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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Makk:
absolutely my true feeling:D gr8 pic mann. gonna write an article on my site with dis pic if u don mind.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilgrim011:
Of course - it's not my property, I just found it somewhere.:)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laurentius26:
A new interface with a lot of surprises to come, I love it. :D
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
iPhone's button is sized exactly right, not big. You get 20 applications per screen by default, but with customization you can get say 30. WPs7's is way way too big. You don't need to use the fist to touch the area. It is a waste of precious space. It is okay when you have only 30 applications on your device, but will fall flat if you have more than 200 applications like I have on my iPhone. You will need a much more efficient method of accessing your application on your desktop. For me, each screen contains application of a specific category. I have a screen full of applications for GPS related software, multimedia, camera and picture editing, references, tools, productivity, social networking, games, sports and health, etc. My home screen shows all the available screen so that I can touch the category of applications to get to that screen directly before starting the applications.

From anywhere (including from within any application), there's just a maximum of three clicks to start a new application (single click of home key to bring up the above screen, touch the category to get to the correct screen shown below, then touch the application), or a maximum of two clicks to switch to another active applications (double click of home key to bring up all active applications, then touch the application you want to switch to)

My less frequently used applications are simply hidden from the desktop.

In contrast, I think the WPS7 design would require lots of swipping to get to another application. With just 6 or 8 applications per page, there would be lots of swiping to do.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigma79:
Definitely like dumb, I prefer 6.5 than that carp, nothing special, not tight and do something really valuable, but dealing with crap, will definitely be like with Vista, will replace it with another operatsiona system because no wishes to this system, it would discourage many people
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orb3000:
+1!!!...........

:)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omega Ra:
the start screen is a little odd, maybe if they prettied up the squares a little, but other than that...looks good.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WhyBe:
You're missing the whole design concept of the WP7 start screen. It is NOT an app launcher a la iPhone. Those tiles are actively conveying you information (unlike iPhones static app icons), thus their large size. The tiles represent Hubs, not apps (though you could put apps there). The app screen is one swipe away.

I would like the tiles to have some transparency and have an animated background underneath it all. Sort of like the Sense weather.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
I know and understand the tiles concept, but it does not change the fact that you can have only 8 tiles per page, and because I have 200 tiles on my devices (no ifart, incidentally), I need to swipe up to 25 times to get to the tiles I want (assuming you do not leave any blank space in any screen). May be I'm missing something here. Could those of you in the know tell me if there is a means to categorise the tiles/applications, jump to any category quickly, reduce the tile size so that more tiles/applications could fit into one screen in order to more quickly get to those tiles/applications?

On my iPhone my clock icon could show the actual time ticking. My weather icon can show the actual temperature outside, my email could show the number of unread mails, my SMS icon can show the number of unread SMS, my ToDo application can show the number of due tasks, my newsfeeds shows the number of unread items, my stock application shows the number of movement triggers, my App Store shows the number of new updates, facebook shows the number of new items in the newsfeed. Those information are enough for me and I really do not wish to have more information that that to occupy 1/8 of the screen space. Perhaps there are people who like it, but not for me. My live does not evolve around looking at the new photos of my friend's dog and cat 24/7. I want to control when and how much time to check my facebook, but responding to it continuously all the time. I personally can't be productive at work doing that. This is my own thoughts on the tiles. Others may think differently and I would respect that. At the end of the day, the market share and sales figures will do the loudest talking.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Justin241982:
I am disgusted, thoroughly and completely. I have been a windows and windows mobile "PUSHER" for longer than I can remember and I have been betrayed for the last and final time, I hated that they made vista, then tried to cover it up with windows 7 both advancements that could have been add-ons to xp but greedy microsoft wanted to sell everyone a new OS, now they are going to destroy the pocket pc I love so dearly. I am sickened to the core of it!!!!! and you may call this over dramatic whatever if you care about your OS and you stick by it with all of its faults and all of its updates and service packs to be betrayed over and over again, this isnt going to change.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: I am going tomorrow to start using ubuntu regularly until I am a regular user of it and I am switching to android, so within the next few days I will have a mint att tilt 2 used for 4 days for trade for an android phone, if its newer than the tilt 2 I will happily throw in some cash to go along with the trade cause I cant take microsoft any longer..........:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urfavoriteemo:
It looks ok, but too..iphone like, no background, locking down manufacturers to the tile ui..likse i said, its ok, but this boring OS isn't getting me away from Androi anytime soon...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpiriTwin:
It is a phone, not a PDA

Now, I know why they change the name to "Phone" coz that is the true; we will lose the personal assistance.

