Windows Phone 7 tablet concept is just a big iPhone (video)

How's that headline treating you? Surely the same criticism leveled at the iPad holds true for this tablet concept running the Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS right? Maybe. But it's certainly advantageous to see all those metro UI panels laid out as a single image instead of a series of vertical slices suitable to a mobile handset. And a pair of backside joysticks and double-duty touch QWERTY / viewing stand are nice features as well. Nevertheless, we already have a fictitious lover in the Courier who we're not quite ready to betray even if the designer is named Umang Dokey, okey? Test your own nobility in the video after the break.

[Mtmrob Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:21AM]

YAWNNNNNNN!!!!!!! Can I get an engadget that excludes WP7S content? PLEASE!!!

[Jones Johnson Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:23AM]

@Mtmrob /S ?

[Federaly Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:26AM]

@Mtmrob
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/microsoft/

fixed.

Or just don't go into these blogs?

[lookseehear Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:26AM]

@Mtmrob http://www.engadget.com/exclude/windowsphone7series

if you must

[Techno1q Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:26AM]

@Mtmrob
No, you can't.

[JAbreu Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:51AM]

@Mtmrob You just can please this people. "too much iPad news" "too much windows phone 7 series news" "too much cell phone news (during mobile world congress)". Come on guys, are you serious? Screw the exclude portals. JUST DEAL WITH IT!

Too much bitching.

[One Love Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:53AM]

Wouldn't a Windows Phone 7 tablet concept be just a big Windows Phone? iPhone?

[Hate Everything Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:00AM]

@One Love

Um. Yes? hence the HEADLINE and complete gist of this article? Did you really not get that the first time around?

[djt Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:01AM]

@JAbreu
+1 for you my friend
I have this amazing exclude functionality built right into my personality. It works AMAZINGLY! Here is how it works. If I'm not interested about the post. I don't go into that post at all! Exclude built right into my brain! Its awesome!

[synthesis777 Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:11AM]

@JAbreu

Of course I can't speak for mtmrob and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that this comment was meant to be sarcastic.

[JonnySion Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:19AM]

@JAbreu

Agreed. Nice to see the Apple Haters facing a dose of reality -surely it can't be lost on them that everything they ever hated about iPhone is being packaged up into this great new concept called Windows Phone 7. It is almost ridiculous.

[Mtmrob Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:24AM]

@synthesis777 Its hard to type sarcasm. I like gadget news in general. I am an iPhone user but I don't mind the WP7 news at all. Just seeing what its like to be one of these Apple haters that trash on them every time news comes out. Carry on people. Haha!!!

[One Love Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:37AM]

@Hate Everything : Dad, is that you?

[sweet greggo Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:20AM]

Wow, engadget. Bitter much?

[angermeans Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:29AM]

@JAbreu +1 I really am getting sick of the fanboy rants on this site. If you don't like something move on to the next article. You don't need to open an article about win ph 7 series not having copy/paste and bash apple or vice versa.

[Luxury Guy Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:34AM]

@Mtmrob Don't know why, but that "inbuilt" terminology from the video really annoys me. Use freaking "built in"!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There I got that off my chest.

[TennSeven Posted Mar 18th 2010 12:51PM]

@JAbreu

http://www.engadget.com/exclude/bitching/

[Kid Red Posted Mar 18th 2010 1:34PM]

@Jones Johnson Another winmo7 article. I'd rather read about droid than see anymore winmo7 articles. Seriously, endgaget, you need General News and checkboxes or drop down menus for [No Windows news] [No Droid news] [No Apple bashing news] and, well, there's not enough news for Palm, so you can just sprinkle that around.

[bebaduh Posted Mar 18th 2010 2:04PM]

@djt lol same here

[onu Posted Mar 18th 2010 3:38PM]

@Mtmrob what he meant was ipad (big iphone)

[HoldenMccrotch Posted Mar 18th 2010 5:45PM]

@JonnySion
yeah, but no...

I could understand the title, if any windows phone 7 series was on any phones, and if this tablet was exactly the same as one of those phones.

Its also nice to see that engadget are finally admitting to being apple fanboys :)

[kylemullaney Posted Mar 19th 2010 12:41AM]

@Hate Everything How is this just a big iPhone? Is a touchscreen device and iPhone? No, an iPhone is a touchscreen devices. It is the first massively successful one but we cannot say everything is an iPhone because it does the same thing. A PS2 is not an Xbox because you play games on it. An apple is not a cherry simply because it is a red fruit you can eat. The headline is pure sarcasm that get to the heart of the point. The concept is awesome! To bad it is Windows based!

[Treefingers Posted Mar 19th 2010 1:29PM]

Here's a tip for the smug sarcastros out there: the people who bash Ipad for being a big Iphone might *not* be the same people who love this concept for being a big WSP7 device. Hypocrisy doesn't work that way.

[shennyoasis Posted Mar 20th 2010 3:35AM]

@lookseehear Windows Phone Series 7 is different from its predecessors, it's different from the iPhone, and it's different from desktop Windows, But different doesn't always mean better."

I agree but the question is, where do you draw the line?
Opinions: http://is.gd/8Eqvg

[emnetic Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:21AM]

I love the title!

