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  • dude missed HTC for battle for the best cell phones

  • Who the hell would say that WM 7 is a make or break for Microsoft? Dipshit

  • This looks to me as the update from the KIN phones. The KIN had the same sort of "tile" home screen layout, but they weren't live. I think they've realized their mistakes on the KINs, and have came out with what the KIN was supposed to be.

  • If you haven't used Zune still, you haven't experienced music yet.

    Download the desktop version today, you'll buy a zune HD or a WP7 tomorrow

  • I like the its transitions!

  • zune hd phone basically thats dope

  • wow he is screaming lol

  • lol apple has no virus because no one care about imac.... its just look cute and sleek but apart from that its a shiity os limited supports and its just blow your pocket again and again.

  • @ayame08 That's quite simplistic.. I am not a Mac person, I use Linux and Android but shitty/limited os for a system which is based on sturdy secure Unix OS is quite off in my opinion.

    For blowing your pocket I agree but that's a choice one makes..

  • Did he say every windows phone will be a zune? does he want to SELL THESE THINGS???

  • @michaeijd You've probably never used a Zune before. It's the best media player you can imagine.

  • Steve Ballmer sounds like Joe Swanson from Family Guy.

  • I am a fan of Android and as such I know very well windows tacticts of disrupting competition with choices aimed at harming the consumer, see the windows try of polluting java. For some examples however search the online available paper called "Microsoft A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm" to see why microsoft has harmed a lot in the past the consumer.

  • i'm only going to say this ones you don't have a life as long as you have microsoft stuff in your pocket get a mac and a android and you'll get a LIFE!

  • @theodor70941 Yeah, using widely unsupported software on shitty wireless networks gets you real far ;)

    Check again Apple is still lacking far behind Microsoft, look at all the support Microsoft has. Bill Gates can take a shit in the woods and its worth is in the billions. lol

  • @4Xiox20 so you say that the world love viruses and shit!

  • @4Xiox20 You have a great concept of competition, platform openess and respect of standards... if it were for you we would all be using Microsoft stuff and accept any crap imposed by them.. you clearly have no idea of what you are talking about.

  • @theodor70941 Apple locks a lot with its iTunes thing but anything which prevents Windows from monopolizing the market as it has the desktop market is Good!

  • worst phone operating system stick with blackberry

  • Ballmers voice is like CAPS, no caps CAPS, no caps, CAPS

  • Everything microsoft touches fails, the new xbox 360 layout is a mess and an eye sore just like the zune os and the windows 7 phone os, I like the first layout microsoft released with the xbox way bettet.

  • We have a lot of free games and apps for Windows Phone. Kindly search for us in Zune for the below: Rotate and Roll, World Art Museum, Flip Sexy Card, Ball Shooter, Go Fishing, Art Love, Knowledge Center, Sexy Girl Collection, Cut Sexy Girl

  • Microsoft bans open source on Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.. typical microsoft stand-offish attitude faking innovation for restrictions..

  • @annaju86 this is only a policy apple opened up to just recently, besides whats the point of caking your device with a ton of useless apps anyway, sure its cute but honestly ask yourself what the point is?

  • @4Xiox20 open source doesn't mean useless apps.. open source means the code is public.. that means higher quality and possibility to know what you are installing!

  • why should I buy a phone which doesn't have a filesystem, has no sd card and is completely locked from any modification?

  • Why does ballmer speaks like that ??? LOL !

  • Is that funny how the CEO of Microsoft is named Steve????? Steve jobs.........Steve Ballmer....

  • Jesus Christ what a bunch of bullshit all thrown together. This is what you get when you have a bunch of programmers put there best ideas to use. It totally reflects the fact that they NEVER get out into the real world. Fluff fluff and more FLUFF!!

  • LED BANNER Now available for WINDOWS PHONE

  • Will this come to Verizon?

  • I love my HTC HD7. It's been exceedingly kind to me. :)

  • I got the Samsung Focus WP7 and it's a great phone. My favorite features are: 2 days without charging, a back button, bing, zune and office integration. I like the way my photos automatically upload to the web. The tiles are cool... like sticky notes...favorites on top and quick short term reminders on bottom...easy to find, select pin and remove on the go.

