Comments on: Windows Mobile 6.5… CRIPES! Are you kidding me?

By: pedro

pedro — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:13:06 +0000

#48 He’s telling the producer to stop it already.

By: smh

smh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:09:42 +0000

Why is the guy in the demo swiping his hand so wildly?

By: Mark T.

Mark T. — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:41:27 +0000

MyLife, MyPhone? What next? MyTunes?

What a blatant ripoff.

MyPhone! From the people that brought you MyCoffeeTable (formerly known as Microsoft Surface).

By: Sister Mary Hand Grenade

Sister Mary Hand Grenade — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:19:25 +0000

The design was actually intended to use something smaller than a finger, like Steve Baldmer’s penis.

By: brandscill

brandscill — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:45:31 +0000

Jesus Christ that was piss poor.

The hand even using it looked awkward, coming in every so often covering up the screen, could they not learn anything from apple? I hate it when they get a hand involved, whole person or nothing. I much prefer the palm pre adverts with just the phone nice bright background, something to focus on and realise what a great product they have.

Poor Microsoft, you may have taken back a bit of ground in the gaming industry with the 360, but maybe you should cut your losses and get out of the mobile and music industry?

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:44:18 +0000

#39 Take a pill man. I think you’re overreacting a bit.

By: Who

Who — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:51:13 +0000

This will come in steaming brown.

By: Special Ed

Special Ed — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:21:19 +0000

Pedro will buy one!

By: totalmarketing

totalmarketing — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:02:40 +0000

So bad. So painful to watch; desperate, unhip and absurdly white

Who approved this product and who approved this horrible video?

(This is definitely a testament to what poor consumers will accept)

By: The0ne

The0ne — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:43:32 +0000

Big gripe on WM OS is it’s sluggish feel. I believe the OS isn’t really optimize. Everything I do on the phone is sluggish and it becomes very annoying. It reminds me of Windows OS of PCs. You need a quad core 4 billion giga hz to run the thing. Every iteration is more bloated, less optimized and requires more speed to run it properly….why?

As with #12, I’m hoping the Palm pre to change this and hope that the OMAP4 chipset would make it even better in later iterations.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:40:17 +0000

And John’s incoherent ramblings against anything microsoft continue.

John, do us all a favor and let the hate go. We GET it…you love apple products. You haven’t even used mobile 6.5 and you’re already bashing it, just like you did with Windows 7, which has been universally praised by even the most ardent pro-apple blogs like Gizmodo.

Good lord.

By: ArtSpot

ArtSpot — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:42 +0000

The resistive screen will never be good. Microsoft’s API is flawed. Look at how the actor (finger) has to “work” to make the phone respond. Until Microsoft & the OEMs fix the interface layer, they will never get much respect.

By: GregA

GregA — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:00:04 +0000

#35,

I entirely disagree. It looks like they filmed the actual phone, as opposed to the phone experience simulations that Apple and Rim show…

Apparently there is some trade show going on… (per Engadget) and this is the OS of choice for the low end free with service type handsets that will all be touch screen phones next year.

People are wary of Android because no one knows if google is in it for the long haul… (From Techcrunch) Palm, Rim and Apple are not willing to sell their OS to third parties.

So once again, as sad as it is… Microsoft wins the handset war by default, because no one else is in the game…

You can fault microsoft all you want, but when the entire rest of the industry lets them win over and over again…

By: Bob West

Bob West — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:37:25 +0000

If it’s sold unlocked for around $150 I’d buy it.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:26:41 +0000

It looks like the phone and hand were separate elements put together, and the scale is off.

It looks like a Monty Python animation gone wrong.