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Old Aug 2, 2012 | 2:52 pm
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Originally Posted by serioustraveler
Any family, friends, or affiliates working for Microsoft? Do you get a referral payment every time you extoll the virtues of Microsoft cell phones/products?

Just because you're not an employee of Microsoft(taking your word for that, plenty of big companies have been caught using shills and then deny it), doesn't mean you don't have anything to gain from shilling for them.

I've taken a look at Microsoft phones, and I give a resounding MEH when comparing them to Android phones, about the same MEH I give when I look at Iphones.

I don't work for, shill for, or benefit from Android and I'm merely stating my opinion of Android, Apple, and Microsoft as I see them.

It would be nice to see innovative phones instead of the same cookie cutter touch screen rectangular cell phones.

I currently use the Kyocera Echo which I have mixed feelings about because of the battery life but two screens is awesome.

Even if Apple or Microsoft released a "innovative" phone that isn't really a typical cookie cutter touch screen "smart" phone, I doubt I would switch mainly because all the apps/games/mp3s I have on Android.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33642_7...ro-style-apps/

A whole 450 apps? Most of which I'm willing to bet they had to pay the developers outright to make? If you think that's the tipping for the Windows Phone I gotta give you a reality check.

I think Android has a ways to go before catching up to Apple and Android has far more than 450 apps.

Once Android gets the Igills app(to dive with the phone as a dive computer) I won't even think about Apple or Microsoft as a competitor.
You do realize that your link is for Windows 8 - an OS that has not even been released yet?

Windows Phone 7 hit 50,000 apps back in December of last year:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/24707...till_lags.html

Oh, and the Kyocera Echo is considered by many to be the worst phone of 2011:

http://androidcommunity.com/the-5-be...2011-20111231/


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