  • @visualcafe

    How's the app department, any good apps or games out yet? Are there many of them? Do they cost alot of money? Are there any free apps? And how's the camera? ( recording + photo)?

    I'm REALLY interested in this smooth, great-looking OS but I want to know more about the app part :)

  • i got this phone and its the SHIT!!!!!

  • @NapoliXBleedsXBlue But you know that this phone doesn't exist, right?

  • Can you help me out please? I was wondering if this Facebook integration pulls ALL your contacts from your account, or are you able to choose the people you want in your phonebook? Would really appreciate any help, as for me that's quite a deal breaker. I have alot of friends on Facebook that I work with, or have met through social nights out, but don't really want in my phonebook.

  • @theking323232 it takes everyone that you have in facebook. it provides a list of them as contacts with their email and phone number.

  • @MrBowwowman thanks :)

  • this dude sounds like bill clinton

  • he's tshirt fail its android tshirt !

  • The problem is that Microsoft's stuff always works better but that Apple's stuff always looks better.

    The live titles idea is amazing and it can create endless possibilities but look at the interface, i mean dam this is ugly...

  • lol there trying but they will never beat apple.

  • One long-standing advantage this microsoft has is that several companies make the "phone" that you can hold. talk about limitless possibilities.

  • if you buy a windows 7 phone do you have to buy internet

  • @bOnerjAmz1993 all smart phones require you to have a data plan.

  • @MrBowwowman Not unlocked ones. The higher price is easily made up for after a few months where you would've had to pay for a data plan otherwise.

  • this phone shitt'd on everyphone just for tha fact that u can play xbox live..im gonna be nuking fools on my phone

  • not impressed 

  • This bald dude's voice is annoying....he should be fired!!

    Where is Bill!!

  • this looks promising...at least more promising than symbian ^3 anyway. It's funny when you think about it, now Microsoft and Nokia are finally realising how big and lucrative the smartphone market is, it seems they're only just starting to TRY. shifting their focus..and it's so obvious.

    Samsung, HTC, blackberry, apple and sony ericsson have already shifted their focus, and are already miles ahead.

    Will they catch up? I'm sure they will. They're late to the party, but there's still booze left...

  • This idea is A: RETARDED B: It seems as if the phone tells u what u can and cannot do; too restricted. C: Just plain out NOT COOL....where are the apps? where is the "fun" on this. This "out of the box" theme doesnt make me want to get one i rather get the old htc hd2 model that one was slick.

  • @ovariesniper there are apps, you just have to tap a button which bring you to an entire list of them. and than when your there if you want you choose the apps you like the most and pin them to your homescreen.

  • Wicked phone.

    MS needs to ditch Ballmer though. He just doesn't get it.

  • also its way too laggy

    

  • @ndrwplussine this was basically a proof of concept of the interface. Check out the videos posted of it within 3 months or so. Its zippy, buttery smooth, and puts android to shame.

  • can you remove the xbox live ad cuz wtf i dont want that ad on my phone

  • @ndrwplussine you can remove it, just unpin from the home screen.

  • All the cellphones companys want to get a phone better than the iphone what they dont know the iphone will be always the best phone ever ! no matter if its an iphone 3G , 3GS , or 4 ! AFter iphone gets a new stuff , all "these phones" wanna get'em too ! =) Byeee.. Don't hate !

  • 500$ to much..

  • Too late friends, simply to late. You were so lazy in development around Windows 6.0 that the time has come to pay the price... You lost mobile market and regain is unlikely. Microsoft and Nokia - guys you really screwed this up. Lazy and unimaginative with your sky high salaries. You all shall be fired. You had everything needed. Cash, top programmers, stable business model. It's like crashing a 1 mio $ ferrari into a supermarket wall doing donuts in the parking lot. Must be dumb to do it.

  • apple's lack of flash support will be it's death

  • @TurKdiRty

    people have been saying this since 2007.

    i do prefer android though, but saying the iphone will die is simply not true.

  • Tumbs up for the orange fat guy ._.

  • I really wish Apple would simply not be such dicks about Flash.

