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Second wave of popularity of Windows Mobile phones within Microsoft arrived December 29, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R. While Steve Ballmer ( CEO of Microsoft, CEO = Chief Executive Officer ) still is confused about Windows Mobile and thinks that MS Smartphone also is equipped with Office Mobile (it is not, only Pocket PC has it), some other high level Microsoft employees are very enthusiastic about Windows Mobile phones... As Robert Scoble ( CBO of Microsoft, CBO = Chief Blogging Officer ) admitted it in an interview for us: the release of small and handy HTC Typhoon (known in USA as Audiovox STM 5600) constituted a big breakthrough in thinking about Windows Mobile phones within Microsoft! Before that phone nobody in Microsoft outside of Windows Mobile releated divisions was seriously thinking about using Windows Mobile phones as their private and business phones. HTC Typhoon changed it all. And while Robert Scoble prefers to use a Windows Mobile phone without QWERTY keyboard, as he writes himself: I lost my Blackberry in a cab in New Orleans and my pain went away. I realized then that it was the thumb keyboard that was causing my hands to hurt. Let’s face it, I was addicted to that thing (and this was before blogging, imagine if I could post from my phone!) So, now, I avoid any device that has a mini keyboard. Why? Because it’s too hard to use T9 to type emails or blog posts. I can read them just fine, but replying is hard so I wait until I’m on my Tablet PC and have a wifi connection. ... another top level Microsoft employee - Ray Ozzie (CTO of Microsoft, CTO = Chief Technical Officer) clearly prefers devices with thumb keyboard and he writes: I look forward to using more and more Windows Mobile devices. Months ago I pulled the plug on my blackberry and went cold turkey to an HTC Typhoon-class device. A great device that is much more useful for triaging email than I’d imagined, but I really do need a thumb keyboard. As of last week I’m now using/testing the upcoming Treo 700w, and it’s great! The pipeline of cool devices about to emerge is stunning, and the software platform incomparable. Much to look forward to, and many new ideas for Jack as to what we might do with these devices’ capabilities… Conclusion: the second wave of enthusiasm about Windows Mobile hits Microsoft employees and this time it is related to the massive event - the cult PDA maker Palm Inc is releasing a Windows Mobile powered smartphone! We can only hope that Microsoft will at last understand how important it is to utilize synergies to the full, for example: while Nokia is marketing their smartphone and non-smartphone phones together, Microsoft still is forgetting about Windows Mobile when running marketing campaigns of their operating systems, office software or enterprise server software... While the first wave was more about entry level "cellphone-like" phones, this time many Microsoft employees will be ditching their old Palm OS powered Treo phones and getting new ones - powered by Windows Mobile. Also Motorola has big chances to repeat huge success of Motorola RAZR - but in smartphone world - with their upcoming Motorola Q smartphone... And this time excellent Windows Mobile phones will be available (in January 2006 in USA and in August 2006 in Europe) in all 3 categories of phones: the phones with keypad but without QWERTY keyboard, the phones with touch screen and without QWERTY keyboard and the phones that can be used with single hand and have QWERTY keyboard... The only serious problem that still troubles Windows Mobile phones is lack of models with UMTS (and HSDPA = fast UMTS) - mobile operators invested several billions dollars in UMTS networks and in this situation these operators prefer to expose UMTS-compatible phones powered by Symbian, even if Windows Mobile phones would have superior software... but clearly since Microsoft is not making hardware, only Windows Mobile software, nobody can blame these UMTS woes on Microsoft!  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 3 Comments ]
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