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Microsoft Looking Into Windows Phone 7's 'Excessive' Data Use
phands writes "A few users are complaining that Windows Phone 7 is eating data plans alive. One user estimates idle data usage at 3-5 Mb per hour. Not good for a phone which seems to be struggling against Android and iPhone."
Is it that bad? Again?
I have a windows mobile phone from the generation before. I tell everyone I'm able: it really is the worst product that I've ever seen actually released. I have NO idea how it was put on the market, because it is so fundamentally nonfunctional in so many primary features... I mean that statement says it alone.
I will never touch another MS mobile product again. It enrages me that they get away with multiple shit-products. DO NOT BUY!
> ...how hard is it to take the phone through normal use case scenarios...
Easy, when you let the customers do it for you.
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Hah, I used to develop for WinCE and Windows Mobile. From time to time we would look at each other, exchange an "Are we really doing this? For real?" glance, then sigh and get back to our Sisyphean task.
It was always blindingly obvious that the chaps who developed the WinCE line did so on simulators on their desktops, not on actual phone hardware. The WinCE line has never, ever been designed for actual mobile use.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.