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Looks like the screenshots of the smartphone are rolling and, to be honest, I think it looks very poor.

Once you get past the pretty front screen (which, when compared to ActiveDesk, gives no useful information at all), all you get is a Windows 3.x type interface, a very poor GUI.

The Calander and Contacts are just more of the same which, when compared to the 9210 ( <!-- BBCode auto-link start -->http//www.twyn-y-berllan.com/n9210<!-- BBCode auto-link end --> ) is really poor.

As for the inbox.... don't get me started! There doesn't seem to be any integration with anything other than e-mail.

<B>Now, I know that these are only pictures, but the thousands of words that these pictures are saying are not very positive right now, <U>in my opinion</U></B>
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Never laugh about Microsoft.
Remember in those days They beat Apple Macintosh with ordinary DOS and later Win 3.1.
Apple was not compatible.............

Never laugh about these guys. Shit can sometimes sell better if marketed well.

Huib

<B>Just figured I've posted this in the wrong forum!</B>

/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gifSorry Rafe. Could you move it to Miscellaneous please and I promise to pay more attention in future!

PS. I wasn't mocking Micro$oft, I know what you mean about their marketing.

What needs to be remembered is that it's absically a modified hack of MS PocketPC 2002. There will obviously be less info on the front compared to Activedesk as the screen is no doubt going to be half the size of that of the 9210 and no where near tha same quality either. Anyway there are only 2 companies I know of signed up for M$ and 8/9 for Symbian, forget the d*ckheads who want M$, cos the industry blatently doesn't.
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Couldn't agree more. However remember this is more against the Nokia 7650 is some ways.

Rafe

Doh! I meant to say Community Waffle.

I'm having one of those days. Never mind. It happens to us all I'm sure.

Actually I think it just as good here.

Rafe /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

There are a few very entertaining debates going down on PocketPCThoughts, particularly when I got peeved at people slagging off the 9210.

One person commented on how Doom on Stinger kicked the crap out of Nokia's snake, so they got treated to some <I>actual</I> screenshots of doom on the 9210 (some even seem to be showing an interest in the 9290!)

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Don't get me wrong. Power to Microsoft's elbow I say, but the posts were suggesting that no smartphone has ever been released anywhere.... I just wanted to put them straight -> <!-- BBCode auto-link start -->http//www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=270<!-- BBCode auto-link end -->

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I am so smegged off with those dipsh*ts, don't they know anything? One dumb yank described Nokia phones as impossible to use. I love Nokia's phones as they are the easiest to use on the market.
All this support for M$ $martphone$ when they haven't made anything yet, all the screenshots are faked so far, just like when they released Windoze 1, there's no software yet, whereas Symbian have had an OS for a year and are ironing out the bugs still. And we all know how buggy M$ O$' are, then M$ have a track record with bugs, I.e. they don't get rid of the f*ckers!
Bah, expect a full round up of the recent news as I've heard it to come to a website near you in the next 2 days. I'm damn fired up now.
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I think Huib van den Oever is right. Microsoft are SO dominant, not just in the technology field, but in their political sway too. They can afford to make mistakes, which would deliver a body blow to their competition, and survive - because they can leverage their monopoly of the PC OS market, (which also provides them huge spending power). I believe their long term strategy is to try and dominate eCommerce (making a cut in every digital transaction. I'd have thought the thing they are most terrified about is being put in the position they put their competitors in - being leveraged out of one market area, which starts a domino effect on their power and control. For this reason they'll fight tooth and nail over the mobile phone market.