Windows Phone update wallops Omnia 7

*here we go*

Just to correct you, the update DOES perform useful functions. It makes the update mechanism faster and more reliable, and it seems, from what users are saying, to fix some bugs and speed up the phone a bit.

There, corrected your post for you. Pleasure.

Oh really.....

"Microsoft must try harder before it can bring the miraculous features of Copy/Paste and full multitasking to Windows Phone 7."

Personally I'd have thought that microsoft shouldnt really be working on copy / paste for their 'new' operating system. They still havent got it working on Vista. Yes microsoft, you still have customers who were saddled with that vista abomination through the microsoft tax on laptops.

When can we have an OS that works please?

Anyone who buys a Phone 7 phone should really know that simple OS functionality is way, way out of microsofts league.

I am staggered that anyone bought one. People only buy the desktop OS as its a compulsory tax, but with phones there is real choice out there, and yet still people buy toy tat from redmond.

Wow

The fanboys have really downvoted you... Is MSFT now ordering all its employees to flood the Reg's forums, as they do in Endgadget?

Re: How can an update brick a phone that was already a brick?

"Obviously it has failed. Microsoft must try harder before it can bring the miraculous features of Copy/Paste and full multitasking to Windows Phone 7"

You say that, but I notice that my HTC Desire HD has Copy/Paste functionality that could hardly be called "miraculous". It's not only woefully inconsistent (some apps support it, some don't and some have different implementations) but also a bit buggy.

For example, trying copying something out of a mail message you've received in Gmail.

Tap and hold does nothing (unlike other apps), you have to hit "Menu" then "Select Text". You don't get little bars to move nor a magnifying glass, you have to tap at the beginning of the text and then drag your finger until the end of the text and let go. When you let go, it goes into the clipboard and the selection clears. Made a mistake? Oh tough, sorry, try again.

Then when you try and paste it into the description field of a new calendar entry all the newlines are lost. Really helpful.

Rag on Microsoft all you want about how they should have supported CopyPaste from the beginning but don't kid yourself that the Android* implementation is any good.

(* could be HTC's fault too, I don't know)

Well, no

Obviously this isn't happening, or there wouldn't be reports of bricked phones. You assume that if one fails, the other is miraculously guaranteed to work. There's a good chance Microsoft $%^&ed *both* of them up.

Using two update loaders

Ah, so all I have to do is two update loaders, and it makes it impossible to brick something?

It doesn't matter if the update loader is a complete pile of %%%%, the mere fact that there are TWO of them prevents it doing anything wrong?

You look at it and think...

Thank f**k I'm not giving Jobs any more money, this phone is awesome...

Twenty minutes!!!!!!!!!!!

Twenty f**king minutes to update the updater. With the phone processor and a modern 64 bit as well you should be able to solve world poverty in twenty minutes not just add a small update to a bl**dy phone.