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To: Eric L who wrote (1188)	7/31/2011 9:36:55 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1647

Plethora of headsets is not the problem of WP7. Consumer acceptance is. There is nothing in WP7 that is not already in iOS and Android. But there is a lot that's in iOS and Android that is not in WP7 (I'm talking Mango). I fail to see what WP7 has that will entice consumer acceptance. And furthermore I fail to see what Nokia's WP7 smartphones will have for consumers to choose them over the other companies you mentioned. So Nokia has 2 big problems. They've chosen an OS that is not popular, and they are leaving an OS where they were the only game in town to one that they will have hard time differentiating from the other WP7 manufacturers... they might as well have gone with Android... at least they would have had a huge market to sell into... its done pretty well for HTC and Samsung, and those are 2 of the companies in your WP7 headset article... so if they could compete with them in WP7, they could compete with them in Android...

To: Eric L who wrote (1188)	7/31/2011 12:06:38 PM
From: zax	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1647

I'm running Mango already on my Samsung Focus. Been through two pre-releases, it continues to improve greatly. Very exciting. :) The fact that the tools for WP7 are the same tools for Windows development, especially Silverlight, means a great deal.

To: Eric L who wrote (1188)	8/1/2011 8:16:18 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1647

If Samsung can do WP7, Bada and Android, and do them all well, why can't Nokia? Why is Nokia in a all or nothing move with the WP7??? I don't understand why Nokia can't do both... especially when Android is growing at 380% year over year and has, based on today's Canalys Q2 report, a 50% of the worldwide market share. At this rate Nokia, when finally releases their WP7 sets, the WP7 market they'll be trying to sell to will be low single digits... Nokia is a phone company... they should be making phones in as many successful OSs as they are available... and that should mean Symbian/Meego, WP7, and Android. IMO, if Samsung can do it so should Nokia.