http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/Hmmm, really? It's certainly not bad in any way but it's a little boring to me, like most of LG's stuff. They're like the HP of Korea - respectable design but pretty drab. The sexiest thing about it is that it's the first WP7 phone we've seen more than a couple pictures of :)]]>May 20th 2010 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/good news to my fellow gadget lovers in the uk. i've seen in a lot of comments you've guys have been wanting the zune hd, but since the service is launching in september, well ahead of the ''holidays'' window, and i know there's gonna be a zune hd2 which will be fully compatible w/ the wp7 platform and apps, i would assume that maybe you guys will finally get access to it. ]]>May 20th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/you said it. As long as its not on at&ts network, ill buy it. 80 bucks for a stupid data plan with 600kb download in NYC is laughable. I had 2-3mb down with Sprint last year and NO dropped calls. Just say no to AT&t]]>May 20th 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/05/18/live-picture-of-samsungs-windows-phone-7-prototype-phone/]]>May 20th 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/you forget there's already a boxy & simple ui everyone seems to adore and thinks is inovative. ]]>May 20th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
I gotta say, I'm not digging this UI. It takes an incredible amount of screen real estate to provide simple info. iPhone, Android, RIM, and Palm show you everything W7 is showing on this screen, plus, oh, another 10 app icons or so. :(

This reminds me of one of those cell phones for kids/the elderly with the gigantic buttons. Microsoft ditched functionality for style. Daily usability does not look promising.]]>May 20th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
You must have a different iPhone OS than what's on my Touch. My Touch doesn't show me previews of emails received on the home screen. It doesn't show status updates on Facebook on my home screen either (both of which WP7 can do). And that's just the beginning.

Now, if you really want a home screen then the best out there is Manila 2.5 for Sense. Multiple easy to read clock choices, up coming calendar appointments, weather, and a launcher that will kick off a call to a contact, an application, or a shortcut for a particular web page. Oh, and it's completely customizable (especially with plug-ins like Cookie). It makes virtually all other home screens look pathetic, especially the iPhone.]]>May 20th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 21st 2010 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/]]>May 20th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
But its still IE]]>May 20th 2010 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
and? I use IE8. its safer than firefox by a mile. IE was the first browser to integrate features that protect you against phishing and malware, and the first to embed domain highlighting, Cross-Site scripting protection, InPrivate filtering—the list goes on and on. It involves a lot of technical jargon, but the point is, IE8 is the only browser to offer this level of security right out of the box.

so what were you saying?]]>May 20th 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/He's saying that it still is god damn slow and ugly]]>May 20th 2010 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
its not slow. A lot of Firefox and Chrome advocates like to cling to micro-benchmarking page load claims to measure browser speed. But in most cases, these differences can only be viewed by slow-motion video captures, and they just don't represent real world examples.]]>May 20th 2010 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/Wow dude, you're sucking Microsoft's... lollipop pretty hard.]]>May 20th 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/Well I've tried them on my own, believe me. And last time I checked (I believe it was a few weeks ago when I formatted my hard drive) the IE was noticeably slower than my current browser (Chrome).

But after all we are just talking about desktopbrowsers right now and they have no relevance for the mobile version.
It could still be a great mobile browser in WP7.]]>May 20th 2010 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
But all these arguments are kinda pointless when we talk about the mobile version of IE-WP7 will have a new version, we cannot know already whether it will be better or worse from the competition. And I trust Opera will manage to get an Opera Mini app to WP7.]]>May 20th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
You just killed your entire argument by using the phrase "web 2.0"

Im a web dev, and a most devs know that anyone who uses this buzzword is a clueless person.]]>May 20th 2010 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
lol jk]]>May 20th 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/When I install a fresh copy of Windows I use IE....To install Firefox



]]>May 20th 2010 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
If you're a content dev, have you ever tried to use IE with a mapping app or an app that uses canvas? It's extremely slow, especially when you try to add content to it. Even Microsoft acknowledges just how slow and outdated it is : http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/benchmarks/SunSpider/Default.html

See the big blue bar that's nowhere close to anyone else...that's IE8.]]>May 20th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
Insert hateful Internet Explorer comment.
Follow up with recycled security flaw issue.

Optional: Google various statistics and post them in order to sound scientific to emboss your opinion.]]>May 20th 2010 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/I dig the IE6 style logo. Give it a bit more flare, for Christ's sake.]]>May 20th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
or how about you dont buy it if you dont like it, we dont want whiners using this good phone]]>May 20th 2010 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/We also dont want crap, archaic web browsers on this good phone.]]>May 20th 2010 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
it has pieces of IE9 and IE8 in the new mobile IE. it also has sub-pixel positioning to zoom in and have the text appear perfect]]>May 20th 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
I don't understand your argument. All mobiles need a default browser... it only makes sense for Microsoft to incorporate their own. Apple does it for their iTouch/iPhone... Android does too. Why can't Microsoft?]]>May 20th 2010 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
lol Amen]]>May 20th 2010 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
"big blue ie logo" looks like a white logo to me. Are you blind?]]>May 20th 2010 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
Well duh, it's Microsoft. Anything they do is obviously and therefore automatically wrong. I mean it's not like Google has ever failed before! The Nexus 1 was a raging success, remember?]]>May 20th 2010 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/May 20th 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/lgs-windows-phone-7-phone-caught-in-the-wild-looking-good/
Dude you got upranked! I'm impressed.]]>May 20th 2010 11:52AM