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Microsoft.... the Apple of the mobile market.
I gotta agree with them. While MS has a large OS share in the smart phone market they really haven’t innovated in years and have been losing market share steadily. It also doesn’t help that they keep pushing Windows Mobile 7 off and tried re-branding mobile 6 into “Windows Phone”. Rather lame when all they did was change the GUI. They have a solid OS they could use in the Zune HD gui and can set a hard ware standard using the Zune HD as well, but are intent on keeping the divisions seperate for some reason. Makes you really wonder why they boughtDanger in the first place.
Love my iPhone. I wouldn’t use a WinMobile phone if you gave it to me.
My daughter’s phone has Windows Mobile on it. It hurts my brain to use it. When an alarm goes off, rather than figuring out how to silence it, I just remove the battery.
I have T-Mobile so my options seemed to be limited. I ended up getting the Android MyTouch 3G. I turned out to be a great purchase. I rip DVD’s before trips. No matter what city I am in, I can find anything I am looking for. I can Freep from anywhere.
Because of poor customer service bordering on criminal malfeasance I will never again use ATT or Verizon which means no iPhone or Droid for me. However, I am very happy with what I have now.
Seems CNET has jumped the shark, too, or at least the writer has.
Microsoft has, basically, three problems whereas their phone/pda product is concerned.
1. Price. OEM’s are paying a baseline of $30.00 per. I’m hearing, not factual, it costs a total of $11.00 for Android based distributions. And, that’s after the fee to the Open Handset Alliance.
2. Convergence. A few years ago, MS merged their Smartphone platform with Windows CE, and created Windows Mobile. Now they have a hodgepodge of an OS that is tailored to neither market.
3. Innovation. MS has locked up Windows Mobile, and offered it as a “take it or leave it” product, the market has responded with “we’ll leave it”. Android is open. Telcos are free to customize it to their, and hopefully their customers’, liking. Consumers are, for the most part, able to further customize it, as well.
Now, it may seem, after I said that, that I dislike MS or Windows Mobile. I don’t. I have one. I’ve had one since 2000, in the Pocket PC Phone Edition. And, I’ve moved along the with the market, upgrading as upgraded models became available.
But, I stopped upgrading at the HTC Wizard, also called the T-Mobile MDA/I-mate K-JAM/MDA Vario/O2 XDA/Cingular 8125, etc. LOL It’s a true “world” phone, and I still like it. It has one of the very best slide out keyboards, and that’s important to me. It has a touch screen, I hated having to yank out the stylus every time I wanted to navigate, even one click, and it supports Micro SD up to 1 GB.
I stopped upgrading because there was no value in doing so. Nothing new, in any of the new phones from anyone, including Apple and Android, that would add to my so called “experience”.
What would add to my experience? Uh, screen size makes a difference. I do like that the new Droid has a larger screen. Battery life. Storage. More control.
Oh, and a lower price without a two year prison sentence.