Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Why Microsoft should not do phones

1. See today's news about the dying Zunes (they are not phones - I know - but the same category of devices)

2. A coworker and friend just got an Sony Xperia X1 ... cool phone, if it were not for the Windows Mobile inside. What he (a long time Nokia user) discovered was, that you should not switch off the phone when you rely on the alarm to go off in the morning, because it then wont.

Yes. True.
With Winodws Mobile, the d*** phone is stays switched off and the alarm just wont sound.

2 comments:

Max said...

Well, actually I hate to say that the iPhone is not different. They are just small computers. Though, iirc, ANY newer PC can be set (in BIOS) to wake up at a specific time. So not an excuse really...
Happy New Year nevertheless!

Roman said...

I don't consider this a technical issue. But if you are the only platform in a market, that behaves so unexpectedly, you do have a problem - maybe in product management.
Then again - maybe this is a problem of platforms (vs phones) in general: Windows, iPhone & S60 all seem to put their rules above the user...