

Windows Phone goes 4G at last






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RE: get a move on
By Arsynic on 1/3/2012 8:59:27 AM , Rating: 1
I agree with this article, windows phones are not selling for 2 reasons 1) technology- out of date screens,processors and features (nfc) 2)marketing-not enough advertisemants, they need to get the word out there!

The only spec that matters for Windows phones are the lack of front-facing camera and no LTE. No LTE was the reason why Verizon refuses to pimp the phone.

The other stuff is fluff. Windows Phone 7 is so smooth and fast that if Microsoft told you they had an octo-core processor under the hood, you would believe them.

It's quite obvious that if you're not onboard with the nation's largest carrier, you're pretty much fucked and so Microsoft had to jump on the LTE train because it's all Verizon cares about right now.

RE: get a move on
By mcnabney on 1/3/2012 10:05:26 AM , Rating: 2
The Blur or Sense layers are what slows Android down. Root your Android and you would be amazed how much faster it responds without the handset manufacturer bloat. Microsoft doesn't allow the manufactures to add front ends. Honeycombs and ICS also allow full GPU acceleration, so when talking about Mango please compare it to current Android versions. You can't compare their newest OS to Milestone-era Android unless you want Windows Mobile 6.X to be brought up. There are still more Windows Mobile devices running than WP7, which is just sad.

RE: get a move on
By jvillaro on 1/3/2012 5:20:44 PM , Rating: 2
Well I have to say, I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I like it, we have sort of a love/hate relationship... It might have a tegra 2 dualcore with nvidia grafics hardware accelerated whatever and I can tell you it's NOT buttery smooth not even close to my WP7. Of coarse I can understand the many reasons for that (and yes right now it does have Samsung's touchwizz right now but at the beginning it didn't). Oh and I bought the Sony tablet S for my folks and it's the same.
I'm not dissing Android, I like it, but it does have many faults. And you can't excuse them just like I wont excuse WP7, if you put a product out there for people to buy it, prepare to take criticism. If Google/Android doesn't like being call out for handset manufacturer layers and bloat then they shouldn't allow it, but then they would have had another criticism for that. It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't.

RE: get a move on
By french toast on 1/3/2012 7:56:29 PM , Rating: 2
Yea Android has many problems, but is good in other ways, together with apple it has reinvigorated the mobile scene.

BUT it is buggy and fragmented, whilst it has come on leaps and bounds it will never be as smooth as a operating system built from the ground for multi touch up ala wp7 and ios.

The reason is as i read on beyond 3d that android was built for a mouse and pointer before iphone came with multitouch and google bought it, apparently the code is built into the UI an is now connected through the apps and app store so will be very hard to change.
Whether thats true i dont know, but from my own experience even symbian is less buggy on low hardware.

