WinPho 7.5 captured in action The world's first Windows Phone 7.5 has been outed in a fresh video showing a Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T handset. The OS, better known as Mango, gets a show off its new tricks in this three minute movie. A couple of days ago, we reported how the IS12T phone would hit Japan this September, with this demo signalling that Mango is on …
Looks like the "tricks" are tricks from 2009.
Do they really think people want Microsoft phones with hardly any app support?
It's clear to see that Microsoft are pushing all this positive PR to the media, but why the selective reporting? When it was Android 2 years back, everyone was talking about lack of apps, why are the pressing now keeping quiet on app counts when it's Microsoft's turn? (Money, that's why...)
It's because of this amazing conspiracy that involves apes, politicians being bribed, journalists making pacts with manufacturers, packs of badgers playing kazoos, clandestine meetings of the Catholic Church, snakes dancing around mushrooms in a brothel and other so secret things that to mention this major conspiracy them would almost sound like you were deluded or maybe, even a little paranoid.
Got to love a good conspiracy.
The above is all absolutely true, some bloke down the pub told me last night.
I've been developing on Mango since early June, and have had Mango on my phone since the end of June. While the "OMG where's my update" madness surrounding Nodo was surprising since no one really uses copy/paste more than a handful of times a year, Mango really is good. In an underwhelming way. I've had no need for multitasking yet other than music, which multi-tasked from day one anyway. Turn-by-turn directions are nice but I've never used it to get somewhere. The GPS app I wrote now supports it to record breadcrumbs whilst in the background, but that's been the extent of it. The part that impressed me the most is the eye candy - the improved jump lists are one of the best UI gimmicks I've seen in almost 20 years of working in IT.
Getting fairly hacked off with my Android handset today - twice the phone has rung but the unlock screen was unresponsive to swipes causing me to miss an important call.
I've been put off WinPho7 only by the lacklustre hardware, but I shall be paying close attention to this new tranche of hardware (particularly Nokia's).
Microsoft's army of shill posters they employ to write nice things on forums.
Microsoft's huge bank balance and advertising budget to keep the media sweet.
Microsoft are constantly bribing the press with "press days", and giving them nice gifts. If you write bad things, you no longer get invited...
http://techrights.org/2007/11/23/astroturfing-microsoft-examples/
Search MSDN for System.Security.Cryptography.AesManaged, then scroll to the bottom and have a look at supported OS's.
Windows Phone 7 has better security than Android, and arguably the same as Blackberry. IOS provides security similar to WP7, although a lot of the OOB stuff around messaging you get with WP7 and Blackberries is through third parties.
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