Couple of Windows Phone 7 annoyances - is there a fix?

[GodlessAstronomer]

I'm loving my new WP7 phone but I have a couple of minor complaints, hopefully someone knows of a fix.

In the browser if you long-tap on an image link it gives you the option to save the image but no option to open the link in a new tab. Irritating.

In the music player when playing podcasts is there a way make them play continuously? It seems that when a podcast ends it just stops instead of moving on to the next one. Very annoying when playing a large number of 1-5 min podcasts in the car.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Ok for the second problem I discovered you can just hit the 'play' button from the list of podcasts on the one you want to play continuously and it works.

I have one more question and I feel kind of stupid for asking something so simple, but how do I 'scrub' through music/podcasts? On the iPod touch I just drag the progress bar. Hopefully there's something like this for WP7.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Oh I see I can just hold the FF button to scrub Easy.

 

[shortylickens]

This is why I dont jump on new platforms right away. Always a few bugs and some interface annoyances to clean up. I'm not saying WP7 sucks, just that it needs some refining before the majority will jump on it.

 

[TheStu]

This is why I dont jump on new platforms right away. Always a few bugs and some interface annoyances to clean up. I'm not saying WP7 sucks, just that it needs some refining before the majority will jump on it.

You are absolutely right, there are some definite rough edges. But I would say that the 1.0 product is better than either Android or iOS at 1.0 (though it isn't a totally fair comparison as they are releasing 3 years later).

Copy-Paste, multi-tasking, landscape support, better youtube, better browser, maybe isolating videos from music in the Zune player, or at least the ability to create playlists, SmartDJ, ability to stream ZunePass music into my library (I can download and I can buy, but there is nothing like on the desktop where the Marketplace music gets folded into my playlist on the fly). These are all things that the phone needs to get, and it will get a lot of them and fairly soon if the internet is to be believed.

I also really miss the ecosystem from the iPhone, the fact that I could control my AppleTV or iTunes library with my phone, send music from the phone to the AppleTV, and a couple of other things were all really nice.