Support for EAP-TLS authentication (Office Wifi 
) and Caldav. Not sure when they plan to roll out for WP
) and Caldav. Not sure when they plan to roll out for WPMango vs iPhone 4S
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Skype is available for Windows Phone 7 now.
It's technically beta, but I did some testing last night, and found no problems.
Updating the post on applications.
It's technically beta, but I did some testing last night, and found no problems.
Updating the post on applications.
iPhone 4S is way ahead and Mango version is nowhere near to it. iOS has excellent touch calibration with new feature that is Siri app which is an intelligent bot.
Lets hope any further posts from you are better, because this was a horrible post. This is not an opinion thread. The guidelines of the thread are clearly posted. The only thing somewhat proper was your mention of Siri, but Siri was already mentioned and included in the iPhone advantage list, so your comment added absolutely no value.
All I kept thinking of after reading this was the great Billy Madison Quote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7w64fbqYQY
better quality link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
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For me is all about presentation;
IP as a boring and old presentation in contrary WP as a fresh and much more fun presentation.....all the rest features turn out to be equal.
IP as a boring and old presentation in contrary WP as a fresh and much more fun presentation.....all the rest features turn out to be equal.
I updated item 10 to be blank. I thought about renumbering, but that's tedious manual work and the numbers are referenced in other posts.
I prefer also Windows Phone, but the limitations of our OS are also a problem. No chance to modify the startscreen, to have individual Folders, no ability to change the storage card without losing the warranty, no integrated Tethering, we are forced, to use Zune, no easy transfer of Data... we are not free like the Android Users.
The advantage is to use a modern OS with many abilities for the future. But i think it will be sold much better, if the "Kindergarden"/ nursery school images of the frontpage would be styled more elegant... transparency of the tiles, background images...i hope for WP8
There are plenty of threads about prefereneces and ideas for the future. There are also plenty of threads comparing Mango to Android.
This thread is about the anvantages and differences between Windows Phone 7 - Mango and the iPhone 4S. It is not an opinion thread. The subject is clearly defined in Post #1.
Of your post, the only thing of value that is relevant to the thread is that the iPhone 4S allows grouping of programs into folders. Everything else was off topic and you did not actually even properly state that as an iPhone advantage.
I have added that as an iPhone advantage.
Keep this thread on topic. There are way too many threads in this section that started with a purpose and were side tracked into a big opinion thread which lead to a bucnh of users bashing each other which lead towards thread closures and bans.
The iPhone has 4-5x music playback battery capability. My Windows Phone 7 lasts maybe 5-8 hours of music playback without doing anything, an iphone4 lasts 40 hours, or even more.
This has probably to do with hardware and software optimized together, probably some separate chip handling music playback on the iPhone versus windows phone 7, that I assume uses the main CPU to do music playback.
I would think that iphone takes the same approach to music playback, that nvidia will do in it's future multi-core CPU's, where one very weak CPU using almost no power at all, will handle low-consumption tasks like music playback, while the faster cores that use more battery will handle other requests.
iPhone hardware/software layout trumps windows phone 4-5x in this respect...
This has probably to do with hardware and software optimized together, probably some separate chip handling music playback on the iPhone versus windows phone 7, that I assume uses the main CPU to do music playback.
I would think that iphone takes the same approach to music playback, that nvidia will do in it's future multi-core CPU's, where one very weak CPU using almost no power at all, will handle low-consumption tasks like music playback, while the faster cores that use more battery will handle other requests.
iPhone hardware/software layout trumps windows phone 4-5x in this respect...
battery differences
I honestly didn't pay alot fo attention to battery usage with my LG Quantum regarding music playback. I will test this out.
When you made the observations with Windows Phone 7, you had the music on the device right? Meaning that you were not streaming from a Zune Pass or something.
Data streaming is a big consumer of battery charge on both platforms. An Advertisement supported game (Hearts by Optime) on my iPhone drains about 5% in 10 to 15 minutes. It is constantly bringing in ads through data.
Windows Phone made huge battery improvements over Windows Mobile, but I have been very impressed with the iPhone battery usage. I haven't quantified all things that the battery life is better on, but I do know that with typical usage, I get more usage per charge with my iPhone.
