Gremlich Johns, on 10 November 2013 - 07:53 AM, said:
More for those who do not own a windows phone. If you've never used a windows phone, don't be hatin'.
A fair point when used to counter most peoples derision of Windows Phone. When someone is deriding WP because it is WP, I too have issues with it.
In my case, however, my dislike of Windows phones isn't the WP OS, it's the hardware (I used to be staunchly pro-Nokia, but they have lost my support due to phones that I just don't like the look or feel of, and the non-Nokia options for WP in my area are very limited at present and not particularly appealing either.).
For the record, prior to my current Android phone (Sony Xperia T), I have used various iterations of Windows Mobile / Windows Phone for the last 10+ years on handsets from Compaq and, post merger HP (although in the case of the penultimate one I owned, I believe it was really a re-badged HTC). Got to be honest, I've never been as impressed with a smartphone as I was with those. 'tis a shame HP got out of the phone business. HP + WP would have been a good match, if they kept to the standards they had back then!
My step-daughter (22) has inherited my old HP Data Messenger with WP6.1 and, while it took her a couple of days to figure it out, she is now dreading having to adapt to a new phone OS when it eventually dies (Probably not that far off... it is over 5 years old and her daughter does have a habit of spilling drinks on it! Even getting a replacement battery for it is probably too much to hope for these days!). She was initially VERY reluctant to take it on, but had little choice due to her old phone dying and no funds for repair/replacement. Now, however, her opinion is that they just don't make 'em like they used to!
The real problem WP has, from what I can see, is a lack of "street cred". Apple and Android have been seen, almost from the outset, as personal phones that can be useful in a business setting. Apple, because they got there first, and Android possibly due to the boost from open-source fans touting it as the saviour of personal choice, especially in the early days of iPhone jail-breaks. BlackBerry were the opposite, a business phone that managed to break out into the mainstream. Windows Phone, however, despite all of the marketing that has been, and continues to be, done, still hasn't managed to be seen as more than an expensive business tool. This is probably, in part, due to MS dropping the ball in losing focus on handheld computing in the post-vista, pre-Win8 era. It's a shame, really, as the OS, especially with its far slicker cross-platform integration compared to the competition, makes it ideal. It's probably also this poor market penetration that is limiting the available hardware options due to companies not wanting to take an expensive gamble on what many consider (wrongly) to be the newcomer to the smartphone market.
Edited by Galil Nain, 19 November 2013 - 03:19 PM.
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