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"Metro"-sexuality - Apps

Details: Category: Mobile; Published: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 12:46

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Apps

But how are the apps you ask? @BrandonWatson is the man in charge of applications on the WP7 interface, and he was recently touting on an episode of This Week in Tech that they have some 30,000 apps and that their goal was to obtain a large percentage of the "big apps" on iOS and Android. So yes, there is a Twitter app and an Angry Birds app. What is truly interesting about WP7 though is that there is not really a huge need for all the social apps, because the integration of Facebook (and Twitter and Foursquare with "Mango") negates the necessity to launch a separate app to keep track of a particular social network. While that potentially takes revenue away from the social network (since it does not register the user the same way) it does make the phone much more integrated and much more of a joy to use.

Posts in discussion: "Metro"-sexuality

garfi3ld replied the topic: #21208 30 Nov 2011 18:41

chad takes a look at the windows phone 7 OS and the HTC trophy

L0rdG1gabyt3 replied the topic: #21217 30 Nov 2011 21:35

Great review. I have been using the HTC HD7 on T-Mobile since Feb. and I really like it. My wife recently picked up a 2nd gen device and she is sporting the HTC Radar 4G. Even though the processors in our phones are the same clock speed, hers is actually faster in most day to day operations because it is a newer generation of proc.

The new flagship phones actually have faster processors, 1.4GHz vs. the standard 1GHz, and larger megapixel cameras, 8MP vs 5MP. Reviews of the 2nd gen flagship phones, HTC Titan, Samsung Focus S, and Nokia Lumia 900 have all stated that they are "very" fast.

With the next update codename Tango, support for higer resolutions is expected, and with Windows Phone 8, codename Apollo, dual core CPUs are expected.

Chad, you should update your handset to Mango. I felt that my experience was enhanced with deeper integration of social networks, adding Linkedin, and it also seemed like mine performed better. There was an overhaul of the Xbox Live hub, and the ability to stream music through Skydrive was added as well.

L0rdG1gabyt3 replied the topic: #21224 30 Nov 2011 23:24

If any of you Android or iOS users would like to try out the Metro UI, Microsoft has an interactive web demo that you can load up in the browser on your phone and try it out.

From what I understand, it does everything but launch apps.

m.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/demo/