates me and makes no sense at all - I BLAME LAZY enterprise admins that need to be canned. Old guys like myself that refuse to learn new things and hide behind "experience" to shove off young guys and new ideas. I swore I'd never do that and the day I do, I'm retiring. I think things will happen really fast - especially since 40 million basic guys now have access. |
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