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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Peter Rojas' Seven Thoughts on Windows Phone 7

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Windows Phone Articles & Resources" @ 09:00 PM

http://gdgt.com/discuss/seven-thoug...e-7-1-aqu/#1ys7

"Microsoft deserves a lot of credit for rebooting its mobile OS. It's all too rare for a company to admit that its existing product isn't good enough and be willing to bite the bullet and start over. You just wish they hadn't taken so long to come to that conclusion."

Rojas, the founder of Engadget and current co-founder of gdgt, has seen a lot of gadgets come and go in his time, so when he speaks about an OS, it's worth reading. He's quite impressed with the Windows Phone 7 OS in general, especially the amount of polish it has for a 1.0 product, but correctly pegs the developer story (APPS, APPS, APPS!) and the marketing as being real challenges for Microsoft. Read his article and sound off.


Friday, March 5, 2010

Why A Half-Baked Windows Phone 7 Release on an HD2 is a Bad Idea

Posted by Jon Westfall in "Windows Phone Talk" @ 05:00 AM

"We've had it up here with these shenanigans. You're jerking us around, and we're sick of it. We get it, you have a very particular concept of what sort of phones you want running your new Windows Phone 7 Series OS. Not only do we get it, but we're kind of proud of you for sticking up for yourself for once and ensuring some sort of sameness across your platform. Unfortunately, it's not the holiday season yet, so we can't buy one of these fancy WP7S phones yet. Meanwhile, on the other end of town, HTC is bringing the HD2 to T-Mobile in the US this month. Sure, it runs your soon-to-be-outdated Windows Mobile 6.5 OS which nobody wants, but it's also pretty much the best hardware we've ever seen. Bar none."

Paul Miller published an editorial at Engadget yesterday that made me think about the consequences of corporate secrecy and policy when it comes to the geek community. Even as someone willing to play by these rules (as evidenced by my own NDA with Microsoft), I still long for a time where geeks can have what they want, and companies can keep mainstream customers happy. Unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon for some very practical reasons. And in the end, as frustrating as it is, I think it is for the better.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

A Windows Man Goes Google

Posted by Jon Westfall in "Pocket PC Talk" @ 06:00 AM

About a month ago I decided to try something. For over 4 years I'd had a Gmail account that did little more than filter SPAM before it passed up to my exchange server, yet I kept hearing about all the awesome things you could do with Gmail. Sites touted various features and gizmos, the ability to search easier and the quicker load times than my existing solution, Outlook. So I decided to take the plunge and go Google for a bit and see how I felt about it.

Photo Credit: flickr user murilomernardes

On February 26 I disabled Gmail's forwarding to my exchange server, and now after 1 month, I'm ready to share my impressions. Read more...


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