I love WM 6.xx on my Universal, I'm waiting for HD3 but if and only if it can be downgraded to WM6.xx
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sx1-doc:
not installation files outside marketplace=sucks

its the same as iphone will all the crap limitations...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfarrah:
Agreed. It's a deal-killer for me.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
This limitation was easily bypassed by jailbreaking in iPhone so I think the same will happen to wp7 phones. Perhaps not immediately but I believe it will still happen. Not a real necessary concern you have here.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Makk:
Have a LOOK

Windows Phone 7 might really die before its even Out?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
Die before it's out is an unnecessarily negative article. Reminds me of what all the analysts and Steve Ballmer said of iPhone when it was first released and what they're again saying of iPad now. I think it will over time develop into something real good. Will be lots of work but it'll get there provided MS perservere. I wush to see MS become successful. It is right to dump the dinasaur.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Antboy:
I'd have to disagree with the article, because a number of the things that WP7S doesn't support out of the gate will most likely be coming... for example, Copy/Paste...

http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=3374

Many of the others in that article are also not coming at launch, but likely will down the road. This makes perfectly good sense for MS when totally relaunching with a new OS.

The hooks for everything are in the system, just not available. Right now multitasking is limited, but once it's been out for a bit, I'm sure that multitasking will be available on an app by app basis.

This also goes for customizations (both users and MS partners). In MS leaked documents from MWC, they specifically mention both hardware and carrier partners as having more flexibility in modifying the system.

It's just that most of this ISN'T going to be out in the beginning, because the shift from WM 6.x to 7 is a major change, and when it comes to WP7S Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly that Joe Belfiore told stated that they were using the "crawl, walk, run" philosophy.

There's going to be growing pains, and if I have to wait 6 months before some of this comes out, I'm fine with it.

In short, don't believe everything you read on engadget :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
MS has more resources than most countries. Even if not never received well by people like myself, and even if it takes time to break into the new hybrid feature/smartphone market Apple started, there's no hurry for MS. By way of contrast, WebOS could die because Palm is out of pockets to pick. MS, on the other hand, can spend and even lose billions making people love WP7S whether they want to love it or not. Then they can probably even make it all back down the road.

Suggesting it will die (even though I'd love for it to) soon is laughable. The only surprising thing about the xda polling is how many xda'ers like WP7S despite the enormous Apple-esque restrictions and control factors -- something you'd expect a forum of power users like ourselves to more universally reject.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Silverdragondk:
Don't forget this poll started before we knew much about WP7S. We didn't know about all the restrictions. Doing this poll today might yield a different result. Personally I've gone from "Damn! I'm def gettin' the first phone in my country!" to being in limbo, not knowing what my next phone is gonna be, all because of what we learned at MIX.

Regards
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fortunz:
It caught me off guard how caught off guard a lot of xda'ers were after mix. The day WP7S was officially announced, MS had Zunies all over the airwaves explaining how they were going to "control the experience" and speaking broadly about a vision that was very casual-market oriented. No, we didn't know specifics about restrictions, but nothing said at mix surprised me in the least. I, and a lot of fellow winmo'ers I know at another forum instantly recognized that MS was taking the Apple path and abandoning the ethos of WinMo.

So I agree, that there would be a different result if the polling happened today. I don't think my statement would change about the results though -- I think the only surprising thing about the results would be how many people are still sticking by MS given the restrictions -- many counting on a jailbreak culture to bypass said restrictions. Even now, I don't see the uproar I anticipated from day 1, and there aren't many more ways for MS to flip us the bird.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdlopez83:
Its killing your father Donny. this is what happens when you FCk a stranger in the ass!

This is capping all that we stand for. It is complete garbage and Iphone-like crap for the masses of american tards. Sorry to say. But they want to to control our tarddome by making things easy and letting them tell you what you want. Cliche? Yes now microsoft jumped on the bandwagon unless we can hack the **** out of this as a basic platform but we wont. Just maybe a basic jailbreak like prog.

I REALLY hope i am wrong but looks like total Bullocks and microsoft is taking the piss!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satchef1:
It looks great to me, exactly what I wanted/expected Microsoft to do.

