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  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 JDavidJ

    Member since 19/08/2007

    Reviews written: 19

    1 Star Windows Phone 7 is a terribly poor operating system Review with images 18/07/2012
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages The software seems faster than my old symbian phone.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Software needs to be personalisable, and to work with other systems and platforms.

    I have recently bought a Nokia Lumia 610 mobile. This was to replace my elderly Nokia 5800, which I loved. I expected the Windows operating system on this phone to be the bees knees. How wrong I was. Where to start? To make a call, you HAVE to go to a list of some sort - there is no speed dial facility. This is a phone, in the 21st century, and there is no speed dial! There is voice dialling, but no way to personalise it as far as I can find. The phone uses the phone book names, but if you have two contacts with similar names, it gets confused. I also cannot see how to have a default number ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 LiamS

    Member since 29/12/2009

    Reviews written: 6

    5 Stars Windows Phone 7- The new iOS? Review with images 09/08/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use, Beautiful new interface, fluid animations, well integrated with other online services

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Still waiting for Mango's multitasking- should have been included at launch

    Like so many people, I was initially dubious when I heard about Microsoft's plans to release a new mobile OS to compete with the likes of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. And from people's experiences with Windows Mobile 6, you can hardly blame them. So I left it for a bit after its October 2010 release, and last month bought a new 16GB Samsung Omnia 7 (my review for which can be found on its relevant Ciao product page), and I was not disappointed. Minimum Requirements Of the three major mobile OSs- Apple iOS, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone- each has a different way of deploying ... more
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