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WMPoweruser.com : Thoughts Of Windows Phone 7 So Far By: Doug Smith

Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:49:49 +0000

Doug is right but I'd have written MARKETING IN MUCH BIGGER LETTERS. i-xxxxx is a huge success, and usablility does come into it. That said, I know people who have bought them because they are labelled as "iPhone" who will be unlikely to ever use them for anything else than making calls. Whenever people see me using my HD2, they ask me "is that an iPhone?". They have heard of iPhone, and have never heard of HTC or HD2, so I just say to them: "no, it''s better". My sister bought an iPhone because it is a "standard" and has so many apps. Of all those she has, the only one I cannot get on my HD2 is one that tells her which carriage to get on the London tube at any station to be near the exit at the destination station. (regrettably there are now many others available only for the iPhone, even from BBC, its just that she does not have those!) My wife has tried the iPhone and says it is far more usable than my HD2. I use my HD2 because it is more powerful and I am prepared to put up with occasional freezes so that I can cram more stuff and more varied stuff on to it than i ever could with a small screened gadget like an iPhone. I do hate the fact that developers and companies are developing for just the iphone, and unless Microsoft get their act together, they will lose out badly. Forget the clever games and demonstration stuff, Joe Public wants funny cheap rubbish like farts and bouncing breasts and vuvuzelas. BTW, all available for your Windows Phone, but with no big fanfare - not newsworthy. Get the useful stuff like bus and tube and train timetables on there. Free maps, geotagged photos, local pubs, shops, petrol stations (with up to date prices). BBC iPlayer and Youtube and Facebook and Twitter. Let users share and swap music and photos - perhaps by touching their phones. Make it really easy. Beat apple at their own game. iPhone or iPlayer is the equivalent to a hoover meaning a vacuum cleaner. Now it has moved to a Dyson meaning a clever vacuum cleaner, and Hoover is relegated to meaning an old fashioned basic machine. Maybe one day Windows Phone will do that to Apple iPhone.

WMPoweruser.com : Porting Windows Phone 7 to HTC HD2 “10 times more complicated” than first thought

Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:26:02 +0000

Might I be so bold as to ask "why bother?"? I guess the only real answer is "because it's there." The HD2 is a perfectly good phone as it is (I have one). If you have to take it apart to put WP7 on it, then you have lost use of the phone until (or if) you get WP7 working on it. Even then, there are so many things going on I doubt anyone would want a phone held together with duct tape. Within a few months or weeks, there will be real WP7 phones to buy, and they'll have enough memory to actually be usable, unlike the HD2 which has on ly 1Gb of RAM to spread across OS and programs and data.

WMPoweruser.com : British government comes under fire for wasting hundreds of thousands on iPhone apps

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:28:30 +0000

Interesting photo! Couldn't you find a Brit who was prepared to crumple lots of pound notes for your photo?

WMPoweruser.com : TFT vs AMOLED vs Super AMOLED in direct sunlight compared

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:57:20 +0000

like the old HP hx4700, made by HTC, which had a transflective screen.

WMPoweruser.com : iPad bonus – new Bluetooth keyboards for Windows Mobile

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:01:14 +0000

the only problem is that bluetooth appears to use quite a lot of my HD2's power to maintain.

WMPoweruser.com : HTC HD2 plagued by digitizer, stability problems?

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 06:33:39 +0000

I've had mine since they first arrived in the UK last year. Unlocked, ROM updated with HTC's releases. No issues.

WMPoweruser.com : Advance Home Tab 2.0 Brings Advanced Features to Sense

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:53:48 +0000

Wow. I found this just before your post. it looks great and its what i have wanted since i got my HD2/ BUT I'm slightly red-green colour blind (like 7-10% of the population according to wikipedia) so the red overdues are basically not there for me. I've posted for an update so if others with the same problem can do so, we might get a today screen plugin that's usable.

WMPoweruser.com : HTC HD2 Future: Thoughts

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:41:16 +0000

What about ... Why its bad for the HD2: "No use for the micro SD card. Has to work with the on board ROM/RAM only".

WMPoweruser.com : Windows Phone 7 to have business features after all

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:06:43 +0000

if its in the cloud, its expensive share. And it is VERY easy to find yourself in a place that does not get cloud access. Like for example my home office with vodafone and T-mobile and 3, or my work office with O2 and orange.

