Windows 7 Phone will never beat out Android

[Light Speed1]

Many of the Win 7 phones has way too many limitations, my local Telus guys has been testing around with it and one guy i know that works with Telus said he still prefers Android. As far as he said, no custom ringtones, no sdcard expansion on some of them, and the UI is bland.

For some people it's nothing to write home about.

look at my sig

which UI is the bland one

 

[conor.in]

look at my sig

which UI is the bland one

We've already shown that your signature is an entirely ridiculous comparison.

 

[Light Speed1]

no you havent....

 

[ashykat]

we've seen it on video for months and it has been reviewed by hundreds of sites, what else exactly needs to be proven?

A lot! Think about the Palm Pre. Palm had everything going for them leaving 2009's CES. Hype and buzz about webOS was huge, and it was looking like this was going to be a knock out of the park for sure. The OS was reviewed well, people liked it, and what happened? Third party developers didn't get on board nearly enough, not enough people bought Palm Phones, marketing behind them was awful, and Palm had to sell themselves to HP just to make it through. We'll see what happens now, but they have a long way to go to catch up. Seeing video and tech reviews does not equal real world success. Will people put up with the restrictions on a WP7 device? Will enough people be inspired enough to leave behind their BlackBerry's, iPhone's, and Android devices to make the platform a winner? Will the phones mysteriously blue screen at the most inconvenient moments? Only time will tell. That's what I mean by it needs to prove itself.

 

[Light Speed1]

"Third party developers didn't get on board nearly enough, not enough people bought Palm Phones, marketing behind them was awful, and Palm had to sell themselves to HP just to make it through."

wp7 has 12,000 devs registered, and it has a $400 million marketing budget. i am saying this IS guaranteed success. at&t has a section in their stores dedicated to wp7. there will be lots of sales.