Comments on: Excuse Me, That’s a Nice Looking Phone

By: heliod

heliod — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:53:05 +0000

Yes, it would be cool, but after 2-and-a-half decades with PCs and seeing that many people still don’t differentiate OSs and their different versions also in computers, I’ve lost hopes that in the phones this will one day happen.

Do you know how many people look at my Samsung Omnia and say “oh, what a nice iPhone you have!” ???

By: Mike Temporale

Mike Temporale — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:58:50 +0000

To a certain extent, I agree – the average consumer doesn’t need to know or care about the operating system on their phone. One of the ladies at my son’s daycare has an HTC Touch and she has no clue that it’s running Windows Mobile. And that’s perfectly fine.

At the same time, wouldn’t it be cool if people understood that the phone ran a given OS regardless of who made the phone. Just like computers, people know that a Dell PC is running Windows, just like the HP PC. The hardware brings value to the purchase, but so does the OS. By knowing that the OS is a standard level, then it allows people to better compare and select from the wide range of form factors and features available.

By: heliod

heliod — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:41:59 +0000

I agree with fowljr, I am not sure that this is necessarily a bad thing.

People buy their phones because they like them, and the only ones that buy according to the OS are geeks like you and me.

If i-mate and Windows Mobile 6 made this guy love his phone without understanding what is Windows Mobile, they have done together a great product. I hope many others go this way, then WM phones will be a success in the consumer market.

By: MobileJaw

MobileJaw — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:38:29 +0000

Excuse Me, That’s a Nice Looking Phone: Over the weekend I spent some time at a birthday for a friend’s son. Thr.. http://bit.ly/WKcNR

By: fowljr

fowljr — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:46:26 +0000

Hi Mike, don’t you feel that in one way this is quite a good thing, as in this instance Windows Mobile has transcended the need for a high level of IT awareness?

I agree that education is good, but this goes part of the way to prove that WM can be used by those who don’t necessarily want to be aware of the OS that their phone is running!!