As for WHY a company chooses the exact specs is down to Marketing/Product management, I couldn't possibly say why they picked a particular specification... cost perhaps?
The *two* I've had (Samsung Omnia 7 and the LG Optimus 7 both have regular SIM (okay, they *are* launch phones) True they have no SD card, and don't mount on your desktop as per your favourite android. The minimum spec for WP7 devices are mid-range with relation to android, there is no upper limit on specs.
Anyhow, your post seems to be full of bullshit. Try comparing the Nokia WP7 phones against, I dunno - a Samsung Galaxy S2?
(Disclaimer: I'm an owner of a handful of Android, WP7 and iPhones and develop for all of them.)
Honestly, I can't think of anything that would immature about it.. In fact, especially the UI is great once you've tried it. Easily beats Android and even iPhone too.
Seriously? Have you either of the other devices?
Also, development on WP7 phones is ridiculously easy, as you point out. I'm more than happy that Nokia finally dropped Symbian, which was a *major* pain in the ass to even set up development environment for. XNA, Silverlight etc make it ridiculously easy to do apps for WP7.
Agreed. Compared to Symbian, XNA/Silverlight is amazing:)
Only bad thing about WP7 is that you can't run apps outside markets as easily as with old Windows Mobile's. It really sucks. But it's something iPhone and Android mandated, so blame is on them.
However... It's a good start considering they wiped the Windows CE slate clean and implemented XNA and Silverlight on a decent minimum-specced hardware base.
It's still *very* immature, considering the polish of its competitors.
Disclaimer; I have an iPhone 4 as my main phone. A G1 before that, and have Wildfire S, a Samsung Galaxy 2 android phones, and a random chinese android tablet. Also I'm on my second windows phone 7 device (yep, I've had a few WinCE based phones too, but they're dead and gone)
WP7 is becoming mature, it's getting integrated with facebook and twitter better than Android and iOS (All the kids love their social networks) there's a minimum spec too which is fairly high. It's not trying to be the next iPhone/Android either. I think it's becoming a worthy competitor to both.
A kilt is a made to measure garment that is specifically designed to fit a man's anatomy, and as such it is usually very unflattering to a woman's figure.
A kilt has eight yards of material, most of which is taken up in the pleats, there are very few women who would want to carry so much weight in a skirt.
A kilt fastens on the right hand side, whereas a woman's skirt usually closes on the left.
Traditionally kilts may only be worn by men and boys, but nowadays many women like to wear tartan skirts, which are sometimes called kilted skirts.
The only women I know of who wear traditional kilts, are those who play in a pipe band, they also wear the kilt so as to keep the entire band uniform.
Many Scots especially the traditionalists, will take great offense if you call their kilt a skirt, as they see the kilt as their national dress, as indeed it is, and they are rightly very proud of it.
I know wikipedia says "Federal presidential constitutional republic" But it gave up being a "Representative democracy" of the people when it erroneously allowed the fiction of corporate personhood to persist.
This is probably why the EU is interested in the Google purchase of Motorola. The listing below are just the UK company details, I'm quite sure there's a Google and Motorola Solutions office in each EU member state. Just because the group head office is in the US doesn't remove the merger being scrutinised by non-US entities. One would think the you consider the USA is the centre of the world by your last comment...
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED JAYS CLOSE VIABLES IND EST BASINGSTOKE HANTS RG22 4PD Company No. 00912182
And
GOOGLE UK LIMITED BELGRAVE HOUSE 76 BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD LONDON SW1W 9TQ Company No. 03977902
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If you cared to google you'd easily have found out what the minimum specs are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone#System_requirements
As for WHY a company chooses the exact specs is down to Marketing/Product management, I couldn't possibly say why they picked a particular specification... cost perhaps?
Oh and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Windows_Phone_devices
I nearly missed this post, sorry.
Which WP7 phone?
The *two* I've had (Samsung Omnia 7 and the LG Optimus 7 both have regular SIM (okay, they *are* launch phones) True they have no SD card, and don't mount on your desktop as per your favourite android. The minimum spec for WP7 devices are mid-range with relation to android, there is no upper limit on specs.
Anyhow, your post seems to be full of bullshit. Try comparing the Nokia WP7 phones against, I dunno - a Samsung Galaxy S2?
(Disclaimer: I'm an owner of a handful of Android, WP7 and iPhones and develop for all of them.)
I think in the UK only O2 has 'visual voicemail'
Don't want it, don't need it.
Why the hell can't I edit/override my own APN data on the iPhone?
http://nyko.com/products/product-detail/?name=Zoom
It works - mostly. You need to reboot the xbox after installing it.
YMMV though.
Groan.
*snigger*
It does have a certain amount of polish, things have certainly improved since Android 1.6.