    One swift downloads for each Ipod and Iphone would eradicate the Windows phone instantly.

    And give a hell of a lot of graphic designers a practical reason to buy one for interviews instead of firing up the coal powered laptops...

  • @bluepheonex1989 One swift downloads for each Ipod and Iphone would eradicate the Windows phone instantly.... how do u work that one out ?

  • there's no competition between this phone and iphone f because the display of this phone 7 to make it work you have to press very hard so thats so bad

  • @kddv1993 ? all screens are capacitive not resitive, go figure

  • Lol the fat guy is orange ._.

  • @HydroUberSpawn hahahahahaha!

  • I'm an Apple Die hard, but this looks pretty cool. However, Zune sucks. If only I could stick an iPod compatible with iTunes into this UI. Now that would be cool

  • There is an error in the transcript

    At 0:59 They say "Six of the tiles" but the transcript says "Five of the tiles"

  • @Arev0 or... you can scratch your balls with the phone tiles.

  • Although this does look interesting I still dont think it will be better than android.

  • they should not use zune software its stinks and is it android coded so i can build android programs because i bought a ipod touch and dont want a iphone cause its just like a ipod so looking at android and htc phones :) long comments are the best

  • @okton6 I beg to differ, I happen to like it.

  • zune software sucks...

  • woops touch screen lag during review....:40

  • androids are already the past

  • Everything about Microsoft is annoying, including their cheap-looking phone.

  • @ManuelRochaCR Xbox, Kinext, Windows live, Windows 7, Windows phone 7, Microsoft surface, Visual express, Zune, there are a couple of points to prove you wrong. Every one of these products have proven to be above quality expectations, work, and are well integrated with each other. Apple's products do a poor job of working together, though they do most definitely work.

  • @ManuelRochaCR Xbox, Kinect, Windows live, Windows 7, Windows phone 7, Microsoft surface, Visual express, Zune, there are a couple of points to prove you wrong. Every one of these products have proven to be above quality expectations, work, and are well integrated with each other. Apple's products do a poor job of working together, though they do most definitely work.

  • @ManuelRochaCR LOL Apple is aimed at 14 yr olds

  • holy shit...a phone that uses flash player! and its only 2010 :(

  • ANDROID is taking over ....POINT BLANK!!!

  • @6pawpaw3 Agreed. I'm both a Microsoft fan, and a Google fan. Now that their product ranges are conflicting, I'm torn between the two. Both are highly respectable, and can guarantee a high quality product. Boht Windows phone seven and Android look great, but I think Google's os has the edge right now.

  • Coming from an iphone user im very impressed with the approach windows is taking on their new mobile platform,its very similar approach to iOS which is an integrated software not fragmented like some other platforms...

  • Nice review thanks so much for sharing it with us

  • who would actually get this phone when theres iphones and android, and even blackberry. 

  • @chizzle0 because they took what those guys did and made it simpler to use easier to get what information you need, and a better music player that's far easier to access. That's not to say that it has a few things to work on, like cut and paste. As far as blackberry, blackberry is dead after this. They've really never improved on their old boring UI. Dell has already announced that they're replacing all their blackberrys with WP7 devices.

  • @chizzle0 i will be one on the list...... and for blackberry only trhing blackberrys' good for is to throw in a river

  • The fact that it has IE or even a look alike is not a virtue.

  • why they put old douches to talk why not a sexy beutiful girl?

  • 1:57 haha lag !

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  • looks like a data whore

    

  • laym kaxe

  • Between the lag in that phone and George Bush's cousin announcing it...I'm already losing interest.

  • @jakemiller026

    The fact that an early prototype had some lag is going to prevent you from buying the final product, even though it is completely lag free?

    What's wrong with you?

  • Steve Ballmer (bald red tie guy) sounds like coach Hines

  • @Frazerm69 lol. yes!

  • who is that bald guy with the red tie, he acts like a douche-bag sorry to say

  • Im watching this on my iphone lol

  • @yungswaggaboi haha ! lol

  • @yungswaggaboi im watching this on my pc.... so?

  • 323 people need an Iphone4.

