DaveyLC
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Looks like Microsoft might hit the nail on the head with this one!
http://www.windowsphone7series.com/
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PaulW
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Pretty much sums it up...
Too little too late IMO...
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Robbo
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not available til late this year anyway
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John
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how can it be too little too late? They've addressed the old win mo being completely crap in today's smartphone market and rewritten it from scratch. You are so anti- microsoft blinkered you are worse than apple fan boys paulw.
They'll need to show more before we see how good it really is but it's a good start.
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BlueCorsa
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The big question is, does it have flash? lol
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IvIarkgraham
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i dont think my 6.1 is that bad
its not as smooth running as an i phone but i can do a lot more
im gonna get the htc obsession when it comes out 
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PaulW
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quote:
Originally posted by John
how can it be too little too late? They've addressed the old win mo being completely crap in today's smartphone market and rewritten it from scratch. You are so anti- microsoft blinkered you are worse than apple fan boys paulw.
They'll need to show more before we see how good it really is but it's a good start.
Not at all John... My current mobile runs wimno6.1, I still use Win7 but only for dev work and such, I just choose to run *nix as my primary OS due to its flexibility and various other factors I can't be arsed going into (this thread isn't about fanboyism as you so aptly put it, more a critical opinion on the current state of Smartphone's).
Current incarnations of Winmo I find are sluggish, the whole UI is pretty much unintuitive (even Winmo 6.5 is just a re-hashed front end, and still, if not more so sluggish under pressure) Various other niggles and grief with it, and it just feels dated. Only reason I run it is I need to run a few apps which aren't ported elsewhere.
Yeah credit where its due, the whole thing did need a complete rewrite, the old OS was pretty bloated in comparison, and it would be interesting to see this new one hands on, but the fact is the current WM7 preview will not run any older apps written for WM6.x, WM5, etc... So nothing will work unless its completely re-written for the new OS. Can you see all the devs being happy about this? I can't... So from the word go, app support and availability will be limited unless MS do add in support to run older WM apps on the new OS. There is no official stance or word from MS in regards to this, it may change, it may not, who knows, but I really doubt they will add support for it as they want something "new"
Will WM7 get them an increase on the current 9% of the SmartPhone OS Share? Who knows... They can but try, but I just don't think it will be "as big" as they hope.
At the moment the only phone OS's which are capable of doing what I want, are WM6.1, and Android... And Android is where I shall be going when I get my new mobile, but as for what handset, or when, I have no idea...
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XSIHardy
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never used a android phone before whats so special about them ?
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adiohead
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i still have windows mobile 5 
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