wow that sounds exactly like the iphone. minus exchange support
no removable memory??? are you certain? I thought SD cards can be blocked if wanted to with exchange.
I think windows is going ultra secure by limiting calendar and contacts which is a good move.
UI is blocked becuase they don't want HTC or others to put their bloatware and dedicate ram to their UI's built ontop of windows.
There aren't many resolutions and i doubt they'll have any better resolutions in the future, we don't need 1080p on our phone.
so applications won't have access to files on the phone? I guess i'm not understanding how they can't exchange files.
I'm assuming navigation buttons aren't necessary. I don't have any on the front and don't use my keyboard one.
It seems like they're fixing the faults from iphone and potential security faults. The only thing that bugs me is removable memory but I seriously doubt they'll block it.
its hard to move a piece of software when people mainly care about the hardware and coolness level
Last I read development documentation, removable memory was not supported...
I can understand them not wanting manufacturers putting custom UIs on devices out of the box, but as an owner I should be able to put something more informative and less ugly than the default Metro UI (hell, even Sense shows more info at a glance than WP7's screen). Playing with the WP7 unlocked image emulator, it takes 5 minutes to get information I can see at one glance on my Touch Pro2 with SPB Pocket+ and SPB Diary.
Even iPhone 4 has resolution 4 times as high as a maximum resolution allowed on WP7, and there are, supposedly, phones coming out with 1024*768 Mirasol displays. It should be up to the manufacturer and user (if they want to pay for it) to decide if they want to have it.
Having real navigation buttons is very convenient when you want to read news on a bus, since you don't need to hold the phone in one hand and try to swipe/scroll/click with another. Again, there's nothing wrong with there being keyboardless phones, but it should be up to the user to select a form factor that works for them. At least on my TP2 I can remap buttons it does have to do vertical scroll and select to make my life easier.
Every third-party application will be installed in a sandbox and able to access files only in its own directory. Meaning, you can't even use a third-party picture viewer to see images you got in email.
Having full access to calendar and contacts did not lead to any data breaches in WinMo6. But not having them on WP7 means that if, say, somebody even bothers to port a navigation program to it (very unlikely anyway...) you won't be able to tell it to go to one of your contacts. Type the address yourself. Phone will integrate with Crapbook, since Microsoft has marketing deal with them, but no third party will be able to write, let's say, LinkedIN app that can sync with your contacts. Etc., Etc.
It's not that they are fixing iPhone's problems. More like taking the first generation iPhone, and porting all of its restrictions (no cut and paste? in 2010? really?) to a new platform. After all, it did work for Apple...