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Opinion: Nokia + Microsoft: Can two winners make a winner?
1) Nokia was the king of phones before Apple and, arguably Samsung/Google, crashed the scene with iOS and Android phones/devices.
It's lost its former glory, but it knows how to do its sh*t.
2) MS has 90% of the PC market under its belt. Yes they've failed with consumer stuff at times but then that's not always because the product itself was bad. Bad timing, marketing, etc.
3) Combine both in WP 7.5. What do you have? A rare OS with good hardware.
4) Android phones have quad cores because Android isn't properly optimized. FFS Win 98 + 128MB RAM could run on a megahertz clock pentium 2, and you're telling me a phone OS needs a quad core? Win 7 can run on a single core chip if you tried. XP at least can. iOS stutters but manages fine on a single core 800 MHz CPU as well.
5) Do you know what happens here in India? WP 7.5 has been hugely popular, and word is spreading. People who wanted a smartphone but couldn't afford an iPhone (or simply couldn't justify overspending on a phone) went with Android phones. Now comes along a OS that's better optimized than Android, an OS that does most of the stuff you could want from a phone out of the box, an OS that's a brand you trust (because it's on your PC) and it comes on non cheap looking hardware that covers various price points....WHY wouldn't you want to buy it?
6) I've reviewed the ZTE Blade, it stutters. My friend's with the same paper i'm working with, he had recently got the HTC One X for review, he said THAT stuttered. Lower HTC One models weren't so bad, he said. He wanted to buy a new phone because he was tired of his blackberry. He dislikes android because of the jerkiness and especially because of the virtual keyboard (he has an ipad, so he's used to the iOS one). He wouldn't buy an iphone though, can't justify the expense. So what did he turn to? WP7. Liked the Samsung Omnia W better than the Lumia 710, but didn't like how it felt in the hand, ended up with the Lumia 800.
7) Only weakness with WP7 is the app store (lack of apps compared to iOS and Android), but then you can make your own app and MS provides the essentials already. Plus then it's in local currencies wherever MS is (i'm assuming, it is here), so no paying in dollars.
I call BS on this one, Wolfgang. IMO anyone who wants a good phone that makes a statement (and isn't overpriced like the iPhone) will end up with the Lumia 800/900 or a $500+ Android phone with ICS.
1) Nokia was the king of phones before Apple and, arguably Samsung/Google, crashed the scene with iOS and Android phones/devices.
It's lost its former glory, but it knows how to do its sh*t.
2) MS has 90% of the PC market under its belt. Yes they've failed with consumer stuff at times but then that's not always because the product itself was bad. Bad timing, marketing, etc.
3) Combine both in WP 7.5. What do you have? A rare OS with good hardware.
4) Android phones have quad cores because Android isn't properly optimized. FFS Win 98 + 128MB RAM could run on a megahertz clock pentium 2, and you're telling me a phone OS needs a quad core? Win 7 can run on a single core chip if you tried. XP at least can. iOS stutters but manages fine on a single core 800 MHz CPU as well.
5) Do you know what happens here in India? WP 7.5 has been hugely popular, and word is spreading. People who wanted a smartphone but couldn't afford an iPhone (or simply couldn't justify overspending on a phone) went with Android phones. Now comes along a OS that's better optimized than Android, an OS that does most of the stuff you could want from a phone out of the box, an OS that's a brand you trust (because it's on your PC) and it comes on non cheap looking hardware that covers various price points....WHY wouldn't you want to buy it?
6) I've reviewed the ZTE Blade, it stutters. My friend's with the same paper i'm working with, he had recently got the HTC One X for review, he said THAT stuttered. Lower HTC One models weren't so bad, he said. He wanted to buy a new phone because he was tired of his blackberry. He dislikes android because of the jerkiness and especially because of the virtual keyboard (he has an ipad, so he's used to the iOS one). He wouldn't buy an iphone though, can't justify the expense. So what did he turn to? WP7. Liked the Samsung Omnia W better than the Lumia 710, but didn't like how it felt in the hand, ended up with the Lumia 800.
7) Only weakness with WP7 is the app store (lack of apps compared to iOS and Android), but then you can make your own app and MS provides the essentials already. Plus then it's in local currencies wherever MS is (i'm assuming, it is here), so no paying in dollars.
I call BS on this one, Wolfgang. IMO anyone who wants a good phone that makes a statement (and isn't overpriced like the iPhone) will end up with the Lumia 800/900 or a $500+ Android phone with ICS.
/www.tomshardware.com/reviews/android-ios-game-developer,3169-2.html
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