Windows Phone Comes To Challenge IPhone
Posted by Mara Samson at Nov 22nd, 2010 in Internet Marketing
Microsoft has waited a long time to re-enter the competitive smartphone business, but their new Windows 7 smartphones are now poised to be released to a general audience. This puts their new windows phone nearly four years after the iPhone and more than two years after the Droid phones, both of which have dominated for the past few years as the go-to versatile super-smartphones.
Although there were previous versions of the Windows phone, these devices have been out of date for years now, in a business that is all about the newest and greatest. Windows Mobile 5 was considered buggy and ill-conceived, and although Windows Mobile 6, 6.1 and 6.5 were received as great steps up, they have all been surpassed in popularity by the new and fancier iPhones and Droids.
Performance-wise, the latest windows phone has been lauded for accomplishing most of the major functions that its competitors employ, but has also been received as not quite up to the task of competing with the established names — at least not yet. Lacking some features that many users consider important, such as video calling and using the phone to connect other devices to the internet (called ‘tethering’), the phones may be seen as inferior to the other options.









