Windows Phone Sales Were A Dismal 674,000 Units?

[neiltc13]

Nice reliable source on the numbers , but I know for sure they sold at least one - to me!

Delay the "real" phones until next year:

http://www.nokiaphones.net/first-nokia-wp7-models-to-appear-in-2012/

I'm sure Nokia will make some great phones, but that doesn't mean that what is available now isn't good. I have a Samsung Omnia 7 and I've compared it to my friend's iPhone 4. On the hardware front, I think my phone has a better screen and has better construction than his, and the phone isn't prone to dropping calls or losing signal when it's held in a certain way. I can replace the battery if I ever need to and I have dedicated hardware back and camera buttons.

I wish I liked it more, but I don't.

On these phones, the UI is the make-or-break for most consumers, and the tiles used by Microsoft just don't make any sense to me. Why are these better than icons on iPhones (which I'm also not a big fan of)?? Unless the UI is "clearly" better than an iPhone's, most people will just opt for an iPhone.

One of my favourite live tiles is the one used for the alarm clock. If no alarm is set, it is just a square with the icon in it. When I set an alarm, it displays whether the alarm is ON and it also displays the time the alarm will next go off. Good for me before bed when I want to check whether the alarm is set correctly. On iPhone, I'd have to launch the app and find the alarm.

I assume the advantage Bada powered phones would be a different target demographic to the WP7 high-end devices. We need to see some midrange WP7 phones.

You won't see them though, because the requirements Microsoft has set out for manufacturers of Windows Phone 7 devices are quite high:

• Capacitive, 4-point multi-touch screen with WVGA (480x800) resolution
• ARM v7 "Cortex/Scorpion" – Snapdragon QSD8X50, MSM7X30, and MSM8X55
• DirectX9 rendering-capable GPU
• 256 MB of RAM with at least 8 GB of Flash memory
• Accelerometer with compass, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, Assisted GPS, and Gyroscope
• 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash
• FM radio tuner
• 6 dedicated hardware buttons – back, Start, search, 2-stage camera, power/sleep and Volume Up and Down.[95]