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I have my iPhone 4 which is a great device, a shitty phone, and a horrible excuse for a business class device. I'm now using the Windows Phone 7 on the Samsung Focus on AT&T and the HD7 on Tmobile. Here's what I like about the phone.
A: It's not 6.5 in the least. They actually built a separate OS just for the phone. They didn't take Win 7, strip it down, and shove it onto a phone. Some features that were on 6.5 that aren't on here are a little confusing, but I'll get to that in the cons area.
B: Fast. Screen switching is smooth. Apps open faster on this device than on my iPhone. Not like it's a huge difference, but it's enough of a difference to be noticeable. I can have my camera up and running in 1/10th the time any other device takes. This makes snapping unexpected pictures very easy and is a great feature.
C: Easy to see. More information on the home screen. You can pin pretty much anything you want to the home screen. You aren't limited to just icons with no relative information on it. The commercial where they show everyone with their heads in their phone becomes really humorous once you have the device. With a quick look at my screen I can see what the weather is, what my wife has posted on Facebook, what time it is, and any other piece of desired information. It's all visible on the tiles you setup. I was standing in ATL waiting on my luggage at the baggage claim and did a quick look at my phone to see a few things and looked right back up. 80% of the people had their head down doing things on their phone. Just made me laugh.
D: Business stuff. It's great. If your business is a Microsoft environment (AKA, you work for most any normal company), then this is going to be great (minus the cons later talked about). I can access sharepoint, one note, any office document, push out Presentations to other phones or Windows devices. Just all around it takes business devices to the next step. No other provider right now can touch the functionality of the Win Phone 7 out of the box when it comes to being able to do your job on your phone.
E: security. All applications are sandboxed. For those that don't know what this means, they can't interact with any part of the phone other than their intended use. For instance, you don't have to worry about downloading a flashlight application and it sending back usage reports on your internet usage. They've done astounding things to eliminate viruses from the phone.
F: Development. One of the problems with Droid is the fact that each version of it is completely different than all the rest. With Phone 7, it's all the same, so developing business apps or personal apps becomes very easy as one development will cross all hardware providers.
The Cons:
A: No threaded emails. They had this in 6.5, so not sure why it's not in 7. I was at Microsoft's Atlanta office yesterday for a release promotion for large companies and asked. I basically was told they didn't know why, but it was being asked enough about that it would be in a later release. Not sure why they decided to do that, but they did.
B: No support of VPN. Their excuse was that VPN weighs heavily on battery use and as such they didn't feel like it was a necessary feature. They pointed to companies leaning toward Direct Access and how that would change the need for VPN. They were going to leave all things VPN in the "Private" sector. AKA, they wanted Cisco to program their anyconnect client to work on the phones. Completely negates the use of a business phone when all other providers are supporting VPN.
All in all, good phone, not quite what it could be in business, but better than anything else out there. It does 99% of what the Blackberry does, 100% of what the Iphone does (app store still remains to be seen, but in 30 days, they've had a growth of 1000% in apps from release date) and does it in style. not retricted to one hardware provider or carrier makes it easier to use.
I also received some special looks at the upcoming Tablet from Microsoft. Nothing too deep, but it looks very promising at taking what they've done with the phone to the tablet.
A: It's not 6.5 in the least. They actually built a separate OS just for the phone. They didn't take Win 7, strip it down, and shove it onto a phone. Some features that were on 6.5 that aren't on here are a little confusing, but I'll get to that in the cons area.
B: Fast. Screen switching is smooth. Apps open faster on this device than on my iPhone. Not like it's a huge difference, but it's enough of a difference to be noticeable. I can have my camera up and running in 1/10th the time any other device takes. This makes snapping unexpected pictures very easy and is a great feature.
C: Easy to see. More information on the home screen. You can pin pretty much anything you want to the home screen. You aren't limited to just icons with no relative information on it. The commercial where they show everyone with their heads in their phone becomes really humorous once you have the device. With a quick look at my screen I can see what the weather is, what my wife has posted on Facebook, what time it is, and any other piece of desired information. It's all visible on the tiles you setup. I was standing in ATL waiting on my luggage at the baggage claim and did a quick look at my phone to see a few things and looked right back up. 80% of the people had their head down doing things on their phone. Just made me laugh.
D: Business stuff. It's great. If your business is a Microsoft environment (AKA, you work for most any normal company), then this is going to be great (minus the cons later talked about). I can access sharepoint, one note, any office document, push out Presentations to other phones or Windows devices. Just all around it takes business devices to the next step. No other provider right now can touch the functionality of the Win Phone 7 out of the box when it comes to being able to do your job on your phone.
E: security. All applications are sandboxed. For those that don't know what this means, they can't interact with any part of the phone other than their intended use. For instance, you don't have to worry about downloading a flashlight application and it sending back usage reports on your internet usage. They've done astounding things to eliminate viruses from the phone.
F: Development. One of the problems with Droid is the fact that each version of it is completely different than all the rest. With Phone 7, it's all the same, so developing business apps or personal apps becomes very easy as one development will cross all hardware providers.
The Cons:
A: No threaded emails. They had this in 6.5, so not sure why it's not in 7. I was at Microsoft's Atlanta office yesterday for a release promotion for large companies and asked. I basically was told they didn't know why, but it was being asked enough about that it would be in a later release. Not sure why they decided to do that, but they did.
B: No support of VPN. Their excuse was that VPN weighs heavily on battery use and as such they didn't feel like it was a necessary feature. They pointed to companies leaning toward Direct Access and how that would change the need for VPN. They were going to leave all things VPN in the "Private" sector. AKA, they wanted Cisco to program their anyconnect client to work on the phones. Completely negates the use of a business phone when all other providers are supporting VPN.
All in all, good phone, not quite what it could be in business, but better than anything else out there. It does 99% of what the Blackberry does, 100% of what the Iphone does (app store still remains to be seen, but in 30 days, they've had a growth of 1000% in apps from release date) and does it in style. not retricted to one hardware provider or carrier makes it easier to use.
I also received some special looks at the upcoming Tablet from Microsoft. Nothing too deep, but it looks very promising at taking what they've done with the phone to the tablet.
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. Bugs in the Linux kernel are patched in hours; not days, weeks, or even years like Microsoft.
