The New York Times fine Count WP7 pros and Cons: Still an unfinished product

Beijing time October 29 early morning News, "The New York Times" website column to count the advantages and disadvantages of Windows Phone 7, as a Microsoft hopes to a high encirclement products, the article that it needs to improve the place is still a lot, but also is a lot of new ideas and noteworthy products.　　The following is the full text of the article: What Microsoft is doing, to 2010 years, only to launch a deal with the iphone competition products.　　Does it not realize that Apple has been the first three years to launch its 70 million sales, 300,000 applications of mobile phones, Google's Android phone software has been developed for two years, estimated load reached 30 million units, with 100,000 applications.　　Does Microsoft really think that the world needs another black quad multi-touch application phone? The name is misleading and still a lot of obvious, the answer is yes. Windows Phone 7 is a brand new system that Microsoft hopes will be adopted by various manufacturers and run on a variety of mobile networks.　　I've tried a few basic similar brands, including Samsung's FOCUS,HTC surround and HD7, which will be released in the next few weeks for $200 (with a two-year contract). The name "Windows Phone 7" is doubly misleading to consumers.　　First of all, it's not windows, it's nothing like Winodws, not running Windows software, and not even having a Windows PC (it has a program like itunes to load music and video for your phone, but it's available under Mac and Windows). Second, this is not "7", which shows that it has something to do with Windows 6.5 of the previous Microsoft Mobile system platform, and that Windows 6.5 gives you a feeling of not being helpful and complex.　　Windows Phone 7 should be a brand new 1.0 release. This sounds a mockery of Microsoft, but "1.0" can be "a new beginning with innovation" or "unfinished".　　And so when Windows Phone 7 shows some real power, people are also listing a long list of features that have been implemented on the iphone and Android. No folders to manage applications without copying and pasting. There is no way to add a new ringtone. There is no way to send video to other phones using MMS. No video chat.　　No front-facing camera. In addition, the system does not support multitasking.　　You can play music while performing other tasks, but you can't hear like Pandora's Web radio. Sounds familiar? These features are not on the iphone 1.0 either. Further, it has a search button, but it cannot search the entire phone at once (for example, searching for applications, contacts, emails). It doesn't have a visual voice mail, or you can have a notebookEnjoy the data sharing options for mobile internet access. Like the iphone, the Web browser doesn't support Flash video, but it doesn't support the HTML5 format video that the iphone supports. Even Microsoft's own Silverlight format.　　So no YouTube, no Hulu, no online video. Its e-mail program cannot integrate multiple accounts into one inbox. In practice, each email account is a separate icon on the main screen.　　There is no linear message view. Calendars can be synchronized with Yahoo or Google's calendar, but it can be incredibly hard to show only one category at a time, such as work or family.　　If you have a color-classified management of your daily appointments, this feature will be useless. The Address book has the opposite problem, showing everyone in your account, including Facebook's long list. If you have hundreds of Facebook friends, they will disrupt the people you call frequently. (Twitter is not integrated, only a single application.) It sounds like a long list of things to improve for Microsoft. But if a company is known for its slow, stubborn, millions of dollars to invest in software upgrading, the company is Microsoft. The company vowed that Windows Phone 7 would be a strong competitor in the market.　　Fortunately, at least, Windows phone 7 will not die as fast as the Microsoft Phone Kin, which has only been in the market for 2 months. Fresh and clever. Here are some advantages: WP7 is a good way to release the 1.0 release. It is a new thinking about the design of application phone software.　　For some reason, Microsoft has done this incredibly difficult task by launching a new, fun, and beautiful software design that is completely different from the iphone and Android. WP7 's main screen doesn't look like Android or the iphone, and it distributes the application icons evenly across the screen. Instead, you'll see a colorful rectangular area with two columns scrolling.　　Render applications Separately, speed dial contacts, Favorites page and music list-what you want to put there, rearranging and removing are easy (thankfully, Microsoft lets mobile operators install built-in programs inside, at least you can choose to remove unwanted programs on the first day you buy them). These big and good-feeling plate designs are also informative. The numbers on the plate tell you how many voicemail messages, how many e-mail messages, or how many applications to update.　　The music section shows the art of the album, and the Calendar section shows you the next date and so on. There are also a lot of fresh and clever ideas. There is a dedicated camera button on the WP7 phone. You can take pictures at the hands of the machine, a cool feature.　It can also be set up to upload directly to Facebook or Microsoft SkyDrive after taking photos.　You can do voice dialing, search and open applications.　　Unfortunately, you can't voice input, and this, Android as well as installing free Apps Dragon Dictation iphone can. Some applications are "hubs"--requiring higher, multiple-screen programs, such as pictures, people, or office. How do you know that you can cross over to the next side because you see that the edge of the next page is already displayed on the edge of the screen.　　Smart。 Good idea the ELF also patronized the lock screen function.　　Without a full wake-up call, you can see the time and date, the next appointment, and how many messages to read. Well, the WP7 phone is as fast and enjoyable as its opponents.　　But with the idea of alarm clocks, chargers, apps, accessories and the iphone for cars, what makes Microsoft believe WP7 will become a new benchmark? Three aspects. First, office,wp7 mobile phones have Word,excel and PowerPoint. Office is still Microsoft's forte, but it's strangely removed on the phone. You can't change the font in Word, all you can do in PowerPoint is edit the text box and you can't create a new file.　　Office iphone or Android apps are much more powerful than this. Second, Zune. If you're not one of six people who use Zune, you have to tell you that Zune is a competitor for Microsoft to develop for ipods. It used to be a flop, but the software is still pretty and its online store is rich and lively.　　Its 15-dollar, one-month-free program allows your WP7 phone to become an on-demand radio. Third, Xbox.　　If you have an Xbox console, your points and Avatar will appear on your phone, and you can choose between the various categories of interactive games. Microsoft has given the WP7 handset manufacturers the minimum required hardware specifications, so it runs quickly.　　The software is fluent and easy to touch, and has a lot of vivid effects, but it doesn't prevent you from using it. Battery life is another matter. If it's the same cell phone, you'll have to recharge your WP7 every night already.　　You have to understand that these babies suck so fast that you can think of a hole in them.　　The surprising thing is that Microsoft overcame the hardest part by creating a truly new way to manage 17 of the many features of an app phone, and it was fun, simply and appealing. Obviously, Microsoft still has a lot of work to do and its stores have a long way to go to provide a decent application.　　The company plans to provide a free upgrade after filling these holes, in other words, it may not be the time to buy the phone. But yes, it's a mobile phone that you should be looking at. (Kevin)