Search This Blog

Showing posts with label ATT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ATT. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

AT&T is counting on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 devices

AT&T is scrambling to find a new partner since its exclusivity contract with Apple for iphone is set to expire this coming January. What better place to look than a rival?

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system will not use the standard user interface of icons that launch applications, this OS will use dynamic tiles which they hope will be intuitive and easy to use. There will be several functionalities that we are used to: a social networking hub and a camera and some that are more advanced than the usual games on the pc like solitaire. This phone has more advanced gaming options, allowing XBox Live owners to access their accounts as an example.

It will also be more integrated with Office but will oddly not have the copy/ paste function.

Although MS is continually trying to update and improve their phone OS, it is unlikely that they will capture the hearts of iphone or blackberry users, especially with the launch of Android phones.

As an owner of a windows phone, I'm delighted that they are scrapping the old OS, because let me tell you, it has left me disappointed.