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hey guys this is Adam Lane with pocketnow.com and we are going to do a little comparison between Apple's iOS and Windows Phone mango so let's get to it first off we're gonna try to boot them up at the same time so here I go we're booting this is gonna be iOS 4 we decide not to use iOS 5 because it's a little too buggy and this is a Windows Phone mango beta this is an iPod Touch 4th generation and this is a Samsung Focus so here we are we're booted up goes straight to some lap tiles this is button mashing there and here we are lock screen and do that okay so there's the interface let's go back to the lockscreen around quick hello and here's some design differences this one iOS has some chrome we got some like a chrome II transparent bar behind the clock there what that does is makes it easier to read if you have a distracting background image so ya better contrast there and at the bottom we have a big arrow bun with slide to unlock that's written text there so you can read it and that's a good indication I've had unlucky when this phone on the other hand has just a big background picture there's a clock and day in your next point mint and some icons at the bottom but nothing really telling you how to unlock it until you touch it and a little little bounce happens so that's that's your clue that there's something underneath there so you should push it up there we go so different ways of doing the communication of what you're supposed to do but both pretty effective you'll see on iOS 5 you'll get notifications on the home screen of the lockscreen there as well which we do have a little bit of on Windows Phone mango already now here's where we're really different the interface design on Apple's iOS is very square grid of icons there are a lot of you know glossy little reflections there little tiny labels for each icons and this is a very similar to what the graphical user interface has been since the dawn of the graphical user interface every app has an icon every icon is an app so we got multiple screens of those there you can tap and hold on the L jiggle and we can move them around so that's your your customization of the interface here but it's really all about the apps okay and there's your search alright we'll get into that later on Windows Phone on the other hand we see this big grid of large square tiles that kind of look like no uh window panes on an old house that just aren't held together by anything just floating in the space there so that's that might be your little tie to Windows how this might look like Windows even that doesn't look like anything like Windows of old so the difference here is these tiles can represent all sorts of things you know some of them represent groups of people some of them are represent apps or music or pictures or you know here we have hubs and this one is showing weather got all sorts of different things going on here you're gonna have a tile for a new note you got this is a Facebook photo album this is a OneNote page these are apps right there with showing different content so we got all sorts of things and with mango third party developers are going to be able to create live tiles for almost any kind of thing they want for example they could make one that is a boarding pass for a flight and all you do is tap in it goes straight to the code that people can scan so there's lots of interesting stuff here but one thing that's we should mention this little arrow brings us to the applications listing over here we have the applications listing only that's everything is the applications listing over here they're sorted alphabetically that's the only way you can sort them and we have little jump list buttons you can go straight to the end letters and we have a little search button so you can find the app you're looking for you can search the marketplace for it if there's something you're looking for and it's not there already and that's kind of similar to the search on the iPhone except this searches everything at once so it'll serve people as well as apps and all sorts of different things okay so there's there's a difference there in the search let's look at the multitasking interface or the recent app switching interface both of these have that and it's implemented in a slightly different way okay let me try to launch the fast task switching interface both at the same time there we go that was pretty good so there's another difference here on iOS we have four little icons that pop up from the bottom and push off whatever you're doing both of these can be accessed from any app so no matter where you are you can get to the multitasking task switcher task manager whatever you want to call it over here we see four over here we see one and part of another one so right there you have four options right away this one you don't have to however you can see a lot of what the other apps are in this style interface and you can pretty easily swipe between them over here you only see the icon and you can also swipe for more so you get four for each swipe so that's a little bit less work to get to the other apps over here but you get a little bit more data a little little bit more of what you're switching to in this style interface whichever is better is your preference so next let's look at the App Store okay so here's the App Store on iOS we see some big advertisements for different types of things that you might want to buy and we see a little Rose of gray and light gray Excel spreadsheet kind of style and over here we have categories some other thing we can dig into different categories and we have different categories up here as well what's hot but what's cool what's really neat is the genius button this is gonna look at what you already have what you've already downloaded and kind of recommend other apps that you might like so see it's recommending X blaze because I have one two slab messenger so that's pretty pretty cool feature you got the top ones you got the search button right there so that's your App Store on Apple's iOS and over here is the Windows Phone mango app store we see you know a few categories here and you got Samson zone this is where third parties can make their own app stores so Simpson made this their own little App Store and that's right integrated with the marketplace and we have a panoramic design here where you can see some featured apps featured games and even music and it's all integrated into one marketplace and there's the app of the day really nicely designed here here's the search button and this will do prediction as well as toggling between searching for music and podcasts and apps where's this one you're only going to search apps and we can dig and go to just apps and get another panoramic design with our categories and the new ones let's top same for games pretty cool looking hub designs here now for music we have to go to this other app there's music over here we got that little button and go back this is your homepage feature that featured music there's some 69 cent songs we've got the top ones here but we can go to the same album over here and you see this is very content only kind of designed there's no extra stuff going on all right both of these places allow you to download music you can buy it over here and since I have zoom pass over here I can actually just download it I don't have to sign in if I go here and I want to buy that I press that button and I got to enter my password and I got to pay for it this one I can just hit it and download I can also preview it but since I have the zoom pass is gonna play the whole song a song actually course this is only gonna play about 60 seconds worth and speaking of playing song so let's look at the music player so this one's already going that screaming some and we're kind of like that you can see what this one's looking like where's over here we have just the album cover you can tap to go to that you can tap that to go to the album listing and we can go landscape mode and you get this Cover Flow 3d kind of thing pretty smooth looking really cool and let's get to the music hub for this one it's slightly different much different Ashley this is our music library a very different design and this has actually some integration with other apps if you look here some of these videos that show up in the new section we're actually put there by the New York Times app and you see some other apps can integrate that with this really easily music we still have our categories pretty much the same everywhere and we also have a nice little lockscreen integration and the album art actually it's not even album art it's just our work of the artist showing up on your lock screen as you switch songs really nice little effect okay so lastly let's try the web browser they both launch pretty quickly and here I have a site already loaded and this has some nice JavaScript going so let's just take a look how well these work these have kind of a Ken Burns effect going on see this is kind of choppy emotion there so this is pretty smooth so that's some JavaScript animation let's try another site both of these are on Wi-Fi and let's try the desktop version pretty quick I'm just going to finish first loading loading and there's the iOS followed by i9 now how smooth of a let's see a video so we're loading again this one I clicked first so that should be finished first anyway so we have I know seems to be a little bit slower on the downloads but processing certain things maybe faster try these videos well this video came up a lot clicker let's try it one more site and go Oh pretty close I'll s1 but we were pretty pretty good speech there i OS a lot faster over here so download speeds we have a pretty good advantage on iOS that's not what I want just try some of this html5 demos here's our fish ie and this is ie9 doing the fishes really quickly but Safari is not very good at that we'll have to look at this again with iOS 5 since that will have much improved html5 support and we that's our comparison between Apple iOS and Windows Phone mango that's it for now hope you enjoyed this video give us a thumbs up if you did