subject: Window Mobile Phones: Next Year Will Tell How Much Momentum Windows Phone Has? [print this page] We apperceive we accept a good competition, and this is a absolutely new product. We're in the chase -- it's not a sprint, but we are absolutely accepting drive and we're in it for the continued run. Next year will acquaint just how abundant drive Microsoft has with Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft assuredly bankrupt its blackout on antecedent sales of Windows Phone 7 accessories -- array of. The aggregation said today it has awash 1.5 actor units common in the aboriginal six weeks, but that amount reflects shipments to ally such as wireless operators and retailers, rather than absolute sales to consumers.
That makes it harder to get a authentic account of uptake by end users. "We still don't accept an authentic barometer of how able-bodied Windows Phone 7 is accomplishing at retail," said Avi Greengart, analysis administrator for customer accessories at Current Analysis.
Even so, analysts beheld the 1.5 actor Windows Phones 7 accessories alien so far as a admirable alpha for the new Microsoft platform. "Is it the millions and millions of sales Apple has done in one anniversary with the phone? No. But accede the challenges Microsoft had," said Ramon Llamas, a chief analysis analyst at IDC, apropos to the annoyance aftereffect of Windows Mobile, the abortion of the Kin phones and alloyed reviews for the Windows Phones itself.
To date, Microsoft has teamed with handset makers including HTC, Samsung and LG, and operators such as vodafone and T-Mobile U.K. Vodafone Wireless and virgin are accepted to activate affairs Windows Phone 7 accessories in the U.K. and added carriers globally in 2011. A rumor was aswell circulating online Monday that Microsoft is in talks with Nokia to actualize a band of Windows Phone 7 devices. The two companies endure year formed an accord to coact on business software for the Symbian operating arrangement that runs on a lot of Nokia smartphones.
But Microsoft already faces two big competitors in Apple and Google in aggravating to accretion absorption in the customer smartphone market. Google's Android belvedere in accurate is still growing fast and beyond assorted handsets and carriers, as Microsoft hopes to do with Windows Phone 7. "Microsoft is advancing from abaft -- consumers already accept a abundance of acceptable choices. It is not bright that consumers are searching for yet addition option," acclaimed Greengart in an analasis of WP7 beforehand this year WP7 will introduce an array of new mobile phones 2011.
