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Does Microsoft Finally Have a Phone Worth Buying?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the send-me-a-demo-unit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has finally shown 'Windows Phone 7 Series' and it's supposed to be a completely new smartphone OS. A phone from Microsoft to get excited about that is going to work properly and take on the iPhone's world domination? "

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  1. Looks nice but a little effeminate... by foniksonik · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gadgets and smart phones are still primarily a man's toy/device... this UI is very effeminate and reminds me of a magazine... maybe that's what they mean by code-naming it 'Metro' as in metro-sexual... It's not all bad but I wonder how well it scales to things like email inboxes, etc. ie: we're looking at comps of navigation screens but there's no screens of what form controls look like, preference dialogs, etc.

    It's much improved from what we've seen in the past but there's a lot of room still for mistakes and bad UI decisions.

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