AT&T stores getting Windows Phone 7 retail materials, launch coming sooner than expected?
By Nilay Patel 
posted July 5th 2010 10:08PM
posted July 5th 2010 10:08PM
posted July 5th 2010 10:08PM
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@nuclearopts
It's gonna be successful no matter what the circumstances are, period.
@nuclearopts
I think we are about to see one of the biggest marketing campaigns of all time.. Microsoft wants to be a big player in the mobile space and they are going to push this hard
@VSpike915
Microsoft CAN NOT afford for it not to be.
They are going to be pushing this harder than anything else they have pushed before.
@SolidSnake I know, they're just barely hanging on to their marginal lead in office/desktop/development software.
@nuclearopts
Holiday means Black Friday Sales, not End of December...
@nuclearopts Lets see, I hope WP7 is as good as it looks. BTW, I love the completely new look of it :)
@josah too true. Either way, considering the money they are dumping into mobile, they clearly feel the mobile space can have the kind of returns they are currently getting in the spaces they completely dominate in.
Hey, look at what it did for Apple. Apples recent money is entirely based on mobile.
@VSpike915
a success no matter what?
Umm how can you even guarantee something like that? Me thinks you should wait and see before jumping to conclusion....
Anyways no one can say that this isn't an important launch for MS and that they will probably put out a huge marketing campaign but in the end its up to the consumer to buy what MS and it's partners are selling.
Given MS recent history I don't think one can safely assume it will be a success or a failure. With Microsoft it seems to be always 50/50.
Personally I'm rooting for them although the UI itself isn't exactly my cup of tea.
@BrookLynnsFinest
It kills me to say, you sir just wrote a not too bad post. You probably will not be downranked as you did not call people stupid etc.
@josah Marginal lead?
@abedinthehouse that's what she said!
@okok only Apple Fanboys bought i Do you honestly think anyone here doesn't know you also are the user "android looks hacked together"?
Yes, my Hero got a less prettier UI after the 2.1 update, but it sure does feel like a pretty nice and good OS nevertheless.
@Mike Vick
Of course, one good post now does not make up for the rest of his posts since Jun 3rd, 2010, and that's just under this one account.
I suggest he just make a new account and start fresh, that is if he can actually keep it up.
@Very Powerfull Codfish Sarcasm.
@Very Powerfull Codfish I give you...sarcasm! The only proper way to respond to anyone who thinks there's something Microsoft can't afford to do.
@VSpike915
Yeah right. Win mobile 7 is an OS that ain't free and the phone that will be made by the same folks cranking out every conceivable iteration of Android on the market.
And since there are a set number of geeks buying and then selling their last week's HTC on ebay, they are also the ones expected to buy the new MS phone. Hmm! Yall are going to be spending a lot of money.
Thank god my girlfriend got me the iphone 4 last week. One phone once a year. I love it.
It's in a case, no yellowing bull**** and no proximity sensor problem.
@nuclearopts
Move aside Google. Windows Phone 7 will totally replace Android. Ironically, the iPhone will probably stay because it has "royal Apple's follower".
@pspitts
I have no intention of upgrading my phone for the next two years (though I might get a bigger Micro SDHC card.) Please don't confuse having choice with you being required to get every phone that comes out. While you are required to get one new phone every year, I'm perfectly fine with keeping my phone for as long as it works.
@abedinthehouse
That's what she said
@BrookLynnsFinest I downranked you out of habit. Then i read your post and you are completely right. At this point I would not be surprised if this where a success or a failure or something inbetween. Maybe some one can uprank you for me. Sorry bro.
@VSpike915 I have to disagree with it being successful, but I sure am glad AT&T is getting the Windows Phone - you know - because the 'other' phones on AT&T kind of disappoint...
@okok only Apple Fanboys bought i
I'm ganna call it, you fanboy, okay so you said something about Android looks like its been hacked together? Let's see uhm you didn't provide any facts just opinion so I'm pretty sure that's fanboyism. Then you said something about ms is going to mass commercialize Windows 7 phone, how do you know that? Excuse me sir but do you work with ms7 phone commercial agency? Didn't think so, that is a want and bashing other OS's like that is fanboyism. You said they support it unlike google. Hmm I don't think so buddie. How can you not support someone when you support them? Doesn't make sense huh and thats why your logic fails fanboy. So when you say windows 7 phone is better then Android and will replace it is just so ignorant, how can something be better and replace something when its not ecen out yet?? And dont forget at Android 3.0 it will make it look better and end fragmentation, so go ahead and downrank me and just prove my point. You sir are a fanboy.
