iMav
The Devil's Advocate
Hmm.. Numbers is not the same thing as growth
yes it is, what you just gave were growth numbers. Numbers.
Hmm.. Numbers is not the same thing as growth
Ah.. Have got to try out Maemofelt that the notification system of Maemo is much better than that of Android. And true multitasking FTW
meh. dude. not interesting to refute. Since I've been using the device, multitasking isn't something I've missed, simple reason, Pandora isn't out yet. Other than that, move out and start a app works like a charm.
Copy/paste they've said it's coming in the next software update and their jumpers implementation works fine till then. It's not like iOS v1.
Ah.. Have got to try out Maemo
BTW, where is GX, the Symbian warrior?
Haha.. I just noticed.. No one even mentioned Blackberry
Let me start. I literally want to hold Ballmer's throat for giving such a clumsy featureset with a moder OS. In gsmarena's words:
No system-wide file manager
No videocalling
Limited third-party apps availability
No Bluetooth file transfers
No USB mass storage mode
No multitasking
No copy/paste
Too dependent on Zune software for computer file management and syncing
No music player equalisers
No Flash or Silverlight support in the web browser
No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
No DivX/XviD video support
No internet tethering support
New ringtones available only through the Marketplace
Swapping memory card requires hard reset; cards not readable by computer
Windows Phone 7 FTW! Android can be at the mercy of the OEMs and the carriers, Nokia can keep fondling and flirting with crappier implementations. Oh and bada or ba "daa" as they pronounce it is a waste of bandwidth.
touch Maemo, eewwww! GROSS! Why would I do that...!
Zune, file management are utterly lame arguments.
yea the good thing in Andorid, animated wallpapers! OMG THEY ARE SO AWESOME! I LOUV ANIMATED WALLPAPERS!
oh now they are bringing in the numbers. Now, to quote all the freetards from the Lin vs Win discussions -- sales numbers mean nothing. more sales doesn't mean it is bette That's what you guys used to say!
Ok, let me list a very nice feature of Android which is missing in all other (?) OSs.. The notification system!
meh. dude. not interesting to refute. Since I've been using the device, multitasking isn't something I've missed, simple reason, Pandora isn't out yet. Other than that, move out and start a app works like a charm.
Copy/paste they've said it's coming in the next software update and their jumpers implementation works fine till then. It's not like iOS v1.
Oh! its good to be back.
War continues, just that the battlefield has changed
Please write your replies in the context of Indian market only, as we are using the device in India after all.
I agree with you on this. However, iPhone also had & has the same restriction & after 4 years of launch it is a very successful platform today due to apps. This proves that users in USA market do not care about all these features if they have a good eco-system of services.
Users in India are different though. We want to use our phone the way we like, without career or OEM restriction.
Multitasking is a gimmik on mobile phone OS. We have been doing multitasking on a phone in the same way we do on a computer but we forget that a phone is not a computer. Phone doesn't have a big screen, or a keyboard or a mouse. Instead of running multiple apps side by side, we need a way to aggregate the data at once place. In my opinion, only the approach taken by WinMo 7 is the best here. Symbian, Android, iPhone all fail in this respect of showing my content all at once to me at my fingertip instead of opening & looking at multiple apps.
We will talk about it in Feb 2011. Right now, its not there and anyway, am not much bothered about this particular feature.Copy & Paste is coming to WinMo 7 soon by Feb 2011.
Dependancy on Zune software is a good as well as a bad thing. It is a central hub for everything, though I myself would prefer to use device stage in Win7 then zune. For example, Zune isn't made for managing contacts, but Windows' own Contacts or Windows Live Mail 2011 are made so why not use that instead.
Android is getting fragmented cos they are going the same way as WinMo 6.5 went at the mercy of updates from OEM for the OS. They would rather you buy a new phone then upgrade your phone's OS.
iOS' approach is best here. Updates straight from Apple, though it is a restricted platform but there update method is something I like.
Nokia wasn't paying attention to software & hardware but now they are. The very fact that the hardware platform used in N8 is also the same in C6-01, C7 & E7 means that now they want unification.
Nothing is wrong with Symbian OS except for there UI which they have improved a lot with Symbian^3. Now when they have merged Symbian^4 with Symbian^3 & all the UI & app changes are coming to S^3 also, the shelf life of current s^3 phones has increased a lot. Qt FTW.
ANd all those points you guys keep bringing up about lacking features, WinMo had them and we know what happened.
Tethering is supported by WP7, get this is in brains, another guy bringing this up will hereby be declared my b*tch.
While we're at the topic of finding out shortcomings, lets see... the biggest online gaming platform in your hands with games that can be played across screens. Yeah, Xbox LIVE.
Oh and Zune Pass, you know the music service, the only one that competes with iTunes and yes, in the US people actually use it because of what it offers (anytime streaming and 10 songs/month download). Infact, an Apple store employee told me that he finds Zune to be better!
So while you focus on the shortcomings that can be fixed in subsequent updates, look at the core. From what I'm being told, this is a very stable kernel.
So, now you're telling me that an OS fails if it has too many features?
I know it does but there's a catch to that right? What's that little thing that comes with your phone and becomes a giant pain in the ass? Oh yeah! The carrier!