AT&T-Friendly Nexus One Submitted to FCC
Google just filed for FCC approval of a Nexus One modified to support AT&T’s flavor of 3G with WCDMA bands I, II and V (page 8 of FCC ID NM8PB99110). Given Google’s rifts with AT&T it is possible that Google could sell the NM899110 with or without AT&T being on board to offer partially subsidized purchases or to provide technical support as T-Mobile does. It’s worth adding that those WCDMA bands are also compatible with Rogers, Bell, Telus and most of Europe.
On the subject of Android, given Android’s rapidly growing market share which at the latest measurement I could find is over four times that of Windows Mobile’s and climbing, given the stunning demand and progress in the Windows Mobile community to run Android on a handful of the more popular HTC Windows Mobile phones, given that a lot of those people, to use them as representatives of more casual smartphone users, aren’t T-Mobile subscribers but use bands I, II and V for WCDMA, given that there appears to be no interest in consumers to run Windows Mobile on their Android phones, given that in spite of their conflicting digital philosophies with Google the Chinese government will welcome Android, given how more and more device manufacturers are focusing on Android, Windows Mobile 7 had better be supernaturally awesome, perfectly marketed and swiftly released to save Microsoft’s mobile platforms from being identified as “Other” in the pie charts.
As we get a steady flow of visitors from *.microsoft.com, if you want to do the company a favor go ahead and chime in right here about what you think were Microsoft’s biggest mobile mistakes and what they ought to do differently with Windows Mobile in order to save it from irrelevance which is its apparent present destination from where I’m sitting.
Doug Simmons
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Doug Simmons Only sync with Windows Media Player? Microsoft has supported seamless iTunes syncing since 2007!
lol
E Doug – I don’t use iTunes though.
Zune is a Microsoft product, therefor I would expect to be able to sync a playlist from the Zune Windows program to my Windows Mobile Phone since they are made by the same company and involve music. Also, the link you referenced goes to the XDA site and appears to be someone’s modified script. Can you show me where Microsoft explicitly supports alternate syncing options for Windows Mobile because the post I read does not look close to what I would consider “seamless”. I mean, the OP even says:
“Not being able to find any application off the shelf to do this I set about making it happen myself.”
That’s what I mean, MS should have this built into the OS.
Doug Simmons Yeah I wanted to type “woosh” but commenting a lot in the beginning of the commenting of your own thread is .. well whatever, glad you picked it up eventually.
Got a question for you — the picture on this article of the Android guy eating up Microsoft’s logo along with the Energizer bunny with the bluetooth earpiece and the name of the software on the battery carrying a Tilt on his hip, does that stuff add anything worth my spending a good chunk of time piecing together?
sm0k3ydaband1t i got a pretty big kick out of you “original” art work, the bluetooth on the bunny was good, i did not notice the tilt 2 on the hip, i gotta say WMlonglife really loked like energizer at first, the android munching down on the WM logo definately my fav tho, its funny how thats pretty representative of what android is actually doing to windows market share in mobile..
rodcleve Doug, the stuff you put on here adds a lot of value to this site. We can’t get these trinkets just anywhere. Don’t know how long it takes but I like it a great deal.
I have a Tilt 2 and I check this page several times a day to see what’s new and I like the pictures for screen savers. Keep up the good work.
[...] I’ll tell you another thing, on a more personal note: If they take away all my old cabs or my ability to multitask, I don’t care if it has all the eye candy in the world — byebye WinMo and hello Android. [...]
[...] I’ll tell you another thing, on a more personal note: If they take away all my old cabs or my ability to multitask, I don’t care if it has all the eye candy in the world — byebye WinMo and hello Android. [...]
Hecatomber I ounce read that a zune was to have multiple processors each having specific functions, each processor would shout down when that function wasn’t in use. Much like an engine that doesn’t use all cylinders unless needed. I heard this resulted in great battery life and excellent multitasking performance. Anyway I don’t know if that actually, will, has or may happen but it seems like a great idea.
I think MS is on the right path if they truly can integrate Zune, Xbox, etc along with what they already have such as Exchange, Office, and Windows.
MS’s biggest mistakes are (and remain) complacency. Once they feel they have a worthwhile product, they stop until someone else comes up with something better. I really like the Zune music player for Windows, for example, but hardly use it since I can only sync my Windows phone with Media Player. That’s stupid. And why is it that MS never EVER advertise their products outside of tech magazines or CES? When the Zune HD came out, where were the TV ads? Have you ever seen an commercial for Xbox (not the games, the console)? Meanwhile, I know the PS3 ads by heart now. The only ads I ever see are for Windows 7 probably because they desperately needed some positive PR after Vista. MS Surface was a great idea, too bad they targeted businesses only. One thing Apple and Google do well is to integrate their services seamlessly. They need to forget about business and home and let the users choose whatever services they want to use.
I want a powerful OS, a pretty OS, a fast OS, and a well-integrated OS. Oh, and I want it now, not next year!