I wont lie, I love seeing all of those apps, and knowing I can do almost anything with the phone, and many times i'll go to a site and see they have an app, and go... Man i'd like that on my phone.
HOWEVER... I am not going to pay for AT&T and the cost of service for the iPhone. Even if I could never use SERO anymore, I am sure I could get by with something else on Sprint and pay less then AT&T.
I personally dont use office at the moment and use OpenOffice. In fact, there was just a post that Blackberry is going to implement OpenOffice in the next BIS.
upcoming 3.0 update in March to
BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS).
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What's else will be new?
- OpenOffice file support: presentations, text documents and spreadsheets
In the end, it is all preference. The problem I see is that WM is not really trying to get their name out there. You see TONS of Blackberry and Android commercials, but rarely do you see anything for Windows Mobile. I even see more Palm ones.
I am not sure i've seen an ad on TV about it. Not to mention that Sprint commercial with the Pre, Blackberry and... Forgot the 3rd phone. But it wasn't a WM phone.
IF WM 7 is going to be HOT, then they need to advertise the crap out of it. If not, they will never get back in the game.
The problem is that you see something on TV, get an idea about it, or how it works, and read about it, and man you want it. I can't say I saw that with the TP2. I just was waiting for it cause it was one of the only phones I could get with my plan.
I may have even been that much more interested if an ad was out at the time of the release showing all this cool WM stuff.
Maybe the problem is that there is nothing GREAT about it to tout that much over someone else until 7 is released. I don't know, but you cant sell devices when you dont market them that well.
And what will happen if tomorrow brings the end of the iPhone, and all of the sudden you can get it other places? For instance Verizon. OS usage is somewhat hampered by the fact that some platforms are not available on certain phone carriers. If we saw the iPhone on Sprint and Verizon, what do you think would happen to WM? Heck, maybe even Palm and RIM?
If Microsoft praised WM like it did Windows 7 when it came out, and still going strong, it might prove something. But then again, maybe they are saving it for WM 7.
And on a note of advertising.
I work at a Best Buy, and when you walk in the front door, there are mock phones up. I think 4 or 5. Last ones were Android phones. They just got replaced last week, and the blackberry 8530 is up. They are all blackberry phones when you walk in the door. Will there be a WM display next? NOPE, cause we dont carry any.
I cant tell you how many people see that display the first thing when they walk in. And they look at them and grab the dummy phone, and ask about the phones. NON WM that is, cause they never will see one.
And how can you want to gain market share when many people are buying phones out the door at Best Buy with no rebate?
Even sadder. I went to the Sprint store 3 weeks ago, and the TP2 was NOT on display. They said you can only get it online.
Even if it is not a Microsoft thing, it is a phone with their OS. And how can you sell it if you cant play with it?
Everyone else seems to market the hell out of their stuff but Microsoft in the phone world. We had droid stuff up at one point, and iPhone commercials were on TV nonstop, and RIM is still going strong at it.