[Luke Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:35AM]

@emnetic
Shouldn't it be:

Windows Phone 7 tablet concept is just a big Windows Phone 7 phone?

Phone.

[emopoops Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:50AM]

@emnetic looks cute but the interface looks sucky

[KungFuHamster Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:50AM]

@Luke I agree, and since WP7S > iPhone. Then tablet running WP7S > iPad. But I guess even the editors now are getting tired of criticism.

[JAbreu Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:56AM]

@KungFuHamster WP7S>iPhone? Really? Which one of the Beta devices lead you to that conclusion?

[MatthewJ Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:58AM]

@emnetic I think its a slightly unfair title, because the iPad UI is essentially not much different from the iPhone UI, and that doesn't lend itself well to tablet sized usage. Whereas whilst WP7 UI would be identical on any size of device (going by this concept only of course), it actually feels to me like from the very start, Microsoft have designed this to be scalable.

Actually I think its fairer to say that the phones with WP7 are actually shrunken versions of any WP7 tablet.

[elijahblake Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:17AM]

@Luke

is it just me or does win7 mobile actually look better made for these devices rather than phones? I don't like the way on all the pics for phones i've seen you can see part of the next page on your current screen. And i really don't like the boring colored boxes on the home screen. But everyone's got an opinion and that's just mine..

[bondsbw Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:19AM]

@MatthewJ

WP7 phones aren't a shrunken version of the tablet, they are a cropped version. The phone version seems, to me, like reading a newspaper through a magnifying glass.

[angermeans Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:32AM]

@KungFuHamster Wow you must have a time machine how can you say a product that won't even come put for more than six months is greater than the second largest smartphone on the market (in america)

[Chizzed Posted Mar 18th 2010 12:15PM]

@emnetic Except for the fact that the UI is totally more useful and innovative...and doesn't just leave TONS of dead space everywhere. It's the same idea as iPad- porting mobile OS to bigger platform. But this seems WAY more useful.

Oh, and isn't branded by/marketed by/pushed by the creator either, claiming it as "The most magical invention ever"

I don't think I've ever seen a headline criticizing Apple in all of my years on here.

[bondsbw Posted Mar 18th 2010 3:07PM]

@Chizzed Not true... the app store has been criticized many times for its lack of transparency. And several devices have been noted as underwhelming... just a few articles I remember:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/unibody-macbook-late-2009-review/

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/macbook-air-reviews-in-from-apples-starting-lineup/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/editorial-engadget-on-the-ipad/

[bondsbw Posted Mar 18th 2010 3:13PM]

@bondsbw And no, those weren't criticizing "headlines", but if you only read the headlines, then maybe you need to go to a different website... the editors at Engadget are known for having a little fun with their headlines.

The summary here, for instance, doesn't criticize much at all.

[crazacool Posted Mar 18th 2010 4:08PM]

@emnetic
No one's even said, "Isn't the iPad just a big iPhone, too?" yet? Come on guys, you're getting lazy.

[L3 Chiffr3 Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:22AM]

Screw this - I want Courier

[Wesscoast Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:19AM]

@L3 Chiffr3

Good news. Both are vaporware!

[Bahumbug Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:37AM]

@Wesscoast Looks like we found todays candidate who doesnt know the true meaning of vaporware, yet doesnt hesitate to throw the word around like candy. Congrats!

[Treefingers Posted Mar 19th 2010 1:34PM]

@Wesscoast yeah dude, concept != vapour

[mikmik111 Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:22AM]

can this one copy/paste? lol

[mschmidler Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:43AM]

@mikmik111 Since everyone is complaining Microsoft will include copy&paste. And even if they didn't, the basis is WindowsCE and it's hackable. Xda-Developers will have copy&paste, a filemanager and hacked multitasking before the first devices start to ship.

[chewbacha Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:47AM]

@Mack Stone

At least they aren't coming onto engadget constantly apologizing for their beloved company. If anything, these so-called "Microsoft Fanboys" simply got excited over a new product. Then it was anounced that it was missing a feature and their joy has been dimmed. I'd say it means that the "Microsoft Fanboys" were simply "Tech fanboys" that were brought back down from cloud nine.

[mikmik111 Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:48AM]

@mikmik111 I'm a Microsoft fan, and I've not abandonned engadget just because WP7 doesn't have copy paste. Plus, istartedsomething tells us that it will have c&p eventually:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100318/windows-phone-7-series-will-have-copy-paste-eventually/

[OCEAN CLAK Posted Mar 18th 2010 9:56AM]

@mikmik111

I am a Windows Mobile/iPhone fan but after anouncement of no copy, cut, paste. I will soon be Android/iPhone fan.

[LongKnights Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:06AM]

@mikmik111

But I can't ignore the fact that this indicates that MS lacks simple engineering capabilities. Or is it poor management? Or maybe it is just a lack of common sense....No all of the above I suspect.

[jon Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:38AM]

@LongKnights

What does that say about Apple, since it took them three tries to get it right.

[Mikeserena Posted Mar 18th 2010 10:59AM]

@jon It may have taken 3 times, but when will Android get all of it's issues worked out, they're on OS 2.1 and still have many UI issues.

[jon Posted Mar 18th 2010 11:08AM]

@Mikeserena

I don't know. I don't use Android.