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Are we on the eve of distraction?

By Yair Noam
System Architect,
Red Bend Software

Stepped into the Microsoft booth at MWC the other day to watch the demo of Windows phone 7. I tell you, the device certainly looks good and the new user experience concept is cool. Although I didn't actually get to hold a real device in my hands. I had to settle for a huge touch-screen with a canned demo which failed to tell me how the screen would look on a real (smaller) device.

Anyway, after a good night sleep, I realized what was bothering me, in addition to not seeing a real device. The thing with a Windows Phone 7 is that it is always trying to get your attention. The phone will introduce a lot of information on the screen, information that it "thinks" is important for you.

You can certainly call me old fashioned :-) Well, you can even guestimate my age by the theme song that I picked - Eve of destruction - 1965 by P. F. Sloan. Anyway, in my mind, I would like to be able to use my mobile device in a semi-automatic way. Meaning, I know what buttons I need to press when I want to do some operation and I know what to expect them to do when pushing these buttons.

My device should do what I tell it to and not try to distract me from that by flashing icons and displaying amazing animations. We had that on the PC not too long ago and it did drive the more techie guys crazy... good old clip and the cute little doggy...

And now we wait...

Labels: microsoft, mobile world congress, MWC, P.F. Sloan, windows phone 7

posted by Red Bend @ Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 7:42 PM

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