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Originally Posted by x10guy
I think you guys are misunderstanding my post. I said Winmo is NOT going away. I myself have been a dedicated use since the days it was called Windows CE. So I am actually a bit biased towards it.
But I'm just saying, Microsoft has lost the lead in the handheld market and probably will never get it back. You can hate all the other makers all you want, but that is just reality.
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I was too, I started this with a HPC PocketPC 1.0 (NEC MobliePro 400 that I still have and works fine).
Microsoft didn't blow it, PocketPC/Windows Mobile always had it's market, just never really big (that is mostly due to it's marketing, never too much). They have been making the OS for PDAs and phones for many years now. It really appealed to corporate people who wanted something different than a blackberry and gave great Exchange/Office support out of the box. People who own them, tend to love them once they know them if they can live with the minor flaws (battery life is still one of it's major issues on most phones).
The iPhone is a love/hate thing for me. I've used it, it's nice, it's really fast but, it's just a simple app launcher in a fancy package, I was never impressed and I'm not a mac fanboy so, the "mac" thing didn't drag me over. In this case I hate it.
After what the iPod did to the MP3, you didn't have to be a marketing major to know the iPhone would do really well.
The thing I love about the iPhone is what it did for the market, Microsoft needs to step up it's game a lot to keep afloat here and they know it. The iPhone gave features that many of us has dreamed about for years in a very small package (thin) and really opened up on the touch screen feeling, not just by using a stylus and also the fact that it's almost moron proof.
This has opened eyes at Microsoft, WM 6.5 is a start, it's finally moving in the right direction. The specs for a WM 7 phone are better than the iPhone current offerings, so if they get WM 7 right and not just towards the corporate market(but, not blacklisting them) but, to the hip younger croud, they might make it.
Microsoft if your listening....They need to get WM 7 right and spend some big $$$$ on advertising when it's released. Every phone(model) that is approved needs to go through some major tests before before it can be a WM7 phone.
I think if they miss out on WM 7, it's days are numbered. This is one they can't afford to mess up again. We really need WOW with this one....