There's a start menu with all the programs in it. I can't find a pic, but as far as I remember it's one big list (probably alphabetical).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
That's not as bad then. Do you know if the list can include folders which then in turn be made to contain and start programs of the same category?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diego1985:
Skyfire

I got faith you guys will figure out how to put skyfire on this new OS. Because I hate IE7. But i don't want to miss out on the xbox live so i think im going to get it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfarrah:
Can you say stillborn?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jruss08:
It honestly has grown on me alot! I generally like it! I'm hopeful as well that our great developers here at xda can build on top of what Microsofts final product will be. I also hope that we will have the ability to at least put a wallpaper behind the tiles on the homescreen to give it some form of depth. It really does seem flat with just the boxes. Overall, I'm truly excited about it! I'm eligible for an upgrade this December and this, at the moment, is atop my list! I'll continue to keep a careful watch on the development.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ustudio:
i love it

the only things that's makes my hd2 not kill the iphone was its os. If its more stable, and speedier, and it seems to be, then it should at least potentially be a iphone killer. keep in mind we been here before, apple had the apple one before ms did but ms dominated foe other reasons, i think they can do it again. " silverlight, and c#, etc. i hear what took a guy 3 week in android only took him 3 day to make on the wp7 device , im at this very moment ordering some silverlight 4 books. i think what were gonna see is a repeat of the personal computer war of the 70's, ms won that one. i think they win this one to and jobs will be jobless again.....
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ~~Tito~~:
To General!

~~Tito~~
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heliumv2:
i expected more from microsoft. i really don't like the new design but the htc sense 3 concept art is amazing.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insinr8:
Well, I got all excited, caught up in the hype...

Zune, Xbox live etc etc.

I have had it for 2 days... Major dissapointment. I mean serious EPIC FAIL from MS

I knew about the SD slot... I also know some have cracked the hardware open and changed the card. For me that was something I would just have to deal with or void my warranty (like the last 3 devices LOL)

But this whole

No USB storage

No teathered Modem

no wifi hotspot

no internet sharing by bluetooth

Has cut the balls out of the stallion. This device is useless.

WM7 launch for me is about as successful as the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger launch
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ck37:
I think if your coming from Android especially WP7 will be limiting due to the restrictions and infancy of the OS but if your a daily user not into ROMs, jail breaking etc then WP7 will suffice for many. There are some hang ups like lack of messaging apps or multitasking, CC&P, camera settings etc. but these will probably be worked out in time.

App Speeds can improve and I think once the US launch hits these things will be fast tracked.

Overall a great start
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
if microsoft and developers contiue to support it, i thnk it could do really well...... makes the other os out there look old. the integration is awesome.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agp64:
I love the concept and the Stability the new platform should provide.[unlike WM6.5]

Just not to impressed with not having better options on the hardware side of it.

Any one who wants to install lots of song, videos and pictures on the phone is still going to look at what apple has to offer 8, 16 and 32 GB version with flash drive.

Allso what is this bull**** we have at the moment where one country only gets an 8 GB verses 16 GB some where else.

So window MP7 losses on this front to start with.

Then there is official message from Microsoft that no WP7 will have a replaceable SD card slot? But AT&T Focus does support one? If one can have it why not allow all.:confused:

I really wanted to get a WP7 but thinking I might need to sit version 1 out and see what version 2 has to offer. My only hope at the moment is the Dell Pro. But it is looking a little chunky,[and might or might not have a SD card Slot] And I am not a fan of the slide out key boards.:(

I would not mind getting the focus but is not available outside the USA as far as I know.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danlvii:
How dumb can you be to like this now?!!?

A year back with WM6.5 in my pocket I was laughing @iphone geezas pushing their tabs like idiots,today ...I just carry a brick branded WP7 ,full of s**t pointless apps ,unable to customise anything..to be honest now I preffer to be one of the Iphone geezas:(:mad:
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domineus:
what's a geeza :eek:
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munkeyphyst:
Southern England for bloke, guy, dude
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Avandor:
Gotta love Urban Dictionary :D

Old english slang, referring to someone who has either just done something stupid, wrong, or done something to someone. Also spelt geezer, geezar.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geeza

"he cheated on the table then nicked me beer, so I smacked the geeza in the side o' the gob!"
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoboDad:
That's the UK version. The US version is somewhat different (and far predates the urban dictionary ;)):

In the U.S.: An old man, particularly one who is either cranky or eccentric. Rather derogatory term.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ireyn:
Windows Phone 7 Shows Great Potential

In a lot of ways, Microsoft has taken all of the best traits from iOS and Android and built them into a platform aimed directly at the moderates--the crowd who fit neither the Apple (often snooty) nor the Android (often geeky) stereotype.

From iOS, Microsoft learned control--control of unifying design elements (yes, bring the pretty), control of hardware (all phones will run all apps), and control of firmware production and updates (all phones will receive all updates in a timely fashion).

