Looks like Nokia's first Windows Phone has been leaked by the CEO no less. It looks a lot like the recently announced N9, but no word on what the internal specs are. It will have to blow the current generation of phones out of the water for me to give up the Super AMOLED screen on my Focus.
i didn't see any windows buttons. In the video he didn't actually turn it on.
Who knows
Full video can be found here:
http://www.technet.hu/telefon/20110624/exkluziv_video_elop_bemutatja_az_elso_windowsos_nokiat/
vetvito said:
i didn't see any windows buttons. In the video he didn't actually turn it on.
Who knows
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yeah the lack of front 3 buttons was what I was wondering about as well.
Hmm can't get the full video to load, but it's about time we get a peak of a Nokia WP7 phone. Can't wait!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M1wC0pS_No
Here you go, enjoy
So does anyone know if this would work on Sprint if it had the same quadband CDMA radios as the meego version? Because I would buy this immediately, if that were the case.
PS - In the long version he turns it on, and another guy comes out and demoes it.
Thanks for the links.
Looking at this unreleased phone, and looking at the already released HTC sensation 4g. All I can say is, Microsoft is in deep ****.
Deep, deep, deep ****. SMFH.
Microsoft is in a very poor situation with regard to WP7, trying to push a new OS to a market which isn't exactly dying for one, needing hundreds of phones and friendly distribution, but the video doesn't make it any worse.
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Why were they still recording when he asked everyone to switch off their camera?
Should be more coming as well.
but the here's my question....will it have a FF camera? that's the only thing I want in my next windows phone and well mango too
That's.... kinda ugly at first glance.
I don't particularly enjoy the Nx designs. Sad to see them sticking with it for wp7.
ALTHOUGH I do like the boxiness aspect. I think rounded edges are old school, boxiness is a good thing design-wise.
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I think rounded edges are old school, boxiness is a good thing design-wise.
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Or, you could say that rounded phones are a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Pulling a square-edged, boxy phone out of my pocket can be a real pain, but a phone that has nice rounded corners is not a problem at all.
And personally, boxy = ugly to me.
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Or, you could say that rounded phones are a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Pulling a square-edged, boxy phone out of my pocket can be a real pain, but a phone that has nice rounded corners is not a problem at all.
And personally, boxy = ugly to me.
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Hmm never thought of it that way. Would never have thought of that as I've never owned one without rounded edges.
sumdumdude said:
Looks like Nokia's first Windows Phone has been leaked by the CEO no less. It looks a lot like the recently announced N9, but no word on what the internal specs are. It will have to blow the current generation of phones out of the water for me to give up the Super AMOLED screen on my Focus.
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I like it. I like the N9 and think this model would make a good WP7 device.
vetvito said:
Thanks for the links.
Looking at this unreleased phone, and looking at the already released HTC sensation 4g. All I can say is, Microsoft is in deep ****.
Deep, deep, deep ****. SMFH.
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Yeah, the Sensation is aptly named. I would love to have one. But I can't see anything wrong with this WP7 Nokia device. Imagine it in some other colors.
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Those on screen buttons are nasty looking, I can see myself now always accidentally hitting them trying to play a game or something. plz bring something else Nokia, because that is not what I want at all
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Those on screen buttons are nasty looking, I can see myself now always accidentally hitting them trying to play a game or something. plz bring something else Nokia, because that is not what I want at all
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Since they are on-screen buttons, they can be minimized or disappear altogether during a game or open app. This would completely eliminate the accidental press of these buttons.
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Not much information at the moment, apart from the standard headphone jack, 5 megapixel camera and the usual three button configuration.
Video from the source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/27/exclusive-lgs-windows-phone-7-series-early-prototype-unveiled/
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The guy from Microsoft refused to answer a direct question: "Is the HD2 getting the upgrade?", his answer was "Come to MIX"
very ugly hd2 is the best
Cool ... but how big is the screen?
3.7" .... ?
It looks smaller ...
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very ugly hd2 is the best
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HD2 MAKES THIS LOOK LIKE A MOUSE... i believe hd2 will get upgrade
From what I see is that LG already has the Software..
and the HD2 looks 1000% times better!!!