@VSpike915 Just because a company spends large amounts of money on advertising and development does not mean that a product will be ultimately successful. This is their latest attempt to reconstitute their image in the cellphone arena. However, their target demographic has changed from business, to more technical based, to in WP7 more graphically appealing at the cost of alienating their two previous markets. The business market has been split between, blackberry, Iphone, and android, while windows 6.5 slowly had most of it's loyal tech developer base head over to android as proven by XDA developer board forums. So by no means is WP7 a guaranteed win let alone will the overall successfulness be able to be judged with it's intial release. A new platform always has bugs and WP7 has even stated that some featured will be added after launch. Add on top of all that no cross compatibility between 6.5 and 7 for apps, thus leaving WP7 with a small selection of subsidized apps for launch. Either way give WP7 a wait and see, it will not break the bank on release, nor should it be a failure.
@JonnyB
uhmm... who's the fanboy?! u are by the looks of it... calm down man. he's got a point, android is ugly and slow (even with the 1ghz models). it's going to take a few iterations before it's "usable".
@BrookLynnsFinest
Yeah, instead of investing in a stock, let's just wait and see what happens, then invest in it.
@sighclops
And this is coming from the guy who apparently hasn't used a high end Android phone. Slow, yeah right, stop reading anti-google articles man and go play with one yourself. Also ugly? I can say the same for Apple, blackberry, all window mobile versions, and even windows 7 phone! Hey buddie these are all opinions here so looks like I have a point too right?:)
@abedinthehouse Uhm, you are referring to to Microsoft & The new phone, erm, I hope.
@nuclearopts
More importantly it says 14 for android...which means 7 handsets? There are only 3 with the samsung captivate...4 more by september? Awesome!
@abedinthehouse thats what she said.
@okok only Apple Fanboys bought i
Yea and just look how well Microsoft has done in the SmartPhone business with WinMo.
Android will have many months of development, apps, and sales by the time WinMo7 hits the stores. Microsoft has a huge up hill struggle with a string of flops and fizzles behind it.
If AT&T still has an exclusive on the iPhone the WinMo7 phone will get the same push form AT&T as Android and WebOS does now. None at all.
Verizon has hitched it's wagon to the Android line and owns the Droid name. TMobile is a big Android carrier and was the launch carrier so I do not see them jumping ship for WinMo7.
That leaves Sprint which may be willing to be the big pusher for WinMo7 but after they flopped with WebOS I bet they will stick with their bird in the hand Android phones.
Microsoft needs friends in this market and it needs them bad. Best of luck but they are so in trouble here.
@lwatcdr Here, look at this pic. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/mwc201020100215637.jpg
Btw you're looking at the OS Tab plaque above right? It says QTY: 7.
LOL, my first post got downranked? Holy CRAP some of you people epic fail at sarcasm.
No, no, it's okay, I understand. It isn't like both myself and someone else clarified that it was sarcasm. Some of y'all are just really, genuinely, truly in need of far more hand-holding than that.
/ahahahahahaha
@JonnyB
It's Windows Phone 7. Shut up.
Nice fix !
I want to see the general public reaction to the first Windows Phone 7 phones.
@Bud92 I want to know if at&t will allow Apple to advertise against them.
@Bud92
Ugly UI (yay for Fisher Price OS!!)
Way behind the curve of iOS and Android
Getting released only a few months after a massive Kin failure.
Windows Phone is dead...(i hope)
We are all about to witness a revolution in the mobile market. You may go ahead and count Microsoft out but its not always adviseable to wake a sleeping giant. I will personally get one of these devices. I want an android phone but lets see =X
@Madcat
I disagree. Looks pretty sweet to me.
@Madcat Last I heard, there was this Fischer Price OS that people were so hardcore devoted to, they spent years hating on newer versions until just this past winter.
@Bud92
You do realize that the public are iPhone zombies or on that crackberry
@okok only Apple Fanboys bought i
Grid of icons, eh? There is not one thing about my Android phone that i have setup in a grid fashion, except the uncommonly used app list. Frankly, i hate the grid design that Apple has made standard, which is why my incredible is setup nothing like it.
As for MS - I think it looks horrible. The main screen is a 2xY grid of icons, and any page you go to seemingly has the header text clipped off onto another page. If that really is an improvement... sheesh..
@Bud92
The header text being clipped is done on purpose. If you use the Zune HD, you would see that the function and look serve it very well in use.
I actually really like the look of the new OS, and while I had to get a new iphone while waiting, my next upgrade will be to an WP7 device if the hardware matches the software in quality. (I assume the OS will be as good as the Zune's - which only a hater would criticize.)
@Duke The Zune UI is a work of art really... took my friends less time to learn this UI than the iphones because you just tap the header to go back to the last screen... I really am looking forward to the games and such
it will be a happy day in my pants when windows phone 7 launches
and by pants i mean pockets pervs
@ChronoSapien lmao! xD
@Eli Haj i'm only happy when i have a 3.7in-4.3in candybar in my pocket that vibrates and preferably makes calls
Add a front-facing camera to the Dell Lightning and you'll score yourself a new family of customers.
What's the deal with there being 5 webOS devices on AT&T. I thought everybody pretty much got two...