From Android, Microsoft learned openness (Not to the degree of Android, of course)--Microsoft provides multiple devices on multiple carriers, slightly differing design specs, and minor (and tasteful, as opposed to Android) carrier- and OEM-specific software.

Most of the complaints about Windows Phone I see are non-specific. They're like the Apple-haters; they're all hate and no reasons. When I see specific complaints, it's about things that are guaranteed features in the autumn update (which, yes, is guaranteed to hit every Windows Phone 7). If you have those kinds of solid, feature-based complaints, I encourage you to review this list almost a hundred discrete features for Mango: http://anythingbutiphone.com/3477

Why aren't those features there in the first release? Well, first, Microsoft is choosing a development paradigm similar to Apple's: do a few things, but do them very well (Android, in contrast, does many things, but few of them are easy to use, easily accessed, or even well-advertised within the OS). What is in Windows Phone works, and that's the key. The same will be true of the autumn update. It will fix all of the current complaints, the fixes will work, and they'll work well.

TL;DR: Windows Phone 7 fixes all of my complaints with Android: lack of firmware updates, lack of unified user interface design elements, and OEM- and carrier-specific software. Yet it avoids the things I dislike about iOS: snooty community, draconian lockdown/control, oversimplified interface. It's aimed right at the middle, and the middle is where I live.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vetvito:
^ your last two paragraphs don't match your first three. They contrast each other.

Perfect example your last paragraph, you try to explain what IOS is, but one can easily say that is what exactly WP7 is.

Then you say another OS doesn't work as advertised. What doesn't it do, that they say it does do?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] withinboredom:
I like it. but it could be better.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sylau90:
LOL...at you...I really LOLed at you...

hate for no reasons???

1)can't you feel Mango update will ditch our 1st gen device in terms of performance,

2)can't copy text from websites to the notes app.

3)marketplace no longer fetching updates for my downloaded apps,only solution is hard rest?

4)can't pause or play music from lockscreen.

5)when facebook intergrated,I can't save the photos to my picture hub?

6)when zune pass,local scout&etc not available in your country?

7)when your zune software does not show the marketplace due to the 1st time you download the zune is using a different account?how do you feel?

8)when multitasking is just remember the 5 recent apps you used and you cant close them???make sense???

9)When you don't have an unlimited internet data plan and sharepoint,it is frustrating to read documents or pdf file on your device????FFS...pin skydrive to home menu,in order to access skydrive?no native apps??

10)use microsd as storage but unswappable?damn...when I first bought my htc mozart device,there are only 5.8GB available for me???good idea?

11)when camera don't remember the setting?don't tell me about mango,it is not confirmed yet.

12)thread in mango???is the real deal??or it is just copied from HP webOS synergy?

13)when pac man and the harvest are 10USD in your country,you feel good?I can get angry birds+infinity blade and tiny wings for my iphone...don't thhey(apple and m$) paying the same taxes?

14)Lousy notification system???live tiles??what if you didn't pin the app to menu?and the stupid marketplace,once there are updates for my apps,even if i updated all,if i press home button to go back to home screen,the live tiles still showing updates are available.

15)no points for me to saying too much...please....WP7 fanboys please wake up and look around...there are something better and of course I didn't say that the future of WP7 is not good,but please admit the disadvantages at current stage....current stage....nodo...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arturobandini:
10)use microsd as storage but unswappable?damn...when I first bought my htc mozart device,there are only 5.8GB available for me???good idea?

I don't like it either, agreed. But is that any different from what Apple does with their devices? No. It's exactly the same. At least some of us are able to replace the built in SD cards easily.

==> Yes, but iPhone are proposed in 16GB or 32GB versions.

In my country all WP7 phones were proposed with 8GB only (that is to say actually 6GB), except the LG.

This is just ****ing ridiculous.

8GB only in year 2011.... with no swappable SD card! With no slot for additionnal storage!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkp1977:
Like I already said, I agree. ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sylau90:
Thanks mates...

@dkp1977 and @arturobandini...

I'm not trying to troll here,but I just saying the truth...and that's the truth that some WP7 fanboys always don't admit it.

And by the way,@dkp1977...I mean save photos from my friends' album to my phone,not my own album.

and the multitasking is already confirmed,it just remember the last 5 apps,I watched the video and read the review of a russian developer.So it would be pretty much like multitasking on android honeycomb 3.0,not 3.1...watch this video and the full review of mango here

http://www.youtube.com/user/MobileReviewcom?blend=3&ob=5#p/u/0/5rGXf7yPae0

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/windows-phone71.shtml

Thats all I want to say...Honestly,I love the animations and transitions of the WP7...