Microsoft smartphone bashing review
August 13, 2003 [General] | By anonymous 1.
We present latest events and news items that refer critically to
Microsoft smartphones.
- XScale processors consume too much power
Dirty tabloid The Register has re-published article by Guy Kewney from NewsWireless.Net, where he writes: The problem facing Intel´s attempt to move into the smartphone market is that Intel is notorious for throwing power at processor chips - electric power, that is - to make them fast. Intel has hit back with an "optimisation kit" for phones and PDAs.. Actually it was nothing wrong in the fact that Intel brings out optimizing compilers but even in such innoncent act the anti-Microsoft bashers like The Register and Guy Kewney find something wrong!
related link
- 2 smartphone dedicated enthusiast web sites closed in France, Orange France stays cold
http://www.spvnews.com and http://smartgoodies.fr.st/ closed due to lack of support. Main smartphone manager from Orange France expresses regrets but no deeds follows. Just empty words.
related link
- Smartphony.org staff cannot get enough revenue from Microsoft
smartphone and they start making sites about Symbian and Palm OS
smartphones, just to survive!
Owner of the Smartphony.org writes:
I must survive with this website, and the actual content is too restrictive to really interest potential customers like mobile operators.
related link
- Owner of Microsoft sponsored web site says publicly, that Microsoft
smartphone crashes oft and that Symbian phones are better
Jason Dunn, owner of a web site Smartphone Thoughts, that is financially-sponsored by Microsoft, writes publicly on his web site anti-(Microsoft smartphone) things like: Yes, Symbian as an OS is more mature than Microsoft´s mobile offerings and suggests that Microsoft smartphone crashes oft
- Big dissapointment among users: the first XScale based smartphone is
also software locked
Following in the rather shaky footsteps of Orange, the Mitac Mio is being released by CECT in China with the application lock ACTIVE!
... but contrary to Orange SPV phones, no software unlocking method found yet for the MiTAC smartphone... this phone is coming to Europe soon and it still is blocked without a hope to unlock it! Another extreme scandal: not all code-signed applications are running inside of the MiTAC smartphone
related link
- Motorola will do everything for money, even Microsoft smartphone
Dirty tabloid The Register writes: it will build to order if the carrier so wishes. So that´s something less than a ringing strategic endorsement for
Microsoft´s smartphone platform
- Microsoft smartphone lacks backup - not so smart!
That menace is the lack of a proper backup solution for Smartphone 2002, and it´s a problem that stems from treating the SPV and its brethren as phones, not as PDAs.
related link
 Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
 
|
|
Mobile Windows News | 
Podcasts | 
Videos | Search | Forums | Site News
