Comments on: Windows Phone Demonstrated — Love Child of Windows Mobile and Zune

By: jahan khan rashid

jahan khan rashid — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:42:34 +0000

i think they are wrong in the way they state that myphone is very simple graphically etc, they need to jazz these graphics up more, 6.5 still looks too boring and business like, they need to make it more fun and fancy animation/colours. hopefully htc will bring the sense ui to win mobile 6.5

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:29:58 +0000

Where is the hard reset button? They will need one.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:24:34 +0000

You could not pay me to use this warmed over Windows Mobile/Zune phone. Marketing 101 says you change the brand name after the brand has failed. Hence Windows Phone.

By: Dr. Julius T. Hibbert, M.D.

Dr. Julius T. Hibbert, M.D. — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:50:23 +0000

I know not everyone has heard about all of this and I wasn’t suggesting that this wasn’t news or that you shouldn’t have posted it. I was confused by the way the post was written. It gave me the impression that you thought this was something new even though I knew that you were already familiar with WinMo 6.5. Just a misunderstanding. ;-)

By: Nameless

Nameless — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:27:52 +0000

Whew, I was worried for a sec when I read over at Brighthand that they were still keeping the Windows Mobile name, only to drop by here and hear that they’re switching it to Windows Phone. Last thing I need would be contradictory sources…

Anyway, I would NOT want it to be “Windows Phone” for the OS itself because that would push it entirely into the smartphone space by name, and I do not necessarily want a smartphone. (Something like the Samsung Mondi or the Creative Zii Egg is closer to what I’m looking for-powerful, NO PHONE, relatively affordable without any contracts or subsidies involved.)

Still, I never saw this new, Zune-like Today screen included as part of Windows Mobile 6.5 before. It looks interesting, but I still want to be able to switch from it to PocketBreeze and back with a quick press of a softkey.

By: GoodThings2Life

GoodThings2Life — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:03:40 +0000

They did NOT change the name of the OS… it’s STILL Windows Mobile 6.5. The Inquirer is wrong.

The Windows Phone is a marketing name only.

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/08/02/misunderstandings-abound-about-the-windows-phones-branding-head-s-up-nothing-has-changed-nothing.aspx

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:54:18 +0000

That’s partially my point: new name for what’s essentially “old but coming soon” bits. Bear in mind that while you and I might have heard about this before, not all of our readers have.

By: NeoteriX

NeoteriX — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:32:12 +0000

The Microsoft Rep got pretty defensive when the interviewer asked if there would be multi-touch support; for good reason though, it’s a real shame that Windows Mobile devices are still hamstrung by the exclusive capability for resistive touchscreens. I don’t think a zoom key/slider cuts it in this day and age.

I see some real innovative hardware coming out from HTC, I’m hoping this transition to Android comes sooner rather than later.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:15:10 +0000

Microsoft has told me that Windows Mobile will continue to be the OS brand, Windows Phone refers to the phones only.

By: Luscious

Luscious — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:13:52 +0000

This was to be expected, it was just a question of “when” rather than “if”. A Zune with a phone built in makes sense from a hardware point, but I’m interested to know how WM7 fits in with the whole Windows Phone OS thing. It appears MS is branching off into two directions now.

By: scoobie

scoobie — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:41:53 +0000

What’s with the Gadget Gurus title at the top of the page? Are you getting rebranded?

By: Dr. Julius T. Hibbert, M.D.

Dr. Julius T. Hibbert, M.D. — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:23:44 +0000

Yeah, Kevin, it’s just Windows Mobile 6.5. New branding, same OS they’ve been promoting for months now with the same UI we’ve seen for months now. I’m pretty sure you guys have done posts on WinMo 6.5 these past few months so why do you think it is new? This isn’t even the first time they’ve talked about the “Windows Phone” branding.I’m not trying to be a wise-guy, I’m just a little confused.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:33:57 +0000

Hey, I linked to this in the comments the other day. Where’s my thank you?

Only kidding :)