Comments on: Report: Half of Verizon’s Phone Activations are Android, Feature Phones Crushing Windows Phone and Blackberry

By: anasazi4st

anasazi4st — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:02:00 +0000

Windows Phone 7 is an excellent platform, it would be my choice if I didn’t have an iPhone. Unfortunately Microsoft has “Osborne”d it by announcing that Windows Phone 8 is incompatible with it, none of your present apps will work on 8.

That’s too bad, really.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:45:00 +0000

If the Windows Phone wants to catch up with the other players, it looks like they’ll have to add Bacon!

By: Danny Borst

Danny Borst — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:30:00 +0000

Of course windows phones are nothing, they only made one, which has been discontinued for a while..

By: Granpa

Granpa — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:40:00 +0000

As someone that has used a Windows phone but currently owns an Android, I can tell you that MS doesn’t have to pay anyone to praise the Windows phones. They are really great phones, running a really good OS. Their only knock is because they have such poor market penetration, they don’t get much love in the way of development for the phone. I would love to see Windows phones start to popularize, not only because the competition is good, but most importantly because they provide a nice balance between Android’s customization and iOS’s ease-of-use for the average consumer. I bought my mother a Windows phone and she loves it, and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more tech-challenged than my mother.

By: Granpa

Granpa — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Further proof that it makes absolutely no sense if the Nokia 920 is exclusive to AT&T as rumored. Are you paying attention Nokia? AT&T users don’t care for Windows phones. Put that gorgeous phone on T-Mobile and Verizon instead.

By: 1bens

1bens — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:01:00 +0000

The IE fix is available since yesterday. Put it on and move on or don’t use MS products. We’re talking carriers and the percentages of OS making up their smartphones sales.
I agree with MPFan that if ATT is going to offer up so-so android phones against the iphone then its not surprising that iphone sales still rule there.

By: cleetose

cleetose — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:08:00 +0000

I have a feeling you didn’t completely read the article. The data comes from a survey of consumers, not carriers.

By: Matt Cooper

Matt Cooper — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:02:00 +0000

Coulda woulda shoulda, but they were also being investigated for tactics and monopolization. Cant blame them for trying to make a “competitor” stronger than they were.

By: Matt Cooper

Matt Cooper — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:00:00 +0000

They have only had the Trophy. Honestly, its a pretty good device. Yah its older, but it still runs great…and Verizon has always updated the phone quicker than AT&T, WP’s “Premier” Partner.

By: Arun

Arun — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:51:00 +0000

The reason why you don’t see phones is beacuse there are no phones! Sprint and Verizon haven’t released any phones in 2 years and t-mo have only couple. And US is not the only market in the world, this is a fact most apple and android fanboys forget. The reason why WP is treated as the third player is because their sales have always increased why however miniscule a factor it is, and continue to increase. MS has the money to invest, something which is essential in today’s smartphone industry.

By: Arun

Arun — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:46:00 +0000

There is only one very old Windows Phone at Verizon, no phone at Sprint and three phones at T-mobile. How do you expect WP to get the numbers? Wait for the new phones to launch, then you will see a different picture.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:05:00 +0000

After hearing microsoft browsers, as in all of them except ie10, were all at risk to hacking, this makes me wonder of the secured state of a windows phone.

By: Prime7

Prime7 — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:49:00 +0000

Yeah, I would take an iPhone over any of those, too.

By: John Wildman

John Wildman — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:23:00 +0000

I bought the OD because there was no other option at Verizon except a BB. I know most on here dislike the iPhone/ Apple, but had it been available back then I would probably be using one today. I cut my teeth on android and can’t imagine buying anything else. In the beginning the iPhone was probably better, but looking back at how far android has come in such a short time, I no longer believe that. Apple is the one playing catch up and releasing one device a year they will never win with that strategy. Not only does Google push to innovate the OS, but the competition from the different phone makers is constantly raising the bar!

By: Mobile Phones Fan

Mobile Phones Fan — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:07:00 +0000

Ok, but we have to assign Verizon some responsibility for what happened with the Kin campaign — they reneged on their initial deal (backing away from promises of bargain-priced data plans), very late in the game.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/30/what-killed-the-kin/