[HD7 General] rysky007:
You guys crack me up, I did research it, but you really dont get a feel for an OS till you use it, you can watch all the videos you want, until you get it and use it and set it up for what you need and use, you dont get a feel for it.

The tiles I have no problem with, its what you cannot do with the tiles and other settings that bothers me, things not discussed by any one until the phone came out and used by many, I have been following this forum since the day the phone launched, and it slowly turned from "omg we love it " to "wtf is this? problem problem problem.

1. Tethering, yeah I know all the lovers will say "its the cell providers who are against it" wrong, if they were HD2 would not have the feature via third party app, LG has it in all of its new phones, Nokia has had it in every phone it has put out for the past 4 years. The cell providers would prefer you have it since it will increase your data usage, especially ones who dont offer unlimited data plans.

2. Select all - Enough said there, hell windows 3.1 had select all, 2010 OS does not? the predecessor did , why does this one not? Why do you need this feature one would ask? well for the rest of us who use the phone for what it can do and not just spend hours checking on our friends via facebook, when u use email heavily as I do and sms, select all is a beautiful and necessary feature. Again, its a feature that every phone out should have hands down, no questions.

3. Custom Profiles - why? again, old invention that is very very very handy. just make sense.

4. Program view - I thought something was off when i saw how it lists all the programs you have installed, until I disabled HTC sense on HD2 and saw that the original WM6.5 does the same idiotic crap.

I believe in the BC era man figured out that you can display data, much more efficiently when you use columns and rows. Then why the hell does a OS released in 2010 list all of it in one long ass list? Oh yeah thats right, its brand new, give it 5 years to develop, no, not a good answer, again a feature that every phone today should have.

5. Tile Colors - yes i know some one made a program that lets you change them, but do we really have to do all that to have a feature that lets us choose colors we want? hell look at the pre set colors we have, its what my 12 year old niece likes. I was using the phone with the default blue in a public place a girl saw the colors and looked at me like i swing the other way.

6. Now lets get into more advance things -

A. To make a call, you first have to go to home page then hit the

phone area of the tiles then type in a number, man if you in life and

death situation, your done. There should ways be a button to

access the one main feature ( make calls) from any were.

A.1 - Most of us hold the phone toward the bottom, but the

answer and hang up button is toward the top of the

screen? last I checked, over long thumbs are not invented

yet.

B. When viewing your contacts, no alphabet slider on the side, hell my

6 year old nokia had that feature, again predecessor HD2 (thanks to

HTC sense) had it, this one, first you have to scroll to nearest letter

then push it, then select another letter you want to jump to. Why

the extra steps?

C. Email - if face book and gmail is all you got, great, what about

business ppl who have several email addresses? In order for me to

track my 4 addresses, I have 4 tiles dedicated on my home screen.

combine that with contacts and phone, and my screen is full, I

have to scroll more on my home page to find the tile i need then

any were else on phone. ( HD 2, had displayed 14 things for you

on home page) this phone max 6 and you have to scroll. So say

I am looking at one email address and need to switch to anther,

on HD2 simple they were all available right there on the preview

page. On HD7, back to home page we go.

Is that what they call efficiency these days? they keep touting this phone to be easy to use, get what you need faster and move on in their nifty commercials.

I counted, it takes more pushes and steps to achieve what you need on HD7 then HD2.

So yes it has the amazing live tiles, but are they really? when I have emails my HD2 tells me that I have email on home page, SMS? same thing, missed call? same thing, reminder? same thing, so what is the advantage to the live tile?

besides their lack of color options and re size ability? Thats right, when your bff takes a dump and updates his facebook profile that he is amazed at the shape it came out in, you will be the first to know.

If some one would of wrote this kind of a review, clearly stating the pros and cons, I would of never touched this OS, but they didn't, you know why the didnt? cause Microsoft paid very well to make sure the reviews and info was positive, they got a xmas phone to sell. And that they did. (those of you who will say that is crap, Microsoft would not do that, trust me they do, im in a very similar industry)

But i know, you guys are going to flame me, call me a idiot, a hater, and that its a new OS bla bla, the Iphone was bad to when it first came out.

yeah that was 5 years ago, you dont start over, you take it up a notch, and that is not what Microsoft did. Why you guys think they are partnering up with Nokia? cause WM7 flopped.

Let the flaming begin