This week marks the week when Windows Phone was officially released in Europe last year. The platform has turned one and boy what a year it has been! We've gone through two updates since launch, NoDo and Mango, and the future looks bright with Nokia coming on board.
It's been a year, how do you think Windows Phone has done so far, and what are you looking forward to most next year? Happy Birthday Windows Phone. Feel like reliving some memories? Click here to see our coverage a year ago of the Windows phone 7 launch.
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Happy Birthday Windows Phone :p
Happy bday WP7! Hopefully you'll see many more.
It is really being a year? I swear it was november.
It was october in Europe and Novemebr in the US.
Happy bday WP7! I was at my T-mobile store on launch day getting my hd7. It was great day leaving punk android! Today Im as happy as I was when I got it even more so! Looking foward to Nokia bringing some heat!!
HBD Windows Phone!! Can someone make a comparative of Android vs WP7 in the first year? Thanks
I think windows phone has done very good for itself. We aren't perfect yet but we are better then most were in one year. I think that the focus S should have been released on more then one carrier just like the galaxy 2. They need to put most phones across most carriers. It makes no sense how at&t has the focus s, focus flash, and the titan. Hopefully tmobile users and can see some of these phones. I just pray that the Nokia searay/Lumina comes out for something else other than at&t. The radar isn't enough to hold people on tmobile who want a flagship device. Lets not forget that they need to step the advertising up a bit but it seems like they are starting to do that already so lets just wait a bit. Other then that this is one of the most beautiful and stable OS in the world.
Happy Birthday. I think after Mango WP7 has become at least equal to Android and iOS in terms of functionality, and has easily surpassed Android in terms of usability, polish, stability, etc. It is perhaps on par with iOS, but of course there are some other things they need to work on. Marketing is the biggest thing lacking, with many store reps not even knowing that WP7 is any different from windows mobile 6.5 (seriously, it's very sad). Hopefully with windows 8 (which I've been playing around with) people will go for WP7 a bit more. In any case, there are alot of things to look forward to.
I'm afraid people won't go for WP7 after using Windows 8 - they will go for WP8 :-D
Hahahaha well said... I'm a little worried about the naming convention there, considering that the number after the "Windows phone" might change. I think in the end they will just call it "Windows Phone", except that it will be version 7 or 8. We'll see soon enough.
Total **** Honestly The N9 with Meego looked incredible. **** you Microsoft and your fisherprice UI. Nokia built a beautiful, intuitive, feature packed OS in house and they threw it all away. I genuinely hope Windows Phone continues to tank. If I wanted a locked down OS I'd get an iPhone (which also has WAY better specs than the **** Titan and Focus S) Android 4.0 destroys this ****
Hahaha Hes mad^^
Yes.
I'm actually a little confused as to why you're here in the first place. Having been using WP7 for quite a while (and having used both iphone and Android before) I can honestly say that it is the sleekest, smoothest, and most stable UI to date. Also having seen the Meego reviews that have come out recently, as well as the OS in action, I really don't think Meego was as smooth, snappy, or functional as WP7. It might have some updated animations and app drawers, but overall it really would never have had the consistency of WP7 between devices, and the apps were hard to come by even before Nokia announced their plans.As for the "fisherprice UI", have you seen touchwiz? What about iOS itself? The fake leather and wood of iOS is downright dated, and it reminds alot of people more of a toy than a smartphone. Also, the Titan's camera was reviewed, and it turned out to be sharper and better than the iphones (though they are both very good). Android 4.0 really doesn't add anything new other than some nice animations and functionality already present in other phones. Besides, all of the android phones that just came out are already outdated because of 4.0 since they have hardware buttons. I would personally love to read your response to this. Preferably an educated one.
Your entire response was anecdotal. Out of the box the N9 had more features than WP7 did. Meego could have been a real threat to Android, Linux is the way forward. ICS is much faster than Mango, and without all the crappy time concealing transitions between everything. The new hero device for WP7 is the Titan, which is a Desire HD with a bigger (pixelated) screen. Big friggen whoop.And hardware buttons mean NOTHING. The Nexus S is getting ICS and it has them. trololololol
Out of the box? WP7 has integrated facebook and windows live chat, integrated music recognition, integrated visual recognition (bing vision), integrated facebook feeds, integrated twitter functionality, free out of the box turn by turn navigation, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. If linux were really the way forward, it would have more than 1-5% of the desktop market share. And to be fair the ICS we saw was running on a phone with a dual core processor, with a higher clock speed than the single core processors currently running WP7. Yet the WP7 runs as smoothly as the ICS phone we saw, if not more so. And as for the Titan, it is one of many phones to be released in the coming weeks. And as for the screen resolution, if that is really such a problem, then by all means use something else. The Nokia Meego phone you are so in love with had exactly the same resolution as every windows phone out right now.
Google apps cover every single one of the things you mentioned (which come built in to the Galaxy Nexus) Linux has a 55% marketshare in mobile space, unlike the **** that WP7 is based off.
The galaxy nexus? I thought you had been talking about Meego regarding built in apps... And Android has not only been around much longer than WP7, but there are MANY more phones running android that are coming out. Samsung has released 1 WP7 in the past year, but countless android phones. Naturally this is to meet the growing demand, but sometimes I wonder why there is so much demand to begin with. I pretty much know for a fact that it isn't because Android is a great OS. Obviously android has some advantages, but by far up to this point it has always been more laggy, unstable, slow, and generally unattractive. Sadly, the people who really determine what people buy are the sales representatives. And not a single one that I have spoken to knows WP7 from windows mobile 6.5. There is your reason.Anyways, if you love the N9 so much then go buy one. It looks really sharp and the software seems great.
