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Leaving Windows Phone 7 to Return to Android

27 pointsby oayandosuabout 14 years ago

5 comments

kogirabout 14 years ago
He clearly used Android first. WP7 tries to put everything right in front of you, and reserve menus and tap-and-hold for rarely used operations (like delete). Not to say there aren't problems with Windows Phone 7 right now, but:<p>&#62; On the call history screen, if I tap-and-hold a phone number, Windows Phone gives me: Delete<p>However, if instead you tap the number itself (and don't hold), you get the full contact (should it match, with call, text, FB comment, email, etc), or Call Number and Text Number<p>&#62; In the text messages list, the context-sensitive menu doesn’t give me an option to call the person with whom I’m messaging.<p>But if instead you tap their name or number at the top of the screen, it gives you their contact (from which you can call, text, FB comment, email, etc) or if it's just a number, call and text.<p>Gmail support is through exchange at m.google.com, not IMAP. It does uses folders, but archiving email is a simple as deleting it in the WP7 UI. Google keeps a copy in All Messages, just removes it from the tag or inbox.<p>I've used 4 different models from three manufacturers (Samsung, LG, HTC), and can say that the audio and touch screen issues must be device specific. I use a Focus as my primary phone, and have carried other WP7 phones for weeks at a time -- I've had no problems.<p>As a developer, and as a user, you can do a <i>lot</i> more with Android. I still use my Nexus One quite a bit. But WP7 is a solid first offering, and while there's a lot missing, what they did they did very well.
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sad_hackerabout 14 years ago
Best thing about WP7 (for me) are the tools that they provide to developers. Visual Studio (Phone) compared to Eclipse for Android is so much better. The IDE itself and also debugging. Using eclipse after is like doing a brain surgery through arse. I use and develop for Android, but once I tried WP7 tools I got very jealous.
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viggityabout 14 years ago
I don't know how WP7 is going to turn out in the consumer space, but once MS releases a deployment mechanism for the enterprise, I think it'll really take off. There are so many .net developers out there working a corporate job that WP7 become the obvious choice for when you need to outfit your 10,000 insurance claim adjustors with a phone.<p>I'd love to see it take off in the consumer space because it has such great tooling, but I don't think it'll have the same market share as iOS or Android.
portmanteaufuabout 14 years ago
"HTTP is an abstraction of Berkeley Sockets."<p>Wait, what? HTTP is a protocol that can run on Berkeley sockets, certainly.
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awarzzkktsyfjabout 14 years ago
&#62; If I call a local number by only using its seven-digit number, WP7 never, ever figured out to map it to the relevant contact. My old Motorola RAZR phones did that.<p>What part of the country still allows 7 digit dialing?
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