04-07-2011, 11:42 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 5
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Are we deluded? WM7 WTF???
All
My HTC HD2 was stolen yesterday and so I took my long-overdue upgrade and got an HD7.
Beautiful phone, great interface etc....
....BUT.....
....I am a very long time user of PDAs (Psion anyone?) and thus old-fashioned in what I expect from a PDA but in fact my needs are very simple.
I need:
- it to work as a telephone (ie I can have my outlook records on there and do old-fashioned things like pick it up and call people)
- it to work to store my contact information for business
- GPS navigation
- play music
- read books
and that is mostly all.
Within 24 hours of WM7 I want to throw the thing in the dustbin because Microsoft have COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY DROPPED THE BALL. what is the point in having much of the world using outlook on desktop and not be able to sync outlook with your telephone? This is insane.
Then I find that there is no GPS software that works (sorry google maps is fine but navigating across Europe? I think not). and then none of the software that I have acquired through 10 years of WM use works on WM7 and nobody seems too interested in updating. The overwhelming response from support people in the past 24 hours is that they are not interested in WM7 and that I should go back to 6.5 (if I must) or buy Apple or Google. How on earth can the largest gorilla in the jungle get it so completely and utterly wrong and actively sek to drive its users to its biggest competitors?
Now I know Active sync was a pain and that WM6.5 was not great, but, come on guys, WM7 may look pretty but it is completely and utterly useless - unless you live life in a cloud and want to spend a fortune on constant stream of data downloads. which I don't.
I hate the way that Apple and Google do business, but at least they seem to want my business. Microsoft deserve to go the way of Psion, Palm etc - they are completely and utterly unaware and we are completely and utterly deluded to keep supporting them in the hope that they eventually decide to do something right.
As a test I got some of my "last millenium" kit out in an attempt to see what we were missing back then and actually they all fired up, most of the phones worked better and everything that I wanted them to do was done with the minimum of fuss, just not as many pixels and animations. the only thing missing was Kindle (which I love), but mobipocket, ereader etc all worked fine (and looked almost exactly the same).
Sorry, but I think we are mad to persist with this addictive habit: my family will now navigate through Europe this weekend using a phone that is at least 5 years old, but can actually do what I bought it for.
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