The front reminds me of the enV Touch, but it's pretty nice overall. The keyboard is meh, not quite as nice as the TP2's, seems decent.
Nothing amazing design-wise, but we are still questionable with these specs.
What is that screen size though???
Unless my eyes are completely deceiving me, it really doesn't seem that big: 3.2", 3.4" maybe??
I don't recall a physical size minimum, and it is really not necessary.
Yes, the HD2 looks nicer, but it is a different style phone.
Remember we still have hardware choices with WinMo.
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HD2 MAKES THIS LOOK LIKE A MOUSE... i believe hd2 will get upgrade
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Didn't HTC say it was going to get the upgrade?
I love looking at all the new cell phones. I haven't liked LG because the quality hasn't been good in the past. HTC is my favorite and before them, HP.
I don't think I'd ever buy an LG product..it'll have to be HTC or nothing, hopefully I can just upgrade my TP2 (I know, I know, it may be too slow..but we'll see!) I'm surprised this has a keyboard..that is a must have for me and everyone I talk to says they are "out"..guess not!
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Didn't HTC say it was going to get the upgrade?
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Some grunt in their Russia tech support dept "announced" that a while back. HTC head office immediately issued a statement saying this was incorrect.
very simple phone (old styled)
He looks like as LG Monaco but the buttons are new(search,windows flag,back) maybe it is Monaco but created for wp7s?
actually i like the style and especially the keyboatd layout. curious about how the next htc wp7s phone will look like.
I'll be waiting on the Touch Pro3 or whatever they decide to call the next landscape slider.
and where can we download this leaked rom LOL .
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and where can we download this leaked rom LOL .
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Soon my friend, it will leak soon
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He looks like as LG Monaco but the buttons are new(search,windows flag,back) maybe it is Monaco but created for wp7s?
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Its actually interesting you say that, Windows Phone 7 Series may not be possible on the HD2 because of the actual button configuration.
Guys/Gals, please see post #28 via this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=637919&page=3
Let me know your thougts/opinions.
Thank you.
I don't like this phone too. It's typical LG-phone and there is nothing new in the phone.
It's really ugly. Can't wait for the first HTC WP7 phone (with a qwerty)
what is with WP7s and the words coming off the screen???? they are trying to be trend setters but it just looks tacky and unfinished!
Sadly, I won't get it til general availablity and I don't know which phone. Microsoft peeps are still being cagey with it. The guy wouldn't even let me take a pic of a LG WP7 device even though it's been all over the internet already. The only real new info I've gleaned is that they will support basic exchange policies like pin unlock and remote wipe. Still going to try and fenagle some more info out of them.
WTH? Congratulations!!
cool can i have it?
Congrats!.........
Depending on what they say, I might just get a HD2. The WP7 device is supposed to be general availability and they might make devices available before then and I'm not willing to wait.
niceeee
thats lucky and awesome!
Remember to colaborate with XDA and help WP7 become more awesome .
Windows 7 phone is dead before the official release
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Windows 7 phone is dead before the official release
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After having seen it in person, the whole OS is rather impressive. While it may not on paper be the #1 phone OS, it is rather good and will put up a good fight. Oh and they've only shown off around 70% of the OS's features. More positive info will come to light as we near launch.
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After having seen it in person, the whole OS is rather impressive.
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Did your opinion change for the better? I may be wrong, but I recall you were pretty negative about it.
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Oh and they've only shown off around 70% of the OS's features.
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Do you know this from seeing the features or is it what you think will happen?
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Did your opinion change for the better? I may be wrong, but I recall you were pretty negative about it.
Do you know this from seeing the features or is it what you think will happen?
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I think I've always been relatively positive about the new OS. While some of the new restrictions are annoyingly restrictive, I don't think it'll be a problem for us. In one of the sessions today they showed off how devs will be able to unlock phones and it was just a desktop app that talks to the store. I can easily see this app being modified to just not talk to the store but I'm betting there will need to be more done than this. So while I still wish MS would open up the dev platform more, I somewhat respect the decisions they've made and I don't think it will be hard for the rest of us to have phones we can do as we wish with.
