Hell, I just want a phone that boots in 5-10 seconds.
My HTC Touch can take well over a minute and a half before it is usable.
There is no GOOD reason a phone should take that long to boot...
I agree with you on this one. I was even surprised when my fiancee had to reboot her iPhone to get it working properly. I was a significant amount of time too.
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I'd like to see good hardware utilization accross the board. Why is it apps can never take advantage of good hardware when it's there!??!?!? If a device comes with any special hardware - especially when marketing is talking it up - the device should be able to utilitze that hardware for common tasks one would need that hardware for.
Practical examples would be good video playback (full screen resolution, 30fps when the hardware supports it) in media player and a month view with text in the calendar app. All devices with bluetooth should support standard bluetooth keyboards and mice also. Also, devices that support sd/microsd and not sdhc/microsdhc.
I've been blown away over the years at the way the manufactures release hardware with what should be conisdered basic functionality, for what the device is, not working.
1) Profiles but I would do it a little different then everyone else on here. I would make basic features of profiles that allow a user to switch based on time, power state, Location, or Appointment Category. Then I would add the API's for third party vendors to do what ever they want on these profile switches. so you can set your profiles in the main OS. Then in Pocket Informant you can set it to filter your Calendar based on that profile, or open a specific file in a specific program, etc.
2) Much better finger friendliness
3) Location Aware built into the OS with the API's needed
4) Notification API's so Third Party software companies can alter the OS notifications the way they need
5) sync all the data from Outlook. Including Templates (they need to be better on outlook first), Journal Entries, Distribution lists, Categories on Email, contents of email folders when on Exchange, Custom fields, links between items in Outlook
6) Light sensor API's built in
7) much better dialer with support for switching between multiple calls and design for conference calls
I don't think microsoft should build all the features into WM. I think it is more important for them to create the ability for the Third Party vendors to do amazing things. Like some of the things I have already mentioned.
Hell, I just want a phone that boots in 5-10 seconds.
My HTC Touch can take well over a minute and a half before it is usable.
There is no GOOD reason a phone should take that long to boot...
Yup, same here. My Touch Elfin (pro) took about a minute to boot under WM6. 1:15 under WM6.1. And 1:42 to become usable under WM6.5. Otherwise a snappy device, really very usable. But that boot time has been getting worse with every OS iteration. Under the original PPC OS, in 2000, I was experiencing 5 to 6 second soft resets. A couple of devices along the way since then have booted in under 15 seconds, but they were the exceptions. Generally the trend has been longer and longer waits. Of course the feature set has also grown, but still, so have opportunities for efficiencies, as the development team has had a decade now to work on streamlining. Right? Or have they just added and added and added... somehow that seems likely, as this is Windows after all. Bloat is part of the nature of the beast.
So I'd like to see some streamlining of services and whatever other background nonsense, perhaps by offering a config page to the user in Settings > System where users could choose services they want running and do not. Same for the \Windows\Startup folder; a simple settings page offering checkboxes for these shortcuts to be active or not, with a simple explanation of what each does and how important it might be appearing on highlighting, that would be very well received I think. For power users, sure, it's easy to delete that junk when it's not needed, but for the majority it results in a system performance hit, leaving a handful of programs running in the background though they may never get used.
As for specific elements 'missing' from WM6.5, I'd say most obviously to this user is the ability to exactly organize the new format Start Menu. It's become vastly less configurable than it was, as now one can 'Move to Top' for any shortcut (resulting in the icon going to the very top of the page, jumping out of its folder if it was in a subfolder - not just to the top of that subfolder as one might expect) or in some cases (apparently at random - at least I cannot find a pattern here) 'Move down'. Move down results in top level icons vanishing into their folders, if that's where they originated, or just down the page somewhere if not. But there's no logic to the order. It's not alphabetical, and it's certainly not static, as any one icon being moved up or down shuffles all the rest of them around it. So annoying! Microsoft has found a way to force users to use the old Menus applet from Settings, sort of, though making it even less intuitive than it was before. The lack of an MRU element (though I don't mind this AT ALL) makes this doubly confounding, as one has only the choice of exposing a shortcut to the top level of the menu or hiding it somewhere, nothing in between. While the thumb-drag interface helps some, it's not enough to prevent this lack of configurability from becoming very frustrating in everyday use.
So please, Microsoft, give us a simple way to organize the Start Menu. Even a folder shortcut in the Start Menu itself, pointing to the File Explorer version in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs, would make it easy to order the thing per individual tastes and needs.
I like some of these but might modify them. Personally, I use Xlink at home instead of rerouting it to my home phone. That way it still rings on a home phone, but I don't have to pay the phone company for it.
My brother loves movies and wants his phone to use GPS to pick the closest location and then tell him what movies are available. Great for a city ones not familiar with.
I like the idea of resetting the audible. I often turn mine off while at work so it doesn't ping me every 15 minutes but would be fine at home or hotel.
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I agree with Philip Dyson’s example of keeping personal calendar items and contacts out of the work synchronization.
Given that GPS enabled devices are becoming the norm, why not make these so-called smartphones truly “smart” with the ability to have location based behaviors? For example:
When at home, automatically forward calls to the home landline phone. (Prevents having to run around the house trying to get to the cell phone; most likely there is a landline phone handily nearby.)
When at work, forward calls to the desk phone.
When at a theater or restaurant, automatically switch to vibrate mode.
When at a hotel, automatically set audible morning alarm to previous settings at same hotel.
If weather is displayed on Today screen, automatically pull up weather for current location rather than hardwired “home” location.
Download dinner specials from Top 3 favorite restaurants when back in town on a business trip.
I think a distinction has to be made when answering this question, between those items that only the OS developer (Microsoft) or the service provide (say, Verizon) can provide and those items that can be provided by an ISV. Arguably, the first two items above might only be available through the service provider. The rest can be done by ISVs.
Just click on the call, it'll send you to a contact tab (personalized if you have the contact stored), later choose which calls you want to delete and hit the right soft key and delete the specific ones or all if you want.
Is this what the user is trying to reach?
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I'll tell you what. Windows Mobile, in my opinion doesn't lack much in comparison to other platforms... What they need to do is figure out a way to it make as user friendly and intuitive as possible. There's no point in having such a complete figure-set if an average user can't figure out how to use them.
Hey, hire a pro designer to make it look appealing if you may.
How about desktop synchronization that works and has some features. The stuff that was available in AS3.8 would be a nice start, category sync of pretty much every PIM aspect, a backup option, real time sync when something changed, not a system that kicks off and turns on the screen every 5 minutes whether you need it or not, and dare I say it...WiFi sync (let me worry about the security). Sync that supports removable memory, SD, CF, etc.
As far as reliability goes in syncing, I'd like it to go at least a week without an issue once. Don't want to push my luck here, and ask for something outlandish like a month of trouble free connections. Often it is just reboot the device or the PC, but having to do so is annoying, reference the comments on reboot times.
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