Hooo-ee! AT&T have clearly got high hopes for Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS reboot, Windows Phone 7.
Michael Gartenberg — technology columnist to the stars — tweeted out today that a trusted source told him that AT&T have signed up for eight million WP7 devices — which is approximately one million times more than the number of Kins sold.
To put that number in perspective, Apple moved about that many iPhones in the last quarter. Now, I can’t say how quickly AT&T expect to move those numbers, but they wouldn’t be expecting anything near the speed with which the iPhone sells. The point here is that AT&T have enough faith in the platform that they reckon they can move that much.
Of course, it it won’t be the networks that will decide the success of the platform; that part of the story lies in the hands of consumers and developers.
[via Slash Gear]
It has already been pointed out that Windows Phone 7 will not have copy/paste, nor will it support SDHC cards. This is simply not acceptable. M$ is taking a huge step backwards here. FAIL.
*pretending to be a Microsoft apologist*
You don’t need copy/paste and no SDHC cards means a more unified form factor. This makes it easier for cellphone companies to design and build!
Yeah, I have to agree, no copy / paste is sort of strange and sort of lame.
No copy/paste is a show-stopper for me. The missing SDHC card reader is a super-show-stopper for me. I mean come on, I have SD card readers built into my: TV, notebook, netbook, PC, digital picture frame, MP3 player, cell phone, and my car stereo. I keep all of my media on SDHC cards: music, movies, pictures, and ebooks. I swap them around as needed depending on what media I want to consume. Leaving of the card reader just won’t do…
I have a developer test device.. Hey everyone, seriously this SD card discussion needs to stop!!
Your comments above are so early 2000′s! Its time to embrace the cloud! That WP7 OS is a cloud device, giving you 25gigs of space and SEAMLESSLY syncing all of that data (pictures, docs, music) for you! The experience is truly amazing and I promise you will all love it and thank the heavens you no longer need to work about getting data on/off your device. The world of carrying SD cards and moving from device to device and hoping the latest info is on them is honestly archaic.
Copy/paste.. I do agree with you all that it doesn’t make a lot of sense that it isn’t there. But again, until you use the device you shouldn’t write it off yet. Granted there is no c&p but while using the device there have only been a few *minor situations where I’ve felt pain needing it. WP7 has brought some really intriguing features like seamless linking of addresses to the Bing maps feature. The same goes for websites and phone numbers to their respective apps.
Don’t discard it, till you at least try it.. :-)
@Clouduser that’s great and all until you reach your att data cap, then what?
You donlt need an SDHC card. Unlike Apple, who kust put internal memory, Microsft has put internal memory and also 25 gigs of cloud storage. You don’t really need to swap out cards if everything can be accessed anywhere
Simon obviously needs to brush up on his English grammar……”AT&T have” ????
I’m an accountant, not a grammar buff, so maybe an expert can clarify. Is AT&T singular or plural? I say singular, but in England I believe it is considered plural and the current sentence structure would be correct.
I’m not sure but i believe has is only used for he,she or it. So if you refer to AT&T as ‘they’ (which i do) then it would be have.
singular plural
1st-I have We have
2nd-You have You have
3rd-He/She/It has They have
Someone obviously needs to brush up on their Google skills.
There is no established standard as to whether companies are referred to as singular or plural. Different people have different reasons why they choose either option; neither is incorrect.
Thanks for the fruitless attempt to make yourself seem smarter on the Internet, though.
Next on the agenda is data. Is it “data are” or “data is”?
Don’t forget datum vs data!!
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/hobgoblins/
Whether it’s right or wrong, why bother using “AT&T have” anyway? The goal should be to not confuse or distract your readers from the story. Unless of course the author is going for more comments on their article lol.
Keeping in mind that companies can be singular or plural, I should have written:
“AT&T clearly have high hopes…”
as “got” is a word that should never be used in prose (I wrote it at midnight, ok). I’m surprised this wasn’t brought up as an issue.
Thank you all for your insightful criticism, but tell me now: what do you think of WP7?
I wouldn’t underestimate Microsoft here. Win Phone 7 UI is innovative. Office apps, Hubs, Xbox Live and Zune pass are compelling features.
Not really. Non Zune users couldn’t care less about Mircofail’s “hubs”. FAIL!!!!
And zune hardly sells, hit it up on Amazon to see how dismal its sales are.
Also note that iPhone does not have a card reader, they sell just fine.
I think the deciding factor will be business integration as that was the WinMo success driver. Exchange Support on the iPhone is good, but I have a feeling that MS will integrate with their file formats for the enterprise where there may be more of a willingness to shell out big bucks for a phone when they can create (albeit bogus) business cases for the need for the tech. Native Office compatibility, SharePoint compatibility, Exchange (With UM voicemail, faxing, etc.)
Considering how annoying apple fanboys are, and how pathetic fandroids are… I really hope this third option works out.
Or could it be that AT&T are/is preparing for life not being the sole network for the iPhone?
I’ve been a WinMo fan for years (first got a Motorola mpx 220 back in 2005), and I have to agree with the first comment here that windows phone 7 is a HUGE step backwards. The crazy thing is that WinMo has been a powerful and functional OS for basically forever. It’s had really useful functions that have only really emerged from competitors within the past few years or not at all (hello multitasking, cut/copy/paste, voice command, smartdial, multiple text input options, full office mobile suite). The only problem with WinMo has been that all of those amazing functions were buried so deep within a clunky and aesthetically un-appealing menu system that very few people ever used or found out about them, and Microsoft never spent marketing dollars pushing the extra functionality of the OS.
With Windows Phone 7, I feel like MS basically threw this amazing, functional, powerful OS out the window, along with all the extra features that made WinMo unique and superior, and are basically trying to create an inferior iOS clone that they’re going to spoon-feed to the public by overhyping it. What angers me is that if they’d spent a tenth of that marketing budget pushing WinMo over the past five years, they could easily have the market lead right now.
WP7 will go over like Kin did. hahahahahha
When I think of at&t I think of a retarded child in the middle of the road waiting for the ice cream man to roll by
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