Windows Mobile, One of the most hated and horrible software ms ever created.
Let’s go with me on a journey, and see where the #fail happened.
In the beginning there was Pocket PC 2000 (rapier) and from there it went wrong
As intended (rapier) pocket pc was needed to keep up with palm and other competitors.
And it was good ! Seriously. You could do what it was supposed to.
Write emails then later sync with your pc to actually send em. Then after that we all got a major update pocket pc 2002.
(merlin) And was released end 2001. (not 2002 as the name implies)
Again this was some sort of derivation of Windows CE. After two and a half year. We got Windows Mobile 2003.
Almost the same shit, some eye candy and features. And again another derivation of windows ce.
Windows CE is an operating system mostly used in embedded solutions. Solutions like the sega dreamcast.
Note, It is designed for Pocket PCs / small computers not for smartphones in any way. In order for wince to cope with GSM/GPRS some added software makes it possible to run the shit.
Others like android or symbian are os es specifically designed to run a phone.
So it isn`t really hard to see where the #FAIL lies here.
Well Ms continued with these series totally discarding (smartphones) and the flow of usage in the smartphone market.
And traditionally After the release of windows mobile 2003, they released Windows mobile 2003 SE.
It this version upgrade, os upgrade whatever. Was nothing more that the latter version. But now you had the option To backup your sheit.
This incremental upgrade took Microsoft ONE year to finish. Makes you think doesn’t it. Why the **** does Ms Waste so much time.
But Okay it got better. In 2005 may (magneto) was launched. And while this was a clear rip off from the Marvel commix Character Magneto (remember x-men).
The windows mobile 5 series where quite good, again not native phone support. But it was Awesome. Others had a nokia or whatever and they your dial a number and send/receive sms. I with windows mobile 5 could take over the world !!! With all that power in my pocket. Yess I had a schedule and email thing. It was the bomb.
This was the point that I .(for real) fell in love with Wmobile. Because you could do so much more than with your generic nokia. So windows mobile 5 was a success in my book. (this is asking for hate mail) But times tend to change and they did.
The horror, the dreaded windows mobile 6. The destroyer of perfect phone hardware.
It has names, like the incompatible one, I really don’t know WTF MS was thinking when they released this sheit.
It was released in 2007 did the same as its predecessor, and based on wince 5. Featuring nnew stuff like…
Improved Internet sharing.
We had internet sharing on WM5 and that worked, WTF was there to “improve”
Improved Remote desktop access
Again,, we had that on WM5. Guess what IT WORKED.
And the most Unused service Live UPDATE, What the crap would that be. Like im walking in the middle of the day my phone begins to beep when I look at the screen there is a message saying: Applying update 2of 67 20% done. So I could wait the rest of the day.
Really what was that all about??
At that time Apple came up with a phone ? now that was ridiculous. Please sigh they make fruit computers. And we (PClovers) all wanted to see apple #FAIL. But they dint. It was Amazing there you stood with your overpriced Windows phone loading pictures like crap and playing choppy video. And there was always this arrogant bastard with a fruit phone around showing you How exactly A smartphone should work. And we as in the windows mobile community tried hard to chastise the fruit phone and save what was left of the name and fame of windows mobile.
Sure Wm 6 had its joys and its woohoo`s active sync and exchange support with server search.
But Microsofts knows how to outdo himself.. from the 6 to 6.1 we got a slightly different UI (home screen) threaded sms, and you could enroll in a domain.
Here was that point, that point that us users lost their faith in Ms regarding to phones. Ms had succeeded, we are done with it.
Then came 6.1 and 6.2 wich was supposed to be “fingerfriendly”
A new word that wasn’t supposed to be sexual (but my ex wasindeed “fingerfriendly”)
So what it came down to the screen of the Iphone was capacitive and all the windows phones where resistive.
Microsoft decided to throw in a major update skipping 6.3 and 6.4 and go straigt onwards to 6.5
Can I have an AMEN to that..
Now this was your phone, ugly like hell. Well at least the ui was “fingerfriendly” But when you had to change some settings, you would go back to the ugly bitch called wince. And trying to klick a tienie tiny link with your finger was near to impossible.
So there you where with your 500 dollar phone, expecting you could brag about the features to your friends ?? Well after pushing the WRONG buttons for too many times because the buttons are TOO frickin small time elapses and after half an you managed some kind of moving picture on the screen. GOODY !!!
Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Well as you can see Microsoft decided that we don’t need a taskbar in the upper left corner. Users should now press the lower left corner. Err ??
Some buttos Where in deed bigger with this build of Wm. And you now can do everything with the finger.
But there are some anoyances with that.
Microsoft Claims
Multitouch ~ that would be BS cause HTC sense enables that shit. So ONE finger only.
And .,. as wit ALL the versions of WM, Wont Close the program it would simply mimimizes it.
And actually that IS a great thing, we call it “multitasking”. But Ms dint find it nececairy to build it a descent task manager. So we could actually see what is running.
WM is depending on the hard work of opensource programers and rom cooks at www.xda-developers.com and theymake it usefull and bearable. I mean the hardware of a windows smartphone is just about awesome.
Oh and when the first droid phones came out, still remember ? It was from HTC. And as anyone will know HDC was microsoft exclusive.
The first droid phones (love the os btw) where sad excuses for mobile phones. Hardware was superb. But the outer shell was just plain weird. Most of the time the microphone had this weird angle.
Doesn’t that makes you wonder why windows phones where more pleasing to the eye. They both got almost the same hardware, and the same manufacturer.
So do you think that it could be true ?? Ms told HTC Make the droid phones UGLY and we can do business ? Sounds retarded huh.. But see it like that. Ms knew Droid would come and be superior to WM6.x in any possible way. And they weren’t ready with the 6.5.5 yet.
So if The One and Only Producer (at that time) HTC made droid phones and they looked good. They would not sell a phone AGAIN.
So my best guess it did happen exactly that way…
WHAT NOW ??
After years of debate / problems / frustration. Ms wants to do something good.
They discarded The Windows mobile Name but kept the version number.
It is called windows phone, as if my magic your phone will do things you want it do you.
OK I did NOT tried it yet, but I am willing to….
First of all,.,. its crap.
Why its crap see for yourself. I don’t want my Phone to look like some tiny girly glossy.
I don’t want XBOX live crap. And Im NOT a retard I can read without glasses !!
WTF did they made windows phone for blind people ?? Come on you can see I have 2 missed phone calls. From two miles away. I tend to notice the smaller icons too you know (on wm 6.5)
And wtf is it with Microsoft, they always base their software on other software. Yes it is true. Pocket PC ~ based on win ce then windows mobile ~ based on wince and windows2000 ~based on NT. Why don’t they Make something NEW. Im sure they can spare the recources.
No, windows phone will be based on some crappy MP3 plater. I don’t want that.
I want A cool phone like thing that does those smooth things like the fruit phones does. One that I can show to my friends and they would go AAAAAAAH. But no, Microsoft made windows phone for the disabled and ill sighted folks.
Windows phone when we get our hands on it it wil be by the end of this year. And in my opinion that is TOO late #FAIL. Droid phones are getting better apples new upcoming os 4.x . So even if windows phone is going to be good. Droid and Iphone will be better. They have A dedicated base that is truly designed for a phone. Not a sega dream cast or an mp3 player.
One chance, I got this HTC HD2 (leo) and it is supposed to get the windows phone update. So ill try .
See ya next time folks
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