Windows Phone: iPhone alternatives?

Image1Qu'on loves the iPhone or not, we must recognize that Apple has designed a phone which is especially handy driver fingertips without needing a pen ... This pointing device is a very cumbersome legacy Windows Mobile dating back to the PDA. Microsoft also faces competition from more ferocious including Google Android, BlackBerry OS webOS Rim and Palm (see this issue). While the market smarpthones continues to grow, the market share of Microsoft declined from 12 to 9% in one year ...

With Microsoft Windows 6.5, it is a little honey and bees! The editor of Redmond has made a clean sweep of the home page for the benefit of static icons arranged in a honeycomb on a space easily customizable finger and eye. The pen, finally passes under the carpet to the delight of the nomads. Internet Explorer, the last poor relation of the system evolves in version 6 and last place in the competition with zoom capability usable in a jiffy. All applications will also bring up to date, including Office Mobile and Outlook Mobile Office especially true complement mobile Outlook that allows such a connection to mail services like Yahoo! Mail. Windows Mobile 6.5 also facilitates the connection to social networks with Live Messenger and FaceBook. Like Apple and the App Store, Microsoft has developed Marketplace, a store to buy and download applications.

HTC-touch2 MEGA-side of all this honey, Microsoft relies on bees for its equipment. The giant will not offer phone under its own brand (a vision diametrically opposed to that of Apple). HTC, Acer, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, LG and Samsung have all announced Windows Phone and some are already available as the HTC Touch Smartphone 2 (HTC is one of the first to put both Google Android HTC Smartphone with Hero). Alongside the new templates delivered to start with Windows Mobile 6.5, many models will receive an update from Windows 6.1 ...

Microsoft has all the cards to borrow shares in the market for smartphones as well as Windows Mobile 6.5 should take advantage of the launch of Windows 7 including the marketing hype promises unprecedented! Unlike operating system for PCs that has already proven itself and won in beta, Windows Mobile 6.5 has not yet experienced the baptism of fire ...