Daily Archives: 2010/03/06

Windows Phone 7 Video Walkthrough

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Chris Pirillo has just posted a video walkthrough of Windows Phone 7 Series:

What I found most interesting is that it takes exactly 3.0 seconds to open an email from the inbox (16.10 into the video). That’s about 2.9 seconds longer than it takes on an iPhone. There are also THREE transitions happening when you click on an email from the inbox:

  1. Transition from inbox view to a view with just the person’s name
  2. Transition from this view to a view with (a) person’s name, (b) toolbar, (c) menu
  3. Transition from this view to a view with (a) email contents and (b) toolbar

If Microsoft indeed want corporate users to use this device they should remove most of the transitions and focus more on workflow and efficiency of using the device. That’s what you want to show up if you want to keep your corporate Windows Mobile users from switching to iPhones.

Apple iPad will not support tethering to iPads

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If you already own an iPhone with a mobile data subscription, why should you have to pay for another mobile data subscription just to be able to use your iPad when on the go? Since the iPad and the iPhone use different SIM cards you can’t really move your one and only SIM card around either.

A Swedish iPhone user Jezper Söderlund decided to email Steve Jobs himself if tethering would be supported on the iPad, and he got a direct response from Steve himself:

No.
Sent from my iPhone

From Steve Jobs emails Swede that the iPad won’t tether to the iPhone (9to5mac)

Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform?

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Michael Gartenberg has posted an interesting post about the fragmentation of the Android operating system, and how it needs to be addressed immediately to prevent Android devices from being as fragmented as desktop Linux systems:

I recently tried to install one of the few good Android games and found it won’t work on Nexus One as it has a nonstandard screen resolution. This isn’t just about older devices either — many new devices were announced at Mobile World Congress running either Android 1.5 or 1.6. When does it end? Either Google addresses the fragmentation issue immediately or it will find that Android suffers the same fate as Linux on the desktop.

From Entelligence: Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform? (Engadget)