What apps can't be removed? The ability to remove any carrier or manufacturer apps is one of the platform requirements. I was able to junk all of the AT&T and Samsung stuff I don't use on mine just like I would anything else.
This is awesome. The guy who's never used the OS and is telling people not to buy is informative, and the one who's had it from day one, loves it, and has a girlfriend who saw it and got one of her own is the troll.
Slashdot: Where personal experience takes a backseat to uninformed rhetoric!
In a world where the current products are different than the previous ones and should be judged on their own merit. Or should nobody ever buy Sam Adams's Noble Pils this spring because the old Spring White was kind of shitty?
This is informative? Really? Yes, Windows Mobile was slow and buggy, but Microsoft realized that and trashed it completely for WP7. It's a brand new OS that's as fast and responsive as anything out there. Your experiences and DO NOT BUY recommendation for the old OS are irrelevant.
That's simply not true. Windows Phone 7 does the same kind of push notifications iOS and Facebook updates only come over automatically for the couple people you have pinned on your screen. I've had one since launch and used 500MB the first month and 450 the second. I have no doubt a few users are having problem (likely leaving the Feedback option checked and their email) but it's not a widespread problem by any means.
I've had my Focus from day one and never had anything like that. I think the people having the problems got review units without final firmware. They're sending debug data back to Microsoft every night.
It looks absolutely nothing like iOS and Android. The home screen is different, the app list is different, the menu system is different, the graphic design is different, and the Metro themed apps are different. The hardware is very similar, but the OS is an entirely new thing.
An HD2 will absolutely sync with Live Mail. When you set up a hotmail.com address it automatically downloads and installs the mobile sync client that handles contacts and email from your live account.
Outlook Express has been replaced by Live Mail desktop client on Windows 7. It's not included in the OS, but it's a free download with all the other Live tools from Microsoft. It even appears as an option in Windows Update. That also handles a Hotmail account or any other POP/IMAP mailbox.
You can't sync email with your phone that you plugged in because you don't have Outlook. But if it's all in the cloud, you'd never need to do that anyway. What's the point of having a mail enabled always connected device and manually sync to a desktop?
You have to see it in motion. It's amazingly fluid and well designed in use. I personally love what they've done in getting rid of all the unnecessary graphic elements. There are no lines between the messages in your inbox, no always visible scroll bars, no locked title bars... really nothing at all between you and your data. Play with one in a store and you'll come away with a completely different impression.
This is not a phone for the average/. reader. It is a phone for the VP of Sales and/or Marketing at the company the average/. reader works for. People like that wouldn't know how to install a 3rd party app, but they sure as hell want to impress everyone else in the boardroom with their slick new phone.
They also want it to sync with Outlook, wirelessly if possible. When their IT Department tells them it's not possible, the flashy new phone is a flashy new paperweight.
I have a Motorola DVR and it sends unencrypted digital streams via firewire to my Windows Media Center machine. I'll record things using the DVR and offload them to the MCE to archive/edit/burn to DVD.
Just so we're clear, I don't (and have never) owned a TV, putting me at odds with 98% of the population. I don't think it's a coincidence that I earn more than 98% of the population, and (I can't prove statistically but am morally sure) have more fun than 98% of the population (I certainly have had more beautiful, brilliant girlfriends than 98% of the population).
How about ya just ignore MSFT like they've been ignoring their customers [hey, where are the open standards compliance? How about a proper optimizing C compiler? etc...] and it'll all be good.
There are more types of customers than just developers. Look beyond your own walls sometime.
It seems that the market is fucked up in such a way that the only thing companies can come with are SEQUELS. Same happened for the PS2, and now it's going to happen for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
So the Playstation 2, Playstation 3, and X-Box 360 market are flooded with sequels? Who would have guessed? Maybe the Playstation 9 will bring the originality back.
Hmmm - now your $170 savings just dropped to $75 or so. How much is an hour or two of YOUR time worth?
