Comments on: AT&T Adds a Windows Phone, Goes 3D With LG Thrill 4G http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/att-adds-a-windows-phone-goes-3d-with-lg-thrill-4g/ Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: J V T http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/att-adds-a-windows-phone-goes-3d-with-lg-thrill-4g/#comment-610774 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:07:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=319902#comment-610774 I worry about the slow update cadence for Windows Phone 7.

It exceeds 6 months. And when the updates arrive, there aren’t many features being updated.

Windows Phone 7 was released to manufacture (RTM) in late August, 2010. Since then, there have been no useful updates (disregarding the failed one that only bricked phones and achieved nothing else).

‘NoDo will come in late March, 2011. That’s 7 months. It fixes copy-and-paste, but the implementation of C&P is deficient, not working well with 3rd party apps. Improving on the woefully slow launch times is not a feature. So NoDo brought very little to the table.

The next update, named Mango, brings rudimentary multitasking for 3rd party apps. It won’t be in handsets until 2012. Once again, exceeding 7 or 8 month cadence.

I would describe that as hopeless, uncompetitive, unsustainable. I can’t get excited about the handsets when the OS is still deficient.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/att-adds-a-windows-phone-goes-3d-with-lg-thrill-4g/#comment-610773 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:00:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=319902#comment-610773 I’m right there with you on my HD7 – still waiting for the update. However, the HTC Arrive, which I have under review, is shipping with the update, so it does exist.

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/att-adds-a-windows-phone-goes-3d-with-lg-thrill-4g/#comment-610767 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:45:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=319902#comment-610767 “When the HD7S arrives, it will already have the latest update to Microsoft’s mobile operating system, which includes copy/paste features, improved application launch speeds and better filtering in the Windows Phone Marketplace.”

Good luck with that! I bought into that bullshit way back when with the Samsung Focus and have yet to see any kind of update for it, not even the camera which has been around so long people don’t bother even talking about it anymore. Windows Phone 7 is taking the place of Windows Mobile only in the area of service. Or the lack thereof.

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