Comments on: Microsoft Unveils WinMo 6.5, My Phone, and Marketplace http://gigaom.com/apple/microsoft-unveils-winmo-65-my-phone-and-marketplace/ Sat, 26 May 2012 14:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryne Landers http://gigaom.com/apple/microsoft-unveils-winmo-65-my-phone-and-marketplace/#comment-340112 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:15:39 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=17355#comment-340112 At least on Windows Mobile, I can forward text messages, have a real keyboard, and ban send files via Bluetooth. Also, I can edit documents (don’t give me some BS argument about “never needing to do that”– I used it all the time for short docs, rather then pulling out my laptop). Also, how about TRUE multi tasking?? Jailbroken iPhones can do it… so the capabilities are there. And lets not forget about MMS, stereo bluetooth, opening the GPS platform up to REAL Nav programs, like Windows Live, Telenav, or Garmin… I hate my iPhone for restricting all these things. The only things I truly love, are the email and the browser, which are leaps and bounds beyond WinMo. But that’s really, truly it.

]]> By: Dan Callahan http://gigaom.com/apple/microsoft-unveils-winmo-65-my-phone-and-marketplace/#comment-340111 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:45:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=17355#comment-340111 No Seriously!! haha

]]> By: Tom Reestman http://gigaom.com/apple/microsoft-unveils-winmo-65-my-phone-and-marketplace/#comment-340110 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:00:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=17355#comment-340110 After looking at the phone and app store announcements that came out yesterday, I think we should rename “Mobile World Congress” to “Apple Mobile Copycat Conference” (AMC2).

AMC2: “Yesterday’s Apple mobile technologies today.”

]]> By: Gazoobee http://gigaom.com/apple/microsoft-unveils-winmo-65-my-phone-and-marketplace/#comment-340109 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:50:07 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=17355#comment-340109 The thing I find most intriguing (idiotic?) about this new interface is the honeycomb thingie in that all the videos I have seen show it scrolling up and down only.

Since the iPhone has a “side to side” UI metaphor and only scrolls up and down *within* applications, I was expecting this honeycomb UI metaphor to scroll all six ways or to basically scroll in any direction with the apps laid out as tiles on that grid. Having it only scroll up and down is just idiotic because it turns the honeycomb tiles into mere graphics. Graphics that have no purpose, that take up more room than squares, are less efficient than squares, and evoke honey or bees for apparently no reason at all.

If it scrolled all six directions, and if tapping a cell on the margins moved that tile to the centre, it would make sense as a navigation tool. As it is it’s just meaningless drivel.

Since 6.5 is kind of a “stop-gap” release awaiting the real new stuff in 7.0 (if MS is still in the game by that time), perhaps they just couldn’t bolt this particular feature onto the creaking under-pinings?

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