  • he'll no,iPhone always have a fixed spot on top......

  • I tried the new phone and I am unimpressed. The Iphone is much easier to use and 100 times more original.

    But the Maroon 5 concert in SF was awesome, so props to Windows for that one!

  • means it still needs work my zune hd is nothing to brag about but hes right the picture on it is great..id like to add new apps microsoft!!! oh and i would like the option to switch to rhapsody bc you dont have exlusive music

  • wow amazing!!

  • Like tho zoon went well ;) microsoft is just a copycat, they copied apple by making a zoon that was complet trash, they copied sony and nintendo by coming up with a gaming console and their now making this which is just gona fail like the zoon

  • @Jaroldv127 Lol, it's the zune. ahaha

  • @Jaroldv127 Yep, they fail as much as you failed on that comment.

  • This seems real cool but I'd rather give the phone some time. Brand spankin new phones just hittin the shelf usually has problems.

  • I have an iPhone but I'm very interested in this phone the user interface seems very relevant and organic. At the very least, I can't wait to check the Window Phone 7 out.

  • Android is a great OS, but is not open source, i like more symbian, there are more and better apps, because it's an old OS

  • DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • wtf

    

  • one word iphone

  • it looks slow though

  • I m ready for my WINDOWS 7 Phone !

  • I have it and it is amazing. Much better than Iphone, facebook easy, xbox, MS Office, brilliant interface, good reading and using, OUTLOOOOOK !!! hotmail, twiter, Zune much better and cheaper than itunes,.. for a worker that loves social nets and love playing and enjoying multimedia and picturing as well of use of hundred nice applications this is far better than iphone. I am saying pure truth after using it.

  • The most amazing thing about this phone is that you don't even have to own one or try it out to know it will make apple look retarded like :-)

  • The most amazing thing about this phone is that you don't even have to own one or try it out to know it will make apple look retarded like liquidchem :-)

  • @Jay211970 WHOA THANK YOU!!!!

  • @Jay211970 why dont u give it a chance like u gave iphone !

  • @Jay211970 apple own's microsoft, microsoft still doesn't know how to make a os that is virus free. lol there way behind.

  • @LifesHavoc virus free... lol xD who would program a virus on a os which isn't even on 10% of all the computers? mac gets bigger and bigger, and sure, there will be viruses soon... or are even already around.

  • @luckyluke1000 Unless some gaps are exposed in the IOS software, or you've jailbroken your iPhone, which I have seen plenty of viruses of many assortments, I doubt that would happen. Its not impossible but unlikely, given that Apple allows only what they want you to have in terms of apps.

  • @luckyluke1000 A virus for pc is easy to get rid of, a virus for mac you have to take to a computer store, let the store look at all of your private information, look at your hard drive and then they can see what you have looked at and pluse there is a virus for mac that will blow it up, it happend to my friend's mac. It is easy to get rid of a virus off of a pc, but not a piece of shit mac

  • @LifesHavoc LOL. Every OS you build is per definition virus free. Until someone decides to build viruses for it. And that, my friend, is just a matter of market penetration. There will be more viruses for the iPhone than for ugly Windows Mobile 7. Makes no sense to build a virus for a system nobody uses. If something is way way way behind, it is your remark. Based on (very) old prejudices.

  • @LifesHavoc apple has viruses. the only reason that microsoft has viruses in their OS is because people use it. Viruses aren't made where it won't affect a large number. Therefore sir you are speaking out of your rear.

  • Themost amazing thing about this phone is that you dont even have to own one or try it out to know its going to suck.

  • the screen on the phone seems weird for some reason. could of been bigger with the extra space

  • I love it ! that s what we where waiting for ! I use MICROSOFT since 10 years ago and never had a problem with it ! I will buy it !

  • @cempakilispa try out a mac. once u go mac, u never go back

  • @lausangio Actually I had three macs before I went back. All three of them were more glitchy then any other computer I've ever owned. I am living my Acer laptop (who knew Acer could make a good computer?). I paid $500 for a device that would have set me back $1000 for 1GB less memory and 50 GB less hard drive space. So what does that tell you?

