Wednesday
Oct272010
Windows Phone 7 - can I switch off the iPhone yet?
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 11:40PM
One final check-list before turning the iPhone off:
- Contacts - via Exchange - OK
- Mail - via Exchange / Gmail - OK
- Safari - will be so glad to see it gone - got IE
- iPod - has Zune / podcasts loaded
Cloud is great. Zune rocks. Hurray no more iTunes.
Onto the apps:
- Photos - sync Windows Live Photo Gallery - OK
- Notes - HTC ships a notes / lists app, but I plan to use OneNote (sync to cloud)
- Messages - nothing I need to keep
- Facebook - has integrated, as well as app
- Maps (Google) - to Bing Maps
- Foursquare
- Stocks - HTC ships a Stock app
Missing
- Skype
- Windows Live Messenger
- Kindle - collection online
- Echofon - will be using official Twitter app
- Urbanspoon
- Blizzard authenticator - disconnected iPhone authenticator from battle.net account
Games - bought lots of games - if I have an urge to play them again I might buy it again… otherwise thanks for all the fun times
- Carcassonne
- Oregon Trail
- Pocket God
- Civ Revolution
- Bejeweled 2
- PuzzleQuest
- Babel Rising
- Angry Birds
- PvZ
- DoodleJump
- Zombie Smash
- Doodle God
- Helsing's Fire
Reader Comments (2)
Missing:
- Evernote
- Dropbox
- A decent weather application like My-Cast
- ics support for shared calendars
- unified mailbox
- a modern browser
Evernote - OneNote? Unfortunately, I've never allowed myself to be spoilt by Evernote on the iPhone, so I can't say what the excitement is about. I have heard from many people that they miss the various features offered by Evernote. But alas, I can't comment.
Dropbox - there are a few third party apps, but not yet a first party one.
Weather Application - I quite like the HTC one, but actually find myself never using it.
Shared Calendars
Unified mailbox - I can only hope this comes soon with some sort of update for... seriously needed enterprise support. RIght now, v1 is a consumer phone. Can't pretend otherwise.
Modern browser - my take on this is some sort of browser that supports HTML5? I personally think that the IE is actually better than the Safari on my iPhone 3G - responsive and renders most sites I visit well. But your mileage may vary. Do you have a list of sites that don't work?