Windows Phone 7 OS review: From scratch

08 October 2010
A modern smartphone OS needs to be balanced with excellent cloud services and draw on the cutting edge of software. The Windows Phone 7 OS is nothing like Win Mobile. The new UI is trendy, with a magazine look, and is incredibly...

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  • Samin
  • vQ1
  • 09 Oct 2010

A grounbreaking joke. Fature phones from Samsung and LG can do better.Power users will chose between android and symbian while regular users will chose iOS or maybe Bada.

Windows will say goodbye to the mobile world

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    • Gusha
    • mtv
    • 09 Oct 2010

    After Windows Phone 7 is released maybe it might be a good idea for GSMArena to do a battle of the Mobile Operating Systems, WP7, Android 2.2, iOS 4, BlackBerry OS 6.0 etc and see which one beats which in what area!

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      • Zwi
      • 0p%
      • 09 Oct 2010

      Why it hasn't got Bluetooth file sending? Same as the iPhone... /cry It won't be good, iPhone didn't got multitasking, but now has, Windows OS got multitasking, but now hasn't... And I was WM fan :(

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        • Anonymous
        • L6Z
        • 09 Oct 2010

        all of disadvantages are in window mobile 7 emulator for pc.it,s old review.gsmarena why you do this?want more visitor?
        he he he

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          • Leftis
          • nmJ
          • 09 Oct 2010

          I'am without a phone for a month waiting for wp7... now I know... android is the the way to go. No ext storage card, no usb-pc file transfer what is that about?

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            • Anonymous
            • Rbp
            • 09 Oct 2010

            this and craproid are the worst systems made in history (the second is sucking resources to the max)

            Symbian^3 lovely light and simple OS, here I come.

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              • Magnumutz
              • LaC
              • 09 Oct 2010

              Anonymous, 09 Oct 2010how is ios the most feature rich? half the stuff in hardwar... more"Feature rich" means the number of features a device has, straight out of the box. Not including store apps.

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                • ujkadusko
                • 3nr
                • 09 Oct 2010

                I'we had it enough!Supported Microsoft with 5.0,then 6.0,then6.1 and finally 6.5...because it was THE best desktop replacement...now,they are giving me no choice,so so long Microsoft,hello Android(although,I have to thank Microsoft for introducton with HTC).My next is Desire HD

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Lbu
                  • 09 Oct 2010

                  huh windows 7 phone , nothing new even old windows mobile 6.5 is way better then this ,

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                    • sadman
                    • 3iw
                    • 09 Oct 2010

                    this OS is absolute rubbish

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                      • Carphone Lee
                      • M3s
                      • 09 Oct 2010

                      Unbelieveable. Microsoft you've betrayed all your fans and made an OS that apple made years ago. Just further proof that Microsoft has lacked genuine innovation for years.

                      Oh well, looks like I'll be an Android fanboy from now on...

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                        • Peter
                        • iFs
                        • 09 Oct 2010

                        Anonymous, 09 Oct 2010how is ios the most feature rich? half the stuff in hardwar... moreWell, Symbian^3 is A LOT better than android when it comes to "features" as it can play divx/xvid out of the box, USB host and support for HDMI etc...

                        top feature-rich OS is like this (better to worse)
                        1- Symbian^3
                        2- Android
                        3- iOS (iPhones)
                        4- Bada (samsung)
                        5- WP7

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                          • Anonymous
                          • L6K
                          • 09 Oct 2010

                          shahrokh, 09 Oct 2010iOS & WinMo 7 missing lots of features!, android apps s... moreSymbian has everything except an UI interface, usability. Symbian, a system from the past.

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                            • SUMIT
                            • s8b
                            • 09 Oct 2010

                            I think wm7 developers were really doing uber things in term of user interface, whole OS usability and many more ; UNTIL ONE DAY THEY RECEIVED A CALL FROM ballmer that I don't need so & so functionality . I really think ballmer will be fired from MS.

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                              • Phi
                              • nmL
                              • 09 Oct 2010

                              Win Mobile lover as well!
                              I Guess Touch Pro2 was my last Win Mobile!

                              Win mobile you lost me as well,
                              Lets go Android!

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                                • Anonymous
                                • p7K
                                • 09 Oct 2010

                                so basically the wp7 is just like iOS just slightly better??

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                                  • shahrokh
                                  • 3Ir
                                  • 09 Oct 2010

                                  iOS & WinMo 7 missing lots of features!, android apps steals private datas! Bada has limited softwares, but Symbian... It has everything, i mean it

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                                    • Yxs
                                    • KFP
                                    • 09 Oct 2010

                                    No one seems to know what's going on inside Ballmer's head. Well, the first firmware upgrade will bring usb mode, and he'll talk as if Microsoft just invented it. And then file manager in the second upgrade and so on and so on. Microsoft is the new Apple. I think Ballmer and Jobs are non-identical twins who got separated as soon as they were born.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • vGu
                                      • 09 Oct 2010

                                      the interface is good. i like these live icons. fed up of my android or ios icons they all look same. even symbians looks same. so that part is good. but this is like an ios copy. no bluetooth fie transfer, no file manager, no usb mode. i dont like tat. i really hope they change that. it may have worked on iphone before but now ppl hav started seeing the inconvenience of such limitations and r switching over to android. that was a bad move on their part. if they had allowed the other features then it wud have surely been a killer os. i have used bing maps on pc and seen the 3d view of all buildings. looks very nice. microsoft sud rely do sumthin about this

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • vGu
                                        • 09 Oct 2010

                                        kunal, 09 Oct 2010so after the introduction of WinMo 7 its clear that samsung... morehow is ios the most feature rich? half the stuff in hardware doesnt work n the same apps r ported to android. every iphone app is available to android so basically android is also the most feature rich. winmo is exactly lik ios. it has lesser apps as of now but that cud change. n it may not play divx/xvid out of box but it plays wmv, asf, mp4, 3gp unlike ios which plays only mp4.