[Windows Phone 7 General] shahriar5252:
wm6.5 / HTC Sense: the best mobile operating software for many years to come

I agree. The iphone still does not have multi-tasking, so if you are having music application on it and want to search something on Safari or if you want to use a navigation software at the same time something else is on, you will have to lose one program for the other to start. iphone also does not have copy and paste for files you create although they have created copy and paste for their internet safari as of later version of their iphone software. People liked the iphone b/c Microsoft failed to see that their software can have utility for everyone instead of just business people. iphone capitalized on this failure of microsoft and built an OS that had a beautiful touch friendly user interface. With the addition of a capacitive touch screen for multitouch to the iphone, they killed microsoft sales of windows mobile phones.

Unfortunatly, Microsoft has made a big mistake by going for wm7, which is really a 1st generation operating system because it is built from scratch instead of improving on the wm6 platform. wm6 is a six generation operating system, and all it needed was a good facelift for user interface. Fortunately, HTC has done it for them with the HTC Sense on devices such as HTC HD2, which will be one of the best devices for many years. Why do I say for many years? It will take Microsoft and Apple along time to figure out that people rather not have to jailbreak their phones to get FREEDOM.

There are so many annoying things with the iphone that you can remedy through Cydia, but you will have to jailbreak it, but jailbreaking is a lot of hassle and you have to wait for a new jailbreak program each time Apple releases a new version of their iphone software.

Android is a good operating software, but it is still not capable of doing all the things that wm6.5 with HTC Sense can do. Correct me if I am wrong, but Android and iphone still do not have the PDF reader on them, right? And to my understanding Android cannot do the multitasking that wm6 can do. For CDMA users, force-roam mode is still not available on the Android phones, and this is a critical feature for some who are in fringe areas for their carrier but other carriers may have good signal. In such case, the automatic switching wastes a lot of battery, but force-roam mode (roaming only mode) will force the phone to keep roaming off another network without switching to your home carrier until you change it. Android phones never had this feature, but wm phones have it or you can download a patch from XDA or elsewhere to enable it.

I hate to have to waste time to jailbread wm7 phones. For me the best phones available on the market for many years to come in terms of added functionality with 3rd party software are CDMA Touch Pro2 (esp. now that wm6.5/HTC sense free upgrade has been released from HTC) and HTC HD2 (which runs wm6.5/HTC Sense and is only available in GSM).

Perhaps if we all email Microsoft and tell them, we won't buy their wm7 unless they remove the restriction of putting 3rd party softwares without having to get it from MS's Marketplace. Then, we can wait for copy-and-paste and multitasking functionalities to come as guaranteed future upgrades. Or at least, phone manufactures should let people choose between OS software on any phone they make if they make standards for all phones.

I think it will take Microsoft a long time perhaps until wm9 to figure that we want freedom. Let the user alter the operating software just as they are doing it now on wm6. Why suddenly change policy and not let them do it any more? Why does Microsoft have to follow the stupidity of Steve Job's iphone? Why should talented software developers waste time on figuring out how to jailbreak wm7 to empower the users to download third party fixes to take care of annoying problems?

If you agree with me, call or email or chat with Microsoft (here is a link) and let them know.