Anyone here excited for WP7?
Oct 23, 2010, 11:05 pm
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Oct 23, 2010, 11:34 pm
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I think they have several great products out that blow away the competition and I would love to have them integrated into my mobile handset. Office, Live Mesh (document syncing), XBox live and gaming. Zune, especially if you are Zune pass user is also a great feature.
Oct 24, 2010, 10:57 pm
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Thanks, makes sense from that perspective.
Oct 26, 2010, 2:50 am
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And it's always a bad idea to buy a first version of Microsoft anything. I always wait until service pack 1 or revision 1 has been released before jumping in.
Oct 26, 2010, 8:04 am
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Interesting thing will be to see how prices hold up.
Droid got off to a big start, with lots of TV advertising.
But in a couple of months, they were offering BOGO and then eventually $99 down from $199.
Other hot Android phones have followed a similar trajectory, while iPhone kept prices the same, which may be part of the reason Android made a lot of gains in the months leading to the release of the iPhone 4.
Question is whether WP7 phones will hold their initial release prices.
Droid got off to a big start, with lots of TV advertising.
But in a couple of months, they were offering BOGO and then eventually $99 down from $199.
Other hot Android phones have followed a similar trajectory, while iPhone kept prices the same, which may be part of the reason Android made a lot of gains in the months leading to the release of the iPhone 4.
Question is whether WP7 phones will hold their initial release prices.
Oct 26, 2010, 8:33 am
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Amazon and Wirefly are already offering a $30 discount over what T-Mobile is advertising. Membership Wireless is offering a $50 Costco gift card for buying the HD7.
Oct 26, 2010, 11:17 am
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Oct 26, 2010, 12:48 pm
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Originally Posted by Evening Standard
They are billed as the handsets that could topple the iPhone.
Yet as Microsoft's Windows 7 phones went on sale this morning, there was not a queue in sight.
When Orange opened its Oxford Street store early at 7am, it marked the kick-off of a marketing campaign costing hundreds of millions of pounds — but just a handful of people were waiting to buy the new phones.
Yet as Microsoft's Windows 7 phones went on sale this morning, there was not a queue in sight.
When Orange opened its Oxford Street store early at 7am, it marked the kick-off of a marketing campaign costing hundreds of millions of pounds — but just a handful of people were waiting to buy the new phones.
Although it may have been the fact that Johnny Vaughan was arriving that kept the crowds away.
Oct 27, 2010, 8:06 am
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Oct 27, 2010, 9:11 am
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You could make a lot of mimeoegraphs to pass out at county fairs for that kind of an advertising budget.
Originally Posted by wco81
Have there been any TV commercials? Supposedly they have a huge marketing budget, in the hundreds of millions.
Or maybe they're going for print and web ads?
Or maybe they're going for print and web ads?
Oct 27, 2010, 9:35 am
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Oct 29, 2010, 1:48 pm
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I have just had a play around with the HTC and Samsung WP7 phones and the interface is fugly. Everything animates when you do anything even just opening something. The word editor looks like a text editor, and that was the only office product that worked on the demo models I was using. It does not play youtube out of the box you have to have an app and to download that you need a windows live ID not very good for demo phones.
The ease with which you can mistype on the keyboard or hit the home button etc. when you didn't mean too was alarmingly high. I started off with an open mind but even being as positive as I could I couldn't bring myself to like it.
It won't persuade me to ditch my Blackberry. Personally I would say you should definitely try before you buy
The ease with which you can mistype on the keyboard or hit the home button etc. when you didn't mean too was alarmingly high. I started off with an open mind but even being as positive as I could I couldn't bring myself to like it.
It won't persuade me to ditch my Blackberry. Personally I would say you should definitely try before you buy