I've been using Windows 7 Phone, Microsoft's new mobile operating system, for just one week, have temporarily set aside my beloved Android-based Nexus S in the process.
April 15, 2011 8:00 ESTCommentsRIM and Windows 7 Phone: The Clock Is TickingWindows Phone 7 has six months to get it right.
To really test a smartphone, and decide what the end user experience is like, I do not like to play around with a phone for a few days, I like to change and make the new phone my primary device.
The BlackBerry playbook a year.
To achieve this, my current device is an HTC HD7, now running the latest version of Windows Phone Software.
The clock is ticking, but let's not count either mobile OS out before the year's end.
In the first week, I discovered what it is like using a Windows phone with a Mac, how to adapt the device to my needs and how to enjoy (and curse on!) Zune Marketplace.
By Sascha SeganTweetIt seems to be a law of technology: modern mobile operating systems take about a year to find their feet.
I also have installed an interesting smattering of useful apps and have secured various items to my homescreen.
Apple, of course, setting a precedent.
But there is one thing that Windows phone can not do well - it can not deep link me to the Google experience.
In 2007, IOS on the first iPhone is not even a smartphone OS, you can not write an app for it.
And this may be a fixed point that sends me back to Android.
A year later, it flourished in the powerful platform we see today.
Android 1.0, released in September 2008, was missing several pieces, but a year later the platform really took off of with Android 2.0 and Motorola Droid in October 2009.Windows Phone and RIM: EvolvingWith Windows 7 Phone, we see a platform in the middle of years of evolution .
There are some Windows phones on the market, and they are pretty good, but they are not dominant.
It's okay.
At the MIX11 conference yesterday, surveyed the Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore out how the company will fill the gaps in Windows phone with her Mango update, about a year after publication.
Lots of new APIs, a multitasking model that resembles the iPhone, the opportunity for Chinese and Indian programmers to write programs, and, hopefully, be able to Nokia Phone hardware make Windows 2012 look very different than 2011.RIM has only now begun its journey, that is why I do not dismiss it.
Yes, the BlackBerry Tablet OS very incomplete.
It is incomplete as app-free IOS 1.0 was incomplete.
But it is only fair to give the company the same year as everyone else has got.
By 2012-if RIM performs well it \\ u0026 # 39;'ll have native PIM (Personal Information Manager) on his tablet, super-phones running the new operating system, and a much more finished appearance ecosystem.
The exception to this rule is the Palm, but it's understandable.
But how do we get these updates? It is one thing that none of the mobile platform providers other than Apple has mastered, though, and it is to find out how to send out timely updates.
This is a big deal, because without updates, you will need new hardware to push out new versions of the OS.
Google has managed this by having a large number of aggressive hardware partners, but RIM, especially, do not release enough new models per year to autumn back on the crutches.
Microsoft Belfiore identified the central problem, although he tried to weasel around it: Wireless carriers do not approve software updates on a regular basis.
They see them as new phones, and some for eternal floating release dates for, say, Verizon's LTE phones know that carriers will keep landlines for months before they have met all the tests they can think of.
We are envious of what our neighbors have, not what everyone does not have.
Slow updates, go to the airlines' interests, too, which is part of why this situation is so frustrating.
Each time a person buys a new phone, there is a possibility to switch carriers.
So carriers should be interested in retaining existing customers on their current phones with fresh software, so they do not think about their options.
Carriers will also have a lot of OS suppliers to play off of each other.
A situation where everyone ends up beholden to Apple, as the only compelling platform provider (because it's the only one with updates) will not appeal to carriers, either.
Microsoft needs to pour resources into wheedling, help, and heck, even paying carriers to ensure that the updates come to ask the consumers.
I am encouraged by Mango, and even of what RIM shows playbook.
If they follow Apple's and Google's learning curve, they will have good offers early next year.
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