Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace and My Phone for Windows Mobile
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 16th 2009 9:05AM
posted February 16th 2009 9:05AM
posted February 16th 2009 9:05AM
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What can someone expect from this mother of all "me too" company? Ahahaha.... pathetic.
What's the difference between MyPhone and Live Mesh? With all of the Live services, I get all of the MobileMe functionality for free. What new functionality is MyPhone bringing?
I assume it's aimed more at enterprise users, rather than everybody.
In My Phone you can upload your sms history and phone address book. Which is pretty cool. Nobody does it, as far as I know.
Truth be told, it's really an original and quite useful app Microsoft produced in years. Why not give them some credit for this?
However, it's WinMo only. So, I'll pass.
No.
Now, have you had trouble recently using your gadgets?
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That "Microsoft 411" number is for the Patriot Party of Canada. Interesting.
How expected. But me-too efforts just aren't very interesting, especially ones that come from the world's largest software company.
@Hamidxa
Dude, you sound like a Star Wars fan that would turn down Natalie Portman because she was in Episode 1-3. Obviously you don't do design work because you sound like some of the executives I deal with. "Give me features! features!! I want more features!!!" More features do not make a better product, features that work well make better product.
I had a HP IPAQ 6945 (that's one of the early GPS, Wifi phones) with TomTom on it. I probably used TomTom maybe 20 times. Can't say I really miss turn by turn on a cellphone, just kills the battery life.
Only apps from the App Store (no Cydia or Installer):
1) SoftMaker Office 2008 = None really. Although you can edit your google docs on an iphone.
2) Ti Emu = Pi83.
3) Live Search = Google Search?
4) MS Voice Command = Say Who, VoiceDialer...etc.
5) HTC FootPrints = Geotagging, Evernote, EveryTrail... (even Where, Facebook).
6) PhatPad = no true equivalent. But Evernote, FlipNote has some functions
7) SprintTV = really? really? you're missing this POS? = UStream, Joost. I use vSNAX while at the gym.
8) Resco Explorer = no equivalent.
9) VNC/RDP = Mocha VNC or Mocha RDP
Seriously?
1) Tethering: with 5 GB monthly limit with carriers, I would blow through that in under a week.
2) MMS: When I had it, I used it like 3 times.
3) Flash: I use FlashBlock on Firefox. I'm happy Safari doesn't have Flash.
4) IR Port: Yeah, I haven't see those things in years
5) Radio: Radio is dead, use Pandora instead. Yeah, I really miss hearing Ryan Seacrest. Unfortunately (or fortunately), there's I"Heart"Radio app.
What I would like to see:
1) HP 48 or HP 50 emulator.
2) Ability to save and attachment documents from emails.
3) Replaceable battery. That's going to happen the same day the iPods get replaceable batteries
4) Copy and Paste.
5) Full phone search functions. Email, contacts, text messages, etc.
6) Multi-tasking done well. Not the crap that is WinMo multi-tasking
I'd be happy if they finally made the .Net CF platform more useful and fix Visual Studio so it worked better with it. Right now .Net CF is like the wayward child of the .Net family.
End of the year??!1!!!1 What a downer! I'm sure my phone (HTC Touch Dual) won't even qualify for Windows Mobile 6.5. I've already been told that Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Mobile won't be available for the current devices out there, and that it'll only be available on newer devices; I'm assuming that these newer devices are powered by Windows Mobile 6.5? If so, then that means the new mobile OS won't be available to current devices... not even for those who dropped $700 on an HTC Touch HD. You can argue that Windows Mobile 6.5 is running on phones like the HTC Touch Diamond, but even those are running at an unacceptably slow rate.
Also, I really don't see the point of releasing a new 6.xx version of a mobile OS if others who own a lower version of 6.xx can't even get in on it. I'd expect that with Windows Mobile 7, but not with the version that's out now.
finally something worth competing with apple's mind controlling device
This is a step-up for Microsoft and Nokia. The fact that they have already put marketplaces just might bring back a few (more or less) used-to-be-Nokia/WinMo users. I might even consider going back to Nokia. Excellent!! (not being sarcastic)
As a lot of people have already mentioned, not everything has to be an iPhone/Apple clone. I bet Apple got this idea from somewhere, too. But did anyone label them the "[insert the name of where Apple got this idea from] clone"? No, because they are the first ones (I presume) to make it famous. People may think that other companies are copying Apple or its iPhone, but the matter really is about that company's survival.
I just got into the MyPhone service and I am severely disappointed. I have been waiting for this for a long time and it sounded like I would finally get the one feature I absolutely have to have in a phone...calendar sync. Nope. MyPhone just backs your data up to yet another calendar and contact service completely unrelated to Live Calendar. So it's official, Microsoft has been beaten on the most basic feature by every other carrier out there. A mobile OS that can't sync over the air to a calendar service owned by the same company, unreal. So who wants my business? Google? Apple? I'm finally ready to cry uncle.