Windows Phone 7

[W1nTry]

I just waiting for a man on d forum to give a 1st hand account of how good/bad windows phone 7 really is... cause i'll be honest I thinking bout it for my next smart phone vs. Andriod.

[MessiaaH]

i been runing a samsung focus for a few weeks now, what u want to know?
general? or u have specific things u interested in.

[phoenix31tt]

lol i'm running one as well...

the reason i didnt write a review.. its because i will write the same things that we already posted in this thread...

the phone is super fast (faster than any device i've used) in launching appz.
Its ridiculously fast in starting up (not that you would need to restart it that much)
for my purposes it has all the appz that i've needed so far, i've actually used appz that i didnt think i would've, but hey something come up and i think "i wonder if there is an app for it" search and it's there.

i've had one gripe specific to samsung focus which is the registry was not fully accessible, but it is now so no worries.

what i love most about the phone is that the way everything is arranged, besides the speed of the tech, using the phone is a real breeze. it really is designed to allow to get the job done and out quickly.

games:
well, we all know a selling point of the phone was xbox live games, and titles keep pouring out so no problems there.

i've been trying to figure out if i have any issues with the device and they seem to be few, not being biased or anything.

1 issue is, you cant copy and paste a phone number into the dialer currently, i used to use that all the time with my tp2 when i saved numbers in one note etc

i will probrably post more issues for your information purposes as i come across them (if any)

[W1nTry]

1 repeated complaint i've heard about andriod phones is poor battery life, what's the battery life using WP7? Also you inherently answered some questions I had like startup time and responsiveness. Now since it's a MS product what is the default productivity suite? excel, word, etc. What are the USEFUL default apps and how responsive is it as you start to leave multiple apps open in the background. Lastly, when is the true multitasking coming into play other than hacks?

[Preston786]

^^ If you want REAL multitasking get Windows Mobile 6.1 or 6.5 heheheheh

Android nice but I find I could only use it for a couple days before getting totally frustrated

with apps not closing lol and well WinPhone7 does not support official multitasking but it's

available and works well according to some vids I've seen on XDA but MS built the platform

so everything you use could stay open and you wont need to bother with closing apps

cause it wouldn't affect overall performance and so far it seems to have worked! but they

might release an official task manager later down the line if need be or if they feel too

[phoenix31tt]

i go from about 5am to 9pm with roughly 2-3 hours intense use in between.. such as gaming, music etc... other than that its the normal checking emails, rss feeds etc. by then im at about 10% if i didnt charge during the day.

Default productivity suite is Office (excel, word, ppt, onenote)
Default apps include browser, alarm, calc etc that usually comes with a phone (there is facebook/email integration etc but i dont count those as apps), everything else will depend on the carrier you bought it from, as for the focus.. all the apps it came with from the carrier u needed to have an att account so they were removed forthwith.
but phones that run on app stores (androids, ios, wp7) dont usually come pre-loaded with many apps

Apps go into a sort of "sleep" mode, so they are not taking up any significant processing power/memory when they are not in the foreground so haven't seen any degradation as yet, that will be a question for when true multitasking hits.. which will be around Sept-Nov (as per speculation)

and @ preston... boy i went back to clean up my touch pro2 to get it prepped for selling.. and i thought something was wrong with it.. i done get spoiled by the speed of wp7 lol

[MessiaaH]

D Mango update going to have multi plus task switching etc etc also with many other enhancements. D No-Do update increase d speed of d phoen and mango will do so even more, Along with IE9, and other hidden gems not anounce yet, i hope a MS Messenger is one of dem. Which brings me to my 1 and only problem with d phone.

No 1st Party Microsoft MSN App. I using tinytext, but dats good for communicating with other wp7 users. But i see IM+ going in beta this month actually, so go see how dat one perform, but MS really needs ah 1st Party MSN app to pwon d compition.

Other than that, eveyrthing else is perfect. Also i did d multitasking hack on d phoen and it works sweet and ent affect performance one bit, juss need d task switcher now, which d maker of d multi hack bringing out soon. But for non tweakers/hackers, mango shall be available in the Fall.

As far as battery life goes, i does not even study that. I been using my phoen heavy all day, with wifi / music / news reading / 2 email accounts pushing, fb, etc etc. Life is 28% now, and it will comfortably last till 12pm/1am, which is when i go and sleep and plug on d phone to charge, 1 full day of use.

Also, asking what is d useful default apps kinda pointless, since d app store packed with free shit. Almost all paid apps have ah free ad-supported counterpath, save xboxlive games.

Typing/Emailing on wp7 devices are phenomenal, speed like WOW!!!!!!!
Zune have some very sweet features on d phoen if u going to use it for media.
And d last update to Weave for WP7 juss SICK yes, it rel bad. Weave = News Reader.

And as phoenix said, it have nothing i wanted to do dat i din find ah app for.

