[Paragon]

From what I have read the Home Screen does NOT do landscape. As pointed out....why would you need to use the keyboard while in the Home Screen anyway. Seems kind of logical to me.

Anyone else notice what else is missing? Again, from what I've read, it's not present at launch.....turn by turn GPS navigation????!!!!!

[Paragon]

From what I have read the Home Screen does NOT do landscape. As pointed out....why would you need to use the keyboard while in the Home Screen anyway. Seems kind of logical to me.

Anyone else notice what else is missing? Again, from what I've read, it's not present at launch.....turn by turn GPS navigation????!!!!!

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Paragon

Anyone else notice what else is missing? Again, from what I've read, it's not present at launch.....turn by turn GPS navigation????!!!!!

I believe that's correct - it's not as good as the Google Android solution right now with real turn by turn directions, it's what we had before that - a non-real time solution. Doesn't bother me personally too much, but it's definitely an area ripe for improvement!

[Paragon]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

- it's not as good as the Google Android solution right now with real turn by turn directions

And iPhone, and Symbian, and Windows Mobile, and Blackberry, and WebOS. Or maybe it would just be easier to say everyone else has it!

[efjay]

Originally Posted by Macguy59

It looks like UI is heavily dependent on being in portrait mode. Is this correct ? If so how is that going to work with slide out keyboard that requires landscape ?

From the videos I've seen most builtin applications that accept text entry will rotate into landscape mode eg emails, word/excel, texts. Third party devs have the option to enable landscape mode as well if they choose.

Seems like I'm the only one who doesnt have a problem with WP7, I can see a vast improvement over 6.5 in functionality for me and am quite looking forward to grabbing that Dell as my first WP7 device.

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

I think so - but if you have 50 contacts that start with the letter "A", that's still a lot of scrolling. The fact that they haven't re-created Smart Dial for WP7 yet is the pain point...Smart Dial was just KILLER for those of us with big contact lists.

Actually you can easily search by typing the contact name and it filters down just like smart dial would. Or you could use voice commands to open a specific contact.

[Fritzly]

You might want to wait a little bit and see what the real story is:

http://windowsphonesecrets.com/2010/...vable-storage/

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by efjay

Actually you can easily search by typing the contact name and it filters down just like smart dial would. Or you could use voice commands to open a specific contact.

Right, but that's from the search button, right? Not the contacts or phone app. It would be nice to have it everywhere.

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Right, but that's from the search button, right? Not the contacts or phone app. It would be nice to have it everywhere.

That's eerily like Android. That's the other thing these new generation smartphones have dropped; call and hangup buttons!

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Lee Yuan Sheng

That's eerily like Android. That's the other thing these new generation smartphones have dropped; call and hangup buttons!

I've noticed you still pine for those buttons, and while I understand what you're getting at, I think they're gone for good. As it stands, Smartphones are increasingly becoming all-purpose communicators, and having two dedicated buttons to just one function is less useful.

--janak

[efjay]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Right, but that's from the search button, right? Not the contacts or phone app. It would be nice to have it everywhere.

It works in the contacts application.