Oh, Microsoft, you were doing so, so well. You won me over, as soon as you announced Windows Phone 7 Series, you brought something shiny and new to the table, and you seriously impressed me. You showed off Xbox Live integration, and I bowed down at how awesome you were making the new OS. And then, you told us that Windows Phone 7 Series won’t have true multitasking, support for memory cards, and copy/paste, and all the faith you’d built up went bye-byes.
Honestly, I gave the iPhone hell for not having copy & paste, did you really think I’d let you off the hook for doing the exact same thing?
Now, I’ll be fair to Microsoft. According to IntoMobile, they say that copy & paste is only missing from this first release, implying it be seen in later builds. If that’s the case, then fair enough, but they really need to get it sorted out sooner, rather than later, because 7 Series is basically their big chance to give the competition a shoeing, and steal back the market share they’ve lost. They won’t do that if 7 Series isn’t the absolute best it can be, especially if the features it’s missing are things we take for granted, even on feature phones!
However, you have to wonder whether that is the case, because when they unveiled the Office features in Windows Phone 7 Series, they went so far as to say that people don’t want copy & paste, and instead, only use the phone to view documents, and not edit them. I’d love to see the research that suggests that, because I know at least one person (which would be me) who does want copy & paste. Of course, it’s not just about the lack of that one feature. What about memory cards? Microsoft have said it won’t support swappable memory cards, which is, again, something I consider to be bleedin’ stupid. Why can’t we use our own memory cards? Can’t we be trusted?
I can understand Microsoft blocking third party interfaces from sitting on top of Windows Phone 7 Series, to keep a consistent experience across phones, but really, why have they got such a thing against us being able to change our own memory cards? It’s things like this that have got current Windows Mobile power users up in arms, and I’ll be honest, I agree. The ability to fiddle, and install whatever I want, are two of the things I really love about Windows Mobile. I miss them a lot in 7 Series, so I suspect that I will be getting the HTC HD2 after all, because it’s everything I want in a phone.
And at the minute, despite having Xbox Live integration, Windows Phone 7 Series feels somewhat lacking to me. But hey, they may have got it up to the point where I’ll adopt it, after my contract on the HD2 runs out (yes, I’ve decided I’ll be getting one in the next couple of months).
Until then, if I got 7 Series when it first comes out, I’d be too annoyed about the things it doesn’t yet support…
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So, Palm. They staged a comeback in 2009, and they did so well that I even called it (along with Motorola) the joint comeback of the year. They had the opportunity there to turn the mobile world on its head, thanks to that brilliant, space-age, super whizzy WebOS interface. It’s just a shame that they so clearly haven’t. According to 
Ah, here we go, the plot thickens. A few days ago, I reported that Apple have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against HTC, which calls out pretty much every phone in their portfolio. And you’ll recall that I did a bit of thinking out loud, and wondered why such a thing as “scrolling through lists on a screen” is even patentable at all, before going on to say that in my opinion, the patent system is hopelessly boned.
I fancied a bit of a change, today, since I’ve been doing not much on this blog recently, other than saying “ooh look, Windows Phone 7 Series, shiny” and “booooo, Windows Phone 7 Series, no copy paste, bad Microsoft”. In other words, I’ve been pretty much obsessed with Windows Phone 7 Series, because frankly, despite the disappointment of the latest news to appear (no copy paste, what are they thinking?), I do still like 


Normal procedure for the naming of a phone, if one were to exercise logic, would seem to be this: if you’re going to use a name for a phone, and possibly carry it over to a whole series of phones, it might be an idea to wait until you own the trademark on the name, before, y’know, using it. At least, that’s what I’d be inclined to think, anyway. Apparently, though, that logic doesn’t apply if you’re Google. Y’see, according to 


Well, they’ve been saying since the launch that they’d be unveiling more details ‘at MIX’, and true to their word, Microsoft are there with the good stuff. Or, at least, they will be throughout the rest of the day; but, y’know, time differences and all that, so I’m going to do the main coverage of MIX tomorrow, after they’ve unveiled everything. Otherwise I’ll be here all night.
If you remember, I said, when it was still firmly in the realm of rumour, that the Nexus One would cause problems for other manufacturers, if Google actually released it themselves. Y’know, ‘cos it’s the actual Googlephone, so people might see that, and think it’s better than any other Android phone out there. You may also remember that I name-checked one upcoming phone, in particular: the