It was stated earlier in the week by one of the members of the WP7 team that only 70-80% of the OS had been shown off up to this point. However, after going hands on with a device for a while today, I didn't find much that we haven't seen yet. The whole thing is fluid and is super intuitive. It really is a joy to use. So I'm not sure how much is left to unveil but it seems rather useable today. But none of the WP7 guys that I talked to are using it full time yet so that's kind of telling.
nice... congrats... HD2 is still better looking then any of the WP7 phones we've seen... the only one that beats it is the prototype images of HD3 made in photoshop lol... dell lightening comes close, but hw keyboard kills it as well... just get the HD2, then u'll have to option of running 6.5 or android (90% possible so far) and prolly even wp7 when it comes out since it conforms to all specs ...
Pics or it didn't happen!
Jeeze. Necro thread!
I ended up deciding to wait for a WP7 device. The HD2 they had was a european model and couldn't do 3G here. A smartphone without 3G is useless. So I wait til October like everyone else. But at least it will be free.
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nice... congrats... HD2 is still better looking then any of the WP7 phones we've seen... the only one that beats it is the prototype images of HD3 made in photoshop lol... dell lightening comes close, but hw keyboard kills it as well... just get the HD2, then u'll have to option of running 6.5 or android (90% possible so far) and prolly even wp7 when it comes out since it conforms to all specs ...
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Not all the specs, AFAIK the chipsets in the HD2 do not conform to all the hardware specs that Microsoft has made for Windows Phone 7 compatibility. Things like the hardware image scaler for example are not present in the HD2, nor is support for hardware acceleration of the VC-1 codec.
Saw this being discussed on another forum and thought people here might be interested in this.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/06/15/nokia-to-show-off-a-new-market-disrupting-device-on-june-21st/
You couple this upcoming announcement with the below tweet
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http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-blow-our-socks-off
I sure hope we see a big Nokia WP7 reveal next Tuesday.
I ready to have my socks blown off! We need some fast, powerful, beautiful phones for WP7. I'm sick of seeing nice hardware with a crappy OS. See Android.
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Looking forward to next Tuesday. Unless they really drop the ball, Nokia will be my next Windows Phone this Christmas .
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\We need some fast, powerful, beautiful phones for WP7.
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I'm not too concerned about powerful - but I do want it to use the new hardware, as it will be more battery efficient.
I just hope they dont do something stupid and reveal a meego device which I think there is a chance of them doing as Stephen Elop has said they will only announce a handset when its close to launch, and June seems to be a way off from Mango's Fall release.
An N8 quality phone with WP7 Mango running on it would blow my socks off. Or the concept phone with all the different colours would too.
Anything else less would merely them down, not blow them off.
I'm skeptical because "market disrupting" is what they have always called their non-Windows Phone research efforts. I have my doubts that we will see a Windows Phone on Tuesday, but we'll see.
I hope it isn't a smartphone priced $0 on contract . . . because it's not like we haven't see enough of those.
If its the size of the hd7 but with a good screen, I'm in.
I'm sure it wont be CDMA.....because Verizon sucks.
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If its the size of the hd7 but with a good screen, I'm in.
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just need a "candy bar" like HD7 with good screen , i am too... even i am having HD7 right now.
What I worry about is....
1)is it a meego handset?
2)the price of nokia wp7 handset.They have been losing market share for years,and they seldom or never adopt a Qualcomm or TI processor in their own handset....what they are using is processor from broadcom....
Therefore,do they got enough negoatiating power or bargaining power to get a lower price of processor from Qualcomm(bulk purchasing??who knows?this depends on how nokia judge the potential of wp7) and this same goes to the other parts as well...
Lets wait for next week and see the real show...
Market disruptive :
$99 no contract WP7 device
New meego device that is also cost effective.
Only things that could be market disruptive from Nokia.
what is needed big time i mean HUGEly big time with these wp7 devices is a memory card slot that users can swap around freely without cracking the damn device open.
give me a +1 someone
ps. i love the the htc hd7 so much i have 2..... just coz
vetvito said:
Market disruptive :
$99 no contract WP7 device
New meego device that is also cost effective.
