I have always heard "iPhone is the best phone!" I have also heard "Android does so much more and is the better one!" Well, what if Android and iOS had a baby?? What would that baby look like? Ladies and Gentlemen... settle down settle down! I present to you, the one, the only... WINDOWS PHONE 7!!! Yes, Windows Phone 7 is that baby! Microsoft has taken the best from both worlds and has made what is arguably the most gorgeous mobile operating system out there! Microsoft has taken that boring and bland iPhone look that has remained stale since 2007. Microsoft has taken that crazy, wild wild west survive if you can ecosystem Android has going for it and combined it into one OS.
We all know how limited the iPhone is, with Apple barely allowing you to add your own wallpaper to the phone let alone customize it to your liking. Microsoft has taken some of that theory... but not all of it. Microsoft has created a closed ecosystem but has taken the DICTATORSHIP part out of the picture. Microsoft has set standards which must be followed by the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer Ex. HTC, Samsung, LG, etc) to exact specifications. This allows for what we like to call fragmentation to be erased from the picture.
As far as Android goes, we all know how crazy it can get on that front! You have a multitude of devices as vast as the OCEAN to choose from. You do not know which phone is the best and sometimes end up making the wrong decision. You may end up getting a low end phone which is not up to "par" with the OS (don't forget to read my post on which ANDROID phone to buy). Android is a very powerful OS, but if the hardware is not optimized correctly you will have a hard time! We all know how customizable Android is, and Microsoft has taken a page out of their book. Microsoft has done well by adding "live tiles", which in essence are truly widgets. The great thing about the live tiles is that they are optimized to run fluidly with your phone and not taking damage to battery life. It is awesome to see your phone come to life right in front of you!
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| Windows 8 Beta |
Metro UI
It is easy to see things at a glance, like the weather. It is nice to see a change in what we are expected to see. The Xbox 360 dashboard is so elegant and is light-year's ahead of its Sony counterpart. Metro UI is so simplistic, but yet so much could be done with it! It is so nice and fresh to have something like this. I am personally tired of the old stale grids that have been showing up on phones. This will definitely change the game and how comfy we have become with interfaces. It is time to leave the old and jump into the new!
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| Live Tiles Constantly Updating |
Elegance
If you didn't know... Elegance is Metro's middle name. It goes... Metro "Elegance" UI. Metro flourishes where the iPhone doesn't, and where Android gets clunky. Microsoft did with "widgets" what Google wanted to accomplish but wasn't able to. This easy to look at interface is very elegant and will sway the hardest iFans over in no time! The beauty of this interface just cannot be explained! It has to be witnessed in person. Even though it pulls so much data the Operating System has been carefully optimized to not kill battery! You get a state of the art looking phone with the battery life to tag along.
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| Live Tiles Either Flip |
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The great thing about the elegance is that it carries over to the apps. If you compare the Android/iPhone app to the Windows Phone 7 app you will be blown away! You will ask, "Why doesn't our apps look like that?" Metro UI just adds so much that the iPhone will never show (unless Tim Cook decides to move away from the bland interface). It adds to what Android has been doing but removes all the clunk and adds elegance to it. Of course, there are always some downfalls to everything new... And that will be covered on the next post.
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| Left to Right: iPod Touch, HTC Arrive WP7, Evo 3D |
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Special thanks to Ricky Gonzalez, Henry Gonzalez, and Abby Vallejo for letting me photograph their mobile devices in action.