  • no it doesnot look very exiting. neather his voice is. android standard interface is much nicer than this is. and sense is way way better. it may look simple and easy to use, but it also looks cheap. i think that android beats winmo 7

  • @teun95 JUst try phone 7 for one day and you will change 100% your view. Phone 7 is amazing. I have one and nor in my better dreams thought Microsoft could deliver something so good.

  • @ferngm i don't think you're right, i just love android because of all the apps, you can really make it look linke the way you linke it, developing software for it is easy. i think that it's great google chose for an open source os.

  • This is totally just the zune hd software made for a phone

  • That has to be the ugliest smartphone GUI I've ever seen.

  • @TCIndiana You've obviously never tried it out for yourself, then.

  • @doirBravo I didn't say anything about it's functionality. I just think it looks ugly with all those enormous 2 color tiles.

  • Microsoft is a bunch of copycats

  • iPhone kills it

  • My HTC EVO PWNS ALL SMART PHONES!!!!!

  • I would never give up my Android Phone for this!

  • It ABSOLUTELY MUST BE snappy and responsive, no more memory leaks or hanging screens that require a reboot. I've used HTC's Windows smartphones for years and finally made the decision to go with Android for my next phone, as I'm probably buying the Droid 2 next month. If Microsoft receives good reviews and has a powerful, responsive OS in the 7, they'll get my business in the next generation of smartphones. They've lost it for this next purchase however -- Windows Mobile is just too slow.

  • Apple fanboys, Android fanboys, and soon to be microsoft fanboys.

  • if they can make it operate a little smoother , they just might redeem their selves from the kin

  • htc flatout kill ms in every way...Tbh Android kills everything else in every way...

  • i bet it's gonna flop and they' ll quietly pull it off the market like last time they came out with a Microsoft phone... Does anyone remeber that phone called the KIN..... ofcourse not they only sold 500 of them lol....

  • @dboyd1089

    Wow comparing to smooth taking Steve Jobs that can't program tic-tac-toe

    So you probably go for style even if you are a useless twat - you'd still go for aesthetics and not utility.

    MS - is tuning all if services as sync-able services.

    office, zune, xbox, social sites, folders, contacts,

    Accessable by phone, computer or net.

    Oh and you dont just have to buy things through an MS store.

    So looks like you are the apple retard - figures!

  • @jabberwolf okay so it can all work together. all apple products already work together and a million times better and smoother. Not just with apple products but apple computers are easier and better when it comes to uploading photos off a camera as well as video. you don't need to install software to rip videos and crap on a windows pc. So big woop. I can access xbox on my win 7 phone. i can do that on my iphone too. i can do everything the win7phone can do on my iphone and more. oh and it works

  • when is someone going to put windows 7 on an iphone???

  • Btw a zine phone would be the KIN which I own... Too bad it epicly failed after a month of only selling 500 units

  • The window phone 7 this like the next generation for zune.

    Like a Zune phone......ahhhh got it. :)

    agree?

  • The window phone 7 is like the next generation for zune.

    A Zune phone.... aahhhh. :)

  • OMG ! this phone sucks ! Android is the best...

  • urgh... the androids better...

  • how much is it supose to be?

  • every body is copying apple keyboard style

  • Oh and I forgot, Steve Balmer sounds like Coach Hines from MadTV. Heres an example: watch?v=b6TdJeLxCgU

  • I wonder if it will blue screen?

  • can't wait for the to come out I hope it is not to much money.

  • why does steve ballmer seem to be shouting? relax dude, its just a phone

  • The new Windows 7 Mobile is as exciting and cool as Steve B.

  • Iphone 4 is what?....4 years ahead of all these other knock offs? Get a grip iphone haters....because you can't afford, use, have no reason for one, don't hate it. It is a modern marvel for the last 4 years. Microsoft sucks.

  • @brandale101402 lol ive got an iphone . its shit wish i never bought it waste of money when i got it it couldnt even use its bluetooth and couldnt send pixts .. so give a phone a chance to get its updates and patches .. the phone will get better ... windows 7 is better than shitty apple .... microsoft = greater ....

  • the apple phone's a freaking awful, it's all look and no actual presance.