I have observed that playing music from my iPhone 4S does not consume much battery charge. I used it all winter snow boarding and the battery went down at a similar rate as when not playing music.
I honestly didn't pay alot fo attention to battery usage with my LG Quantum regarding music playback. I will test this out.
When you made the observations with Windows Phone 7, you had the music on the device right? Meaning that you were not streaming from a Zune Pass or something.
Data streaming is a big consumer of battery charge on both platforms. An Advertisement supported game (Hearts by Optime) on my iPhone drains about 5% in 10 to 15 minutes. It is constantly bringing in ads through data.
Windows Phone made huge battery improvements over Windows Mobile, but I have been very impressed with the iPhone battery usage. I haven't quantified all things that the battery life is better on, but I do know that with typical usage, I get more usage per charge with my iPhone.
Original focus music playback battery life
I've had my focus since march 2011 and I use it almost everyday to listen to music while riding my motorcycle (it's legal where I live) and I've had the battery last upwards of 12 hours continuous playback on an 800 mile trip. I had airplane mode turned on. When I got where I was going the phone still had about 30% left. No where near the iPhone capability but still pretty good.
Reminder of thread purpose and subject
This thread is not a fanboy thread for either side. It is not an opinion thread. It's purpose is to idendify describable advantages and disadvantages of these 2 platforms.
There are plenty of other threads to state opinions.
I don't want to, but I am considering closing the thread and reopening upon PM requests by anyone that wants to post something pertaining to the purpose of the thread.
I think most if not all advantages and disadvantages have been pretty accurately described.
Post should be to identify an advantage or disadvantage not already listed. Of course discussion on an advantage or disadvantage can occur, but broad generalizations about either platform benefit no one.
This thread is not a fanboy thread for either side. It is not an opinion thread. It's purpose is to idendify describable advantages and disadvantages of these 2 platforms.
There are plenty of other threads to state opinions.
I don't want to, but I am considering closing the thread and reopening upon PM requests by anyone that wants to post something pertaining to the purpose of the thread.
I think most if not all advantages and disadvantages have been pretty accurately described.
Post should be to identify an advantage or disadvantage not already listed. Of course discussion on an advantage or disadvantage can occur, but broad generalizations about either platform benefit no one.
4. Back button is a huge advantage. In IOS the button isn't always in the same spot. Sometimes it's up top, sometimes it's on the bottom, thats inconsistent.
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#8 for IOS advantages is a reference for Game Center. You could add achievements, and friend contacts.
Xbox integration on Wp7 is poor. The remote control app has to go through the web to work.
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#8 for IOS advantages is a reference for Game Center. You could add achievements, and friend contacts.
Xbox integration on Wp7 is poor. The remote control app has to go through the web to work.
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Here's an advantage for the iPhone: there's an option in the safari browser that lets you open new tabs in the background, which you can't do on the WP7 IE browser.
On Windows Phone, hit the ...
and press tabs.
Have you actually ever used a windows phone?
To add more to item 15, besides bing maps, Nokia has Nokia drive and HTC has HTC locations which DOES turn by turn voice for free without tapping. Not part of the O/S but provided by the oem so i'm not sure how you would class it. The OEM'S also give you multiple free apps... htc for example has Dock mode, Connections, Locations, Flashlight, and more. Apple only provides what is in the O/S and no free extra apps.
Facetime is not an advantage when you have Skype and Tango that can do the same across multiple platforms even using 3g for free.
I was pretty sure that Windows Phone 7 had the ability to load multiple tabs without waiting for the other tabs to finish, but it's been a while since I've turned on my Quantum. I didn't want to add it without first checking. Thanks for confirming that Window Phone does this.
Good to know about the other apps that some OEMs provide turn by turn apps. Think that I may word this as:
Some OEMs such as HTC and Nokia provide free applications built in to do tap free Turn by Turn directions. With the iPhone a 3rd party not built in app is always required to accomplish this.
I do think that Facetime is still an advantage, since it is built in. An iPhone user does not need to install or configure anything special to FaceTime with other iPhone users. Although, the advantage is not great since there are free cross-platform alternatives and FaceTime is only for Apple products. I reworded the listed advantage, to reflect this.
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Seriously? You shouldn't mention those apps, you could write a book on how poor they are. I'm not talking just about the notifications either.
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