BITS BLOG: YEARNING FOR A NOKIA WINDOWS PHONE 7
The new Nokia Lumia 900 sure is pretty.
Yes, that’s right, I only publicly lusted after a non-Apple smartphone. A phone that runs Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handling system, no less.
Before you call the smartphone military on me, I’m not alone. Microsoft said Thursday that the phone won a number of awards this week.
My co-worker Nick Wingfield also reported progressing this week from the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that “the primary hum about the device between tool watchers has been positive.” (In Sunday’s New York Times, he chronicled how Microsoft came up with the thought for the phone and the design.) Farhad Manjoo, a technology bard for Slate, also received applause on Twitter when he posted this message: “The Lumia 900 is the initial phone given the iPhone that I wish though even in contact with it.”
So will people group to this new voluptuous Nokia phone? Some will, though it competence be a bit longer prior to the Apple and Google fanboys burst ship.
Personally, as many as I would similar to to switch to the Nokia Lumia 900, there is a single thing that is land me back: apps. The apps that I use the many on my iPhone, together with Instagram, Path, Instapaper and NPR, don’t exist for Windows Phone 7.
That said, as many as it heedfulness my ego to write this, I competence not be the aim assembly for Microsoft and Nokia.
“The blue sea that Nokia and Microsoft are starting after are essentially consumers who don’t nonetheless have smartphones,” Sarah Rotman Epps, an researcher with Forrester, said in a write talk from Las Vegas. “These are people who haven’t opted in to Android or iPhone yet.”
Ms. Epps should know; she not long ago converted to a Windows Phone 7 smartphone from a RIM BlackBerry Curve.
Why Windows? “On a personal level, I didn’t unequivocally brand with iOS or Android phone platforms,” she said. “Plus, I wasn’t compliant to be an Apple-fan or Google-fan in conditions of my personal phone choice.”
So rsther than than try to modify people who adore their iPhones or Android phones, Windows can go after a big segment of the smartphone marketplace — BlackBerry users and those who have not nonetheless switched to a smartphone from other mobile devices.
As for the apps? A number of start-ups I’ve oral with in the past have pronounced they devise to set up apps for Windows Phone 7 as more consumers adopt the platform. Continuing to suggest affordable neat phones from Nokia will assistance enlarge the number of users quicker than people competence expect.
As for me, until those apps exist, I’ll only sit lusting after the Nokia Lumia 900, wondering what it’s similar to to live in a Windows Phone world.
The new Nokia Lumia 900 sure is pretty.
Yes, that’s right, I only publicly lusted after a non-Apple smartphone. A phone that runs Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handling system, no less.
Before you call the smartphone military on me, I’m not alone. Microsoft said Thursday that the phone won a number of awards this week.
My co-worker Nick Wingfield also reported progressing this week from the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that “the primary hum about the device between tool watchers has been positive.” (In Sunday’s New York Times, he chronicled how Microsoft came up with the thought for the phone and the design.) Farhad Manjoo, a technology bard for Slate, also received applause on Twitter when he posted this message: “The Lumia 900 is the initial phone given the iPhone that I wish though even in contact with it.”
So will people group to this new voluptuous Nokia phone? Some will, though it competence be a bit longer prior to the Apple and Google fanboys burst ship.
Personally, as many as I would similar to to switch to the Nokia Lumia 900, there is a single thing that is land me back: apps. The apps that I use the many on my iPhone, together with Instagram, Path, Instapaper and NPR, don’t exist for Windows Phone 7.
That said, as many as it heedfulness my ego to write this, I competence not be the aim assembly for Microsoft and Nokia.
“The blue sea that Nokia and Microsoft are starting after are essentially consumers who don’t nonetheless have smartphones,” Sarah Rotman Epps, an researcher with Forrester, said in a write talk from Las Vegas. “These are people who haven’t opted in to Android or iPhone yet.”
Ms. Epps should know; she not long ago converted to a Windows Phone 7 smartphone from a RIM BlackBerry Curve.
Why Windows? “On a personal level, I didn’t unequivocally brand with iOS or Android phone platforms,” she said. “Plus, I wasn’t compliant to be an Apple-fan or Google-fan in conditions of my personal phone choice.”
So rsther than than try to modify people who adore their iPhones or Android phones, Windows can go after a big segment of the smartphone marketplace — BlackBerry users and those who have not nonetheless switched to a smartphone from other mobile devices.
As for the apps? A number of start-ups I’ve oral with in the past have pronounced they devise to set up apps for Windows Phone 7 as more consumers adopt the platform. Continuing to suggest affordable neat phones from Nokia will assistance enlarge the number of users quicker than people competence expect.
As for me, until those apps exist, I’ll only sit lusting after the Nokia Lumia 900, wondering what it’s similar to to live in a Windows Phone world.