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frankly, i'm surprised winmo is being revealed so early. i thought it was delayed a bit?]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
No, you're a cock.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Sheesh, what the hell is wrong with you guys? So he wants to buy the Apple tablet, who cares? Are Windows fanboys such assholes that you need to insult the guy for it? Leave the guy alone, already.

Anyways... WinMo 6.1 is the last WinMo I will ever use, with any luck. I really don't understand Microsoft's strategy with WinMo7. Without backwards application compatibility, this is basically a brand-new operating system, starting over from scratch. What reason will developers and handset manufacturers have to adopt yet another OS? The market is already super saturated with iPhone OS and then Android, and WinMo is a year and a half behind Android, which is itself a year and a half behind iPhone. Even WebOS has a better chance at adoption.]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
As for your nonsense, How could you possibly understand Microsoft's buisness strategy regaring windows mobile 7, WE DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS YET?

Windows mobile may be looking a little long in the tooth, but underneath, it is still every bit as powerful as your iPhone OS. IT can do everything the iPhone can do, with the exception of buying overpriced content from the iTunes store.

Saturated market? Less than 15% of all mobile phones currently in use are smart phones. Thats a big potential market left. Plenty of room for multiple phone OSs to thrive.]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/It's free country, who cares where he posts? What are you, the fucking topic nazi? Sheesh, people complain about how Apple fanboys are obnoxious but all I see here are a bunch of Windows assholes picking on a guy who just says he's waiting for the Apple tablet. If you even dare to say anything that isn't critical of Apple here, you're instantly downvoted (disclaimer: I don't even own any Apple products. Well, I used to have an iPod but not anymore). So go ahead and downvote me, that's what you guys do best.]]>Jan 27th 2010 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
In fact, I am having a hard time thinking of a smartphone form factor that you can't get a WM phone in. Anyone? ]]>Jan 27th 2010 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
You sir, are a... http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/asshat.jpg]]>Jan 27th 2010 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
The internet is not a country.

I wonder what would happen if, say, I started talking about windows seven in one of the two dozen Mac'siPad posts that have existed the last few days?

Oh that's right, I'd be labeled a "M$ (*sigh*) Fanboy" and told that I'm stupid and worthless for not cuddling a macbook to sleep.]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
Oh please, you'd be Highest Ranked in a heartbeat. This is the Engadget comments section after all, where anti-Apple fever runs hot.]]>Jan 27th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Go ahead ask me, ask me...

PS Actually, never mind. I'll call Redmond directly. I'm sure they would PAY ME WELL for such an AWESOME GAME CHANGING IDEA. Just sayin... ]]>Jan 27th 2010 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
It's the Engadget staff not the readers
]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
Uhm, the rumour source that said that WM7 wasn't backwards compatible was the one that said WM7 wouldn't be making any appearance at MWC.

WM7 is based on WinCE 7 (Chelan), which IS backwards compatible with CE 6. From the most reliable rumours (if they can be called that), the 'Zunephone', or Pink, will come out before a full-fledged WM7. The Zunephone probably won't be backwards compatible, but I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that WM7 will be.]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
I wonder if we will get multiple topics a day about Win7 for the phone when it gets close to launching. Doubt it.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
You are kidding right? How about this - compare the iPod Touch related articles to the Zune related articles. I'll bet it's at least 5 to 1. You must have a very selective memory if you are recalling massive Zune posts.]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/They'll compete the same way Android does. Polished and capable operating system paired along with good hardware, that's how RIM does it, that's how Palm does it, and that's how Apple does it. You know, back in the day, WinMo was considered "polished and capable" and there are still phones with excellent hardware, it may not be so polished nowadays but that's why they're putting so much effort into Windows Mobile 7. Competition is good, my friend.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
It feels clunky because of the hardware, not the OS. Up until the HD2, everything WM device was pretty much running the same crappy Qualcomm 528MHz CPU. Android feels just as clunky with the same CPU, just look at the Hero. Again, similar to Vista, and how many manufacturers were shipping less capable systems with it installed]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/They're behind in third-party software. Without backwards compatibility, they're starting from scratch. This is the same spot that they found themselves in with PalmOS, except that at the time, WinMo offered a lot of new features over Palm, which was philosophically opposed to more features (they were convinced users wanted 'simple', not features; they were wrong). Now, WinMo7 offers very little over iPhone OS or Android, both of which are chock-full of features and have had much more time to iron out kinks and polish their OS. Microsoft needs to rely on their muscle to strong-arm OEM's to produce hardware, and that is an uphill battle when they're up against a free and open OS like Android.]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
If you don't like windows mobile, thats fine, but, just because it looks clunky, don't assume that it isn't every bit as powerful as the iPhone's OS.

]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
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Please ... I'm dying to hear ... what is it that your iPhone can do that my WinMo can't? Multi-touch - and who cares. Same goes for capacitive screens. I can do without them. On the other hand I have been enjoying MMS, Copy and Paste, and Multi-tasking for YEARS.

The iPhone scores big points for ease of use. The App Store is great. But I'll take Sense UI over the iPhone OS any day of the week. And I don't need 100,000 apps to pick from. All Microsoft has to do is cull developers over to recreate the top couple hundred apps. That takes care of about 95% of all useful apps.

The big thing people are missing here is the potential hook into the Xbox and Zune Marketplace for music. If WinMo 7 can leverage that infrastructure Microsoft will have a value proposition that can't be matched by Apple or Google.]]>Jan 27th 2010 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/What does Apple offer that's remotely comparable to what Xbox offers?]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
Really? Are you serious? How about unlimited music downloads for 14.99/mo. That's about the cost of 2 albums on iTunes. Nuff said. Aside from that iTunes for Windows is more invasive software then the old AOL clients.]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/Jan 27th 2010 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
And Chrome is free. And way better than Winmo.

That should scare the living sh*t out of Ballmer.]]>Jan 27th 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/windows-mobile-7-roadmap-elucidated-starts-with-mwc-2010-demo/
What the hell does Chrome have to do with any of this?]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:36AM