❖ Microsoft shows off Windows Phone Mango
This week Microsoft proudly showed of Windows Phone 7’s new release codenamed ‘Mango’. They even posted this really nice introduction video on youtube.
Go watch it. It’s a blast and includes all the usual Microsoft marketing nonsense including the now traditional “IE is faster then every browser on the planet in our in-house produced benchmark”. They compare a iPhone 4, Blackberry Torch, Motorola Atrix and an unnamed Windows Phone running the new Mango operating system using a Microsoft produced and heavily IE favored benchmark to show off just how awesome IE9 supposedly is. It wouldn’t even surprise me if the iPhone 4 was running an older version of iOS 4 before the inclusion of the Nitro javascript engine.
To be honest I respect what Microsoft is doing with Windows Phone 7, taking a stand and not blindly copying everybody although that Application switcher looked kind of familiar. However I just can’t make sense of the navigation. I’ve actually never seen a device in real life (can you even get them outside of the US ?) so I’m basing my judgement on video’s and reviews alone. I see myself and also anybody else I’d hand the phone completely being lost in the navigation and having no clue “where they are” in the phone.
For Microsofts sake I do hope they are not planning to launch the test device he’s showing off since it seems to go from a full charge (at 1 minute 28)
To near empty (at 6:35)
