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disolitude on 12 June 2011
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scottie said:
disolitude said:
scottie said:
disolitude said:
PullusPardus said:

 

I have to disagree disolitude, there's a lot of user interface problems with the phone from the reviews I've read.

 

Probably the two biggest are the difficulty of getting to google maps and google search on the phone, compared to even my shitty smartphone that has them straight from the desktop/menu.

 

Additionally, If you own a mac it seems pretty clunky to get it to connect to a W7P, compared to iphone or android.

lol...yes yes Google search and maps arent integrated. WP7 users get Bing search and maps integrated and soon will be getting Ovi maps integrated. Apparently it has something to do with Microsoft and Google having a war over search advertising revenue... ;)

And yes, Mac users don't have a fun time syncing their WP7 phone, just like the Zunes before it. Iit is called a "Windows" phone.... Otherwise please show me any bugs or issues other than that, reported by reputable reviews.

Like I have the first Motorolla Droid (called Milestone in Canada) running 2.2 and LG WP7 in my hands right now...Been using both for at least 6 months. LG rapes it sideways in speed, user friendlness and usability. Sure, my droid came out a year before WP7, but thats one of the challenges Andoid has...not standardized hardware. One phone may be slugish while another is fast. WP7 is pretty much all the same experience.

 

I know the reasons why WP7 doesn't have proper search or maps from desktop. Just because there is a financial reason why the user interface is bad, does not mean that the user interface is not bad. The fact is, if you want proper search or maps, it takes much longer to get to it from a W7P than from any other smartphone.

 

And giving bad user interface for such a basic function as connecting it to your computer, for 10% of the population is not acceptable.

 

I feel no need to point out any further user interface problems. Those 2 are huge.


You sound like someone that really hasn't used the phone but talked to people wo didn't like it.

1. Bing maps and search more than do the job. Infact I prefer Bing search to Google search on my Android as they list important things close to me first (like Hockey team scores and other news). And they are fully integrated. So whats this "no proper search" talk?

2. Currently Google search can be done through an app and its not very good as all it is a hyperlink to google page using the browser. But guess what? It was made by Google INC.  And Google hasn't come around to making a better app...so blame them. Microsoft can't make a better Google app.

3. Mac OSX marketshare is more like 7%...10% with Ipads, Iphones and all that jazz. And WP7 works on Macs! Apparently some Mac users have issues but it works for most...so yes, WP7 supports the 7% of users who are set on using macs and don't have a Windows OS partition set up to sync their Windows phone with. Itunes was dreadful on PCs while I used Ipods (2008 and prior) and people always told me "you need a mac to use Itunes properly".