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psrock on 01 June 2011

To be fair, until you get the mango update, you have a phone without multitasking which is why it feels so fast. I tried the HD7, loved the Zune integration, loved the Live part, but everything else felt barebone. i couldnt play anything in the background, i coulndt customize anything, that fake HTC sense was a mess. 



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blkfish92 on 01 June 2011

As long as you didn't buy a black berry those things are buns.



           

radiantshadow92 on 01 June 2011
Acevil said:
radiantshadow92 said:

eh, ill just wait for the iphone 5

 

*runs*


How dare you call yourself a sony fan. Sony fan at most would by rival android brand. 

eh im not a sony fan, android sucks

 

*runs*



o_O.Q on 01 June 2011
selnor said:
o_O.Q said:
selnor said:
superchunk said:

While its awesome you love your phone as its really the only important thing, you have to acknowledge a few things.

1. You're comparing your phone, brand new, to older phones that are over two years out of the tech race.

2. Your wife's phone (android) is far more flexible and she could put a WP tile theme on it to make the UI identical.

3. The only feature you actually have that she cannot do (or iPhone4/latest BB) is the tight relationship to Live.. and on Android you can actually tie to Live in many ways via 3rd party apps. It will only continue to get better as MS has now opened up their framework for quick and easy traversal among WP7 and android/iOS.

4. Using either Amazon, Google's Music, or iTunes, you can keep all your media off your phone and use from anything else from any Android or iPhone, respectively. Hell, with Google Music I have my music also through my Ps3 or Wii. Can't do that with your Live based setup.

5. Samsung is awesome for tech (I love my Fascinate), however, I certainly hope their software upgrade policy is better than what the US Galaxy S phones had. Otherwise you'll be waiting for a year to get Mango.

6. Without Mango, there are TONS of basic use features you don't have as compared to Android or iOS and when Mango releases, we'll have to see the eventual rollout to see what it may still lack... as well as gained.

7. Android = free or really cheap apps. WP7 and iOS = pay.

It's great that you can do that stuff you mention. Niether myself or my wife can be bothered to make a device do things via third party  apps. Or make an android be a WP7. 

So although that optionn works for you, it wouldnt work for me. I'm already set up with Zune and Live and the fact WP7 is to from Minute 1 is perfect. 

I'm also privvy to the latest Android as I have an HTC Desire S 3 feet away. It's a great  phone. Just slower on the operating side. Apart from that they do the same things.

It depends what your after. For the average Joe who wont tinker making the OS do things as you mention in my personal experience WP7 and Android are by far my faves and both  are ahead of Iphone 4. Apps wise no. But slickness, screen, design and integration yes.

Whatever the choice anyone makes. WP7 deserves far more credit in the market than many fanboys around th web would lead people to believe. 

the omnia 7 is more powerful than the desire s so obviously it would be faster, however, compared to the new dual core tegra 2 androids that are out like the samsung galaxy s and the lg optimus 2x the omnia 7 would be slow

Actually no. 

HTC Desire S has a 1 GHZ Scorpian Processor. 768mb RAM

Omnia 7 has a 1 GHZ Scorpian Processor. 512mb RAM

 

The WP7 Operatng system is more efficient. It loads up the internet on my  phone .......( just testing )

Same network = Omnia 7 8 seconds quicker. 

EDIT = Used VGCHartz as the Home page on both.

ah thats right i guess i was confusing the desire s with the wildfire s



pbroy on 01 June 2011

Hopefully Mango will let us post on VGChartz forums through Windows Phones. They are saying the browser will have the very same rendering engine as IE9, support HTML5 and use hardware accelration.

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yo_john117 on 01 June 2011

^^ Aye that would be hella awesome!



dahuman on 01 June 2011

Android has a ton of apps o_O;;;; where did you even get the idea that WP7 has the same type and amount as Android? Are you talking about games or actual apps?



pbroy on 01 June 2011

Better yet, bring back VGChartz 1.0 style Reply box, without the enriched Reply options. TalonMan, you're our only hope.....

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pbroy on 01 June 2011
dahuman said:

Android has a ton of apps o_O;;;; where did you even get the idea that WP7 has the same type and amount as Android? Are you talking about games or actual apps?


How many apps does Android have? Windows Phone just hit 20,000 apps. Window Phone 7 has only been around for 8 months. I'm pretty sure, out of those 20,000 apps, there is a type for whatever app you are looking for. Plus, most of the useful features are already built into the OS and don't need an app to do. Mango will make even more apps irrelevant.

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selnor on 01 June 2011
pbroy said:
dahuman said:

Android has a ton of apps o_O;;;; where did you even get the idea that WP7 has the same type and amount as Android? Are you talking about games or actual apps?


How many apps does Android have? Windows Phone just hit 20,000 apps. Window Phone 7 has only been around for 8 months. I'm pretty sure, out of those 20,000 apps, there is a type for whatever app you are looking for. Plus, most of the useful features are already built into the OS and don't need an app to do. Mango will make even more apps irrelevant.

Purely basedit on just goin through mine and my wifes phone app stores. 

Thy seem to be prety equal.