[pyx]

I may be paranoid but that doesn't mean people are plotting against me.

Why anyone would spend several hundred dollars to a cell phone and a monthly fee for sophisticated electronic that the government can and does track, which has GPS that logs where you go and where you've been, that contains private contact information and includes bank account access information, is completely beyond me.

[Mr. K]

Great way to KILL SALES THIS YEAR, Mickeysoft.

[dayglored]

What a lot of talk. Microsoft must be awfully desperate to be making claims like this.

Either -all- smartphones will drop to half their current price, or else Microsoft's $100 phone will be mighty slim on function and/or performance.

How the hell do they plan to make a profit at that price? Are they making a loss leader?

The days when they could price Internet Explorer at (free) in order to kill off all the competition are gone. Then, they ruled the desktop. They do not rule the mobile market. They are a too-late bit player at the moment.

I hope they are able to live up to this talk. They are welcome to the market. But they actually have to produce something people want.

[Blueflag]

This may be true, but then you’d be holding and trying to use a Windows 7 Phone.

Seriously, WHO really WANTS one? and why?

[MWS]

Do they come with the Blue Screen of Death?

[longtermmemmory]

will it still be a closed system with the useless and absurd “cloud” storage? will windows phones still NOT have an expansion microsd slot?

if it remains a wanabe closed system iphone then I pass.

[antiRepublicrat]

Duh. W7P has minimum specs, and all of them are met with what was a high-end phone last year. Given the speed of phone technology development, it makes sense that by next year that hardware spec will be available in a low-end phone.

[Thinkitude]

Sounds like a desperation play — Android and (to a lesser extent) Apple is eating MS’s lunch in the mobile market.