Nokia to use Window mobile 7

[ted leslie]

Yup, MS is starting to do some good shit,
i use Expression blend to design apps,
will use a similar app once available on linux, but for now.
Your email really has me wanting to go out and see a MS mobile 7 device now.
Having said that, everyone is ape shit for iPhone, but honestly,
its good for non-tecnies or apple techies, or for techs that want more
of a phone unc.,
or need a iPhone app, but apple stuff for a poweruser  (especially
also to have some level of openness)
isn't good IMHO. I wonder how open the app store will be for MS7mobile and
how bitchy they will be on accepted apps and api access and such . But
if mono-droid and moonlight on a droid can deploys as good as MS7m
(moonligth/silverlight)
i will still go for a droid for sure. Just waiting for a intel android
(with a gig ram) as i want to tri boot  linux, osx, windows, just want
to be able to win every argument with anyone about
"yes my phone is better then your phone" :)  Especially iPhone users,
i want to be able to say, hey why do you have a crappy Iphone, and
they will say,
why what do you have, "oh just a full OSX running on my phone, and
linux and win7", which will be followed by much silence and a jaw
hitting floor.


tl

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 14:24, William Muriithi
> <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hmm,
>>
>> I may be missing something, but is there a chance of this working out?
>
> Actually, yes. Let's put the prejudice against MS aside for a while:
> have you guys seen Windows Phone 7 UI?
>
> I have. I'm surprised to be saying this, but it's honestly the
> absolute BEST user experience in mobile devices ever. Period. Neither
> Android nor the iPhone have anything nearly as good.
>
> It's actually so good that some elements of the Win7Phone UI are
> slowly being incorporated by some programmers into iPhone and Android
> apps. Scary, huh?
>
> The problem is that the previous Windows Mobile was so bad that it's
> going to take some work for it to be taken seriously, but with it
> could work with some serious hardware behind it.
>
> I was hoping Nokia would choose Android, but I knew the chances were slim.
>
>>  I mean, the whole engineering culture between the two firms is really
>> different.  I see a lot of Nokia developers not staying long with that
>> company, but I could be wrong.
>
> The problem is that Symbian absolutely sucks by today's standards (and
> has sucked for a good, long while) and Maemo never really became
> anything comparable to Android/iOS. To make things worse, MeeGo took
> to long to be released and it's basically being scrapped too.
>
> I know people that work both on Nokia and Intel. The Nokia guys had an
> attitude that can be summed up as "LALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING!" when
> you tried to discuss the shortcomings of their platforms. Intel, on
> the other hand, really doesn't understand anything outside hardware. I
> can't understand why they got involved with MeeGo to begin with.
>
> - FZ
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