Comments on: Tap tap revolution: WinMo 6.5 http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/17/tap-tap-revolution-winmo-65/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:39:26 -0500 hourly 1 By: nick http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/17/tap-tap-revolution-winmo-65/comment-page-1/#comment-982707 nick Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:47:38 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=72822#comment-982707 Wow so the iphone can make a few nice animation with it's interface and it has nice fun apps but revolutionary it's not other than the sense of eyeCandy. You can only run one app, WiMo multitask, you can connect to your desktop, read email, send email, take pictures, SMS, Copy/Paste, there is a huge selection of Applications to do just about everything you would want on a mobile device. You can play games, play movies, music... So please tell me how is the Iphone better than WiMo? I mean we can give credit to Apple for it's nice simple interface and it's Eye Candy but please stop the fanboism!!! Now i agree that Microsoft Drop the ball just like they did with IE but give credit where credit is due because even thought they never improved on the Interface they did quite a few improvement on the OS and what you it's capable of doing. Wow so the iphone can make a few nice animation with it’s interface and it has nice fun apps but revolutionary it’s not other than the sense of eyeCandy. You can only run one app, WiMo multitask, you can connect to your desktop, read email, send email, take pictures, SMS, Copy/Paste, there is a huge selection of Applications to do just about everything you would want on a mobile device. You can play games, play movies, music… So please tell me how is the Iphone better than WiMo? I mean we can give credit to Apple for it’s nice simple interface and it’s Eye Candy but please stop the fanboism!!!

Now i agree that Microsoft Drop the ball just like they did with IE but give credit where credit is due because even thought they never improved on the Interface they did quite a few improvement on the OS and what you it’s capable of doing.

]]> By: TheRedMonkey http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/17/tap-tap-revolution-winmo-65/comment-page-1/#comment-982638 TheRedMonkey Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:47:46 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=72822#comment-982638 Some more hate from an iPhone fanboy and apologist. The iPhone is not the end all be all phone. In fact it sucks pretty hard as well. With WinMo I can load programs without the permission of MS! Sure the current WinMo is dated but 6.5 is a huge improvement and you are giving it no chance. Sure they should have WinMo 7 out this year but they don't I will take WinMo 6.5 over a locked up iPhone anyday. Some more hate from an iPhone fanboy and apologist. The iPhone is not the end all be all phone. In fact it sucks pretty hard as well. With WinMo I can load programs without the permission of MS! Sure the current WinMo is dated but 6.5 is a huge improvement and you are giving it no chance.

Sure they should have WinMo 7 out this year but they don’t I will take WinMo 6.5 over a locked up iPhone anyday.

]]> By: <fb:name linked="false" useyou="false" uid="1526897028">Lee Lloyd</fb:name> http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/17/tap-tap-revolution-winmo-65/comment-page-1/#comment-982623 Lee Lloyd Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:15:50 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=72822#comment-982623 Well, I certainly can't argue that WM is awful. It really is. However, I think it is a truly bizarre turn of events to see anyone claim that WM is a "me too" copy of anything, especially a device that has only been out a couple years, or a device that hasn't even come out yet. WM, as poorly made as it is, has been leading the way in the smartphone market, ever since Palm completely dropped the ball several years back on trying to come up with a new OS. If it hadn't been for the 6 previous, poorly made, versions of WM, The Palm Pre never would have been designed, and Palm would probably still be chugging along with PalmOS on devices with 320x240 screens. I can think of at least a few features on every single smartphone on the market (including BlackBerries and the iPhone) which are only there because WM made them required features. There is an almost endless list of things you can criticize WM for, but Microsoft failing to be innovative is not one of them. They pressed into the smartphone market back when it didn't even have a name yet, and was just a weird niche, I hardly think that can be characterized as a "me too" move. Well, I certainly can’t argue that WM is awful. It really is. However, I think it is a truly bizarre turn of events to see anyone claim that WM is a “me too” copy of anything, especially a device that has only been out a couple years, or a device that hasn’t even come out yet.

WM, as poorly made as it is, has been leading the way in the smartphone market, ever since Palm completely dropped the ball several years back on trying to come up with a new OS. If it hadn’t been for the 6 previous, poorly made, versions of WM, The Palm Pre never would have been designed, and Palm would probably still be chugging along with PalmOS on devices with 320×240 screens. I can think of at least a few features on every single smartphone on the market (including BlackBerries and the iPhone) which are only there because WM made them required features.

There is an almost endless list of things you can criticize WM for, but Microsoft failing to be innovative is not one of them. They pressed into the smartphone market back when it didn’t even have a name yet, and was just a weird niche, I hardly think that can be characterized as a “me too” move.

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