The reason the iphone seems so responsive and faster are the transitions. The transitions/animations masterfully mask loading times.
if I touch something and move it, make it move coherently with my touch please.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST. Make a dif version of the OS for asia. the rest of the world really doesn't give a crap about the stylus unless I'm drawing stupid smiley faces in notepad.
Resistive touch screens aren't going anywhere in Windows Mobile. They're cheaper to make and i believe more accurate than capacitive screens. Also, transitioning to capacitive in WinMo will create a lot of headaches with legacy apps. The transition to capacitive would be problematic enough; supporting resistive screens would be a nightmare.
Great comment. Just the other day I was thinking about this. Functions on my WM phone don't take very long to load, but they do so in a very... displeasing way. Like, when opening Pocket Outlook, the scroll bars appear over the Today screen, and then the emails load. It looks like it's loading in pieces and it's really ugly.
@PhilR8 Exactly. I compared an iPhone 3G side by side to my HTC FUZE (running the lastest Rhodium software) and while the iPhone LOOKS faster, it is actually slower. If I tap on calculator at the same time on both phones, the iPhone has a transition of it opening while WM just sits there until it is fully loaded. I can use the calculator on my FUZE before I can on the iPhone (it doesn't "turn on" for a bit.)
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Miguel @ May 12th 2009 4:14PM
Just one request please.
FLUIDITY IN THE EFFIN O.S.
The reason the iphone seems so responsive and faster are the transitions. The transitions/animations masterfully mask loading times.
if I touch something and move it, make it move coherently with my touch please.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST. Make a dif version of the OS for asia. the rest of the world really doesn't give a crap about the stylus unless I'm drawing stupid smiley faces in notepad.
aoi tsuki @ May 12th 2009 9:38PM
Resistive touch screens aren't going anywhere in Windows Mobile. They're cheaper to make and i believe more accurate than capacitive screens. Also, transitioning to capacitive in WinMo will create a lot of headaches with legacy apps. The transition to capacitive would be problematic enough; supporting resistive screens would be a nightmare.
PhilR8 @ May 12th 2009 11:25PM
Great comment. Just the other day I was thinking about this. Functions on my WM phone don't take very long to load, but they do so in a very... displeasing way. Like, when opening Pocket Outlook, the scroll bars appear over the Today screen, and then the emails load. It looks like it's loading in pieces and it's really ugly.
PeterF @ May 13th 2009 4:29PM
@PhilR8
Exactly.
I compared an iPhone 3G side by side to my HTC FUZE (running the lastest Rhodium software) and while the iPhone LOOKS faster, it is actually slower. If I tap on calculator at the same time on both phones, the iPhone has a transition of it opening while WM just sits there until it is fully loaded. I can use the calculator on my FUZE before I can on the iPhone (it doesn't "turn on" for a bit.)