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GO ANDROID!

HD2 XDAed/dual booted with ANDROID FTW!]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
Welcome to 2010 Microsoft?]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
I don't think "WP7 Sux!", but this announcement reassured me that ordering my AT&T Nexus One instead of waiting till WP7 came out was a good idea.]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
You've got to be Sh*ting me!!

Talk about a regression.. id love to see some MS fanboys try to defend this one!?]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
I think they mean GENERAL cut and paste, as to select any kind of text and being able to copy it...

I think for some text boxes applications we will definitively see copy and paste... plus pretty much all you need copy and paste is for sms, internet explorer and file directories... i think we will see that in WP7

]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
I didn't mention Android, I'm talking about a OS written from the ground up after seeing what the iPhone, Blackberry, Palm OS. Symbian, and Nokia can do.

I can't imagine how the MS developers missed the 093093903 posts a day about OMG NO IPHONE COPY/PASTE LOL.]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/I guess that would be those "pitfalls" that are helping Apple make gobs of money. Yeah, I'm sure MS will want to avoid those at all costs.]]>Mar 16th 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
... and it was all going so well.]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
Hardly. It's mystifying and a bad annoying though.

Mind you, I guess the iPhone's sales pre C&P showed just how little anyone cares about it.]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
Yeah ... my contract is almost up with AT&T. I was planning on getting this phone for the compatibility with the 360, but now ... no full multitasking, no copy/paste, no open software ... what next?

I know that many if not all of these could be resolved with software updates, but ... what the heck? Is this Apple from two years ago?

Google Android is looking better and better to me every day...]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Who cares? Android 2.1 is far superior newayz... Loving my nexus~!!!]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/I highly doubt they'd leave this out just seems like a big duh feature.]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
this is a very stupid mistake for MS to make (considering the iphone situation) none of us have used the UI so its hard to say exactly how terrible and life ending this will be. as far as competition goes i do not see this being as big a deal as the tech community will make it out to be. the fact that multiple hardware as well as multiple carriers will be launching these phones at a range of device price points and a wide variety of service plan options already (almost) guarantees this platform a substantial marketshare. the average consumer will not walk into the store play with a device and ask if it can copy and paste. they will play with the ui and look at the camera quality and slider keyboards and what not and say i want this phone for whatever reason]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Now people are bragging about dual-booting PHONES? Jesus, where have I been? Dual-booting computers is stupid enough, dual-booting a phone is just mind-bendingly pointless.

Find something that works for you.
Use it.

There ya go, more functionality than you'll ever get with "hang on, I gotta shut down all my crap, reboot, and start all over again!"]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Something tells me this is not true and that somebody is pulling an early April Fools joke... I mean really, this phone will be getting office and there is no way in hell they won't include copy and paste. You could take this as a marketing strategy cause nothing get's people commenting more and talking about it then something like this.]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/-1 I think the HD2 has the best copy-paste system. It has a great text selection tool and winmo 6.5 can copy-paste from any app to any other app.]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Perhaps HTC port the text selection (and all other useful bits) tool from the HD2 to android, now that they have no reason whatsoever to keep supporting microsoft.]]>Mar 16th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
Absolutely absurd. PERIOD.

How do you take THAT OUT!?]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
O]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
No Copy & Paste? No Deal!

Simple as that...

We're straying too far into non-PDA territory.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/03/16/no-copy-paste-on-windows-phone-7-series/]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
I felt a great disturbance in the Net, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
Reading three posts above yours would have saved you a lame troll.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/copy and paste on my old N95 runs circles around c&p on my iphone 3GS. perhaps the one thing that symbian got really right ]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
It was 'late' because it wasn't a 'really important feature'

Devs prioritize features because their time/resources are limited.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
Security, because all apps run in a sandbox, and are prevented from accessing other apps, making copy/paste impossible until a secure way of allowing inter-app communication is implemented. Not to mention that the content of the clipboard could create a security issue.

The good news is that Microsoft seems to be thinking about UI and security.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
No multi-tasking. No copy-paste. Ballmer must approve all your apps to make sure you have no naughty ones. Nobody will want WP7S.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
I wonder who idea it was to leave it out. That person should be fired.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://twitter.com/thurrott/statuses/10593003663

"Not definitely, but that they were looking at adding this before RTM" doesn't sound like "in no uncertain terms".]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Mar 16th 2010 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
It's not gone. WinMo 6.5 still owns my iPod Touch.

That said, as an avid WinMo supporter I am extremely disappointed about (1) The Marketplace (2) Copy and Paste and (3) Multi-tasking. However, it is clear that Microsoft is not catering to me. They are going after the masses that want a cute phone with cool animations.

So it sucks for me that MS is going in this direction, but from a business perspective I fully understand it. I was just hoping that they would take what's great about WP7 and give users the ability to unlock certain features (like multi-tasking).]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/
"I wonder who idea it was to leave it out. That person should be fired."

Likely the same jackass that that thought side loading was just tooo "techie" and no one really needed multi-tasking.

God I'm sick to death of this "Geek vs. Grandma" philosophy that has infected the tech world.

Since when did dumbing down devices to make them easier for gray-hairs that cant operate their damn remote become a goal to strive for?

MS had better get shit in order while these devices are not on store shelves.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/windows-phone-7-series-wont-have-copy-and-paste/Amen. I think you have to qualify that by saying "touchscreen only smartphones".

WinMo didn't add Cut/Paste to its touchscreen OS until early 2007, but even then... it required hitting "menu" buttons and adeptly using your stylus. Now that we're moving quickly into REAL stylus-free touchscreen usage, we're in a completely new area. The iPhone OS cut/copy/paste took long because its in that new class. Android, WebOS, and others simply do not have as useful or dependable an implementation for this feature because of the new expectations Apple has created. If WinMo rushed the feature out, they'd botch it. They only switched over to delivering the new UI in what, the last year? Previously, WinMo 7 looked much different.]]>Mar 16th 2010 7:58PM