Nickname said:
um you can sideload android apps. plus the online marketplace has tons of free apps. windows mobile doesnt even have a marketplace…
I googled for a while and everything I saw pointed back to something on the android market. Screenshot or it didn’t happen. <_>
You don’t have to have a central marketplace to have a device that’s useful and productive. How many years did you get by just fine without Steam and itunes?
Nickname said:
and there is a reason that no new windows mobile phones have come out for the past 16 months. I mean it was good back when it was new and relevant but the current version out (6.5) is soooooooo far behind every other OS out there and 7.0 is a completely new monster, where you lose that ability to sideload apps that you were talking about, and also it lacks multitasking which even apple does now. Sorry but MS has some serious work to do in order to get back in the smartphone market.
It still multitasks programs but will only do so on programs Microsoft has determined aren’t detrimental to be left running in the background. This is a serious problem with some 3rd party apps that are big memory hogs and don’t always exit when you close the window. Adobe is a big memory hog last I looked. The marketplace might not be such a bad idea but it will really depend on how MS runs with it. From what I’ve seen it looks like you simply add an app and it automatically gets pushed to your phone, which is cool.
MS seems to be gearing WM7 more towards corporate use though which will make them money but could really hurt their regular consumer business.