Geeze some people really like there copy and paste, you would think the world was going to end if you didn't have it. As for people thinking the ui is a complete failure, I kinda like it, not everyones the same. I've stared at a liitle grid of icons on my phone for almost a decade, time for a change.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned though is this now completes microsofts cloud based services. All you photos, contacts, calendars, emails, office files etc now sync. You can edit office docs on your phone, pc, web even direct in hotmail. Then there's the xbox intergration stuff.
People talk about apple and the cloud and going into your living room. But Microsoft now seem to have jumped right passed them and linked everything together. While apples spending months trying to get Facebook integrated with ping on the simplest level, ms have it at the heart of their phone!
Not everyones going to like the phone, but then not everyone likes the iPhone, doesn't make it bad.
I have no particular problem with bias per se, and Walt, while biased, does not make things up.
However, lately, IMO Appleinsider is coming close to yellow journalism, particularly after the Ballmer incident. This article is no different than if someone wrote a summary of the iPhone 4 reviews with the headline, "iPhone 4 suffers from significant hardware problems" and then quoted a bunch of reviewers who had said something about the antenna or proximity sensor.
I just reread the article!
I did not (and have not) read any of the links,
IMO, the article is negative, but not biased.
It did not attempt to present any favorable evaluations (unless some were in the links).
Likely, the author has found a plurality of reviews that support the headline, and went with it.
I don't expect any articles on a site like this to be written to journalistic standards or ethics (whatever they are in today''s world).
I would expect similar reporting at an Android or Microsoft site.
That said, there are certain authors (some publish here) who have an irrational hatred of Android, Microsoft, Adobe -- anyone currently considered anti-Apple.
It's blatantly obvious when you read an article by one of these authors.
If I were an Android or Microsoft fan/user and I came to a site like this, I would expect most of the articles to be presented similar to this one. It is a site for Apple fans/users, after all.
"I want to know how 'office' for WP7 works. What the xbox live integration actually means besides a 3D avatar."
I guess you were really not following the news close enough. It has been explained in many blog aritcles. Play one of the Xbox live games on the phoen and it updates your stats on Live. If the same game is on the 360 your progression/stats are updated there.
I have seen many screen shots of Office for the phone. Add to that Sharepoint sycing has been reviewed. Honestly I have only read a few articles and I picked all of that up.
I'm not thinking about feature summaries, screenshots or marketing spin, but in-depth experiences and a breakdown of what you can and can't do with it. Remember that Microsoft promised a lot initially and they used every opportunity available to flash their Office and xbox brands. If it turns out now that office for WP7 is just a glorified notepad that can display and maybe even edit a few simple word or excel files, and the xbox live integration really isn't much more than openfeint or game center, that's hugely disappointing. My main point was that I want to see comparisons, reviews that break down the features wp7 has right now and compares them directly to iOS or Android. All I read right now is that the UI is so different. That doesn't bode well for microsoft.
Who is going to buy a Windows phone, when Windows carries a 90% corporate IT/institutional computing place in peoples minds?
X-Box integration? Appeals only to a portion of the serious gaming audience. And is that enough to make you buy a phone?
Blackberry already has a huge presence in corporate IT. Android wants to be everything for everybody. Apple sells what Apple sells. WEB/OS from HP is back in the wild soon.
The market is not there. Even when they start to give them away, or go two for 1. Between BB, Android and Apple (and WEB/OS) there is no one outside of Microsoft headquarters who cares about a Windows Phone...I can't see what they can do to change this. Innovation is not one of Microsofts strengths. They DO have strengths, but innovation is not one of them. Consumer electronics is not one of them. Mobile platforms has NOT been one of them. So other than giving them away in some form (in other words using all their money to try and buy market - dropping price, paying people to use them) what part of Microsoft's DNA will allow this product to become anything but a 'me-to'?
