I\u2019ve been using my own iPhone 4 for a year, and I\u2019ve had a HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7.x handset at work since around June.\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret that I greatly prefer the iPhone over the Windows Phone.\u00a0 The hardware feel better in my hand, the OS is more friendly and natural, and iTunes beats the holy crap out of The Curse Of Zune.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Phones that make calls and send texts are being built in the back of bicycle shops.\u00a0 The trick is building something that does more.\u00a0 That starts and lives with the OS and the accompanying software (iTunes\/Zune).\u00a0 My experience with Windows Phone 7\/7.5 hasn\u2019t been all that impressive.\u00a0 Install an app \u2026 if you can find a decent one \u2026 one minute its complaining about being plugged into the PC, the next it\u2019s complaining that it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 IT SHOULDN\u2019T MATTER!\u00a0 yesterday I tried to install some apps.\u00a0 They just kept failing to download, despite being on a stable wifi network that my iPhone had no trouble with.\u00a0 For example, I installed Lync on iPhone in seconds.\u00a0 It took 4-5 times as long to get it to install on WP7, at the same time, on the same wifi.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably just as well that there aren\u2019t too many decent apps, because navigating them on the folder-less list of apps on WP7 would be a nightmare \u2013 folders are just so hard to create an name \u2026 wooops, no one has problems doing that on real Windows or iOS.<\/p>\n
Lets not forget that Android is out there leading on hardware specs and sales, even if the hardware is fragmented and that MSFT might be the biggest earner on Android s\/w \u201csales\u201d.\u00a0 Even RIM is ahead of WP7 in the market.<\/em><\/p>\n Nokia was supposed to vault Windows Phone to a clear #3 or even a #2 in the market.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not seen the handsets in person but all reports say they are superbly built devices, even if they are underspecified.\u00a0 Having a HTC, I can say that Windows Phone needed nicely built devices to compete with the iPhone device.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still Windows Phone.\u00a0 It\u2019s still got that stigma.\u00a0 Microsoft hasn\u2019t won over the consumer.\u00a0 And sales prove it.<\/p>\n And let\u2019s not forget the marketing.\u00a0 Compare an iPhone TV advert (which you\u2019ll see anywhere) with a Windows Phone TV advert.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s like comparing iTunes with Zune.\u00a0 One is thought out and complete, and the other is a MacGuyver job.\u00a0 Even I\u2019ve seen The Apprentice and know that the product being advertised should be in the advert.\u00a0 Microsoft seem to have launched the concept of a mobile phone about 15 years too late.<\/p>\n PC Pro has reported<\/a> on a survey by Exane BNP Paribas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 2% of Europeans looking for a new handset would pick Nokia\u2019s first Windows model, the Lumia 800.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ouch!\u00a0 Where are ITC and the rest of those groups now?\u00a0 The vocal minority out there is still blogging and tweeting about the magnificence of Windows Phone 7.\u00a0 If Europe, once a stronghold for Nokia, isn\u2019t interested then there isn\u2019t really much hope.<\/p>\n Windows Phone is going through more upheaval.\u00a0 Once more, heads have rolled.\u00a0 Maybe the code merge between the desktop and the phone will happen more quickly than was originally envisioned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been using my own iPhone 4 for a year, and I\u2019ve had a HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7.x handset at work since around June.\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret that I greatly prefer the iPhone over the Windows Phone.\u00a0 The hardware feel better in my hand, the OS is more friendly and natural, and iTunes beats … Continue reading “Nokia Failing to \u201cSave\u201d Windows Phone 7.5”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t