Posts tagged: WP7
Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web, on Nokia Lumia 800:
If you’ve been a mobile phone user for more than a decade, then you remember a time when Nokia made the best cell phones in the world. The landscape was smaller then, with Motorola and Nokia dominating most of the 1990′s.
Now, with its sidelining of the custom-built MeeGo OS, Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft to create the Lumia 800 in an effort to defibrillate its flatlining smartphone business.
In the process, Nokia has created something that is somehow greater than the sum of its parts, a feat that I have only seen matched by one other smartphone recently, the iPhone.
By reading the review alone, I was honestly tempted to give this phone, this OS a try. The hardware engineering and design looks very good, something very rare these days in the smartphone market.
Nonetheless, if I had to choose a phone apart from the iPhone, I’d go for Nokia’s WP7 smartphones.
The app features an innovative interactive capture system that lets you see your progress during capture, powered by Photosynth’s computer vision algorithms. Your images are quickly stitched together into an interactive panorama which you can explore right on your device.
I never thought I’d say this, but this app is quite amazing. It stitches photos automatically to form 360º panoramas. That aside, the usual criticisms against Microsoft still stands—poor UI.
Yes, you can say that the UI is lifted from Windows Phone 7, but it’s no excuse for turning up in iOS devices. Ironically, there isn’t a version of Photosynth for WP7 devices; I wonder why.
