My New HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7
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I Just wanted to say that ive just picked up my WP7 and am awe-inspired by the slickness and real usability focus. Very impressed as i manage 25 emails accounts through hotmail (5 on each account, using folders as account catch-alls) and it allows me to check them all at a few glances, you could say it's easier than hotmail itself. Very slick, the o2 colour scheme with a white background looks superb, duper thumbs up, if i wasn't before, this has turned me into MicrosoftFaNBoY #1!
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I Just wanted to say that ive just picked up my WP7 and am awe-inspired by the slickness and real usability focus. Very impressed as i manage 25 emails accounts through hotmail (5 on each account, using folders as account catch-alls) and it allows me to check them all at a few glances, you could say it's easier than hotmail itself. Very slick, the o2 colour scheme with a white background looks superb, duper thumbs up, if i wasn't before, this has turned me into MicrosoftFaNBoY #1!
I agree with most of what you are saying. I also have an HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 from O2. I think WP7 looks and feels nicer than Apple's iOS and the whole package is generally quite slick. Picking up emails works fine. One criticism... It does amaze me that you can't sync a local Outlook installation with your phone. Instead, you'll need to setup a Hotmail account, install a Hotmail connector for Outlook and then sync your contacts in Outlook via your Hotmail account. That's a bit rubbish when you think the iPhone does this out of the box, but you can't on a Microsoft phone. Now the bad bits... I have used the phone for over a month now and found that sometimes it crashes, apps fail to launch when you click on the them and from time to time the whole display starts to flicker and behave erratically. I can only compare the flickering to the kind of thing you would see on old Win32 programs when you didn't clean up GDI resources properly. Eventually the UI just becomes unstable and unusable. Now, these problems could be to do with the WP7 OS, the apps (many of which were rushed onto the Marketplace for the WP7 launch) or the hardware. But I don't care. All I care about is that I can use the phone when I want to. It's annoying when I type a long comment on Facebook (via the Facebook app) and it fails to post (while my wife's iPhone can quite happily post comments). Don't get me wrong - I love this new phone and I'm going to stick with it. I bought one because I think on the whole WP7 is an excellent platform and the development tools for building apps (Visual Studio, C# and Silverlight) are excellent. These tools will hopefully enable WP7 to become a serious competitor to the iPhone. WP7 is a new platform and I am an early adopter, so I accept there are going to be bugs and glitches. So long as Microsoft sorts these out with frequent patches, I don't care. Oh, and did I mention the dismal battery life on the HD7! ;)
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I Just wanted to say that ive just picked up my WP7 and am awe-inspired by the slickness and real usability focus. Very impressed as i manage 25 emails accounts through hotmail (5 on each account, using folders as account catch-alls) and it allows me to check them all at a few glances, you could say it's easier than hotmail itself. Very slick, the o2 colour scheme with a white background looks superb, duper thumbs up, if i wasn't before, this has turned me into MicrosoftFaNBoY #1!
Westley Cooper-Thorn wrote:
Very slick, the o2 colour scheme with a white background looks superb
Just be aware that the light background drains the battery quicker than the dark one.
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I agree with most of what you are saying. I also have an HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 from O2. I think WP7 looks and feels nicer than Apple's iOS and the whole package is generally quite slick. Picking up emails works fine. One criticism... It does amaze me that you can't sync a local Outlook installation with your phone. Instead, you'll need to setup a Hotmail account, install a Hotmail connector for Outlook and then sync your contacts in Outlook via your Hotmail account. That's a bit rubbish when you think the iPhone does this out of the box, but you can't on a Microsoft phone. Now the bad bits... I have used the phone for over a month now and found that sometimes it crashes, apps fail to launch when you click on the them and from time to time the whole display starts to flicker and behave erratically. I can only compare the flickering to the kind of thing you would see on old Win32 programs when you didn't clean up GDI resources properly. Eventually the UI just becomes unstable and unusable. Now, these problems could be to do with the WP7 OS, the apps (many of which were rushed onto the Marketplace for the WP7 launch) or the hardware. But I don't care. All I care about is that I can use the phone when I want to. It's annoying when I type a long comment on Facebook (via the Facebook app) and it fails to post (while my wife's iPhone can quite happily post comments). Don't get me wrong - I love this new phone and I'm going to stick with it. I bought one because I think on the whole WP7 is an excellent platform and the development tools for building apps (Visual Studio, C# and Silverlight) are excellent. These tools will hopefully enable WP7 to become a serious competitor to the iPhone. WP7 is a new platform and I am an early adopter, so I accept there are going to be bugs and glitches. So long as Microsoft sorts these out with frequent patches, I don't care. Oh, and did I mention the dismal battery life on the HD7! ;)
"works fine".. you can't sync a local Outlook installation with your phone. Instead, "you'll need to setup a Hotmail account, install a Hotmail connector for Outlook and then sync your contacts in Outlook via your Hotmail account" I don't believe ! TO USE A PHONE YOU PAYED YOU NEED TO SEND ALL YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION'S TO MICROSOFT !?! It's a joke, non ? In UE a guy trying to stole your private information's this manner is punished by law ! I know we all there are Microsofts friends but it smells the end ! I'm shamed for.. Poor men, the new CEO.. I'll write to Conseil de L'Europe... My phone 7 I payed this morning is a HTC-Mozart. The provider is Orange. I asked a Windows model to be able to synchronize with my 1200 contacts, notes, and my 10 years passed life inside the SPV C600 and some years after an HTC Touch and till today the HTC HD2.