Microsoft’s bid to make Windows Mobile relevant should take off at the Mobile World Congress next week. We’ll be seeing the latest and greatest from the big M, hopefully including their answer to Apple’s MobileMe. Microsoft would have to try pretty hard to roll out something more poorly than that, but cross your fingers anyway.
My Phone should make syncing your contacts, favorites, and pictures easier by keeping them on a web page dedicated to your phone. Its full functionality is a matter of speculation right now, and will certainly expand with time, so I’m guessing there will be a lot of promises made on the 16th.
Will we see some Zune functionality at MWC? Lord, we can always hope. The Zune UI guys who went over to WinMo must have something good to show by now. We don’t need a Zune phone (although we’d like one), but give us something!
I wonder if this is related to their investment in Facebook (apart from search rights or whatever they said publicly. It might be interesting to see a phone with Facebook integrated a bit more closely – contact list generated from it, maybe use it as a platform for applications as well, have photos get uploaded instantly to Facebook from the phone’s camera, etc.?
I don’t have a clear idea on it but it might offer a possibility for Facebook to generate some revenue.
Our communication methods are growing and being used a lot more on the internet and so I expect to see something a little out of the ordinary, not just a phone trying to be like the iPhone and then falling short.
By the way, if someone has knowledge of how these companies work specifically, I’m a bit curious about something.
Apple released the iPhone and then BB launched the Storm, Palm has announced/displayed the Pre, and MS is apparently going to debut something next week.
I assume that Apple had been working on this for a while, maybe 4-5 years? It might have not all been what we know now as the iPhone, but whatever the idea was prior to this, my guess is that they’ve been thinking about this for a while.
With these new products that are trying to compete (Pre, Storm, and the MS phone potentially), have the companies been working on them for years just like Apple and it just happened to be that Apple made it to market first or did they see the iPhone and use it like everyone else before they made their own?
Their new name is Micro not so soft..lol
Is it launched in the market?
when is this launched?