Verizon & WP7 - what a hoot
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I posted 2 weeks ago about the Verizon store rep trying to force me to give up interest in WP7 and instead consider Android. Subsequently bought an HTC Trophy WP7 phone off of ebay. It was delivered yesterday and I took it to a different Verizon store last night to get signed up for a data plan and activate the phone. Initial reaction from the first rep I talked to was eerily similar, suggesting I'd made a big mistake. To underscore his point he informed me their store didn't even carry Windows phones. When I didn't accept his suggestions, he sent the junior guy over to handle the transaction. BTW, the first guy was promoting the Droid Razor, as he had it and REALLY liked it. The junior guy had an AT&T Samsung Note that he'd in some fashion hacked so he could use it on Verizon. In other words, they're both serious Android fans. Anyway, within a couple of minutes the junior guy is commenting how fast & smooth my phone felt, at which point the first guy comes back over and playes with it. Things got a little friendlier then and I hung around for maybe 10 mintues while they both fiddled with my phone. While neither one of them is a convert now, by the time I left they both had a much more positive view of WP7. I still wonder how Microsoft is going to succeed with WP7 in the US when the biggest carrier here gives the platform the back of the hand treatment.
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I posted 2 weeks ago about the Verizon store rep trying to force me to give up interest in WP7 and instead consider Android. Subsequently bought an HTC Trophy WP7 phone off of ebay. It was delivered yesterday and I took it to a different Verizon store last night to get signed up for a data plan and activate the phone. Initial reaction from the first rep I talked to was eerily similar, suggesting I'd made a big mistake. To underscore his point he informed me their store didn't even carry Windows phones. When I didn't accept his suggestions, he sent the junior guy over to handle the transaction. BTW, the first guy was promoting the Droid Razor, as he had it and REALLY liked it. The junior guy had an AT&T Samsung Note that he'd in some fashion hacked so he could use it on Verizon. In other words, they're both serious Android fans. Anyway, within a couple of minutes the junior guy is commenting how fast & smooth my phone felt, at which point the first guy comes back over and playes with it. Things got a little friendlier then and I hung around for maybe 10 mintues while they both fiddled with my phone. While neither one of them is a convert now, by the time I left they both had a much more positive view of WP7. I still wonder how Microsoft is going to succeed with WP7 in the US when the biggest carrier here gives the platform the back of the hand treatment.
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I posted 2 weeks ago about the Verizon store rep trying to force me to give up interest in WP7 and instead consider Android. Subsequently bought an HTC Trophy WP7 phone off of ebay. It was delivered yesterday and I took it to a different Verizon store last night to get signed up for a data plan and activate the phone. Initial reaction from the first rep I talked to was eerily similar, suggesting I'd made a big mistake. To underscore his point he informed me their store didn't even carry Windows phones. When I didn't accept his suggestions, he sent the junior guy over to handle the transaction. BTW, the first guy was promoting the Droid Razor, as he had it and REALLY liked it. The junior guy had an AT&T Samsung Note that he'd in some fashion hacked so he could use it on Verizon. In other words, they're both serious Android fans. Anyway, within a couple of minutes the junior guy is commenting how fast & smooth my phone felt, at which point the first guy comes back over and playes with it. Things got a little friendlier then and I hung around for maybe 10 mintues while they both fiddled with my phone. While neither one of them is a convert now, by the time I left they both had a much more positive view of WP7. I still wonder how Microsoft is going to succeed with WP7 in the US when the biggest carrier here gives the platform the back of the hand treatment.
The only way WP7 will succeed is to offer some serious price incentives and killer apps. Most people don't pay full price for their phones and are stuck in a two year contract cycle to get the discount. Not very many will pay $600 for a phone, or even $200 when they just got one six months ago. Microsoft also must show WP7 to be superior than other phones, not just equal. That, I don't think, will happen very soon and by the time it does they will have lost so much market very few will find any use for them. Look at Kodak. They invented digital photography but went bankrupt because they couldn't capitalize on it where others could. Microsoft must also beat the Apple sheep mentality, which may be easier since Steve Jobs is gone, but still difficult to get sheep to leave the herd.
Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.
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The only way WP7 will succeed is to offer some serious price incentives and killer apps. Most people don't pay full price for their phones and are stuck in a two year contract cycle to get the discount. Not very many will pay $600 for a phone, or even $200 when they just got one six months ago. Microsoft also must show WP7 to be superior than other phones, not just equal. That, I don't think, will happen very soon and by the time it does they will have lost so much market very few will find any use for them. Look at Kodak. They invented digital photography but went bankrupt because they couldn't capitalize on it where others could. Microsoft must also beat the Apple sheep mentality, which may be easier since Steve Jobs is gone, but still difficult to get sheep to leave the herd.
Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.
