Hello WP7 "Mango"

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by kenjackson • 15 years ago

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Rokks• 15 years ago

And here I am still waiting for the copy paste update...

destraynor2• 15 years ago

Have to say, I'm at Mix11 at the moment, and both the keynote and the hands on demos with the phone are quite impressive.

Unlike many android phones which mimic the iPhone style grid of icons, WP7 have gone for something unique. It's hard to equate this upgrade to any particular iOS upgrade in particular, but it's an impressive update.

2 interesting features * Custom tiles - you can have a particular part of an app on your home screen. e.g. the DM section of your Twitter app, The Bugs Tab of your Bug tracking app, or the "Flight" section of your TripIt App etc. * Full background processing (including uploading/downloading) & fast app switching.

kenjackson4• 15 years ago

It does appear with Mango that WP7 may have leapfrogged both iPhone and Android, which is pretty impressive given how far behind they were a year ago.

Of course iPhone and Android have time to respond. But contrast this to last year where the announced feature set of WP7 was behind the shipping feature set of iPhone and Android.

What impressed me most though were the dev tools and SDK. They went from lots of gaps in the SDK and tooling to virtually none.

If you're a fan of mobile technology, the next couple of years are going to be great. I'm seriously looking forward to a Nokia device running WP7.

magsafe2• 15 years ago

huh? which specific features or use cases are you referring to where WP7 has leapfrogged iPhone or Android?

Pewpewarrows2• 15 years ago

Android wasn't mimicking iOS by the way. A grid of icons for links and applications has been a staple UI component of computers and phones for well over a decade.

iOS goes for pure shortcuts, WP7 goes for pure widgets, and Android has a mix of both. That being said, WP7's implementation of a widget home screen / phone "desktop" is quite nicely done. I agree with you that this upcoming update is impressive to say the least.

destraynor2• 15 years ago

Re: Android mimicking iPhone, okay I'll concede a grid of icons had been done before iOs, if you concede that Android clearly took a lot of guidance from precisely how iOS did it.

unp3rs0n2• 15 years ago

My prediciton is that by end of the year, WP7 will compete on an equal footing with Android and iOS in terms of feature parity. It might still have an order of magnitude less number of apps, but I suspect that with the opening up of this richer API, the app situation will be much improved as well. This will set up Nokia's entry to the market in 2012. Combining WP7 with good hardware and services like turn-by-turn navigation and a huge retail channel is a recipe for great sales. I am now beginning to believe that Nokia has made a very smart bet.

iaskwhy• 15 years ago

I'd say they also have some advantage design-wise. I might force myself to play with its SDK because of this update...

Athtar• 15 years ago

Looks like they are also planning allowing developers to get early access to both the emulator and the OS image.

https://twitter.com/BrandonWatson/statuses/58238479439630336

IDisposableHero• 15 years ago

have an order of magnitude less number of apps

Past a certain point, that stops mattering. Does iPhone have 1 million apps available, or is it 10 million ? I don't know and I don't care. what I do know is (assuming that I had an iPhone not android)

- 90% of them are crap. Sturgeon's law.

- I would install fewer than 100 of them.

- There's probably an app for it. For any it. e.g. Today I found and installed an app for my local airport, so I can keep track of an upcoming flight.

- There are several good twitter clients, but I'll only install one.

- Between maps, twitter, facebook, calendar, email and angry birds, there's 95% of my app usage accounted for.

And you could say roughly the same for WP7, even if there's only 10 000 apps avaialble.

sentinel• 15 years ago

Any idea of when this update will be released?

kenjackson4• 15 years ago

Some time this year. But they haven't really been more specific than that. I'd guess just before Thanksgiving, but that's not really an educated guess even.

Hello WP7 "Mango"

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