Windows Phone 7 Series announced and pictured

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited February 2010 in Science & Tech
Windows Phone 7 Series announced and pictured

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  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    edited February 2010
    This looks so unbelievably hot.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    I hear a lot of people saying "homg amazing," but I can't honestly say I feel that way. The animations are pretty and, the majority of the time, nice and fluid, but they're also slow. When you hit "text", you have to wait for the rest of the tiles to float out of the way, then wait for your conversations to float in, wait for the keyboard to pop up. It's not that it's sluggish - the hardware seems to be able to handle it, for the most part - it's just slow by design. The tiles don't fill the whole screen, either; they're offset so a little tiny white arrow can have a whole column to itself. It looks off-putting.

    Beyond that, I'm not seeing anything I don't enjoy in Android with Sense aside from XBL and Zune integration - and those aren't going to make me buy a phone.

    Is it neat? Sure. Is it a major revamp of the WinMo platform? Absolutely. Is it whiz-bang super-duper fantastical awesome? It doesn't seem like it...
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2010
    I think it looks clunky and ugly personally. I can see some benefit if you have a sharepoint infrastructure you need to access to or are really tied to a zune/xbla.

    Otherwise it's a horribly clunky looking interface that looks outdated when compared to iphone/android/bb. No way I'd give up one of those phones for this thing.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    I don't know how anyone can say that it looks clunky or outdated compared to Android and iPhone, but especially BlackBerry. That statement boggles the mind. It's more fluid and lively than any of them.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2010
    Big clunky pictures, lots of wasted fluff space. Just looks cheap and childish like the cell phone for the elderly.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    You're telling me swiping down to open the notification bar, swiping over to change homespaces, or scrolling lists of things in Android isn't as fluid or lively as tiles that slowly float away? It's equally fluid, and speedier, to boot - at least to me.
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