Windows Phone 7 "Mango" rocks
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I finally took the plunge and upgraded to Mango. I must say it is awesome. Now it is getting on par with iOS and Android. It is pretty stable for a beta version. The thing which rocks the most is the Search.
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I finally took the plunge and upgraded to Mango. I must say it is awesome. Now it is getting on par with iOS and Android. It is pretty stable for a beta version. The thing which rocks the most is the Search.
What exactly makes it so much better than the previous version? I don't really see the absolute killer feature. There is still so much you simply cannot configure under WP7, whereas with iOS and Android you can configure almost anything.
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I finally took the plunge and upgraded to Mango. I must say it is awesome. Now it is getting on par with iOS and Android. It is pretty stable for a beta version. The thing which rocks the most is the Search.
I was pretty tempted to sign up for a dev account recently to get it (and of course to try out development and see how it compares to iOS development) but decided against it for the time being when I heard it'd already been RTM'd. Not long to go :D
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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What exactly makes it so much better than the previous version? I don't really see the absolute killer feature. There is still so much you simply cannot configure under WP7, whereas with iOS and Android you can configure almost anything.
There isn't a killer feature really, it's just a (long) list of stuff to bring it up to speed. Android is *always* going to be more configurable in some way because of it's nature, but I'm not sure of anything that iOS can do that WP7 mango can't. Well, the 1 thing I can think of is a homescreen background, but that'd be fairly pointless on WP7.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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There isn't a killer feature really, it's just a (long) list of stuff to bring it up to speed. Android is *always* going to be more configurable in some way because of it's nature, but I'm not sure of anything that iOS can do that WP7 mango can't. Well, the 1 thing I can think of is a homescreen background, but that'd be fairly pointless on WP7.
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Of course Android will always be more configurable. But that is not the problem. I'm talking about very basic configuration issues and bugs in WP7. For instance: The marketplace search is extremely poor. They already improved it in some update, but it is still so poor that you cannot sort apps by rating or other very simple stuff. In WP7 you cannot configure which apps shall have access to GPS, Internet and other ressources. Instead you can just disallow GPS for all apps. This is really annoying: I want my maps app to know my GPS location, but I do not want Angry Birds to know it. Also images and videos come only with extremely few features: you cannot see the properties of an image, for instance its format. Also you cannot place pictures into folders, they are all just there.. in an unordered way. Another bug: If you get a phone call in the middle of writing a text messagt, that message will be lost no matter if you accept the phone call or cancel. And the list goes on and on.. there is still so much to do until WP7 becomes as good as iOS/Android. I have to say that I have not yet read the entire Mango update list, so maybe some of my complaints have already been sorted out. :)
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I finally took the plunge and upgraded to Mango. I must say it is awesome. Now it is getting on par with iOS and Android. It is pretty stable for a beta version. The thing which rocks the most is the Search.
I'm very pleased to hear this... windows phone 8 is expected to be a masterpiece...
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Of course Android will always be more configurable. But that is not the problem. I'm talking about very basic configuration issues and bugs in WP7. For instance: The marketplace search is extremely poor. They already improved it in some update, but it is still so poor that you cannot sort apps by rating or other very simple stuff. In WP7 you cannot configure which apps shall have access to GPS, Internet and other ressources. Instead you can just disallow GPS for all apps. This is really annoying: I want my maps app to know my GPS location, but I do not want Angry Birds to know it. Also images and videos come only with extremely few features: you cannot see the properties of an image, for instance its format. Also you cannot place pictures into folders, they are all just there.. in an unordered way. Another bug: If you get a phone call in the middle of writing a text messagt, that message will be lost no matter if you accept the phone call or cancel. And the list goes on and on.. there is still so much to do until WP7 becomes as good as iOS/Android. I have to say that I have not yet read the entire Mango update list, so maybe some of my complaints have already been sorted out. :)
Christian Brüggemann wrote:
I have not yet read the entire Mango update list, so maybe some of my complaints have already been sorted out
Probably more than likely :) They're claiming "500 features", most of which are probably bits like you've listed above. I dunno though, while I can see the need to restrict location to specific apps, I don't think the average user cares about image properties. Another thing though, it's taken iOS 4 years to get to where it's at, to get pretty close, it's taken WP7 10 months. Sure there's some way to go still, but I don't think it's really bad going by Microsoft at all. :)
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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Christian Brüggemann wrote:
I have not yet read the entire Mango update list, so maybe some of my complaints have already been sorted out
Probably more than likely :) They're claiming "500 features", most of which are probably bits like you've listed above. I dunno though, while I can see the need to restrict location to specific apps, I don't think the average user cares about image properties. Another thing though, it's taken iOS 4 years to get to where it's at, to get pretty close, it's taken WP7 10 months. Sure there's some way to go still, but I don't think it's really bad going by Microsoft at all. :)
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
phannon86 wrote:
Another thing though, it's taken iOS 4 years to get to where it's at, to get pretty close, it's taken WP7 10 months.
Hm, I haven't seen it from that point yet. So far I was only thinking that I should have rather bought a different phone. But Maybe you're right and Mango is really a huge improvement.
modified on Friday, August 5, 2011 8:28 AM