This is a serious issue for Microsoft. It's a huge problem that they have no expertise that allows them to develop a unique product. They have used overwhelming size to dominate the clone PC market, and face it, their systems were bought not by people who loved them, but by large corporate entities because of millions of 'Microsoft certified' single guys out there who supported and maintained the systems.
I'm being a bit snarky, but the issue Microsoft faces is a big one.
Isn't that pretty much like asking "Who's going to buy Android phone?" this time last year? Android 1.5 and 1.6 were way behind iPhone - OS, apps and hardware wise. And no-one was considering them capable to compete with RIM on corporate level. Google is associated to Internet and advertising, hardly first things to pop up in your mind when you think of security (which is a big deal in corporate world).
And look at them now.
WP7 is good launch problem, lacking some features but with well done core that MS can build upon. Yes, RIM is strong with corporate users but RIM is charging more than decent money for Blackberry Server licensing, something that many IT departments will gladly ditch for native Exchange support. There is more than decent saving there, and I am expecting that Exchange support for WP7 - if it isn't already - will grow to be more reliable than BB Server piggy-back on top of Exchange.
Even with it's first appearance, Office for WP7 seems to be better than existing mobile Office suites (according to AnandTech); another strong point for business users.
What MS is doing here is based on notes they took from Apple - integration, integration, integration. And with their existing ecosystem - Windows Servers and desktops, Exchange, Office, SharePoint, CRM... possibilities are much bigger than anyone else can do in the same environment. Will MS manage to achieve all that is possible is another question, but potential is there.
I have a strong feeling first steps of WP7 growth will be achieved in corporate segment (damaging RIM more than any other player)... but if WP7 UI is as sleek as advertised (and reviewed), exposure to WP7 in working environment can bring them a lot of consumers/home users as well, maybe not initially, but in time.
I think this platform will do well. It will not mega-explode into the market, but in a year or two it will have decent share to guarantee profit and stability. Is it going (and when) to overtake RIM, Apple, Android... at this point really isn't crucial.
If it turns out now that office for WP7 is just a glorified notepad that can display and maybe even edit a few simple word or excel files, and the xbox live integration really isn't much more than openfeint or game center, that's hugely disappointing
Anandtech has the most complete review I've seen, you should read it.
I think the balance of Office and Xbox features and usability is actually really good. The old Microsoft would have just 1. kept adding features until the deadline, then called it a day and released it or 2. delayed until they have crammed all of the features in.
Instead they have included the features most people use most of the time, then really focused on the user experience aspect of how they all fit together. This is something Apple have been doing successfully for years and it's nice to see Microsoft follow their lead.
I would like to see a review by an xbox 360 gamer as they will probably be the highest percentage of buyers.
Well, there are over 40 million Xbox 360 sold in the world. Even if, say, 10 million are replacements for RROD failures, it is still nice number of potential buyers. Not to mention there are households with more than one user on Xbox, thus potentially more than one WP7 buyer per Xbox...
Windows mobile is a brand new platform? What on earth are you talking about. iOS and Android came from an installed user base of nothing less than four years ago, windows mobile is on version SEVEN starting with pocket PC which was released over ten years ago.
And still no copy on paste on this version, they've had enough time to integrate it before now...
Pocket PC 2000
Pocket PC 2002
Windows Mobile 2003
Windows Mobile 2003 SE
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile 6.1
Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile 6.5.1
Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Windows Mobile 6.5.5
And they still haven't got it right, Apple are on iOS 4 (just) as many major revisions in as many years and are already ahead of windows mobile, which is an established, mature platform with almost ten years of life 'in the wild'.
That doesn't make much sense.
WP7 is completely breaking with software and hardware compatibility with previous Windows Mobile platform(s), thus it is brand new.
Microsoft does have/had other mobile platforms in the past, but WP7 is not continuation of any - it is brand new start. Just like iOS wasn't continuation of Newton, but completely new platform when it was released.
"7 years ago" yeah what he said because nothing ever changes in 7 years.
