Comments on: Estimate: 2.5M Windows Phone 7 Shipments in Q1

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:38:04 +0000

Appreciate the feedback and yes, before Google and Apple arrived in 2007/2008, this area was the tops in smartphone sales. But since then, smartphone adoption in the U.S. and some European regions far outpaced it. It’s only recently that the smartphone has taken off again in Asia-Pacific areas, partially due to the more recent maturity of the mobile broadband in some of the countries.

By: sranzha

sranzha — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:05:14 +0000

Hi Kevin, I like your writing but sometimes the statements are just plain ignorant. You do realize before Google and Apple stole the innovation momentum from likes of Nokia, Samsung in phones arena, SEAP countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, KL, etc were biggest smartphone consumers …more than all of US put togather… and still you find it surprising….

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:22:06 +0000

Microsoft would have done better to sit on it and keep improving WP7 until it could reasonably compete against real smartphones. Instead they pushed an embarrassment out the door which is largely unchanged half a year later. The best move they could probably make with WP7 now would be to coordinate with Nokia to position it somewhere between the $20 prepaids at Walmart and the lowest of low end Android phones. That would give them more of a market than the handful of hangers-on currently trying to beat the dead horse back to life. If they can’t do that, WP7 may go down as the worst mobile venture in history, it’s best feature being that it was effectively dead three months after hitting the market.

By: john

john — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:46:41 +0000

Let’s see how many handsets were shipped.. in how many countrys, and how long ago? and at what prices, are them like android phones with prices from low end devices to high end devices??? and..in these ruff market what was the shipped devices number compared to android devices in there first months of life?? hummm and when nokia starts shipping nice windows phones at very affordble prices? hehe

By: Jay Swanson

Jay Swanson — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:22:32 +0000

Bada only exists for the sake of selling bottom end phones super cheap in emerging markets. Comparing sales of it to WP7 makes no sense other than giving haters a reason to declare failure at every opportunity. The only reason WP7 might eventually fail is the fact that the tech media is filled with anti-microsoft trolls who will bash it whenever possible because they want it to fail.

By: devel

devel — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:13:05 +0000

This doesn’t make sense. Samsung is one of many devices running WP7, so how do you some up with the statement that there were “2.5 Windows Phone 7 Shipments in Q1″?

By: kts

kts — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:45:49 +0000

I’m a happy owner of an HTC Surround. No botched updates on my end and a superior user experience while moving around the OS. Marketing is the only real issue here.

By: Another Developer

Another Developer — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:33:27 +0000

Windows phone actually has a lot of good things going for it.

-It’s young, so low sales doesn’t indicate failure
-With the Nokia deal, WP7 will have a much larger presence
-Key features are roadmapped and coming this year
-App marketplace is growing faster than any competitor did in the same amount of time.
-Unique interface (android and ios are too similar)
-Very, very few bugs (yes, I’ve actually used the phone)
-Very good developer tools (I’ve developed for both WP7 and Android)
-Very little fragmentation
-No malware on the marketplace
-Zune (honestly it’s way better than iTunes)
-Office
-XBox Live (which is actually pretty cool and it has a lot of good, unique games)

The list goes on.

It’s got its weakspots, but its strong points are more than making up for it. And Microsoft is hard at work on fixing the weakspots.

My guess is it will eventually succeed over Android, as hard as that is to imagine.

By: Developer

Developer — Fri, 06 May 2011 07:59:13 +0000

Windows Phone fails on many levels.

-Late to market
-Missing features
-Bugs
-Entrenched competitors
-Botched updates

Microsoft has handled Windows Phone very very badly. It seems that Microsoft is incapable of executing in mobile.

There’s one more reason why Windows Phone failed. Like Om likes to point out, this is a product without a business plan. Google had already destroyed Microsoft’s business plan (ie OS license fees) before Windows Phone 7 was ever released.