WMPoweruser.com : Windows Phone 7 to have business features after all

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:04:23 +0000

There is no way I would downgrade my HD2 for a WP7s. But I would go back to my hx4700 if it was reincarnated with a faster processor and more memory.

WMPoweruser.com : WTH! Windows Phone 7 will not support user-replaceable memory cards

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:06:47 +0000

So this is the real reason for the lack of "upgrade" for the HD2. Nothing at all to do with 3 buttons. It has to do with the micro SD card. MS want to be able to control your apps.

WMPoweruser.com : WTH! Windows Phone 7 will not support user-replaceable memory cards

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:17:44 +0000

Daft idea. Does that mean they can delete your data and programs remotely?

WMPoweruser.com : Windows Phone 7 styled Silverlight Sudoku games gives a taste of the OS

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:29:06 +0000

black and white and not enough differentiation between the 9 sectors. No way to annotate, no real value over and above a pencil and paper. Feels like an amateur game compared to teh more usable, prettier and more professional sudoku i use on my windows 6.5 (and that worked on my hx4700 which was windows mobile 3)

WMPoweruser.com : New HTC Flashlight app for the HTC HD2 now available

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:55:50 +0000

What about flashlight created by your very own Iv3vy? It is a brilliant simple application that even does morse code! Single tap and hold for on, double tap to keep on till next double tap. Swipe to get keyboard and ability to use flashlight to send morse code. http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=10429

WMPoweruser.com : HTC HD2 WMPoweruser Series ROM now Available

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:25:18 +0000

Please could you put a note of what has been added and what is removed? To me that seems the most basic of requirements rather than just saying "The ROM is build on 23518 and comes with all the good WMPoweruser tweaks and graphics." Why would I want yours rather than one from xda-developers, seeing as you then direct us to tehir site for SenseUI tweaks. Also I do not want to be mucking around changing registry entries to enable a standard feature like the weather.

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft - “I don't know if any Windows Mobile 6.5 device today meets (the) specifications&rd

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:01:48 +0000

Why? Only if having seen WP7S you still want it. I dor one do NOT want WM7S compared to 6.5.3. I;ve got an HD2 and am much happier paying for that than if I;d been given a WM7S phone.

WMPoweruser.com : Windows “Mobile” 7 – Photon screenshots

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:57:09 +0000

What about us people that want to use the phone not just have pretty pictures on it. This seems far better than WP7S.

WMPoweruser.com : Site Notice: Comments closed to unregistered users due to spam attack

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:49:29 +0000

Very sensible to block such comments. They were getting such that I was not bothering to read them, and had they got worse I would have stopped reading wmpoweruser! If you do allow unregistered comments, perhaps they should only be allowed after an email exchange has confirmed that they are at least using a valid email address?

WMPoweruser.com : HTC Obsession: 512 MB RAM, 720p video recording, Windows Mobile 7

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:57:24 +0000

small screen! waste of an otherwise good spec. I'm not sorry to have an HD2.

WMPoweruser.com : What do you want?

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:35:10 +0000

A WIDER SCREEN - its narrower than my old hx4700 which was only 4 inches diagonal. Any textual app such as word, excel, web browsing loses effectiveness. Menus and keyboards take up loads of space, particularly on landscape. Opera is very bad for leaving little showing, but so is messaging. BATTERY - please can we have a bigger capacity battery. Daily charging is pathetic. MEMORY on board. At least 16GB then we can stop arguing about MS Marketplace and where it puts the programs. STABILITY - I am fed up of soft resets to re-enable my camera - i am fed up of MMS messages not getting sent. A soft reset usually allows them to go. TOMTOM - I don;t like Copilot, Navigon and TT is not compatible for some reason. ACCESS, or a pocket database or cardfile. On my old Psion 3 and 5 I had a data app that allowed me to store all of my book, cd and music titles so that when shopping I can check if i already own it. The paid for apps are way too complex and expensive. FIREFOX mobile (Fennec) - please guys get it working. Opera zoom is pathetic in the 10 beta 2 version. Mobile view does not maximise columns like the older version 8.6 did .