Yup, in 7 years up till just now Windows on mobile still sucked and much better alternatives sprung up. In Microsoft's case, nothing changed much in 7 years. We shall see if WP7 bucks the trend.
Yup, in 7 years up till just now Windows on mobile still sucked and much better alternatives sprung up. In Microsoft's case, nothing changed much in 7 years. We shall see if WP7 bucks the trend.
They will buck the trend, problem is this? Will they return to their old foolish ways when they succeed?
You're disagreeing that iOS has improved over the years?
Of course it has, but that's not what we're talking about. As several people have noted, the challenge for MS is very different from the what the challenge was for Apple.
Apple introduced the iPhone into a world that didn't have the iPhone. They literally got to write the book on how a modern smart phone ought to be done. Sure they got shit for things like multitasking and copy and paste, but as first movers they got a lot of leeway to work things out gradually to their liking.
Android had the advantage of learning from the iPhone, Google's deep pockets, and a business model that allows them to give it away.
MS isn't really in a great position to get something out there and improve it gradually. A lot of air in the room has already been sucked up. You don't have to look any further than the Zune-- by all accounts very nice entrant into the PMP field that went nowhere at all, because the iPod had already become far too entrenched. Maybe if the Zune had offered something genuinely extraordinary, but being real nice and all wasn't nearly enough.
Now MS has a vital interest in getting a dog in this hunt, and they're not going to take no for an answer, so whether or not they have much success in the market they'll be flogging Windows phones just as hard as they can for as long as it takes. But it remains to be seen if "very nice with some shortcomings that no doubt they'll address at some point" is going to be enough when iOS and Android are already so far along.
To their credit they've apparently done a good job of coming up with a catchy, different UI, although it remains to be seen how some of those design decisions will play out over the long haul. Some stuff that looks neat at first blush can get pretty old pretty fast if it gets in the way.
BREAKING NEWS: A brand new platform is not quite yet as good as the far more matured Android and iOS platforms.
Guess what? iOS 1.x wasn't much to write home about, either. But it got better over time. The same with Android. And the same will be true of Windows Phone 7.
It really is pathetic how MSFT has to stoop to paying trolls like yourself to try to put a positive spin on another one of their halfast efforts. These idiots have been in the mobile arena for so many years and the best they can do is put a pretty face, designed by someone with attention deficit disorder, on their UI thinking "that will fool them". This company does not deserve our business!
But even if you can "accuse" them of being unbalanced, doesn't make them any less moronic (in the broad sense, not the techie one) than usual.
The crux for me is engadget, these guys had been shitting their pants for... the courrier. If they can't recommend this, no one can.
Anandtech is pretty even, considering that they cater to the 1337 BYO PC hardware crowd: the more complex and difficult a piece of technology is to use, the more 1337 these guys feel. Apple is the antithesis of their values, so I think it tends to color their perception, but I think they tend to be pretty fair to Apple for a PC site. Certainly compared to the clowns at DailyTech who are far, far more openly anti-Apple.
I don't think there is such a thing as an unbiased site. Slashdot is pro-GNU/Linux. This site is pretty pro-Apple, and that's fine by me
Yeah, but this isn't 2007 any more. The iPhone and Android have been on the scene for years now.
You can't come out to where your competitors were years ago, you have to come out ahead of them. That MS could release a phone without copy and paste in 2010 (late 2010 at that!) just boggles...
But they did come out ahead in some areas, for example music, video play back and viewing photos is better than apple or android. It also has a better UI.
But they did come out ahead in some areas, for example music, video play back and viewing photos is better than apple or android. It also has a better UI.
That and the fact that I have tried it myself and compared it to apple's UI.
Why is Apple's UI better? Because reviewers said so? Because AppleInsider says so? I mean give me a break dude pretty much everyone that says Apple interface is better cite reviews that say Apple's UI is better. Is it so wrong that I cite reviews that say Microsft's window 7 phone UI is better. Fine Anandtech says its better, Cnet says its better. Is your pride in Apple products so great that your not willing to at least accept the idea that maybe Microsoft has actually a better UI at something than Apple?
