Windows Phone 7could be amazing . It ’s not , yet . Right now , it ’s a good scratch . This is what ’s broken , and what Microsoft has to do to make it truly awing .
https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-review-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-have-o-5668738
1. Multitasking for third-party apps—or at least fix the damn resume time
Windows Phone 7 does n’t have multitasking for third - political party apps , even though every other major smartphone OS out there does . That ’s already borderline unacceptable for some people , but what made it nearly tolerable on the iPhone was relatively quick app launches , persistently saved data and dissipated resumes . So far , the grip is assorted . If you shut away the sound and right away unlock it , with most apps right now , you ’ll be score by a Windows Phone “ summarize … ” cover , and then you ’ll often have to hold off for the whole goddamn app to reload , whether it ’s chirrup or a secret plan that took you a arcminute to get going in the first position ( Rocket Riot , I ’m looking at you ) .
The most obvious , good result is to get multitasking for third - party apps onto the phone as fast as possible , using a modellike iOS 4 ’s circumscribed multitasking . In the meantime , app freight time need to get quicker , and resuming apps needs to take less meter than my gramps ’s funeral . This is potential , and it ’s in app developers ’ hands to ready it . “ It ’s in the first place an implementation thing , ” says Windows Phone ’s Greg Sullivan , though he ’s prompt to say the rap “ is still on us ” for not providing the right steering for developer on how to come back from “ tombstoning , ” which is Microsoft ’s fun Bible for app going torpid .
https://gizmodo.com/how-multitasking-works-in-the-new-iphone-os-4-0-5512656
2. Make Xbox live awesomer
earn Xbox alive accomplishment on the lav ? awe-inspiring . Being able to play online multiplayer games with my other Xbox Live champion and make achievements while on the toilet ? That would be even awesomer . Right now , Windows Phone ’s link to Xbox Live is only average satisfying , but the potential drop for awful thing is orb - explodingly obvious . Full - on Xbox Live multiplayer . Xbox Live Arcade plot that you start toy on your Xbox and then pick up waiting in line at Starbucks , like Castlevania : Symphony of the Night . Earning items in a Fable Windows Phone game to use in Fable IV . sincerely ubiquitous Xbox play , so even the most atrophied addicts can leave the household and still get their biz on . Windows Phone should be the portable Xbox . ( And it should be a remote for your Xbox too . )
3. Embrace the Zune cloud
ZunePass is thoroughly first-class . you could mind to fundamentally everything in Zune ’s catalog as much as you require . And with Windows Phone 7 , you may pullulate all of that over the air . But it ’s clear that the Zune app for WP7 was n’t really designed with “ jukebox in the sky ” as a basal procedure . You ca n’t create playlists for streaming on the fly front . You ca n’t line up up a foresighted list of stuff and nonsense to stream from multiple artists or record album without peachy difficulty . ( The “ add together to Now Playing ” is awkward , and one ill-timed pat on a Sung can nuke the inclination . ) There ’s no actual history for pour vocal , beyond your most recent call . You ca n’t mix local and streaming content . You ca n’t download ZunePass Sung dynasty over the air . ( Update : you may download OTA , but it ’s shroud by a farseeing - closet gesture that sometimes does n’t show the option on the first effort . ) The seafaring in universal for streaming content is tricker than for euphony that ’s stored directly on your sound .
Make Zune the amazing stream app and service it should be , and really worth that $ 15 a month subscription , on top of the $ 30 / month data fee and $ 5 a calendar month for Xbox Live . Oh , and a built - in Shazam - alike service that would auto - download songs would be baller .
4. Make Zune, Xbox Live and Windows Phone more integrated
If you corrupt a Windows Phone app on your phone , it ’s piece onto your phone visor by default . If you buy it from the Zune desktop client , it ’s charged to the same credit card as your Zune account . Same with Xbox Live games on Windows Phone . Xbox Live and ZunePass are two totally different subscription . But you’re able to buy things using Microsoft points on your actual Xbox or in the Zune screen background app ( and the point are shared between your Zune and Xbox account ) . Theoretically , this is all tie together by your Live account . So why is it a disjointed mess than makes the iTunes ID face like a model of efficiency ?
5. Fix the Marketplace
Even with just 1,000 apps , the Marketplace can be frustrative to navigate . It houses three sorta separate but sorta unified storefront — Zune for medicine and videos , games ( the distinction between Xbox Live and non - Xbox Live game is muddied ) , and the overall App Marketplace . Sometimes you ’re whisk aside to a different store , and sometimes you ’re not . It ’s conceptually messy .
It ’s hard than it should be to find apps on the earphone right now , even with just 1,000 . How ’s it going to be when there ’s 10,000 ?
6. A non-stupid YouTube app
Here ’s how watching YouTube currently bring on Windows Phone : You touch the YouTube app tile . It launches Internet Explorer , which pass away to YouTube ’s mobile internet site . You find the video you need . ( Which wo n’t be there half the fourth dimension . ) You touch it . The phone ’s television instrumentalist opens , which is in fact part of the Zune euphony + videos hub .
This . Is . unintelligent .
And you ’re pretty much hosed on service like Vimeo , at least until Flash 10.1 saunters its direction over .
7. Re-organize Live.com
Windows Phone does a lot of things really right when it comes to go the swarm and local storage . pic are instantly uploaded to SkyDrive or Facebook . liaison synchronise in from Facebook or Google . Free incur - your - earphone serving . But the screen background side of things , Live.com , is still sort of crude . It needs to be clean . silky . It should feel like Windows Phone . ( Or Kin . )
https://gizmodo.com/how-a-silly-phone-for-teens-reveals-microsofts-plan-for-5547676
8. Integrate Twitter and Flickr too
The native Twitter app is really good , when it ’s not taking 10 years to resume . And while having tangency pulled in from Facebook is a courteous get-go , the People Hub should go all the way with full Twitter , Flickr and other armed service desegregate into the core .
9. Universal search and app organization
It ’s kind of unbelievable that the maker of the secondly biggest hunting engine in the US — and who has search insert into the headphone all over the place — doesn’t have world-wide search to dig up apps , emails , texts or whatever .
A simple scrolling list of apps is fine when you ’ve got like 12 . Not when you ’ve got 50 . Or 80 . Either let us devise them by category , or use alphabetical jump , like the Zune diligence .
10. Update. A lot. And quickly.
Do you call back how truly shitty Android was two days ago , when it launched ? Can you consider Android 2.2 is what it looks like now ? particularly when you equate how much iPhone evolve in the same period ? ( A slew , but Android ’s gone right smart further , since it had to come from waaaaayyyyyy behind . ) Guess what ? Windows Phone is the one immure now . It ’s the one missing stuff and nonsense that iPhone , Android , WebOS , even BlackBerry and Symbian have . So Microsoft need to play like Google . tight , constant updates , every couple of calendar month until it ’s catch up or pass everybody else . You ’ve got the resources . apply them . ( I ’d bet $ 20 there were far fewer people working on Android than on Windows Phone . ) Do n’t blow this .
Do n’t get me wrong . Windows Phone is great . It ’s fresh , and it ’s really joyful to use , which is 50 percent of phone to me . But I bang it could be , and should be , so much in effect .
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