Only things that could be market disruptive from Nokia.
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while a $100 phone would be neat, it wouldn't be disruptive. make it an IPHONE for $100, without a contract and yea, you'd have a hard time selling -anything- else. apple could do it, take a loss on the initial unit and make it up on all the payments from att/verizon/tmo that have to be made in order for them to get an iphone to offer.
oh wait... that almost sounds possible. hmm
an android or wp7 phone for a hundred clams would just be another phone. blah.
I hope Nokia does come through with something spec heavy, just to convince these other manufactures to get the ball rolling.
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I hope we see a metal crafted/high quality phone as their first device. They can bring out low end devices later.
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I hope we see a metal crafted/high quality phone as their first device. They can bring out low end devices later.
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+1 on that
efjay said:
I just hope they dont do something stupid and reveal a meego device which I think there is a chance of them doing as Stephen Elop has said they will only announce a handset when its close to launch, and June seems to be a way off from Mango's Fall release.
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You may be exactly right efjay
Annoucement
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You may be exactly right efjay
Annoucement
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Great. What a stupid move, making a fuss over 1 device after saying WP7 is going to be their main smartphone OS. Why dangle this in front of people at all and distract them from their eventual WP7 devices? Guess Elop was all talk....
Im drooling, this may be my next phone.
http://phandroid.com/2011/12/23/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-shows-up-in-leaked-concept-images/
Fake render...like usual
It's a fake, like mentioned in phandroid, but does look good
http://www.androidcentral.com/not-samsung-galaxy-s-iii?style_mobile=0
If only it were real
Oh well, just show me where can I get that clock widget. It does say "concept" in the title. Bezel to bezel screen is t*t's IMO.
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Oh well, just show me where can I get that clock widget. It does say "concept" in the title. Bezel to bezel screen is t*T's IMO.
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Same here
I doubt someone would go so far as to create a fake clock widget. Yeah the bezel to bezel screen was also reported for the "iPhone 5" but people were brought down by the 4s. Definitely not bad looking though and I want it!
Hate the TouchWiz implementation.
Too many on-screen keys.
Please ignore this mockup Samsung.
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Hate the TouchWiz implementation.
Too many on-screen keys.
Please ignore this mockup Samsung.
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It actually looks good and besides, the keys can be easily handled by a dev. Hopefully Samsung is quick to release the GS3 earlier than they released the GS2.
By the time I am ready to upgrade my phone again (mid 2013), hopefully, there will be a galaxy s4.
I cant. Beleive people are already chomping to have the GS3 come out. America is turning into that needy fat kid that lives next store whom you can always here calling for more in the squeekiest, winniest voice ever
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I cant. Beleive people are already chomping to have the GS3 come out. America is turning into that needy fat kid that lives next store whom you can always here calling for more in the squeekiest, winniest voice ever
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Excuse me, Im a needy phat man oogling the next best thing. Superphones are my hobby, my passion, my addiction.
I work part time at a gun shop, you won't believe the cash some of these peoples throw at "the next best gun". I just sold an M400 yesterday for $1000 cash.
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I cant. Beleive people are already chomping to have the GS3 come out. America is turning into that needy fat kid that lives next store whom you can always here calling for more in the squeekiest, winniest voice ever
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Relax.
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wow
We can only hope.
How are those "leaked images" if they were generated by user on a Russian concept phone site?
Too. Much. Bezel.
Beat Apple to it, you know the iPhone5 is going to have ulta-minimal bezel.
I know it's an unofficial concept image, but, it's likely right on--roughly speaking. It's time for these companies to stop just achieving design parity with Apple and actually surpassing them. They have an entire fncking year to do it every. single. time. Our specs slaughter the iPhone, constantly...for years now. Time to leapfrog in the physical design department.
Thinner, the least bezel possible, moar screen, moar battery. Get on it Samsung.
PS; Samsung....better radios, plox.
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PS; Samsung....better radios, plox.
