[Cattle-Dog]

I wouldn't mind if my Touch Pro (Fuze) was updated to 6.5, but I actually hope it is not updated to 7.0. I want 7.0 to be a new class of hardware and software.

Perry, have you tried Voice Command? I love it and would not have a phone without it. As I am driving down the road with my headset in my ear, it'll read me emails, text messages, I can check my calendar, I can call any contact or any number, I can hook my phone up to my radio and voice control media player...


Some things I'd like to see by a 7.0 release are:

• Capacitive touch screen
• Capacitive touch screen compatible stylus
• Abandonment of the soft keys and standard drop “up” menu’s and it’s related bottom bar
• I’d like a new “System” hardware key to be created on the side of the device
  • This would bring up any application related menus in a finger friendly overlay
  • Would provide alternate gesture commands, IE a swipe up may bring up a launcher (or a replacement for the Start Menu!) instead of the normal page up, swipe down would give you a list of running tasks that you can switch to or close, etc.
• Getting rid of scroll bars
• VGA should be the minimum resolution (at least for Mobile Pro)
• 3D acceleration mandatory along with mandatory minimum performance
• The system bar at the top should be made 20% bigger to be more finger friendly (still a net gain in screen real-estate by the deletion of the bottom bar)
• While we are tweaking the system bar, lets chuck the monochrome and blocky status icons.
• Integrate Voice Command and Mobile Live Search so I can say “Find Italian Restaurants near my current location” and then it would start reading restaurant names and location back to me
• And of course to only cost $199 without a contract.

[Cattle-Dog]

I wouldn't mind if my Touch Pro (Fuze) was updated to 6.5, but I actually hope it is not updated to 7.0. I want 7.0 to be a new class of hardware and software.

Perry, have you tried Voice Command? I love it and would not have a phone without it. As I am driving down the road with my headset in my ear, it'll read me emails, text messages, I can check my calendar, I can call any contact or any number, I can hook my phone up to my radio and voice control media player...


Some things I'd like to see by a 7.0 release are:

• Capacitive touch screen
• Capacitive touch screen compatible stylus
• Abandonment of the soft keys and standard drop “up” menu’s and it’s related bottom bar
• I’d like a new “System” hardware key to be created on the side of the device
  • This would bring up any application related menus in a finger friendly overlay
  • Would provide alternate gesture commands, IE a swipe up may bring up a launcher (or a replacement for the Start Menu!) instead of the normal page up, swipe down would give you a list of running tasks that you can switch to or close, etc.
• Getting rid of scroll bars
• VGA should be the minimum resolution (at least for Mobile Pro)
• 3D acceleration mandatory along with mandatory minimum performance
• The system bar at the top should be made 20% bigger to be more finger friendly (still a net gain in screen real-estate by the deletion of the bottom bar)
• While we are tweaking the system bar, lets chuck the monochrome and blocky status icons.
• Integrate Voice Command and Mobile Live Search so I can say “Find Italian Restaurants near my current location” and then it would start reading restaurant names and location back to me
• And of course to only cost $199 without a contract.

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Cattle-Dog

Some things I'd like to see by a 7.0 release are:

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Abandonment of the soft keys and standard drop “up” menu’s and it’s related bottom bar

I thought that one of the goals of WM 7 (Photon) was to finally converge WM Standard with the Classic/Professional versions. While you might be able to get rid of soft keys on the touch screen version (although I'm not sure where you're suggesting menus go), you'd either have to make the scheme the same on WM Standard or ruin the goal of convergence.

Originally Posted by Cattle-Dog

Getting rid of scroll bars

Not only would this break convergence with WM Standard, it loses one of the most useful features about scroll bars -- they display your relative position in the document. So they're scroll indicators as well as scroll bars.

Make them thinner if you want (like on WM Standard) and have them widen if you tap them or start to scroll, but don't get rid of them.

As long we're talking about what should be done in WM 7, you might want to read Windows Mobile New Year's Resolutions (it's kind of lengthy).

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Cattle-Dog

Its only encrypted between the device and the wireless access point. So it hits the internet as clear data.

Why would it hit the Internet at all? If you're in the company's building, it would hit the LAN unencrypted, but I hope the company has a firewall.

Or are you saying that WiFi syncing works even remotely? Could I actually sync with my home PC from Starbuck's? I never tried remotely syncing like that.

Steve

[j2inet]

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

Why would it hit the Internet at all? If you're in the company's building, it would hit the LAN unencrypted, but I hope the company has a firewall.

Those that would infringe on one's information can exists on either side of the firewall. Because of the weak authentication used in the protocol one could connect to a machine, present themselves as the owner's device, and have access to copy and alter informaion. Note that this scenario doesn't involve a device; it's an exploit of the protocol.

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

Or are you saying that WiFi syncing works even remotely? Could I actually sync with my home PC from Starbuck's? I never tried remotely syncing like that.

It would work. The address only needed to be resolvable and accessible. That's part of the reason that I've tried to stick with calling it "ActiveSync over IP" instead of "ActiveSync over WiFi" or "ActiveSync over LAN." The protocol did not distinguish the type of network connection being used or whether it was a WAN of LAN address.

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

As I've always suggested, they should have made an Administrative privilege that would disable LAN syncing. That way businesses could turn it on and consumers could leave it off.

Mike talked about why they didn't make it something that can be turned on and off (search the page for the phrase "Loaded gun" to find the paragraph ). If a business has interest in the functionality that could have been provided by ActiveSync over IP they should look at System Center Mobile Device Manager. It provides the ability to manage several aspects of data and settings in addition to enforcing security policies, wiping data from a lost device, and updating/installing software on the device theough Windows Update Services.