Comments on: Windows Mobile 7 to feature more operator-specific UXs

By: SEO en Valencia

SEO en Valencia — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:57:00 +0000

i Can’t wait for it to be released together with chrome os so that i can finally decide who if google or microsoft are gonna be the future(at least in my house)

By: osu9400

osu9400 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:26:57 +0000

@quickboy-

I am referring to the Windows Phone 6.5 UI. It is light years ahead of 6.1 and much more efficient than TouchFlo. I would even say it is better in term of use and efficiency than the iphone.

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:40:52 +0000

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WinMo Wrap — HD2 Has Multitouch, WM to go Zune — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:18:34 +0000

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Windows Mobile 7 to feature more operator-specific UXs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:42:55 +0000

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By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:18:50 +0000

I don’t mind letting carriers/hardware-makers create their own custom UIs or add just a little touch to the basic WinMo interface (T-Mobile Shadow and HTC’s TouchFlo’s are good examples), but Microsoft really needs to give WM7 a wonderful user interface so that companies don’t have to feel the need of dropping their own customizations to ‘make it work’.

The main reason why the T-Mobile Shadow and HTC’s WinMo phones work and sell well, is because they offered a much better alternative interface than Microsoft’s rather shoddy UI work. Is it not obvious?

If WM7 had a great standard UI, there’d be little need for 3rd parties to drop their own interfaces. It’s also important, because developers want to work with mobile phones that are easy to do with, and having a standard interface and OS would really help the cause. Having to do various tricks to make apps work on all WinMo phones is hard and may not even pay off.

A little touch to the UI for additional features or carrier-specifics is fine, but the whole UI shouldn’t have to be made different. It may show Microsoft’s lack of concern about it’s mobile division.

By: osu9400

osu9400 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:33:29 +0000

I hate the fact that OEMs layer in their own UX on top of the core OS. If you are running TouchFlo 3D on an HTC deivce, see here how to siable it: http://www.bowlesonline.com/my-new-att-tilt-2-by-htc-windows-phone-6-5 /

By: Carl Camera

Carl Camera — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:51:24 +0000

Each phone carrier has its own products, services, and promotions (think “Friends-and-Family” or, in the case of T-Mobile, “Five Faves”) that require custom interfaces. My T-Mobile Shadow shows my five faves on its primary home screen with customized UI for adjusting my own phone personalization (ie choose/change my faves, change photos, position.) Microsoft, I believe, has learned that in order to allow these carriers to better compete with each other, the underlying operating system needs to fade to the background. I chuckle to read that you “fear” users of WinMo7 might not “be able to tell” or “care” what is powering their phone. Isn’t that the goal of an operating system?

By: goograwks

goograwks — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:01:05 +0000

Plus, the operators were pushing back in any areas they felt they’d lose some control in. MS will be pushed to comply in order to get their stuff in.

By: Jared Spurbeck

Jared Spurbeck — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:47:40 +0000

You know why they did this, right? They’re hoping that if they make it easier for them, the operators will use their tools instead of tearing the thing apart and doing it themselves. That way they get at least some say in what the finished product looks like.

At least that’s how I see it.