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I posted 2 weeks ago about the Verizon store rep trying to force me to give up interest in WP7 and instead consider Android. Subsequently bought an HTC Trophy WP7 phone off of ebay. It was delivered yesterday and I took it to a different Verizon store last night to get signed up for a data plan and activate the phone. Initial reaction from the first rep I talked to was eerily similar, suggesting I'd made a big mistake. To underscore his point he informed me their store didn't even carry Windows phones. When I didn't accept his suggestions, he sent the junior guy over to handle the transaction. BTW, the first guy was promoting the Droid Razor, as he had it and REALLY liked it. The junior guy had an AT&T Samsung Note that he'd in some fashion hacked so he could use it on Verizon. In other words, they're both serious Android fans. Anyway, within a couple of minutes the junior guy is commenting how fast & smooth my phone felt, at which point the first guy comes back over and playes with it. Things got a little friendlier then and I hung around for maybe 10 mintues while they both fiddled with my phone. While neither one of them is a convert now, by the time I left they both had a much more positive view of WP7. I still wonder how Microsoft is going to succeed with WP7 in the US when the biggest carrier here gives the platform the back of the hand treatment.
Biggest mistake from MS was to put the name Windows on it. People instinctively think of laggy, buggy, virus-prone software when they see "Windows". And Windows Phone is anything but that. On mobile ground, those attributes are way more characteristic to Android phones. I'm was an early adopter of WP (LG Optimus 7). Still a happy user a year and a half later.
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I posted 2 weeks ago about the Verizon store rep trying to force me to give up interest in WP7 and instead consider Android. Subsequently bought an HTC Trophy WP7 phone off of ebay. It was delivered yesterday and I took it to a different Verizon store last night to get signed up for a data plan and activate the phone. Initial reaction from the first rep I talked to was eerily similar, suggesting I'd made a big mistake. To underscore his point he informed me their store didn't even carry Windows phones. When I didn't accept his suggestions, he sent the junior guy over to handle the transaction. BTW, the first guy was promoting the Droid Razor, as he had it and REALLY liked it. The junior guy had an AT&T Samsung Note that he'd in some fashion hacked so he could use it on Verizon. In other words, they're both serious Android fans. Anyway, within a couple of minutes the junior guy is commenting how fast & smooth my phone felt, at which point the first guy comes back over and playes with it. Things got a little friendlier then and I hung around for maybe 10 mintues while they both fiddled with my phone. While neither one of them is a convert now, by the time I left they both had a much more positive view of WP7. I still wonder how Microsoft is going to succeed with WP7 in the US when the biggest carrier here gives the platform the back of the hand treatment.
I have the Droid Razr myself, and I like it a lot. I don't have anything against Windows phones, I just haven't seen one that's impressed me yet on the hardware end of things. And honestly as long as it isn't an iPhone I'm happy...mostly because I can't make apps for the iPhone.
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I posted 2 weeks ago about the Verizon store rep trying to force me to give up interest in WP7 and instead consider Android. Subsequently bought an HTC Trophy WP7 phone off of ebay. It was delivered yesterday and I took it to a different Verizon store last night to get signed up for a data plan and activate the phone. Initial reaction from the first rep I talked to was eerily similar, suggesting I'd made a big mistake. To underscore his point he informed me their store didn't even carry Windows phones. When I didn't accept his suggestions, he sent the junior guy over to handle the transaction. BTW, the first guy was promoting the Droid Razor, as he had it and REALLY liked it. The junior guy had an AT&T Samsung Note that he'd in some fashion hacked so he could use it on Verizon. In other words, they're both serious Android fans. Anyway, within a couple of minutes the junior guy is commenting how fast & smooth my phone felt, at which point the first guy comes back over and playes with it. Things got a little friendlier then and I hung around for maybe 10 mintues while they both fiddled with my phone. While neither one of them is a convert now, by the time I left they both had a much more positive view of WP7. I still wonder how Microsoft is going to succeed with WP7 in the US when the biggest carrier here gives the platform the back of the hand treatment.
I suspect Verizon makes more money selling Androids. As someone else suggested, the solution will be for Microsoft to start offering huge price promotions.
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I have the Droid Razr myself, and I like it a lot. I don't have anything against Windows phones, I just haven't seen one that's impressed me yet on the hardware end of things. And honestly as long as it isn't an iPhone I'm happy...mostly because I can't make apps for the iPhone.
lewax00 wrote:
I have the Droid Razr myself, and I like it a lot. I don't have anything against Windows phones, I just haven't seen one that's impressed me yet on the hardware end of things.
Numbers don't mean much, it the experience that counts. My 1 GHz single core Windows Phone is lag free across the OS. My friend's Galaxy S2 with 1.2 GHz dual core processor sometimes stutters when scrolling through the contacts list...