Comments on: Microsoft and Nokia US Windows Phone budget is $200m corrects insider

By: Troff

Troff — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Poor nokia..so desperate..lol i’m happy with my galaxy s2..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:07:00 +0000

I’m sure WP7 is nice and smooth but I find it very garish. I also would have preferred nokia stick to meego. if nokia and intel had really put money into it, and got android apps running on meego phones, it would have done so well. it probably would have had less android fragmentation problems than android itself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:55:00 +0000

if nokia is outspending microsoft 2-1, it sounds like microsoft might be preying on nokia’s desperation for something to get them back in the market

By: wiz

wiz — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:26:00 +0000

I disagree. Firstly, Apple was successful (and rightly so), because at the time it was heads and shoulders above ANYTHING that was on the market in terms of usability, UI concept, vision, design and… pretty much everything. And with respect to you saying wp7 doesn’t stand a chance – that may well be, but not because it is an inferior product, but because people don’t try it out. Pretty sad if you ask me.

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Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:22:00 +0000

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By: wiz

wiz — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:20:00 +0000

lol matti, you ARE on a crusade, are you? ;P
Get your n9 and be happy with it – at least it saw the light of day. While I admit the review here on slashgear looked really nice I just hope you’d give the lumia a go. wp7 is a really nice, simple, clean and consistent OS – I am sure you’d like it if you like Meego.

By: wiz

wiz — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:17:00 +0000

“Windows phone just isnt as interesting…”
not in my book, buddy. I’ve used a LOT of different phones and my HD7 is *by far* the one I use and like most. Check technobuffalo for why he switched…

“or widely available…”
totally with you on this one.

“and often very expensive…”
not where I live. It is pretty much all the same with the exception of a small premium for the iPhone.

“with less apps :(”
See, this is what I hear all the time, but trust me – this is no show-stopper for wp7. I’ve been using it pretty much since the beginning and while it truly sucked a year ago I would be hard pressed to find any app I use that doesn’t exist. All the ones I have on my iPad are on my wp7 device as well.

By: wiz

wiz — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:11:00 +0000

$200mil – nice! What is really sad is the fact that those campaigns so far have been utter rubbish. Can’t they just spend it on a good marketing campaign done by a top company for the heck of it? Man, that Nokia campaign looked as if the 80s smacked me in the face with a brick. Who are they advertising for? My mom?

Just for the record: I am saying this as it annoys the heck out of me to see such a great product – yes, I really do like wp7 a lot – be treated that way. They had better spend that amount of money on education of staff in carrier stores to begin with – those guys are utterly clueless AT BEST. Or royalties if they close a contract with a wp7 device. Or a decent marketing campaign, but I guess I’ve mentioned that :P

By: Matti

Matti — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:07:00 +0000

Pretty sure Nokia would have had much more success if someone spent even half that amount backing Meego Harmattan instead.

RIP Nokia….

By: wiz

wiz — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:05:00 +0000

I do, so you’re wrong

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:05:00 +0000

Apple was only succesful because people got feed up with just Symbian or Nokia phones were only the phones we use to have on the market them days,an people wanted something else,but for Windows now,it got no chance of competeing with Apple or Android

By: Billabong

Billabong — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:49:00 +0000

Wp7 the biggest fail

By: Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Paul’s presentations of the numbers are absolutely misleading. He corrected nothing. Note that he leaves out about the ace and doesn’t dispute those numbers.

By: Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Paul’s presentations of the numbers are absolutely misleading. He corrected nothing. Note that he leaves out about the ace and doesn’t dispute those numbers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:28:00 +0000

Your so right because Apples closed Ecosystem is a complete failure!

By: Relton

Relton — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:27:00 +0000

Wow! that is a lot of money!

By: Relton

Relton — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:27:00 +0000

Wow! that is a lot of money!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:12:00 +0000

Nokia does not want to Waste so much money on Windows,as it will never be succesful because theres to much Restrictions,when you have use a Nokia Symbian phone an you can customize it how you want to look,send an recieve things using Bluetooth an put micro sd cards inside them but All these things you can not do with Windows,so people will switch to Android phones instead where you can do the same as Symbian phones an after having the N8 over a year an Nokia chosing Windows i got the Samsung Galaxy S2 an 100 times alot better than the Lumia 800,Mr Elop sorry you have got it totally wrong an just downgrading Nokia instead of improving them

By: Geolobster

Geolobster — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:51:00 +0000

Windows phone just isnt as interesting or widely available and often very expensive with less apps :(

By: Geolobster

Geolobster — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:51:00 +0000

Windows phone just isnt as interesting or widely available and often very expensive with less apps :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:46:00 +0000

I’ll take Windows Nokia phones seriously when they have a flagship device for all carriers. AT&T in is the only one with good windows phone

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:46:00 +0000

I’ll take Windows Nokia phones seriously when they have a flagship device for all carriers. AT&T in is the only one with good windows phone