Thread: Nokia on the brink of failure
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SamGan is offline SamGan
2012-04-25 , 00:03
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#337
Originally Posted by danramos View Post
You do realize Windows Phone 7 is Windows Mobile, right? Yes--everybody keeps talking about how it's a rewrite but if you bothered to follow along over time you would know very well it's mostly Windows Mobile with some UI work. More importantly, even WITH this so-called cheating, it's still a miserable epic fail.
WP7 has nothing to do with WinMobile. It is a complete redesign by a new team and far less capable and more restrictive than the old WinMobile. Microsoft refused to use any of the WinMobile team in order to have a completely fresh start. This resulted in some strange basic errors and omissions like a master volume control for all functions, wi-fi connection which terminates when it sleeps, no tethering, no multitasking (initially), etc.