Look just accept the fact that Microsoft has a winner when it comes to the UI for its windows 7 phone.
That and the fact that I have tried it myself and compared it to apple's UI.
Why is Apple's UI better? Because reviewers said so? Because AppleInsider says so? I mean give me a break dude pretty much everyone that says Apple interface is better cite reviews that say Apple's UI is better.
Look just accept the fact that Microsoft has a winner when it comes to the UI for its windows 7 phone.
1) How many apps (tiles) were in the start screen?
2) How many apps were in the alphabetic list of all the apps?
I like the concept of the Active Tiles!
My concern is that when you have a lot of tiles and/or a lot of apps -- you must do a lot of scrolling to go between apps. Especially, since: when you exit an app it returns you to the top of the tile list or the top of the alpha list.
The back button takes you sequentially backwards through the recent apps -- one app at a time. There is no way to go back and forward or randomly select from recent apps.
In other words, there is no fast app switching.
Looking at the various demo videos, my conclusion is that it is a good start, but needs fleshing out.
1) How many apps (tiles) were in the start screen?
2) How many apps were in the alphabetic list of all the apps?
I like the concept of the Active Tiles!
My concern is that when you have a lot of tiles and/or a lot of apps -- you must do a lot of scrolling to go between apps. Especially, since: when you exit an app it returns you to the top of the tile list or the top of the alpha list.
The back button takes you sequentially backwards through the recent apps -- one app at a time. There is no way to go back and forward or randomly select from recent apps.
In other words, there is no fast app switching.
Looking at the various demo videos, my conclusion is that it is a good start, but needs fleshing out.
.
Read the first three pages of this review, I believe it will address all your concerns on the UI that Microsoft has developed.
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One thing that hasn't been mentioned though is this now completes microsofts cloud based services. All you photos, contacts, calendars, emails, office files etc now sync. You can edit office docs on your phone, pc, web even direct in hotmail. Then there's the xbox intergration stuff.
People talk about apple and the cloud and going into your living room. But Microsoft now seem to have jumped right passed them and linked everything together. While apples spending months trying to get Facebook integrated with ping on the simplest level, ms have it at the heart of their phone!
Not everyones going to like the phone, but then not everyone likes the iPhone, doesn't make it bad.
I have no particular problem with bias per se, and Walt, while biased, does not make things up.
However, lately, IMO Appleinsider is coming close to yellow journalism, particularly after the Ballmer incident. This article is no different than if someone wrote a summary of the iPhone 4 reviews with the headline, "iPhone 4 suffers from significant hardware problems" and then quoted a bunch of reviewers who had said something about the antenna or proximity sensor.
I just reread the article!
I did not (and have not) read any of the links,
IMO, the article is negative, but not biased.
It did not attempt to present any favorable evaluations (unless some were in the links).
Likely, the author has found a plurality of reviews that support the headline, and went with it.
I don't expect any articles on a site like this to be written to journalistic standards or ethics (whatever they are in today''s world).
I would expect similar reporting at an Android or Microsoft site.
That said, there are certain authors (some publish here) who have an irrational hatred of Android, Microsoft, Adobe -- anyone currently considered anti-Apple.
It's blatantly obvious when you read an article by one of these authors.
If I were an Android or Microsoft fan/user and I came to a site like this, I would expect most of the articles to be presented similar to this one. It is a site for Apple fans/users, after all.
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"I want to know how 'office' for WP7 works. What the xbox live integration actually means besides a 3D avatar."
I guess you were really not following the news close enough. It has been explained in many blog aritcles. Play one of the Xbox live games on the phoen and it updates your stats on Live. If the same game is on the 360 your progression/stats are updated there.
I have seen many screen shots of Office for the phone. Add to that Sharepoint sycing has been reviewed. Honestly I have only read a few articles and I picked all of that up.
