**SPECIAL GUEST** TONIGHT: THE PPCGP HAS AN EXCLUSIVE GUEST!
Ladies and Gents, Fans of all Ages!
I'm proud to announce that tonight's podcast will be featuring a SPECIAL GUEST!
Travis Pope, Microsoft MVP, and head honcho @ ZuneSpring will be here on the studio floor to give us his take on the Windows Mobile 7 Rumors (EXCLUSIVE to the PPCG, featured on Engadget!) and more!
Here are some of our topics for tonight!
Windows Mobile 7, don't say it's so!
ClamTXT, is it fair?
Motorola Milestone, how's it sound Canada?
WinMo clings 18%, but the loss since September is equal to RIM?! Palm takes a bigger blow, perhaps there's a bigger picture?
WMC not far away, what are the major carriers planinng?WM7? HSDPA? 4G?
It looks like Iphone is clinging to AT&T! Was there an under the table deal?
The Nook is in the wild!!
Don't miss this AMAZING episode TONIGHT, at 10:00 PM EST! (9PM CST, 7PM PST), via Ustream . This is not one to miss!
Be sure to also catch us on twitter! See our Forum Post for more information!
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Can’t wait for the show. I am home sick but will be tuned in!
I wish I could tune in. This is SICK…
damn I totally missed it, me needs da podcast!
Missed it aswell, can’t wait for the podcast!
Microsoft MVP? what are they a sports team now?
@jake044 – to be the MVP Microsoft would have to be a league, not a sports team, because the MVP is the most valuable player in the whole league.
but here is what it actually means:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/aboutmvp
“If you’re getting away with ripping people off, you don’t stop ripping people off, you keep doing it.” LOl that was too funny
@kvictor017 –
hahaha
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Hey guys- a couple of glaring things I noticed about the podcast this week…
First of all, I think you guys don’t understand notification-based pseudo-multitasking. This has been around since before smartphones existed as part of the WAP protocol (sign in to the WAP page of AIM, for example, exit the browser and go back to your phone. Whenever the AIM service receives a new message, it will “notify” your phone, and let u switch back to the browser to view the new message).
The iPhone introduced this in their last OS update. You can have twitter or chat apps stay “open”, which just means that some cloud service can sent a message to your phone to jump the app open if something changes. But no actual background processing is being done, the app is actually closed until you receive that notification.
Case-in-point: I currently stream internet audio over a2dp to my car stereo. Sometimes, I pull up a GPS app to navigate, and continue the music streaming in the background. If I wanted to, I could click an email attachment to download, go back to my GPS app and navigate all the while continuing to steam music. This will no longer be possible in WM7, and why I still consider it an epic fail.
( http://www.mopocket.com/2010/02/windows-mobile-7-rumored-to-be-dumbed-down.php )
Second, I don’t understand MightyMike’s comment about people going Droid if the WM7 rumors are true…
“I’m going iPhone, I’m going Android… You’re complaining about going to a phone that its similar to… that’s what irks me the most”
I’ll give you iPhone, since it sounds like that’s clearly where WM7 is going. But Android? Android is the only platform that can give WM a run for its money for sheer power and versatility, honestly. It does a great job multitasking, the UI is intelligent, responsive and consistent, and its popular enough to have a decent developer following.
In all honesty, the only thing keeping me and many people like me with WinMo is that the Android development has just begun and useful apps are just starting to come out for it. With WM, I have over a decade of legacy apps to choose from, and it really does all the things I ever wanted it to so there’s no reason to switch. However, Android is catching up very fast, and if WM7 is removing the things it can currently do, Android seems to be a MUCH more attractive option for power users. How can Mike even say that… WM7 claims to not allow multitasking or UI tweaks and apps installed outside of the marketplace. That sounds like a page from Apple’s playbook, but Android is wiiiiide open.
Again, interesting show, but you guys need to branch out a bit and understand the other technologies you are talking about!
If rumors hold true I don’t see any current platform beating out existing Mobile 6.5.
Why would Mobile 7 require better hardware if it is less “capable”?
I don’t see any problem for existing 6.5platform staying with us for quite a while anyway.
M$ may end up just branch out and keep 6.5 for us “power users”, and MOb7 for the less inclined…
Why else would they keep on with all these Builds?
You can barely hear the podcast… boohoo.
I need to leave it recording and boost the volume up, my speakers are all the way up and I can’t hear a thing.
@Maxx134 – Simply because it is more about the user experience than the power/versatility. If you want smooth transition effects and instant responses, you need the extra horsepower. iPhone is the same way- they could have made a simpler iPhone with less specs and accomplish the same tasks, but it wouldn’t be as smooth. Transitions would be jerky, stutter, responses wouldn’t be instant, etc… Windows Mobile seemed to not make that a priority until now. More horsepower is needed for that experience.
As for no current OS surpassing WM6.5… I dunno, I’m comfortable with WM because I’ve been using it for a decade and have learned to make it work for me. Its changed and adapted, and I’ve grown with it. Most of us use it and love it for the same reasons. To someone using it for the first time, it can be downright maddening and inconsistent, especially compared to the next generation UI operating systems out there.
That’s what 7 was supposed to bring us- a new face to the aging platform so that we no longer have to choose between a slick fun UI and actual useful workflow.
Honestly, I stuck with WM for so long because I expected them to address the issue. Now that I see they will continue to make us choose one or the other, I might as well consider Android since it takes most of the features I like about WM, but slaps a smoother and arguably more efficient UI on it. Plus, its a much more popular system, which means eventually more apps will be developed there than on WM (Pandora is a glaring example of this starting to come true). I’m going to ride this 6.5 train out for as long as I can, but its hard not to feel like we’re on the losing team here this time…