I do get what you mean though.
Honestly, I can't think of anything that would immature about it.. In fact, especially the UI is great once you've tried it. Easily beats Android and even iPhone too.
Seriously? Have you either of the other devices?
Also, development on WP7 phones is ridiculously easy, as you point out. I'm more than happy that Nokia finally dropped Symbian, which was a *major* pain in the ass to even set up development environment for. XNA, Silverlight etc make it ridiculously easy to do apps for WP7.
Agreed. Compared to Symbian, XNA/Silverlight is amazing :)
Only bad thing about WP7 is that you can't run apps outside markets as easily as with old Windows Mobile's. It really sucks. But it's something iPhone and Android mandated, so blame is on them.
Not the *only* thing, but I'm not going to enumerate them, as it's likely to be a waste of time. I am surprised you didn't mention that Microsoft has blessed a jailbreak/sideloader http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/11/official-windows-phone-7-jailbreak-now-live-for-a-fee/
You realise WP7 is still WinCE but with a nice-ish managed UX layer.
No native stuff tho, so no Unity3D stuff. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38561/Unity_Engine_Not_Coming_To_Windows_Phone_7.php
Winphone 7 isn't *that* good.
However ... It's a good start considering they wiped the Windows CE slate clean and implemented XNA and Silverlight on a decent minimum-specced hardware base.
It's still *very* immature, considering the polish of its competitors.
Yep
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
GPL has its place, I agree. But unfortunately the usage of it is often 'wrong', or malicious IMHO.
Why not?
Disclaimer;
I have an iPhone 4 as my main phone. A G1 before that, and have Wildfire S, a Samsung Galaxy 2 android phones, and a random chinese android tablet. Also I'm on my second windows phone 7 device (yep, I've had a few WinCE based phones too, but they're dead and gone)
WP7 is becoming mature, it's getting integrated with facebook and twitter better than Android and iOS (All the kids love their social networks) there's a minimum spec too which is fairly high. It's not trying to be the next iPhone/Android either. I think it's becoming a worthy competitor to both.
"unfortunately" ?
BSD > GPL in terms of freedom.
To be frank, reading about the EU and Euro in a British publication is about as reasonable as reading about Jews in the Al-Qaida magazine.
This made me LOL.
Of course it's more than likely to be more complicated than that :)
Ask any Scot.
A Kilt is NOT a skirt.
The best explanation I've found online is the marked answer here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111013145703AAO6AEd
A kilt is a made to measure garment that is specifically designed to fit a man's anatomy, and as such it is usually very unflattering to a woman's figure.
A kilt has eight yards of material, most of which is taken up in the pleats, there are very few women who would want to carry so much weight in a skirt.
A kilt fastens on the right hand side, whereas a woman's skirt usually closes on the left.
Traditionally kilts may only be worn by men and boys, but nowadays many women like to wear tartan skirts, which are sometimes called kilted skirts.
The only women I know of who wear traditional kilts, are those who play in a pipe band, they also wear the kilt so as to keep the entire band uniform.
Many Scots especially the traditionalists, will take great offense if you call their kilt a skirt, as they see the kilt as their national dress, as indeed it is, and they are rightly very proud of it.
This is about Russia, not the US. Stay on topic.
You must be new here.
America isn't a democracy it's a “limited-government constitutional republic.”
see: http://users.law.capital.edu/dmayer/Blog/blogIndex.asp?entry=20050606.asp
I know wikipedia says "Federal presidential constitutional republic" But it gave up being a "Representative democracy" of the people when it erroneously allowed the fiction of corporate personhood to persist.
So what true, ground breaking innovations have happened in the past decade? (No, HTML5 isn't a ground breaking innovation)
Compared to say, I dunno the turn of last century?
We're certainly slowing down.
Oh, I forgot ... EU Banks? Didn't the US banks kicked off this whole mess in the first place?
This is probably why the EU is interested in the Google purchase of Motorola. The listing below are just the UK company details, I'm quite sure there's a Google and Motorola Solutions office in each EU member state. Just because the group head office is in the US doesn't remove the merger being scrutinised by non-US entities. One would think the you consider the USA is the centre of the world by your last comment...
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED
JAYS CLOSE
VIABLES IND EST
BASINGSTOKE HANTS
RG22 4PD
Company No. 00912182
And
GOOGLE UK LIMITED
BELGRAVE HOUSE
76 BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD
LONDON
SW1W 9TQ
Company No. 03977902
Solution: Let's ship ourselves to the off-world colonies.
In other words, get your ass to Mars!
(Like that's going to happen either. I don't think there's facebook access out there.)
No, I'm always correct. That precludes that particular option ;)
All the way down?