I'd imagine 90% of the people reading your post, including me, can swap out a defective optical drive in less than 10 minutes. And unless Sony, LiteOn, NEC, Toshiba, and Pioneer are "piece of crap" drives, you can most certainly get a DVD burner for less than $50.
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What apps can't be removed? The ability to remove any carrier or manufacturer apps is one of the platform requirements. I was able to junk all of the AT&T and Samsung stuff I don't use on mine just like I would anything else.
This is awesome. The guy who's never used the OS and is telling people not to buy is informative, and the one who's had it from day one, loves it, and has a girlfriend who saw it and got one of her own is the troll. Slashdot: Where personal experience takes a backseat to uninformed rhetoric!
In a world where the current products are different than the previous ones and should be judged on their own merit. Or should nobody ever buy Sam Adams's Noble Pils this spring because the old Spring White was kind of shitty?
This is informative? Really? Yes, Windows Mobile was slow and buggy, but Microsoft realized that and trashed it completely for WP7. It's a brand new OS that's as fast and responsive as anything out there. Your experiences and DO NOT BUY recommendation for the old OS are irrelevant.
That's simply not true. Windows Phone 7 does the same kind of push notifications iOS and Facebook updates only come over automatically for the couple people you have pinned on your screen. I've had one since launch and used 500MB the first month and 450 the second. I have no doubt a few users are having problem (likely leaving the Feedback option checked and their email) but it's not a widespread problem by any means.
I've had my Focus from day one and never had anything like that. I think the people having the problems got review units without final firmware. They're sending debug data back to Microsoft every night.
FOX blocks Cablevision Internet subscribers from their shows on Hulu.
It looks absolutely nothing like iOS and Android. The home screen is different, the app list is different, the menu system is different, the graphic design is different, and the Metro themed apps are different. The hardware is very similar, but the OS is an entirely new thing.
Outlook Express has been replaced by Live Mail desktop client on Windows 7. It's not included in the OS, but it's a free download with all the other Live tools from Microsoft. It even appears as an option in Windows Update. That also handles a Hotmail account or any other POP/IMAP mailbox.
You can't sync email with your phone that you plugged in because you don't have Outlook. But if it's all in the cloud, you'd never need to do that anyway. What's the point of having a mail enabled always connected device and manually sync to a desktop?
You have to see it in motion. It's amazingly fluid and well designed in use. I personally love what they've done in getting rid of all the unnecessary graphic elements. There are no lines between the messages in your inbox, no always visible scroll bars, no locked title bars... really nothing at all between you and your data. Play with one in a store and you'll come away with a completely different impression.
Scientists warned that the giant ball of garbage could someday return to Earth, but their concerns were dismissed as "depressing."
They also want it to sync with Outlook, wirelessly if possible. When their IT Department tells them it's not possible, the flashy new phone is a flashy new paperweight.
The Harold Zoid episode. A couple good moments with Leela and Fry trying to find parking, but otherwise a dud.
I have a Motorola DVR and it sends unencrypted digital streams via firewire to my Windows Media Center machine. I'll record things using the DVR and offload them to the MCE to archive/edit/burn to DVD.
And in Italian "kentucky" means "whore."
And apparently you can suck your own dick.
That's what HDMI is for. Audio and video on one cable.
Learn a little bit about MCE machines before running them down. There are a wide range of component shaped computers available.
What an honor!
There are more types of customers than just developers. Look beyond your own walls sometime.
So the Playstation 2, Playstation 3, and X-Box 360 market are flooded with sequels? Who would have guessed? Maybe the Playstation 9 will bring the originality back.
Rafael Palmeiro
DVI and HDMI are the same, aside from the sound data on HDMI that's not supported on DVI. You just need an adapter cable.
I'd imagine 90% of the people reading your post, including me, can swap out a defective optical drive in less than 10 minutes. And unless Sony, LiteOn, NEC, Toshiba, and Pioneer are "piece of crap" drives, you can most certainly get a DVD burner for less than $50.