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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. Will have to wait and see by Blazarov · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are still a lot of questions to be answered, before I can say if I like it or not... Does it support multitasking? How are notifications handled? How efficient is the down-scrolling action compared to the sideways swipe in a real world usage? How would apps look with this spill-over-the-side text philosophy? I agree that the fact that they have started completely from scratch is rather exciting, and also the minimalist design approach is rather bold, but until the above questions are answered it is hard to tell if this will end the "iPhone Domination"

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    1. Re:Will have to wait and see by derGoldstein · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Does it support multitasking?

      How sad is it that this is a serious question? Not too long ago, "does it support copy&paste" would have also been a legitimate question to ask. Thanks, Apple.

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  2. Re:How deep is the rabbit hole? by RealErmine · · Score: 5, Funny

    at a fundamental level there is a symmetry and orthogonality of conceptualization that leads to a seamless user experience.

    The words! They burn my brain like acid!

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  3. Re:How deep is the rabbit hole? by selven · · Score: 5, Funny

    The space-separated lexical units! They cause rapid oxidation in my cranium like low-PH compounds!

    Fixed.

  4. Re:I'm not holding my breath by bemymonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I've never seen a BSOD on a WinMo phone. In my experience it's usually a direct reboot or a simple freeze...

  5. Re:I'm not holding my breath by dotwhynot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Until you can buy one at the store, it's another piece of vaporware from Microsoft.

    Exactly. I liked how we never talked about the iPad before you could buy it for instance.

    Except one company (Apple) has a history of delivering what they promise, and another (Microsoft) does not. It's not about a general rule of "we don't discuss product announcements", it's a general rule of "Microsoft announces things, then only occasionally delivers them"

    But it becomes a bit ironic when the big example of recent MS vaporware used by other posters right here in this thread is how MS dropped WinFS from Vista. Which is exactly matched by how Apple dropped ZFS from OSX ;) http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=584