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Just do this and I'll be content. If they really want to make me happy, higherres screen and quad proc but I'd be satisfied with the sgs2 with a supped up radio. (including the wifi part)
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Oh well, just show me where can I get that clock widget. It does say "concept" in the title. Bezel to bezel screen is t*t's IMO.
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yeah the clock widget looks amazing. any idea anyone?
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yeah the clock widget looks amazing. any idea anyone?
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Since its a rendered image, it may not exist but so many people are liking that widget, it wouldn't surprise me if someone is making it if its not real
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I like that wallpaper..anyone know where I can get it
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Same here
I doubt someone would go so far as to create a fake clock widget. Yeah the bezel to bezel screen was also reported for the "iPhone 5" but people were brought down by the 4s. Definitely not bad looking though and I want it!
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I certainly hope that isn't a real clock widget... If you look at the month dial, it reflects the wrong month where "Jun" is. Should be "Jul".
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I certainly hope that isn't a real clock widget... If you look at the month dial, it reflects the wrong month where "Jun" is. Should be "Jul".
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What do you expect? It was made by a ruskie
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Concave capacitive touch buttons.
I hate capacitive touch buttons, but it seems like mfg'ers want to move away from mechanical buttons.
In that case, at least make them CONCAVE so that they don't get accidentally pressed ALL THE TIME!
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Concave capacitive touch buttons.
I hate capacitive touch buttons, but it seems like mfg'ers want to move away from mechanical buttons.
In that case, at least make them CONCAVE so that they don't get accidentally pressed ALL THE TIME!
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So while I like this, I think it would have to be dependent on the situation. Taking the GNex as an example, it might give a movie some weird reflective glare when a video is being displayed full screen.
Definitely some good food for thought though!
Sorry OP not a fan of this idea.
Maybe make a small nub above the buttons so you can feel them but IMO lighting works just as well.
Besides with the Galaxy Nexus setting a standard in on screen display, and with ICS phones coming from Acer and LG already sporting the design, I am sure all other manufacturers of Android devices will follow.
And...when I think concave I think Apple home button...no thanks.
I hate it to but don't think it is the future. Its all about muscle memory after time you will just know were the button is just like typing
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That patent is too general. That's like saying you're going to patent the "back" button that is on the top left of every iOS device in apps.
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@OP, Put the pipe down.
good day.
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@OP, Put the pipe down.
good day.
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She might need a reload. Hard to tell though.
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That patent is too general. That's like saying you're going to patent the "back" button that is on the top left of every iOS device in apps.
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Why not? Apple patented "slide to unlock".
With that being said, I hope Google patented ICS's software touch buttons. I wouldn't put it past Apple to patent them just to file another lawsuit.
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That patent is too general. That's like saying you're going to patent the "back" button that is on the top left of every iOS device in apps.
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Well, apple got away with some very general patents that they are using to hurt android. One such example is a patent to "touch a contact and dial the contact's phone number on a mobile device."
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I hate it to but don't think it is the future. Its all about muscle memory after time you will just know were the button is just like typing
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Had the Gnex since Xmas and the soft buttons always accidentally get hit at some point still.
Ideally, would much rather have hardware buttons, but I think what's contributing to the soft buttons is also mfg'ers trying to achieve bragging rights by having the thinnest phone. Physical buttons need travel.
There was a time when mfg'ers were clammering to see who could put out the smallest phone. But my friend in Japan said that the phones there were trending to be bigger and soon come to the US. Lo and behold, he was right!
It seems like deja vu with the thinness game. I'm glad some Android blogs are talking about how we actually we prefer a little bit of thickness for a more practical phone, ie, has a bigger battery and physical buttons. Hopefully, mfg'ers will get the message.
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Well, apple got away with some very general patents that they are using to hurt android.
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Neither Android nor WP's need to fear their existens... In Germany (where I live, at the moment) they have stopped selling/they've been told by law to stop selling their I-devices here So, noone should start panicing Anyways, Samsung is stopping supplying Apple with tech. so they will not be able to produce their devices in future...
So stop panicing, guys