I really appreciate you way to respond without being insultant, that's really nice of you.
I try :)
Agreed. Not sure why running riot came to a Windows Phone web site to pick a fight, but you handled it well. Mr. riot apparently hasn't had the pleasure of the facts as to why MeeGo, which had great potential, was droped by Nokia. Neither it or Symbian had any real direction internally in Nokia, and the infighting on the two systems future was huge. The software R&D on the two systems were eating the profits alive, and the feature phones sales that made Nokia #1 were dropping quickly as inexpensive smartphones became more and more popular. Yes, MeeGo was a fantastic looking OS, but Nokia was bleeding profits and out of money in the war chest. WP was a great option for them, giving Nokia freedom to develop the OS that has not been given to other handset makers. By adopting WP, Nokia started saving money by being able to focus on developing the hardware side of the company with a partner taking care of the software side. Nokia has taken a step back to get two ahead. MeeGo just did not have enough backing to become what it could have been.
Albeit with lag, freeze, ugliness, impracticality and the lot.
Go away troll.Have "fun" with your grid-of-icons OS of choice and let us use something better.
Excuse me, are you a little upset? Yea WP7 may still not be a full adult yet. But man it's one heck of a powerful youngster,as Nokia and there wonderful in house made OS.yes it was nice, and yes Nokia tossed more money into it than apple or MS did for there OS yet it could not compete.I was time for them to cut there losses and do the right thing. which they did. Now come back and talk to use about Nokia and WP this time next year,, buzzzzzzzzz
All your profits are belong to us..... $5 to MS for every Android phone....oh yeah !....and Meego was a PoS nearly 4 years in the making, that even its own developers don't even want to support.....good luck with that !Sounds like we got a digruntled Nokia engineer on board kids...
The N9 technically has Maemo 6 on it and not MeeGo. The reason - MeeGo has been dropped by pretty much everyone and wasn't anywhere near ready. The N9 is nice just like the N900, N810, N800, 770 were. The problem is 95% of the population will not know it exists and even if they did they are going to wonder - "where are all the apps"? They'll go to their bank web page and see apps for Android, iOS and potentially WP7 but nothing for the N9. Like past Maemo based devices it will get a lot of Linux ports, but most devs won't polish the apps for the device. This is one area where WP7 is beating Android. A lot of devs want to make their apps metro inspired. Which makes the entire experience more consistent.
Do you just come here to troll? Coz we have reasons why we went for the Windows Phone instead of your **** little iPhone... seriously stfu
i have had wm 6.5 and now with WM7 and Mango it is like hand with glove, it just fits so right on my SSfocus. I cant wait for the SSfocus S or the Nokia lines coming out. it was so cool to show my co-worker the other day my SSF, she asked WOW whats that. i then turned to explain the live tile feature on my phone. Yes many have the Andriod or the Ios iphone, but only because the are the THING to have, try the WM7 phone and see for your self that it is the best phone on the market right now.
That is exactly right. People buy android because other people already have it. The iphone is actually a great phone, but most android phones are horribly slow and laggy. As has been mentioned many times, even the store reps have no idea what WP7 is. They all look at mine and say "Woah, THAT'S windows phone 7?!" How sad, I hope they get their act together. This OS deserves users.
Happy Birthday Windows Phone long live \0/
... and prosper!
Happy birthday!For me Windows Phone was born in March 2010 though (with first preview of DevTools :-)
Why are the android fanboys posting on here? Must be a good sign that the fanboys feel threatened. I'm all about wp7 and have never ever gone to or thought about going to an android site and complaining, since I in no way feel threatened. I'm sorry but using my friends phones before I had wp7 deterred me away from android. It is just so ugly with the grid icons and the OS is immensely fragmented and buggy. I had wm6.5 and I wanted a beautiful OS/UI and that's why I chose wp7 hands down after using iPhone and android. Android has been out for how many years? Wp7 is just now hitting the 1 year mark and they've done this darn good so far? Can't wait to see how far wp7 gets when it has been out as long as Android. Fanboys seem to forget that android has been out much longer than wp7... Maybe that's why they feel threatened.Happy b'day wp7. Keep kicking a** baby!
Microsoft is choosing it's moves regarding software very carefully, and at the very least I admire their caution. They have alot of smart people working for them, and I like that we can tell by looking at their software. I'm actually really excited to see what will come of all this. It has the potential to be pretty significant.
I'll wait until november to bake a cake.
And typically Microsoft doesnt even make a mention of this anywhere. However turn on your Xbox and there's an ad about the upcoming 1 year anniversary of Kinect. Tells you where their priorities are.
Sweet, happy birthday WP7, hopefully some good deals are coming our way.
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In Decemember 2010, I wandered into my local AT&T store and made them activate a LG Quantum for me to look at. I was just starting to do research for my wife and I so we could get really good devices at out next contract. True to form, the salespeople were showing me iPhone's and Androids, when I finally got them to help me. I played with the LG for over an hour, with a salesman and the Manager hanging out and learning right along with me. Not just one, but three fans were born that day. I am truly excited for WP, and WP8 will only bring better along with it on it's second B-Day. Right now, I just want a Mango in every carrier and a sales person in every store willing to support it for it's present.
Yeah, I work at a Walmart, and we just stopped carrying Windows Phones. I asked the Connection Center guy why, and he was like, "Because they're kinda... old." I responded, "Old? They came out (in Canada) less than a year ago!"He blinked a couple of times, and said, "Wait, what are you talking about?"I showed him my phone. He said, "THIS is the new Windows Phone? Damn."
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