Here’s what HTC’s Executive director Jon French told Mobile Magazine recently – HTC is going DEEP with Windows Phone 7, and will not be favouring either platform.
Until the sales figures come in, eh?
“The perception has been that our focus was on Android, particularly as it has been much more in the consumer’s eye than our Microsoft devices, which were largely in the B2B space. But we have been working with Microsoft for many years and have worked with Microsoft on this latest platform so we are very much equally focused on both platforms”
And here’s one of the FIVE handsets HTC is hoping will sell Windows Phone 7 to the masses, the HTC HD7.
The HTC Windows Phone 7 phones do look rather good, but we’re sort of obliged to hate WP7 so had better not be too complimentary.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
E
/ October 12, 2010Fair enough really. WP7 has potential to actually be quite good, and I look forward to giving it a whirl come November. However, despite all the lucrative features the OS is offering, I have to align myself with the common thought that WP7 is going to have a really hard time becoming popular, especially now that Android is on a roll. I hope for their sake that it doesn’t tank as hard and fast as the Kin series did.
edhe
/ October 12, 2010should brand them “live phones”.
Respect to HTC for letting consumers choose and no, you shouldn’t hate the competition, you should embrace it to learn from it.
MarkG
/ October 12, 2010Not that HTC really have a choice, they have been railroaded into making WinMo7 phones as Microsoft threatened to get the lawers on them for actually making a GOOD phone…
“Make us nice phones and not get sued”
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/223715.asp