edinlexusV8 Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Does anybody use one of these windows phones in here? Or is it only me, usual sole warrior of this new platform ... ;-) Just connected my HTC trophy to my laptop and got 3 updates pushed down. Two from Microsoft and one from HTC! The OS is already fast but Mango takes it to the next level! Super smooth and super fast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locNEna0of4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I stupidly brought my wife a windows 7 phone (Samsung Omina 7). I had all the other platforms so wanted to try this out too. Never again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinlexusV8 Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 I stupidly brought my wife a windows 7 phone (Samsung Omina 7). I had all the other platforms so wanted to try this out too. Never again. What happened? Only thing lacking is the number of apps but all the big names are already there in the market place ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attero Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Phone looks sleek, but as above... Windows Mobile is a big no no for me at any cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinlexusV8 Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 Windows Mobile!!??!! Yeah but windows mobile is quite bulky an unusable with no apps. This is NOT windows mobile period! This is a totally different OS written from scratch. Windows Mobile was killed off by MS about 1.5 year ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attero Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Windows Mobile!!??!! Yeah but windows mobile is quite bulky an unusable with no apps. This is NOT windows mobile period! This is a totally different OS written from scratch. Windows Mobile was killed off by MS about 1.5 year ago! I'm talking about any Windows operating system. Just doesn't cut it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creative Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Does anybody use one of these windows phones in here? Or is it only me, usual sole warrior of this new platform ... ;-) You know you are.... The OS is already fast but Mango takes it to the next level! Super smooth and super fast! of course it is... nothing is better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Updated to Mango on a HTC HD7 when it leaked about a month I think. Can't say I noticed any difference in speed or smoothness, not that there was any issue before though. A few nice improvements, but it still doesn't feel like that big an update, and you still can't (easily) set your own ringtones. Still needs much improvement, and soon, market share is reducing every report I see... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 What happened? Only thing lacking is the number of apps but all the big names are already there in the market place ... The OS seems fairly responsive, fairly smooth considering the hardware but the layout & user ability is cumbersome. Maybe it could be that I am or my wife is not a huge social networking fan which makes the tiles & setup of the phone not as attractive but the options menu & other settings seem all 'blurred' together. Out of all the current devices I have (iPhone/Blackberry/Android/Win7) we both dislike the Win7 phone more. Infact I was at a large Sophos conference a few months ago where they were talking about mobile security at one point & the presenter asked how many people had an iPhone\Blackberry\Android phone & a number of hands went up. He then went on to ask how many people had a Nokia & a couple of hands went up (one gentlemen near the front had a really old Nokia). He then went to ask how many people had a Windows 7 phone & no one put their hands up. I was too embarrassed to put my hands up! And luckily I didn't as he then went on to say "Of course, none of you are that stupid". Though in my defence I wanted to give it a chance & back in the days when I had my iPaq, window mobile was heading somewhere. Yes it use to crash & yes it sometimes lost all your data if you didn't charge it every day & yes Active Sync use to duplicate your whole inbox so you had 5,000 e-mails or calendar appointments but when it did work it worked wonderfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 The OS seems fairly responsive, fairly smooth considering the hardware but the layout & user ability is cumbersome. Maybe it could be that I am or my wife is not a huge social networking fan which makes the tiles & setup of the phone not as attractive but the options menu & other settings seem all 'blurred' together. Out of all the current devices I have (iPhone/Blackberry/Android/Win7) we both dislike the Win7 phone more. Infact I was at a large Sophos conference a few months ago where they were talking about mobile security at one point & the presenter asked how many people had an iPhone\Blackberry\Android phone & a number of hands went up. He then went on to ask how many people had a Nokia & a couple of hands went up (one gentlemen near the front had a really old Nokia). He then went to ask how many people had a Windows 7 phone & no one put their hands up. I was too embarrassed to put my hands up! And luckily I didn't as he then went on to say "Of course, none of you are that stupid". Though in my defence I wanted to give it a chance & back in the days when I had my iPaq, window mobile was heading somewhere. Yes it use to crash & yes it sometimes lost all your data if you didn't charge it every day & yes Active Sync use to duplicate your whole inbox so you had 5,000 e-mails or calendar appointments but when it did work it worked wonderfully. Lies, all lies. It's a conspiracy. Windows is clearly the best phone on the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Lies, all lies. It's a conspiracy. Windows is clearly the best phone on the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinlexusV8 Posted September 28, 2011 Author Share Posted September 28, 2011 Sarcasm aside ... I dont see what it cannot do and only other phones can do. Yeah the intial version is a bit low on features and on completeness but mango added more than 500 new features that are missing from the first release and brought it on par with other ecosystems. I am sure if you go into another conf gain you will find another guy having WP7 phone along woth you dont worry. But dont expect more than one to accompany you. There are lot of points of view. From an end user's view (speed, responsiveness, features), from an app designer point of view (how beautiful an app/graphics look), development tools & ease of development on the platform, usability point, hardware specs, features in the OS, Cloud/web services around the OS, support from the OS