[virain]

All those bells and whistles, that WM7 will bring to the table, must require much more power, Faster processor, more RAM. And knowing how OEMs try to stay at the minimum requirements, I do expect slow, laggy, and very expensive devices. Just look at Vista.

[virain]

All those bells and whistles, that WM7 will bring to the table, must require much more power, Faster processor, more RAM. And knowing how OEMs try to stay at the minimum requirements, I do expect slow, laggy, and very expensive devices. Just look at Vista.

[deadeyed]

2009?? isn't that a bit too late?? :? :?

As apple will be offering HSDPA iphone & release SDK for 3rd program this year. I think I'll give the upcoming iphone a try. :lol: :lol:

[Russ Smith]

What's with all the Vista-bashing? Vista's pretty face is a lot more than OSX me-too-ism. It's there because Microsoft totally revised the way the desktop renders, taking advantage of modern graphics card technology. Vista's most important advances are like that. The visable aspects are simply repercussions of (often totally) reworked underlying processing. I actually hope that WM follows Vista's trend and isn't just plastering a different UI on top of the same underlying OS.

Let's see if I can put 2009 in another perspective: It's 2008 already and we have to wait 12 whole months(!!) Good grief. I'd actually be surprised if Apple has another iteration of iPhone out by then. MS had already been working on WM7 when the iPhone came out. They undoubtedly took a look at it and modified a few ideas to more completely compete with it. Apple could have done more of that. They forgot a number of features all the competing products have (No 3g, no removable memory, no Exchange or Office support).

[virain]

Originally Posted by Russ Smith

What's with all the Vista-bashing?

There's nothing wrong with Vista! Problem is with hardware manufacturers! They intend to offer devices made to the MINIMUM requirement for running OS. And unlike your desktop or notebook that you can have made to order, to your specs, you have no choice for WM devices, s.a. smart phone. Hence, you will get slow, laggy, often freezing and crashing device, and of course Microsoft is the one to be blamed. Unless MS can force OEMs to produce devices with adequate power to run OS AND 3-Party Software

[Phillip Dyson]

Originally Posted by Russ Smith

I'd actually be surprised if Apple has another iteration of iPhone out by then.

Im thinking they will.
but it will be to add 3G and more capacity.
Maybe throw in a few more bluetooth profiles .

[Yata]

Oh dear, it's the Zune all over again.

All these changes are going to be competing against the last generation of iPhone, rather than the current version.

Oh well, I guess it's up to Nokia to give Apple a kicking.

[Dyvim]

Originally Posted by Russ Smith

Let's see if I can put 2009 in another perspective: It's 2008 already and we have to wait 12 whole months(!!) Good grief.

Yeah it's 12 months to January 2009, but 23 months to December 2009. Did they specify January? Because if they didn't, it probably means something closer to December.

So yeah, I do expect most of the other industry players to have 1 or 2 new device iterations before the first WM 7 device is actually in customer's hands (including WM which will be doing WM 6.1 some time this year).

[unxmully]

From the blog:

Touch may be the actual product name as it stands.

Hmmm, I suspect that one line may either turn out to be untrue or end someone up in court.

[mv]

Looks nice. But this was needed by WM a year ago, not a year in the future. By then, i'm sure the iphone, symbian, and other, will be more appealing. Or maybe not. I was impressed with WM back in 2000... and i was also impressed with WM2003. But since then, i have see no improvements in usability - this may be THE wm version that will atract the masses, but please, MS need it now!!!

I'll just wait in symbian. I need to see to believe.

[reidme]

This has to be a joke.