MACTARDS! First impressions on Windows 7 Phone a scrolling nightmare.

Why I would ditch my Apple iPhone for Windows 7 phone?

I don’t like the iPhone, I was mislead by first impression: sleek design, which in use, proved to be unergonomic, slippery housing, with bad user interface wasting space of display (white spaces, margins) and unreliable iTunes as only means of desktop connectivity. I am a Microsoft fun for their excellent product Visual Studio.

Now back to Windows 7 Phone review.

On first screen I see unattractive icons, which are OK (just OK, nothing to be excited about) but there is something optically wrong, something unstable, asymmetrical, off balance. The icons are shifted to the left edge leaving a blank space on the right side!
Did the designer read the specs for screen width?
Did somebody pull the trick and changed them without email “to all” notifying about that?
Tell me the designer WHY am I paying big bucks for AMOLED screen just to have it wasted on black margin?

Let’s click on “PEOPLE” icon and what I get?

Instead of the list of people-contacts, I see a humongous header “peopl” with half of “e”. The header takes up a quarter of display and stays there when I scroll the list. Yes, it stays at the top of the screen steady as a rock. I am fuming already. As I mentioned before, I am paying big bucks for AMOLED screen to use it fully, not to stare at huge sign “peopl” and have only three quarters of screen for the stuff I want to see.

Let’s click on one of those “peopl” with half “e”.

Again, I see big “profile” sign which does not scroll up obscuring large area of my expensive AMOLED screen rendering it useless to display any meaningful information.
Instead of having all info about a person at a glance, scroll, scroll and scroooooll again. Is Microsoft getting royalties for each scroll usage?
But that is not all. In this hopeless “profile” there are subheaders “call mobile”, “text mobile” and so on. Those headers are twice the size of the actual INFORMATION beneath. “notes” header is huge, and beneath there is a text unproportionally small to the header. This makes the screen even more inefficient to display INFORMATION. Just scroll, scroll and scrooooooll.


The worst news:
there is nothing in “settings” to change the font size of headers or eliminate useless headers.

And now the funny thing, how I got the hands on review?

I was looking on Microsoft site to see how the phone works, some demo of the O/S and found nothing. I downloaded SDK because it was supposed to have a device emulator. To my surprise, the emulator was empty. A Google search informed me that there is an “unlocked” ROM for this emulator. Unlocked? Did I hear it right? Steve Jobs anyone? How many times I had to jailbreak my iPhone to unlock it?
Is Microsoft stealing designers from Apple iPhone team? If that is the case, they managed to attract the worst. Next iPhone will be an excellent product.

In conclusion,
I want Samsung Omnia 7 with Windows Mobile 6.5