I'm not thinking about feature summaries, screenshots or marketing spin, but in-depth experiences and a breakdown of what you can and can't do with it. Remember that Microsoft promised a lot initially and they used every opportunity available to flash their Office and xbox brands. If it turns out now that office for WP7 is just a glorified notepad that can display and maybe even edit a few simple word or excel files, and the xbox live integration really isn't much more than openfeint or game center, that's hugely disappointing. My main point was that I want to see comparisons, reviews that break down the features wp7 has right now and compares them directly to iOS or Android. All I read right now is that the UI is so different. That doesn't bode well for microsoft.
Who is going to buy a Windows phone, when Windows carries a 90% corporate IT/institutional computing place in peoples minds?
X-Box integration? Appeals only to a portion of the serious gaming audience. And is that enough to make you buy a phone?
Blackberry already has a huge presence in corporate IT. Android wants to be everything for everybody. Apple sells what Apple sells. WEB/OS from HP is back in the wild soon.
The market is not there. Even when they start to give them away, or go two for 1. Between BB, Android and Apple (and WEB/OS) there is no one outside of Microsoft headquarters who cares about a Windows Phone...I can't see what they can do to change this. Innovation is not one of Microsofts strengths. They DO have strengths, but innovation is not one of them. Consumer electronics is not one of them. Mobile platforms has NOT been one of them. So other than giving them away in some form (in other words using all their money to try and buy market - dropping price, paying people to use them) what part of Microsoft's DNA will allow this product to become anything but a 'me-to'?
This is a serious issue for Microsoft. It's a huge problem that they have no expertise that allows them to develop a unique product. They have used overwhelming size to dominate the clone PC market, and face it, their systems were bought not by people who loved them, but by large corporate entities because of millions of 'Microsoft certified' single guys out there who supported and maintained the systems.
I'm being a bit snarky, but the issue Microsoft faces is a big one.
Isn't that pretty much like asking "Who's going to buy Android phone?" this time last year? Android 1.5 and 1.6 were way behind iPhone - OS, apps and hardware wise. And no-one was considering them capable to compete with RIM on corporate level. Google is associated to Internet and advertising, hardly first things to pop up in your mind when you think of security (which is a big deal in corporate world).
And look at them now.
WP7 is good launch problem, lacking some features but with well done core that MS can build upon. Yes, RIM is strong with corporate users but RIM is charging more than decent money for Blackberry Server licensing, something that many IT departments will gladly ditch for native Exchange support. There is more than decent saving there, and I am expecting that Exchange support for WP7 - if it isn't already - will grow to be more reliable than BB Server piggy-back on top of Exchange.
Even with it's first appearance, Office for WP7 seems to be better than existing mobile Office suites (according to AnandTech); another strong point for business users.
What MS is doing here is based on notes they took from Apple - integration, integration, integration. And with their existing ecosystem - Windows Servers and desktops, Exchange, Office, SharePoint, CRM... possibilities are much bigger than anyone else can do in the same environment. Will MS manage to achieve all that is possible is another question, but potential is there.
I have a strong feeling first steps of WP7 growth will be achieved in corporate segment (damaging RIM more than any other player)... but if WP7 UI is as sleek as advertised (and reviewed), exposure to WP7 in working environment can bring them a lot of consumers/home users as well, maybe not initially, but in time.
I think this platform will do well. It will not mega-explode into the market, but in a year or two it will have decent share to guarantee profit and stability. Is it going (and when) to overtake RIM, Apple, Android... at this point really isn't crucial.
If it turns out now that office for WP7 is just a glorified notepad that can display and maybe even edit a few simple word or excel files, and the xbox live integration really isn't much more than openfeint or game center, that's hugely disappointing
Anandtech has the most complete review I've seen, you should read it.
I think the balance of Office and Xbox features and usability is actually really good. The old Microsoft would have just 1. kept adding features until the deadline, then called it a day and released it or 2. delayed until they have crammed all of the features in.
