The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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mesonto, Creative CEO expressed a similar analogy when iPod came out. Look where they're today. It's not about the spec and feature. It's about the design of spec and features, and I don't mean how they look only. It's about how they work. Btw, I believe iPhone uses a solid state touch screen from Synaptics instead of those touch screens on most PDA.
As for Cingular, it's not a big deal. Many will end up using Cingular to make basic phone calls + emails + messages (which Cingular does well). Wifi eventually will dominate the data side of function. Data via service providers like Verizon, Cingular, Sprint will all appear overpriced + inefficient when blanket municipal wifi starts to take hold around US (only few months away, cities have the money, incentives, and pressures to roll those out quickly now).
Blanket municipal wifi is a pipedream. Especially FREE municipal wifi. Not all of us live in the city, or even the suburbs. And yet here I am in a rural area and I have 3G courtesy of Sprint!
Do you think that somehow, in the next year, WiFi will magically cover the entire US? No, that will not happen. But 3G might, and perhaps sooner than you think. How soon until Sprint completes switching its entire network to EVDO? Then Verizon? Alltel? When will Cingular convert their entire network to 3G?
This phone is super sexy, but it needs 3G. EDGE just ain't gonna cut it for those of us who don't live in San Francisco and can't latch on to a free municipal wifi network.