Conan143
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I have been wondering the build they showed us in March by Joe is more advanced and has all the features such as outlook,office....they should have released this build.Waitin for office universal apps to try out.
I have been wondering the build they showed us in March by Joe is more advanced and has all the features such as outlook,office....they should have released this build.Waitin for office universal apps to try out.
It could have been a less-advanced build... features may have been jettisoned as the development continued, and may be re-included later on.I have been wondering the build they showed us in March by Joe is more advanced and has all the features such as outlook,office....they should have released this build.Waitin for office universal apps to try out.
I beg to differ. When you really stop and analyze it, the iPhone is nothing but an app launcher.
Let me explain before I get skewered.
To me, the definition of a smartphone is what it was a decade ago when they became the new norm: the marriage of a cell phone and a PDA. The Palm Tungstens of the time allowed mobile pros to bang out emails, set up meetings in their calendars, edit Office documents, etc. Then you would sync all your tasks with your PC and send to whomever OR, use your phone as modem (PAM) and send from anywhere.Smartphones were developed to carry just one device.
As a stand-alone device, the iPhone is useless without an internet connection. There's no file manager to store your info. There's no place to save your edited docs since the apps are internet-dependent. You can't even save your work to external storage because Apple has never seen fit to grace their devices with SD storage. Heck, you can't even do a bluetooth file transfer to a PC because Apple devices only do BT FTP with other iOS devices. Can't save your files via USB to your computer because iOS doesn't support USB Mass Storage. No can do with NFC either.
So you see, apps aren't what defines a smartphone. Take away internet connectivity and what can you do with your device? With WP, a heck of a lot more than with iOS and about the same as Android.
Compared to the previous build, Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones build 10051 changes a lot. It's clearly an operating system related to Windows Phone 8.1, but the details are all very different. It feels very early. I found many apps crashed or were glitchy, and the list of known problems includes some nasty gotchas such as Internet Sharing breaking Wi-Fi connectivity in some situations. With the exception of the new Maps app, a lot of the modifications feel like they're laying the ground work for progress, but they're not yet solid improvements over what we have today in Windows Phone 8.1. Outlook Mail, for example, has the nice swipe-to-delete and a much more capable message composer, but it gives up useful pinning and inbox filtering capabilities.
There's also a great deal of interface inconsistency. While the new ribbons, for example, work well, the proliferation of top-mounted hamburger menus is a major regression compared to Windows Phone 8.1. Parts of the operating system do still have that Windows Phone thoughtfulness, but it's much less apparent, with many pieces feeling like warmed over generic Android apps. Microsoft has a lot of work ahead of it if it's to make this into a robust, reliable phone platform, and even more if it's to make it a phone platform that looks and feels coherent.
That's them Android calculators. Don't blame the users.
I beg to differ. When you really stop and analyze it, the iPhone is nothing but an app launcher.
Let me explain before I get skewered.
To me, the definition of a smartphone is what it was a decade ago when they became the new norm: the marriage of a cell phone and a PDA. The Palm Tungstens of the time allowed mobile pros to bang out emails, set up meetings in their calendars, edit Office documents, etc. Then you would sync all your tasks with your PC and send to whomever OR, use your phone as modem (PAM) and send from anywhere.Smartphones were developed to carry just one device.
As a stand-alone device, the iPhone is useless without an internet connection. There's no file manager to store your info. There's no place to save your edited docs since the apps are internet-dependent. You can't even save your work to external storage because Apple has never seen fit to grace their devices with SD storage. Heck, you can't even do a bluetooth file transfer to a PC because Apple devices only do BT FTP with other iOS devices. Can't save your files via USB to your computer because iOS doesn't support USB Mass Storage. No can do with NFC either.
So you see, apps aren't what defines a smartphone. Take away internet connectivity and what can you do with your device? With WP, a heck of a lot more than with iOS and about the same as Android.
Took me a while but I did the math and the answer is ...I'll see all you boys and girls soon on the imore and android central forums.
if apps dont define a smart phone, then what is the point of app numbers.
You're trapped in the 90s-100s. Nowadays internet is everything.I beg to differ. When you really stop and analyze it, the iPhone is nothing but an app launcher.
Let me explain before I get skewered.
To me, the definition of a smartphone is what it was a decade ago when they became the new norm: the marriage of a cell phone and a PDA. The Palm Tungstens of the time allowed mobile pros to bang out emails, set up meetings in their calendars, edit Office documents, etc. Then you would sync all your tasks with your PC and send to whomever OR, use your phone as modem (PAM) and send from anywhere.Smartphones were developed to carry just one device.
As a stand-alone device, the iPhone is useless without an internet connection. There's no file manager to store your info. There's no place to save your edited docs since the apps are internet-dependent. You can't even save your work to external storage because Apple has never seen fit to grace their devices with SD storage. Heck, you can't even do a bluetooth file transfer to a PC because Apple devices only do BT FTP with other iOS devices. Can't save your files via USB to your computer because iOS doesn't support USB Mass Storage. No can do with NFC either.
So you see, apps aren't what defines a smartphone. Take away internet connectivity and what can you do with your device? With WP, a heck of a lot more than with iOS and about the same as Android.
You're trapped in the 90s-100s. Nowadays internet is everything.
Not!
Maybe CrackBerry.
The internet is not everywhere, consistent and constant. It isn't always fast and cheap. It isn't always free.
The people who think the internet is everything, everywhere and cheap are cloistered.
To do "real work" on-demand, at anytime needed, it must be possible to work without the internet and sync to it when you can. Internet dependant Apps can not do this work.
The internet is not everywhere, consistent and constant. It isn't always fast and cheap. It isn't always free.
The people who think the internet is everything, everywhere and cheap are cloistered.
To do "real work" on-demand, at anytime needed, it must be possible to work without the internet and sync to it when you can. Internet dependant Apps can not do this work.
You are running out of options my friend.
Or worked in the Las Vegas Strip casino.Those who think the internet is everywhere have never worked inside a hospital. Have never worked on a construction site of any type. Have never worked in an underground facility. Have never worked near a utility company and certainly have never been in a rural area.