

The list of things that Windows Phone 7 can't do grows







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RE: U R Funny People
By Penti on 9/26/2010 1:37:01 PM , Rating: 2
Well he can't be a smart phone guy. Even Nokia is miles away from where Microsoft's at now. QT framework, POSIX-support, advanced features and Java ME. No problem with multitasking, running native apps, run apps from outside an app store, or running apps in an none-native code environment like a Java ME VM. How could you argue that WP7 will be a success when it can't even match Symbian from years ago? WP7 will not even be able to compete with Samsung's Bada OS. So how exactly would it be enough? An S40 phone certainly can't compete with real smart phones why should MS be able to do it then? Just mail and a browser isn't enough, it needs to be a decent browser (new webkit och Gecko that is), mail client needs to be good, mail client should be upgradeable and it needs to support simple stuff like attachments. Stuff that MS can't handle yet. People don't just want a browser, apps are way more useful then the browser and a browser needs to be good. It not only needs a media player for music it also needs to support stuff like Spotify, Pandora etc, which works best when some multitasking features are there.

Simply WP7 will suck a lot of juice requiring high-end hardware but deliver no high-end features or even anything the last gen WM OS could, delivering no familiarity or continuance. At least S40 and Bada can run on low-end hardware. Still can deliver more of a user experience. It's simply not enough.

N8 is just a step on the way though, I don't care for MPs and it only counts when it's a decent camera, the N8's is OK. It's a good ground to build from, just not really a flagship device. But certianly good enough that it can't be compared to silly WP7 devices. Kin should have showed you that you can't deliver an incomplete product without apps even if you have decent hardware and "facebook" support. Turning WinCE into a featurephone platform just doesn't work. And a feature phone with smart phone hardware is just a bad idea. Masses will not buy the 600 dollar devices needed to use the zunified device. Zune doesn't even exist here in Sweden and never will if I'm correct. Basically syncing with the Zune app will be the only feature of the expensive device and music playing is fine on 100 dollar phones now, even online services such as Pandora or whatever. If you like anything more low end that actually means syncing up with your music app, then I'm sure some $50-100 dollar S40, Samsung, SE, LG with their proprietary stuff built on own tech/interfaces and third party software etc device would do fine, or a future 80 dollar Bada OS phone. A $600 dollar WP7 phone just don't compete with them and it won't run on the $50 hardware. WP7 simply don't fit in the category for the masses and they have lost all business appeal so it can't compete against BB either, and it's too incomplete to compete against it any way. People want to do more on a high-end phone then to listen to their Zune music and make phone calls, which is why the WP7 strategy won't work. It can do less then the above posters old useless 5800. The development environment might look good in theory but they are too late.

It might be more successful later but not at launch. I mean, they don't have proper facebook support even, the "mix" concept will fail, Zune integration will fail in most places of the world, it's not better for office files then any other phone it's actually worse for editing documents, it doesn't have a decent email app/client and so on. It's just a framework with no apps to be the base of the OS. The WP7 hardware requirements mandated by MS will make it fail as it won't be some easy accessible device for the masses. Software are primitive even by old Symbian standards. It doesn't even have a modern browser, updating the old rendering engine might not be enough.

Would your really pay $60 a month or whatever to use a WP7 phone if it's that incomplete? Of course not. I'm sure people want more then their live mail mails and Zune music.

