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The Wall Street Journal trashes Microsoft smartphones currently available in USA: Motorola MPx200 and Samsung i600 December 12, 2003 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1. Itīs not some local newspaper but itīs influential The Wall Street Journal! Itīs not some icompetent journalist but itīs Walter S. Mossberg - influential technology writer! Too bad for Microsoft smartphone platform... 
Mossberg writes among others such things against Microsoft smarpthones: Their big flaw is that the Microsoft software is painfully slow to identify incoming callers, even if they are calling from numbers included in the phoneīs address book. The process is so slow that in a dozen tests, neither phone ever identified a known incoming caller on its screen before the calls went to voice mail. Microsoft and the phone makers are working on the problem. [...] The Motorola phone was very slow, with irritating lags in executing commands. The Samsung was faster. Also, the Motorola has no speakerphone. while Samsung does. [...] The Microsoft software also makes it hard to configure some third-party e-mail systems. AT&T fixes this by providing a very nice Web site that configures these complex settings automatically, over the air. Verizon doesnīt do this. But Verizon does have something AT&T lacks. It offers average consumers the ability to synchronize their phones wirelessly, over the air, with Outlook on their home PCs. I tried it and it worked, albeit slowly and inconsistently. [...] AT&T has crippled one of the best features of the Microsoft software -- a toolbar at the top line of the home screen that shows the most recently used programs. On the AT&T phone, this has been changed to a fixed list, prominently featuring an icon for the companyīs mLife service offerings. Verizon also has altered the home screen to point users toward its online services, but in a less destructive way. [...] Microsoft has a good start with its software for smart phones. But until Microsoft and the phone makers fix the awful caller ID problem, and AT&T and Verizon cut unlimited data prices, I canīt recommend these two phones. Please note: Mossberg fails to notice that third party software (click here to buy it) solves the problem with caller ID... Source: The Wall Street Journal.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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