developers, support from manufacturer's in patching/updating ROMs, Big/popular apps, retail salesmen & network price plans... and a lot more effects. In most of these cases Windows phone is on par or above other platforms except for decent hardware, carrier support & price plans. An example app is Skype. There are more than 23 versions of Skype app on the android platform. This is due to different versions of the OS like Pre-Froyo, Froyo, gingerbread, honeycomb etc etc and also due to different manufacturers taking different versions of the OS and making their own changes. Skype being a quite a big company, can deal with developing different version and have a whole page describing what devices running on what version of the OS are supported. This is insane for a normal developer to develop, update, manage and support! There are no flagship phones for WP7 until now. Like for iOS there are iPhone. Android HTC has one iconic phone, LG has one, Samsung has one, Motorola has one, Sony Ericsson has one etc etc. But this is not the case with WP7. All of these manufacturers jumped on the Android boat as it is free and invested heavily to develop for this platform. Now everybody is paying licensing fees to MS (except motorola), this includes HTC, LG, Samsung, Sony,General Dynamics Itronix, Velocity Micro, Onkyo, Wistron, Acer and ViewSonic etc etc. Just Today: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/microsoft-and-samsung-sitting-in-a-tree-patent-s-h-a-r-i-n-g/ HTC Titan Series for WP7: 4.7" Screen!! Samsung, LG and most of all Nokia are bringing in these exclusive phones... Iphone was exclusive to O2 when it was released so the remaining carriers wanted something exclusive. Blackberry & Later Android came to rescue and all became very popular. WP7 came late to the party. It is designed from scratch (not like android that has linux kernel with half the work already done). Looking at how things are going WP7 will become THE third ecosystem after Android & IOS ecosystems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Oh dear, this "completely neutral" bloke is raving about Windows system again? mate you sound like bloody ms advert, leave us alone, go with this commercial mumble somewhere else. There are better ways to gain money you know? Like sweeping slaughterhouse or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinlexusV8 Posted September 28, 2011 Author Share Posted September 28, 2011 I have been using this phone for almost an year now and see no issues with the phone. Instead of striking off my points in the prev post as an MS advert why dont you give your point of view. I am genuinely interested to know other people's experiences with this OS & ecosystem. I am not interested in sales numbers nor like to know that someone got embarrassed as the only one having the phone at a conference. More interested in experiences, features in the OS (missing or newly added), something you are looking forward to etc ... Mostly end user experiences/ may be a couple of developer experiences with the phone, OS & the overall ecosystem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinlexusV8 Posted September 28, 2011 Author Share Posted September 28, 2011 Looks like I am the only guy using this phone/os on the forum ... so probably this thread will not be like other android or ios threads on this forum. Will always be bashing or sarcastic replies and if I respond with some reasoning suddenly it becomes an MS advert! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 You will struggle to get opinion from people as (like any intelligent human being) we do not like to put hand onto fire 10 times. 6 is enough for most fact is, that no matter how enthusiastic you sound, MS tend to repeat same old story with screwing up anything they touch. IMHO Windows 98se and xp pro are only reasonable products they gave to public. It absolutely pointless to create new mobile system, they should embrace what's on the market already. I just hope that HTC andc others will get cold shower AGAIN and ditch stupid idea of ms on their phones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsween Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 He's the local MS salesman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinlexusV8 Posted September 28, 2011 Author Share Posted September 28, 2011 Computer says NO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 You will struggle to get opinion from people as (like any intelligent human being) we do not like to put hand onto fire 10 times. 6 is enough for most fact is, that no matter how enthusiastic you sound, MS tend to repeat same old story with screwing up anything they touch. IMHO Windows 98se and xp pro are only reasonable products they gave to public. It absolutely pointless to create new mobile system, they should embrace what's on the market already. I just hope that HTC andc others will get cold shower AGAIN and ditch stupid idea of ms on their phones. In Microsofts defence, Windows 7 is pretty good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 In Microsofts defence, Windows 7 is pretty good too. Yep & some windows server OS are good amongst a few other things. The phone Market though? Not yet & I am basing my neutral opinion on experience with different platforms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Does anybody use one of these windows phones in here? Or is it only me, usual sole warrior of this new platform ... ;-) Just connected my HTC trophy to my laptop and got 3 updates pushed down. Two from Microsoft and one from HTC! The OS is already fast but Mango takes it to the next level! Super smooth and super fast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locNEna0of4 are you looking to put forward a group buy and double up Microsoft Sales figures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Sarcasm aside ... I dont see what it cannot do and only other phones can do. Set your own ringtone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinlexusV8 Posted October 8, 2011 Author Share Posted October 8, 2011 Set your own ringtone? http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windowsphone75/windows-phone-75-create-custom-ringtones-140834 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottC Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windowsphone75/windows-phone-75-create-custom-ringtones-140834 You're getting there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windowsphone75/windows-phone-75-create-custom-ringtones-140834 That's just awesome. M$ really have hit the pinnacle of what the customer wants. Even the iTellyouwhatyouwantPhone is easier to customise, ringtone wise, than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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