Instead they have included the features most people use most of the time, then really focused on the user experience aspect of how they all fit together. This is something Apple have been doing successfully for years and it's nice to see Microsoft follow their lead.
I would like to see a review by an xbox 360 gamer as they will probably be the highest percentage of buyers.
Well, there are over 40 million Xbox 360 sold in the world. Even if, say, 10 million are replacements for RROD failures, it is still nice number of potential buyers. Not to mention there are households with more than one user on Xbox, thus potentially more than one WP7 buyer per Xbox...
Windows mobile is a brand new platform? What on earth are you talking about. iOS and Android came from an installed user base of nothing less than four years ago, windows mobile is on version SEVEN starting with pocket PC which was released over ten years ago.
And still no copy on paste on this version, they've had enough time to integrate it before now...
Pocket PC 2000
Pocket PC 2002
Windows Mobile 2003
Windows Mobile 2003 SE
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile 6.1
Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile 6.5.1
Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Windows Mobile 6.5.5
And they still haven't got it right, Apple are on iOS 4 (just) as many major revisions in as many years and are already ahead of windows mobile, which is an established, mature platform with almost ten years of life 'in the wild'.
That doesn't make much sense.
WP7 is completely breaking with software and hardware compatibility with previous Windows Mobile platform(s), thus it is brand new.
Microsoft does have/had other mobile platforms in the past, but WP7 is not continuation of any - it is brand new start. Just like iOS wasn't continuation of Newton, but completely new platform when it was released.
"7 years ago" yeah what he said because nothing ever changes in 7 years.
Yup, in 7 years up till just now Windows on mobile still sucked and much better alternatives sprung up. In Microsoft's case, nothing changed much in 7 years. We shall see if WP7 bucks the trend.
Yup, in 7 years up till just now Windows on mobile still sucked and much better alternatives sprung up. In Microsoft's case, nothing changed much in 7 years. We shall see if WP7 bucks the trend.
They will buck the trend, problem is this? Will they return to their old foolish ways when they succeed?
You're disagreeing that iOS has improved over the years?
Of course it has, but that's not what we're talking about. As several people have noted, the challenge for MS is very different from the what the challenge was for Apple.
Apple introduced the iPhone into a world that didn't have the iPhone. They literally got to write the book on how a modern smart phone ought to be done. Sure they got shit for things like multitasking and copy and paste, but as first movers they got a lot of leeway to work things out gradually to their liking.
Android had the advantage of learning from the iPhone, Google's deep pockets, and a business model that allows them to give it away.
MS isn't really in a great position to get something out there and improve it gradually. A lot of air in the room has already been sucked up. You don't have to look any further than the Zune-- by all accounts very nice entrant into the PMP field that went nowhere at all, because the iPod had already become far too entrenched. Maybe if the Zune had offered something genuinely extraordinary, but being real nice and all wasn't nearly enough.
Now MS has a vital interest in getting a dog in this hunt, and they're not going to take no for an answer, so whether or not they have much success in the market they'll be flogging Windows phones just as hard as they can for as long as it takes. But it remains to be seen if "very nice with some shortcomings that no doubt they'll address at some point" is going to be enough when iOS and Android are already so far along.
To their credit they've apparently done a good job of coming up with a catchy, different UI, although it remains to be seen how some of those design decisions will play out over the long haul. Some stuff that looks neat at first blush can get pretty old pretty fast if it gets in the way.
BREAKING NEWS: A brand new platform is not quite yet as good as the far more matured Android and iOS platforms.
Guess what? iOS 1.x wasn't much to write home about, either. But it got better over time. The same with Android. And the same will be true of Windows Phone 7.
It really is pathetic how MSFT has to stoop to paying trolls like yourself to try to put a positive spin on another one of their halfast efforts. These idiots have been in the mobile arena for so many years and the best they can do is put a pretty face, designed by someone with attention deficit disorder, on their UI thinking "that will fool them". This company does not deserve our business!
