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I bought one and love it, so now one person did.

http://www.pcmag.com...,2404151,00.asp interesting

Curious, why does PCWorld INSISTS on using the old Windows Phone logo? Do you use the rainbow colored Apple logo when writing about Apple? No, you don't, unless the article is about vintage Apple.

I'm now on my second WP7 phone...and I think the platform is spectacular. The clunky iPhone seems toy-like and silly in comparison.

I don't doubt the numbers here...but if WP7 and its followup fail in the marketplace....it will just go to show how psychotic the market really is.

I'm still reeling from Zune purchase...$300.00. followed by MS killing the product....hard pressed to jump back in, but it does look like a very nice phone...

The problem is still marketing. Even though we are seeing AT&T commercials, they don't seem to show much about what makes WP more appealing than the other phones.

This article is oddly timed. If you've been following the plot, the next indicator of whether the platform will survive will be the next quarter's results - after Nokia's Lumia 900 has had a chance. The next indicator will be Windows 8. Recently, the platform has received strong carrier support from AT&T (something lacking before), and the other major carrier have indicated they will follow suit, because they are concerned about Apple's dominance.

In other words, no one would expect Windows Phone to gain more traction in this last quarter. It is troubling for MS that it didn't catch on earlier, but that's an old story.

Windows Phone is one piece of MS re-engineering its user interface. If Windows 8 is successful, then Windows Phone may ride its coattails.

There isn't any real mystery as to why it hasn't caught on: there have been few devices available, and until the Lumia 900, there has been scant carrier support. The one or two models are competing with a half dozen brighter, more familiar android handset, and the sales staff have steered customers away.

It would be a shame if MS and RIM can't survive in the smartphone market. Variety is good. The fact that these large companies are struggling, and may not make inroads, despite a product that is well-reviewed by consumers and professionals, shows a dysfunctional market more than a failure of the producers. That would seem to be the real story.

Call in Steve McGarrett and crew. Every time they hold their phones up to the camera and scream, "Sending the crime-scene photos up to our SkyDrive™, there's a WP7 shoved right to the lens. One of the biggest Product-placement campaigns going.

It would be more than a little ironic if, after revamping the user interface for Windows 8 to be tablet and phone centric no one buys phones or tablets running Windows 8, while PC users are stuck with an inappropriate UI.

Who hired this idiot!

Lumia sold out for a while and they can't keep it on the shelf. VZW/Sprint made statements that they are hot on WM 8. Verizon is testing WM 8 on their servers. Why don't you research before you write something. This article was true..... like 3 months ago! By 4Q they will be selling 1M handsets a week---and that's just a start.

Hands down... it's the ugliest ui I've ever seen! I'd take a Win 3.1 ui over this one any day! I'll stay where I'm at!

People forget Android didn't sell well until Verizon pushed the Droid. And now that both AT&T as well as Verizon have said they'd stop pushing Android in favor of Windows Phone 8 when it's ready for the mainstream means it's sales will prolly skyrocket and Androids sales will start to fall once these wireless carriers do start pushing Windows Phone over Android.

Seems like the only phone that sells well without Verizon or AT&T pushing it is the iPhone.

the fact that verizon only carries 1 windows phone isnt really helping their cause. How many millions of Verizon customers are there?

At&T execs announced today that Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone is straddling the top selling phone spot with iphone. I don't see how you can say nobody is buying them, the actual mubers won't be public for some time - but the phone also was the #1 seller on amazon and I am starting to see them in people hands now.

Soundjudgment, on 09 May 2012 - 08:41 AM, said:

The fact that they make it over the top and in your face makes it a big fail in my opinion. In one episode one character opened MSN to video conference with someone standing 10 feet away from them. And they showed a close up of every single step to open the program instead of just hitting a single button.

Although I would actually like to see Microsoft go broke, they would be better off if they obtained the address of every Android and iPhone user and mail them a free phone. Someone might actually use one. (not me).

mynameismudd, on 09 May 2012 - 09:20 AM, said:

Winner of the most unintentionally ironic comment of the day. Well done, good sir.

URB, on 09 May 2012 - 08:07 AM, said:

I'm still using my Zune HD on a weekly basis, still works with the Marketplace and my Zune Pass. Though I use it for nothing but music playing these days, I was using it as my portable video player, and web browser (where wifi was available) until I got my Windows Phone.

I really dont get the MS hate! why is everyone so down on Microsoft? There software is top draw and they are really inovating at the moment. Just think how the world would be without them? Linux rocks but its not for the avarage user (I tried giving my wife ubuntu and she actually refused to use a computer and got a tablet). You could argue then that there is Apple but in that world we would all be clones with Apple telling us this is how you do things and paying through your teeth for there lock down (just compare say the price of memory for a pc to a mac). MS makes the best software and it still keeps competition alive and so prices down. Everyone thinks MS is expensive but ask yourself to who? Students get there software for free for example and if your company uses open license your staff can pick up office for £10, and thats only the people who actually pay for it. Then on top of that they give us IT pros things like AD and Group Policy, SQL and exchange.