Is Windows Mobile Vanishing?

[chardog]

does android or iphone sync up with outlook? I have an iphone, but never tried it. That's a deal breaker to me if either doesnt. Outlook is part of my work life, and cant go without it.

[grandzu]

Well Samsung has said it will no longer use WinMo for its phones
But its all about marketshare and customer satisfaction and WinMo has the lowest.
As of the third quarter in 2009, out of 41 million smartphones sold,

• Symbian finished first with 44.6%
• Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS finished second with 20.8%
• iPhone finished third with 17.1%
• Windows Mobile had 7.9%
• Android is 1.8 percent but is estimated to grow to about 12%-15% by 2012

Also Android is free whereas WinMo costs the phone maker $25 per handset.

[iknight8]

im pretty sure in the next few year symbian will barely have any share once android/winmo/iphone kicks in full gear!!!!
RIM should update their interface... but overall its pretty good for business users!

[Paragon]

Originally Posted by grandzu

Well Samsung has said it will no longer use WinMo for its phones.

Link please.

[BlackDynamite]

WIndows Mobile is not dying, lol.

You SERO users need to understand that you're a drop in the bucket. If Spritn kicked everyone off of SERO it wouldn't even make a dent in the number of Windows Mobile users.

Seriously man, even in the USA that number is not big enough to be relevant. Sprint is a dying company, and the SERO users are a very small minority of their total customers.

And worldwide- are you kidding me? Sprint's SERO customers are nothing compared to all the people getting free HD2's on contract overseas.

Don't forget- on Verizon the Touch Pro 2 was sold out for like a month (or even longer) when it was first released. Peopl do actually like the Touch Pro 2. It's a great device. And this is coming from a guy who isn't on a SERO plan.

When Windows Mobile 7 is released, it will do well if they advertise it. It will do crappy if they don't.

Has anyone seen that Sprint commercial where they say something like "These people are using Sprint's 3 best smartphones..." and they go on to mention the Moment, some Blackberry, and the Pixi? No mention of the Touch Pro 2.

It's like Sprint (and other carriers) have totally abandoned the Windows Mobile platform. I think part of the reason for this is because of how easy it is to tether on Windows Mobile, and how many apps there are that use data. All of the carriers hate tethering, and Windows Mobile has it built in by default. SO the carriers have special ROMs made for them that have it removed. But anyone who cares about tethering and spends that kind of money on a device just comes here or xda and gets tethering enabled.

Carriers don't like this. They want to charge $30-$40 per month for tethering (see the Palm devices on Verizon). And since Microsoft wouldn't cave, the carriers black balled Microsoft.

Hopefully Microsoft stands their ground and continues to make tethering easy in future devices.

[Q_Q]

WinMob dying would kill MS.
Seriously, all projections calls for Mobile Computing to be the biggest computer sector to grow in the next 10 years.
MS needs to be in the race for sure. Rebranding WinMob brand name would be the only thing I would think they would do besides obviously dedicating a full rebuilt & upgrade in this next version.

[NIKKG]

SERO SERO SERO. Thats the ONLY thing keeping WinMo alive, without it, I guarantee half the people here would be in the Android forum. M$ messed up badly this time, that WinMo 7 better be all that and a bag of chips or its game over for them.

[NIKKG]

...Once you get that Android MightyROM, than you know its game over for WinMO.

[Paragon]

Originally Posted by NIKKG

SERO SERO SERO. Thats the ONLY thing keeping WinMo alive, without it, I guarantee half the people here would be in the Android forum.

LOL....If ALL the people here moved to the Android forum it still wouldn't be enough to even register on the scale.

[quickstang]

Originally Posted by Q_Q

WinMob dying would kill MS.
Seriously, all projections calls for Mobile Computing to be the biggest computer sector to grow in the next 10 years.
MS needs to be in the race for sure. Rebranding WinMob brand name would be the only thing I would think they would do besides obviously dedicating a full rebuilt & upgrade in this next version.

http://www.notebooks.com/2010/01/22/...wsing-by-2013/

So if this was the case, I wonder who would win? I think it will all depends on first and foremost, the browser. Second, the LTE or 4G, or whatever will be out by then, and then the phone.

It could be all different, but it's just a guess.

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