As a man with a Windows phone, I have to say that it is a hell of a lot nicer than using android. I applaud them for their phone-iness

It's weird to think of Microsoft doing so many things right, but IE9, Win security, Win7 and Win7 phone are some of the best things they put out in a timeframe of a year or so

0Icky0: somedude210: As a man with a Windows phone, I have to say that it is a hell of a lot nicer than using android. I applaud them for their phone-iness

What do you like about it over Android?
/interested

Well I'm using a HTC HD7S and i love the fact that it's so streamlined and smooth (I would imagine, much the same way that the iPhone is streamlined) plus I can actually fully uninstall apps, a feature that Android phones didn't really have (at least when I was looking at getting my first smartphone)

The only drawbacks Win7 phones have that I've found is that there is still not a gigantic library of apps, compared to Android and iPhone, though there are still a lot, just not metric asston levels. Also, as of right now (and this may be a future release post-Mango) you cannot send video through texts.

But I do get Microsoft Office on my phone, which is surprisingly useful and intuitive. But the apps that I do have (resistor calculator, translator, stocks, amazon, accuweather, Sun Zsu's Art of War, flashlight) are all very nice, free and work beautifully.

I'm still not sold on the tile system for Windows 8 for desktops, but I find it extremely nice to use on the phone. Take a look at them the next time you're in a store, play around with it. You'll figure out 80% of it in 5 mins. The other 20% is all the funky stuff that you discover the more you play with it (power user stuff)

0Icky0: somedude210: As a man with a Windows phone, I have to say that it is a hell of a lot nicer than using android. I applaud them for their phone-iness

What do you like about it over Android?
/interested

Also, for whatever reason (and this may be a business deal that Google/Microsoft/Verizon/Att all made) but AT&T has a vastly larger and superior stock of WP7 phones than Verizon does, and vice versa for Android.

I took a look at what Verizon offered on day and they had 1 windows phone, and it was a crappy phone at that. AT&T when I picked up mine had a good 4 phones $100

/verizon phones, for whatever reason (at least in the Razr days) would have the same models (razr) but would have the crappy versions of them compared to AT&T, (cheap plastic compared to metal, smaller phone, easily breakable) and I never understood why
//att has the better quality phones, and lately the better quality service

drjekel_mrhyde: At&t will be adding 3 more LTE Windows phones in March. Nokia, Samsung (bigger Focus),and a HTC(Titan with LTE)
/Looking at the Focus S but might hold out for the Nokia Lumina 900(Ace)
//The Ace will be a Hero phone(think iphone and razr) for At&t

I've read good things about the Titan, Maximum PC did a review of it this month, but its farking huge.

also, awesome about the next gen razr for att. It's really a toss up between the focus and one of the HTCs. all are good.

drjekel_mrhyde: /Ask anyone with a Galaxy S and S2 about Samsung update process

GAH! fark YOU SAMSUNG! fark YOU! fark YOU! fark YOU! fark YOU fark YOU farkyoufarkyoufarkyou...

/Samsung Galaxy S owner
//Switiching to HTC Titan next month

King Keepo: How Apple manage to skip carrier testing I have no idea, because I really don't think they'd let that happen.

Apple designs and manufactures the hardware. They have a pretty good handle on whether or not it's going to work.

Meanwhile, I'd love it if Android phone manufacturers could agree on a place to put the farking volume buttons.

Lsherm: somedude210: 0Icky0: somedude210: As a man with a Windows phone, I have to say that it is a hell of a lot nicer than using android. I applaud them for their phone-iness

What do you like about it over Android?
/interested

Also, for whatever reason (and this may be a business deal that Google/Microsoft/Verizon/Att all made) but AT&T has a vastly larger and superior stock of WP7 phones than Verizon does, and vice versa for Android.

I took a look at what Verizon offered on day and they had 1 windows phone, and it was a crappy phone at that. AT&T when I picked up mine had a good 4 phones $100

/verizon phones, for whatever reason (at least in the Razr days) would have the same models (razr) but would have the crappy versions of them compared to AT&T, (cheap plastic compared to metal, smaller phone, easily breakable) and I never understood why
//att has the better quality phones, and lately the better quality service

It's because Verizon's network was CDMA, so the phones literally had to be manufactured to work on their network. The rest of the world and AT&T used GSM, so AT&T could take get phones the minute they dropped elsewhere in the world. The US is the only country in the world with more CDMA users than GSM users.

Huh, I never knew that. Well, I knew that they used CDMA but I didn't realize that that was the reason why they had crappier phones and that we have more CDMA users than GSM

You can say that again.

Why would Microsoft want a telephone to cannibalize their desktop, tablet, and laptop business? It might be short-sighted, or it might be common sense, but either way, they have too much to lose to risk success with a mobile telephone platform when they virtually own the home computer and business computer platforms.

I discovered a really great newly launched site yesterday, called Sortable.com, via Treehugger. It compares consumer electronics using a sizeable list of specs you select. You can compare telephones, TVs, computers, etc. Treehugger was complaining that it didn't use green specs, but there are a couple that reflect performance, and otherwise it's a great and simple way to cut through the endless choice to get at what matters to you, whether it is price or some of the more rare technical features.

Sortable.com. They claim to take the pain out of buying, but even if that is not possible, it looks like they are taking a lot of wasted time and pain out of shopping.

I'm really loving my HTC Titan. The speed is fast enough without needing the LTE battery drain. I only wish it didn't cost so much to put my own custom apps on it without getting Chevron.