Anandtech unbiased, that has got to be joke.
But even if you can "accuse" them of being unbalanced, doesn't make them any less moronic (in the broad sense, not the techie one) than usual.
The crux for me is engadget, these guys had been shitting their pants for... the courrier. If they can't recommend this, no one can.
Anandtech is pretty even, considering that they cater to the 1337 BYO PC hardware crowd: the more complex and difficult a piece of technology is to use, the more 1337 these guys feel. Apple is the antithesis of their values, so I think it tends to color their perception, but I think they tend to be pretty fair to Apple for a PC site. Certainly compared to the clowns at DailyTech who are far, far more openly anti-Apple.
I don't think there is such a thing as an unbiased site. Slashdot is pro-GNU/Linux. This site is pretty pro-Apple, and that's fine by me
Not a good start for Microsoft
Yeah, but this isn't 2007 any more. The iPhone and Android have been on the scene for years now.
You can't come out to where your competitors were years ago, you have to come out ahead of them. That MS could release a phone without copy and paste in 2010 (late 2010 at that!) just boggles...
But they did come out ahead in some areas, for example music, video play back and viewing photos is better than apple or android. It also has a better UI.
But they did come out ahead in some areas, for example music, video play back and viewing photos is better than apple or android. It also has a better UI.
It has better UI? Why? Because reviewers said so?
BREAKING NEWS: another insipid comment by Quillz.
iOS 1 was ground breaking.
MIcrosoft, even though it had years of lead time over Apple and Goggle, never got it's act together (as usual). Too late, too little.
Damn straight it was groundbreaking. Just ask Palm, Google, Microsoft, Symbian. They know the score.
It has better UI? Why? Because reviewers said so?
That and the fact that I have tried it myself and compared it to apple's UI.
Why is Apple's UI better? Because reviewers said so? Because AppleInsider says so? I mean give me a break dude pretty much everyone that says Apple interface is better cite reviews that say Apple's UI is better. Is it so wrong that I cite reviews that say Microsft's window 7 phone UI is better. Fine Anandtech says its better, Cnet says its better. Is your pride in Apple products so great that your not willing to at least accept the idea that maybe Microsoft has actually a better UI at something than Apple?
Look just accept the fact that Microsoft has a winner when it comes to the UI for its windows 7 phone.
That and the fact that I have tried it myself and compared it to apple's UI.
Why is Apple's UI better? Because reviewers said so? Because AppleInsider says so? I mean give me a break dude pretty much everyone that says Apple interface is better cite reviews that say Apple's UI is better.
Look just accept the fact that Microsoft has a winner when it comes to the UI for its windows 7 phone.
1) How many apps (tiles) were in the start screen?
2) How many apps were in the alphabetic list of all the apps?
I like the concept of the Active Tiles!
My concern is that when you have a lot of tiles and/or a lot of apps -- you must do a lot of scrolling to go between apps. Especially, since: when you exit an app it returns you to the top of the tile list or the top of the alpha list.
The back button takes you sequentially backwards through the recent apps -- one app at a time. There is no way to go back and forward or randomly select from recent apps.
In other words, there is no fast app switching.
Looking at the various demo videos, my conclusion is that it is a good start, but needs fleshing out.
.
1) How many apps (tiles) were in the start screen?
2) How many apps were in the alphabetic list of all the apps?
I like the concept of the Active Tiles!
My concern is that when you have a lot of tiles and/or a lot of apps -- you must do a lot of scrolling to go between apps. Especially, since: when you exit an app it returns you to the top of the tile list or the top of the alpha list.
The back button takes you sequentially backwards through the recent apps -- one app at a time. There is no way to go back and forward or randomly select from recent apps.
In other words, there is no fast app switching.
Looking at the various demo videos, my conclusion is that it is a good start, but needs fleshing out.
.
Read the first three pages of this review, I believe it will address all your concerns on the UI that Microsoft has developed.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3982/w...one-7-review/1