Comments on: Dropping In To Say Goodbye

By: Atomsk

Atomsk — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:57:37 +0000

Oh, and if Sony decided to make a smartphone with Droid OS, I’d come in my pants.

By: Atomsk

Atomsk — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:50:03 +0000

You know, I’m okay living without a smartphone. I’m 21 and in college. I’m content as long as my phone can text and make calls.

I guess I’m old school in that I kind of enjoy having a separate machine in my pocket for playing music. I just got one of the newest ipod touches this weekend (the one that can take video in HD, whether or not I believe that is yet to be proven. I haven’t taken a video with the camera.) and I really love the new features. I can skype on the go. It has new games that are fun on the go. The kind you sit down and play for 5 minutes, then get up and do something else.

I like Apple products because they’re gimmicky and neat. I can’t afford Apple products (save for my ipod), but that doesn’t mean I dislike Microsoft. As far as computers go, Microsoft did really good with Windows 7. I’ve never had any trouble with it like I had Vista or the older OS. Wasn’t too big a fan of XP because of the GUI. Other than that it was solid. The taskbar at the bottom was ugly in my opinion.

Personally, if I were to get a smartphone that had hold in the OS war, I’d probably pick Droid because it really is a swiss army phone. I have two really good friends. One has a Droid, and the other has an Iphone. I’ve always had more fun tinkering around with my friend’s Droid than the other friend’s Iphone.

Sure, Iphone might seem more like Ipwn now, but people have their own preferences. It’d be a shame to see WP7 die. Market variety is a great thing. Maybe one day they will combine them all into one mega-conglomo-OS, charge more than Apple alone would, and we’d all be slaves to the smartphone companies.

By: ph34rs33k3r

ph34rs33k3r — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:38:44 +0000

I had 3 Dell laptops and those things were always junk. The power cable always crapped out, the monitors would blank and flash out, and inevitably the motherboard would get fried even when I rarely used it.

By: ph34rs33k3r

ph34rs33k3r — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:37:10 +0000

It’s not just the Windows version. I was stuck using a Mac for a while. It still bugs out in iTunes all day every day when you have to import MP3s. I’ll be damned if I use their format and get stuck not using it anywhere else. Also the Mac OSX freezes more often than any version of Windows I’ve ever used. I was really disappointed to see that with all the problems Vista ever had, this Mac froze infinitely more than my Vista computer did. Not that I’m willing to defend Windows either. Necessary evil of the gaming computer.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:18:50 +0000

Actually Windows Phone 7 won’t have this problem. Windows Phone is being licensed as an OS *and* associated hardware requirements. The hardware requirements are such that any device running Windows Phone 7 will be able to run applciations built for the platform. Vendors will have to differentiate hardware by things like hard keyboard vs. virtual, amount of storage memory (not RAM), resolution of camera (not below a minimum), etc. This was a big problem for Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier but is one fo the design issues that was specifically addressed in Windows Phone 7.