Windows Phone 7 beta is out
One wonders whether anything actually occurs in the minds of "executives", because what comes out could easily be assembled by a program using a database of sentence structures and buzzwords. — There’s not even a screenshot of this new marvel.
However, it’s interesting to note that the M$ "blog" hasn’t been scrubbed of links to KIN (sic) news.
I feel sorry for the few poor sods who are making applications for Windows Phone 7.
They’ll find out the hard way, when Windows Phone 7 gets cancelled in mid-2010.
Blimey, Windows Phone 7 has no compelling features. It lacks the functionality of Android and iPhone. Some functions like the compass and VoIP will be broken on release. You’re stuck with I.E. as your only browser (no WebKit, no Skyfire, no Opera, no Firefox).
It’s more closed than even iPhone, and Microsoft is trying to stop jailbraking by locking Windows Phone 7 to the hardware using DRM.
Windows Phone 7 is going to fail, just like Kin. In fact, the same department in Microsoft is responsible for marketing both failures.
Keep up the fortune telling…or perhaps not, i am fairly sure that we have now passed the Mid 2010 point and the devices that are there to be released have yet to do so….because its not even out yet, you have no idea what its going to be really like.
personally i doubt it will be any good but your talking horse crap whilst its still up the horses arse!
Maybe the Kin users can all now line up to buy a cleverly-named "Win 7" phone- phone? after all, Microsoft needs their money more than they do. Or I guess they could instead buy Android, WebOS, or Meego phones and not take the risk.
"Cockney" sounds a lot better-informed and more civil than you do, so (combined with the failure of the Kin-Zune phone) I am inclined to believe that buying a "Win 7" phone-phone would not be a good investment.
Windows Mobile 7 can do something the iPhone hasnt been able to do since its release. thats make a phone call. The iPhone is nothing more than an iPod with a horrible bill from AT&T claiming it has a phone function.
Microsoft is offering cash to developers who port iPod apps/games to the Mobile 7 device. everyone likes cash more than they like being exclusive to Steve Jobs.
I just got my Developer tools for this today hand delivered by Microsoft.
Microsoft is getting Mobile 7 right.
Sure the iPhone with do some things better and the Droid will have its niche but Mobile 7 has the X-Box Community behind it, its hotmail user base, its exchange and sharepoint user base and nothing does Microsoft office better in portable form than a Windows Mobile device.
I love how people judge a product they have never seen. Arent you the same people who said Droid will never overtake the iPhone? what happened?
One look at the SDK is all you need to tell you Windows Phone 7 is doomed. no programmatic access to Contacts except for email address and phone number. no access to any events on the phone. no background tasks. no native code. Non-standard browser.
This phone will fail within weeks of release, just like the Kin. All the Windows Mobile developers who programmed in C/C++ have moved on to Android or iPhone. The only people Microsoft can attract to this phone are web developers.
Some interesting applications will be built, but not many. Skype abandoned this phone and most ISVs are ignoring it.
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