WP7: The Real Facebook Phone

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Windows Phone 7 Is the Real Facebook Phone


MS's priorities were obvious to most of us many, many months ago in the first WP7 threads. Just in case you were wondering how right you were, see above ^.

How is enterprise IT going to like having completely interwoven access to the biggest timewasters they block on users desktops? I understand corporate communications departments utilize social media these days, but not typically at an employee level. Outgoing comm gets filtered through their process.

And if enterprise doesn't buy in, MS's social trend is just going to get stronger and the incentive to continue beefing up the mobile office experience further dilutes.
 
Yeah, given that FB was the first "stock" app I ditched, it's heavier integration into WP7 is not only not a selling point for me, it's a reason to run screaming from the room. :eek:
 
Yep. That alone cements my plans to not move my company phones to WP7. I'll keep them on WM until it's no longer an option, and then decide from there.
 
Oh how I wish I'd seen this thread a few weeks ago.

I just got new Windows 7 phone - HTC Trophy.
I believed them when the cellphone company said I could sync it with Outlook, something I can do with my old Nokia N95.

I can't actually make it do anything. The sync software refuses to run on my laptop. The phone will only talk to the laptop via Zune. There's some kind of idea that the phone will go on the air to sync to the cloud and my laptop can go online to sync to it too. But that's no good when I'm abroad or on the road. I just want the old school way with a cable or even bluetooth.

Please, is there some instructions somewhere. I've been struggling for weeks and so far, I can make it do telephone calls and hardly anything. I'm actually getting less functionality out of it than an ordinary dumb phone. I've had to start carrying a PDA round with me again.

Hey, it was free. But I wish I'd done some research and held out for better value.


Nick
 
Maybe this has something to do with the theme of their commercials. Instead of being so easy to use you spend less time on the phone; the Windows Phone actually doesn't do very much, freeing you up to do other things. :rolleyes:
 
Yes, because Farmville and "< person > likes Socks and 9,572 other pages" are so important it needs to be baked right into the OS! I'm getting the feeling someone at Microsquash is baked as well. :rolleyes: (except Farmville probably requires Flash and likely won't work on WP7)
 
You laugh, but it's gonna work. The herd will eventually buy into this in numbers, assuming they can quit bowing toward Cupertino long enough to turn around. Even Android will seem complicated by comparison.
"It's so easy, it just works." is a compelling argument. And FB updates in those live tiles is gonna be a big selling point. It may be rough now but they will round off the corners. Most couldn't give a rat's a** about no cut & paste.

We here are very much the minority.
 
As disappointing and frustrating as it is, I agree, LS. It's already happening and the momentum seems to be building. What was once a useful productivity tool has degraded into a commodity game console. A toy. An expensive idle amusement.

Whether WP7 becomes a significant player remains to be seen. Even if the OS and its underpinnings are weak, it will be ensconced on a variety of otherwise highly desirable "shiny new things." And we all know that the glitz and glamour of the shell sells - Put it in a nice package with a silly, but catchy, ad campaign and millions will buy a dried horse turd. They might ultimately be disappointed, but by that time there will be a hundred such replacements and the same buyers will buy the same thing again, albeit in a newer, shinier package with a newer, catchier (and sillier) ad campaign. OR... If the dried horse turd has a then-currently trendy brand logo, it will be the most wondrous, revolutionary item to grace humankind since, well... Since man first started riding horses. And we, the minority, will be buried under yet another mountain of...

*SIGH*
 
And MS does indeed plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars marketing it. They don't have a better product than say WebOS, but they do have the funds to make it seem better.

No one has to convince me that dumbphones sell better than smartphones, though it's a bit surprising that that may still be true even when you charge smartphone prices for them.
 
Well, I could always bring Palmie (the T3) out of retirement, along with my $30 blister-pack Nokia dumbphone. With the current direction of things in the smartphone market, I'd be as well off in another year or two... :rolleyes:
 
I think you are right and make a good point; but aren't there other 'feature' phones and such that provide FB updates right up front? Most phones either have built in apps or widgets for that these days. But it's true, for some people, a take-it-out-of-the-box-and-use-it phone is ideal. And I don't denigrate that. I just don't know if the WP7 offers that much new and exciting for people who want top-tier phones to mess with (like a lot of BH'ers) or that much more functionality than a good feature phone (for text-fiends and FB'ers).
 
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