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met2art
09/02/09

In reply to Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Official, Runs Windows Mobile 6.5
That's a pretty sweet looking phone, and some very nice specs, too. Shame they had to go and cheapen it with WinMo. You can throw all the pretty interfaces you want on it, but that's still just the OS equivalent of wood-grain veneer on cheap particle board. When you stress it, it'll show its quality.
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TheSonOfKrypton
09/02/09

@met2art: Win!
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Beastage
09/02/09

@met2art: Oh wise one, please explain if you can...I doubt you can and if you dare to bring issues from days of old, I'll slap you till you faint.
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met2art
09/03/09

@Beastage: Windows Mobile has strengths, but it has many more weaknesses. Most of these stem from a lack of cohesive standards. At the very basic level, extensive issues with color depth, screen solution and processor speeds create huge issues with app support, as well as cohesive user experience with the underlying OS. Couple that with issues of reliability of independant APIs and you have a recipe for trouble. Coding has been, and continues to be, a problematic issue for developers. In order to provide the broadest level of compatibility a developer needs to include so much bloat as to make the app unwieldy and prone to error. Furthermore, the lack of standardizationin on the WinMo/hardware level further complicate issues. In and of itself, WinMo does some neat things, but it gets stressed easily. More recent incarnations fare slightly better, but that's mostly due to having more memory and processor power thrown at it as opposed to being a more stable product. Whatever your feelings on the matter may be, as someone involved with app development, I can say that WinMo has proven to be far more trouble than it's worth. It has its niches (enterprise level scalability), but it's certainly not innately user or developer friendly. The fact that it needs a slick "skin" in order to feel good is a bad sign, and until MS irons out issues with hardware variances that require coders to study reams of manufacturer specs, it won't ever begin to rival the iPhone OS, Android or Symbian.

Also, slap till I faint? What are you, 12?
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TonyWonder
09/02/09

In reply to Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Official, Runs Windows Mobile 6.5
imagine that thing running the iPhone OS? Giz should run a poll...see how many people would enjoy a physical keyboard on the iPhone or am I the only one?
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met2art
09/02/09

@TonyWonder: You are, most likely, offically on Steve Jobs' legendary "List" now. I'd lay low, if I were you, ya know?
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TonyWonder
09/02/09

@met2art:

Thanks for the heads up. I'll stay away from all handicap parking spots in the tri-state area.
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guineapirate
07/21/09

In reply to Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Poses Coyly For More Glamor Shots
Did the X1 just flop when it came out? Too expensive? I don't even remember. Besides that, why do phone manufacturers still think landscape keyboards are a good idea. Not a single one of the most popular phones on the market right now have one. I just... don't... know...
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tande04
07/21/09

@guineapirate: That was part of the problem (and continues to be the problem) no one really knew when it came out. Sony had hyped it so far before releasing it that by the time they did release it (unlocked only, not on a carrier) no one really cared when it came out.

And I'd say that landscape keyboards are still very much a good idea. The G1 still has one. Unless you don't consider it a popular phone.
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
06/11/09

In reply to More Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Pictures Surface, Show Windows Mobile 6.5, Strange New Keyboard
Is that little 1 superscript next to Text on the second photo how they display how many texts you've gotten? It almost looks like a superscript they use to refer to some small print.
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John Herrman
06/11/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Yeah, that's how it'll look. I know what you mean though--I half expect to scroll down and see a menu item that says "nope, just kidding about that text, loser."
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Heliophage
06/11/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: It works well. And texts (though I'm not sure if this is stock, or just in my cooked version) are branched like IM windows. So, instead of going to a page full of texts, you go to a page of "conversations," each one listing the texts made between each other like an instant messenger.

I like it.
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Daniel Parmelee
06/07/09

In reply to Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Specs Leaked and Laid Bare
The more and more I read about the Xperia phones the more I ask, "how is this NOT an iPhone competitor".
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AqueousBeef
06/07/09

@Daniel Parmelee: Agreed, probably a lack of marketing/carrier subsidies... Also, that keyboard looks so damn functional, I just wanna text all day on that bad boy.
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