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Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. Which is more than any windows phone 7 owner can hope for. Their support for handsets really is commendable. Only one thing required…just get our phones to work with Cyanogen! Oh, and then they hire the main guy from Cyanogen to come work for them!
This is a company that truly gets it! Maybe Microsoft should learn from their example…. I somehow think an up vote here might have been more worthwhile than my comment on the above post. Actually playsforsure was a hit but then Ballmer showed what an incompetent CEO he was by slaughtering a success to push his own iPod ripoff, but before the Zune there were several sites selling monthly subscriptions that were quite popular.
Most of those old players had a setting buried in the options, I still use my 4Gb Sandisk E series in Win 7 and it recognizes and loads just fine.
WMP 12 will even auto-transcode to my preferred bitrate for the device without me having to tell it beyond when i initially plugged it in. Works just fine, not a bit of trouble and it was a PFS device too. As for TFA…sigh, is anyone surprised? Boy I bet Nokia is really regretting that deal now huh? I use my phone for playing music, these days. Copy and paste the files onto the SD card, and like magic, the Android media player finds them.
Yeah, I remember all that, and I remember how mind boggling stupid I thought Microsoft was for killing that market and setting back the future of subscription audio for years…..
Past performance will eventually get you every time, which is why it is always a good idea to treat your customers well. My god, but how the input box fights with me on my tablet! When he drove a stake in PFS there were several sites bringing in millions that MSFT was getting a cut of every quarter and for those that wanted new music constantly it was the cheapest thing going.
PFS was a winner, now what do they have? Nothing, Zune flopped just like everyone knew it would and now Amazon and Apple own the market. WP7 was stillborn and never really lived.
Sure, a few bloggers loved playing with the phones for a few minutes, but in the real world nearly nobody bought one only people I know who have one got them really really cheap because vendors needed to clear out inventory. Here at OSnews there will be a few people who have one, but this is a really special part of the real world. I agree. Other than that I almost never see them in the wild. The only thing I see are Blackberries yes, they are still quite popular here in our country , iOS or Android.
Seems like Windows Phone and Windows 8 are both going to be a major fail. I would never buy or even install Windows 8 with Metro and I would never ever consider buying a Windows Phone or tablet. Microsoft really missed the boat with their phone OS years and years ago. I own one, I know 3 other people with WP7 phones and I see them floating around relatively often in the public. How long have you been at Microsoft? Come on, I was having a bit of fun with you, thats all.
Heh, I wouldnt be surprised :p I usually dont comment on many forums. I do it on OSN out of habit, lol. Point out that win 8 is gonna fail on any mainstream or even some of the geek sites like slashdot and watch as just like the sunrise they come. Who talks like that? How Desktop agnostic is Windows Phone 7? Does it mount as a USB drive?
Are the music files sanely stored with the same file names before you transferred, or do they end up with random numerical names? That is the most annoying part for me but it really hasnt been an issue. I run win7 on my desktop for various reasons games, etc and I occasionally sync my phone to it. WP7 uses MTP, iirc, so it can, in theory, sync with other programs. None of this matters to me, though, because I have a tablet that I use for everything and my phone is… a phone and light internet terminal.
Well, MTP is kinda supported in Linux with libmtp. There are also some androids that have MTP support. Sounds like its going to be the future there. Yeah, I dont get that. Elop was a visionary when he talked about Nokia using a burning platform. He was actually talking about WP7. Then they have their Nokia division run adverts on TV claiming that everyone who was using a mobile phone was a sucker and an idiot paying to do beta testing for the Lumia What about the bashing from Apple?
Remember the PC guy and Mac guy? Remember how Apple make fun on Windows users? I was so excited that I would have the latest and greatest and would not have to invest in another device. Low and behold, after the upgrade, the device became almost unusable. It just could not handle the new functionality. I'm running a first gen Focus and almost two years later it is still the best mobile experience I have ever had. I do not expect that this device will continue to get upgrades. I do expect that new devices will have more functionality added to accomodate added features to the OS and at some point if I want to take advantage of the new features, I will have to upgrade.
The rumor reported on last week stated that Windows Phone 8 would not be available for current phones due to hardware requirements that phones on the market today could not match. It stated that Apollo will require a dual-core processor and a higher resolution screen in order for it to receive the upgrade.
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