Windows Phone 7 Series screwed and chopped onto HTC Touch Diamond (video)
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted March 29th 2010 4:51PM
posted March 29th 2010 4:51PM
If there's any better argument for rigid spec requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series hardware, it's this video of an HTC Touch Diamond running the OS at an especially syrupy pace. Indeed, the lag is so severe that it could very well be some trickery in the form of a RDP client running on a 7 Series emulator, which is in turn running on a PC -- which, now that we think of it, is a pretty good possibility. Whichever way they achieved this feat, it's certainly not a recipe for a viable handset. But we do know that these sort of "ports" are only going to increase as time goes on. See for yourself after the break.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Update: Sure enough, the author of the video has fessed up that this is an RDP hack job -- in other words, it has absolutely zero bearing on how WinPho 7 would actually perform in some post-apocalyptic future where it's been successfully ported to the Touch Diamond (that being said, we certainly wouldn't be surprised if the herky-jerky action ends up being just about accurate).
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Update: Sure enough, the author of the video has fessed up that this is an RDP hack job -- in other words, it has absolutely zero bearing on how WinPho 7 would actually perform in some post-apocalyptic future where it's been successfully ported to the Touch Diamond (that being said, we certainly wouldn't be surprised if the herky-jerky action ends up being just about accurate).
@Lord Vader
Both THOSE videos scared you, you can't use this kind of grammar in the senate, Jar Jar Binks will tear you a new one !
this phone and that interface look really nice together *siigghh*
[i didnt even bother to play that second video ...]
@theehokage
It's slowed down, so it sounds like a guys song. I think it's better than the original.
ok so terrible winpho 7 port aside why the wacky miley cyrus mix?
@gangler
prob, that's how Zune would sound in that phone?
It's still quicker than my Nokia N70
So that's why they didn't let me into the Jedi Council. Damn them. I still have no regrets on murdering hundreds of Jedi and civilians though. Mace pissed me off.
What the frick does Miley Cyrus have to do with this post?
Good to know HTC Diamond is not the phone to run WP7S on. SLOWWWWW
@Lord Vader
You do know that you die in the end, right?
Why ain't you dead yet? Hmm????
the only thing i believe is that only HD2 is able to run WP7
I guess the next question we all need answering is if anybody will actually care once these are released. I mean going by windows mobile and zune nobody ever really did comparatively speaking.
I read the first half of the article title... "Windows Phone 7 Series screwed..." then I stopped and thought, wow, that's really bold of Engadget. I continued reading, and was disappointed.