So lack of msn is my only gripe, but MS say dey working on it.
And multi coming jus now, so dat not a gripe really, and i making do wiht d multi hack.

Hope that helps.

[Preston786]

@Phoenix
 
weys it that fast ?

I will try it out after exams I already have DFT ROM and Cotulla magldr 

is just to install on the HD2 and see how it running

[MessiaaH]

Yes it is THAT fass, and when u put it on d HD2, that is juss ah taste eh, i run it on d hd2 for like 2-3 weeks, when i got d focus, it was still ah different ballgame, cuase d focus touchscreen juss bess, and d touch responsiveness was alot better making for alot faster typing etc.

Speaking of which i have meh HD2 to sell yes, go hada put it up.

[phoenix31tt]

http://wmpoweruser.com/marketplace-13000-apps-and-accelerating/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WmPowerUser+%28WM+Power+User%29

Wow 1400 apps in 2 weeks damn...

[MessiaaH]

They predict 3000 apps per month lol

[MessiaaH]

http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/im-coming-to-windows-phone-7

My IM needs will be met soon, and thats all she wrote!

Multitastking/MSN is all i was laccking, and both have been added speedily by the community.

The rate at which this platform is growing is staggering.

[MessiaaH]

Ok, Dont know where to start, im amazed, truely, truely amazed, at the sheer Magnitude of this mango update. Anyone remotely interested in Windows Phone owe it to themselfs to check this stuff out.
Ill let the list of features/changes/enhancements and this video speak for itself:

Video - http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/2691/

Upcoming things im excited about, just to name a few:

   1) Live Tile Improvements
      a. Animated Live Tiles
      b. On device live agent
      c. Apps can pin individual content to tiles (Flight App)
      
   2) Cross App Communication
   3) Multitasking
   4) Fast App Switching with Live preview
   5) IMs and Apps - Skype, Kik, IM+, Angry Birds, etc
   6) Onboard SQL Server
   7) Angry Birds cross platform save
               http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/angry-birds-getting-cross-platform-saved-game-sync

   8 ) Ringtones
   9) Interoperability: devs can now use both Silverlight and XNA inside a single app
   10) Bundled SQL CE on the device
   11) Full camera API access e.g. for augmented reality apps Sensor framework and controls
                – easier access
   12) Silverlight 4 for Windows Phone
   13) Full network / sockets access
   14) Improved and epic marketplace search results
   15) IE9 Pnowage
   16) System Wide Performance enhancements
   17) Ringtones (yes I know, gay but mentioned it anyway)
   18) Pocket now top 7:
              19) Nokia's leaked WP7 Phones:
   

[W1nTry]

Read an Ars article this morning, because i'm not versed in phone lingo or programming too much anymore alot of it just goes over my head, I did pick up two things ppl should note however:
1. It's still not true multitasking, they took a similar approach as apple and that's because of battery life so it's better not ideal but still better.
2. You forgot to mention Gyroscopic features XD

[MessiaaH]

Yes i forgot the gyro features lolol. And there is "true" multitasking for audio and file trasnfer, that combined with fast app switching, and that epic epic deep live tile functionality, dont need nothing else. Best of both worlds, funtionality / battery life.

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That quantus flight app rel bad boy, making phones truely "smart", checking gps to see where u are, and how long it go take to get to d airport and alert u acordingly, with seemless directions via bing map, wow, impressive, need to see more apps like that.

[Doomtack]

Wow! That update looks sweet!
Can't wait to get my hands on it.

[MessiaaH]

The vid i post above is ah snippet taken from this full keynote:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/belfiore/04-13-11MIX11.mspx


Very very informative, for both end users and developers, developers will like deyself watching that, i sure as hell did, onboard SQL ftw , cause dem isolated storage files GAY!

and my o my, dat MIRC chat client rel epic yes lololol, dis platform juss going to boom. all who interested have ah watch, get yuh popcorn doh, its 2hr long.

[phoenix31tt]

Nielsen have published some market research which shows that Windows Phone (which includes Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, but surely WM sales are miniscule now) has hit 7% of new smartphones sales in March 2011. An NDP survey in Q4 2011 had shown Windows Phone had only 2% market share in that period.

At 7% it is around half the 15% market share of  RIM in USA, with Windows Phone 7 only available on AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. The numbers will likely see a significant surge when Windows phones become available on Verizon and opens up the possibility of Windows Phone overtaking RIM sales soon.

http://wmpoweruser.com/great-news-windows-phone-hits-7-us-market-share-in-march-2011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WmPowerUser+%28WM+Power+User%29

[Preston786]

WOW..... HD2 most versatile device evar..... a bit late on the vids but still.... WOW



Faster than the Focus ..... 

[phoenix31tt]

yea the HD2 is a beast... but dont forget in that comparison the HD2 have no live notification etc and 3rd party apps installed/enabled... so it actually has much less processing being done in the background...

Good performance non-the-less