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Not a good idea

msteven3

Mar 8, 2012, 12:02 PM
IMHO, releasing something like this is a bad move for Microsoft, since it's going to introduce confusion about Windows Phone, a product that can hardly afford any more impediments to adoption. People are going to see these cheaper phones with Tango on them and buy them in the mistaken assumption that they have the full version of Windows Phone. Then they're going to find out that what they bought is a stripped-down version, and they're going to be rightly upset. They'll tell their friends and family not to go anywhere near a phone running Microsoft software because you never know what you'll get.

I realize that MS probably wants to compete with BREW, but this isn't the way to do it.
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tacmus

Mar 8, 2012, 12:28 PM
i think that this is a way of microsoft to give more options to phone makers wen they want to build a wp7 device, with the standard version there are too much restrictions.
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T Bone

Mar 8, 2012, 12:40 PM
But the restrictions guarantee a consistent experience, and they guarantee that all Windows Phones are updated at roughly the same time and that they can all run all the apps in the Windows Market.... and the restrictions prevent the extreme fragementation of the market that hampered Windows Mobile......

All Microsoft is doing is re-creating a problem that they have already fixed. And they are re-creating it for no apparent reason.
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JBlaze74

Mar 8, 2012, 12:59 PM
I agree wholeheartedly about creating an issue. In this situation, it gets put on the POS representative to explain to the customer the limitations of the Tango phones. More than likely won't happen, so hopefully carriers won't be too terribly excited about picking up Tango devices.
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Vmac39

Mar 8, 2012, 9:43 PM
The Tango devices are more geared towards countries that can't afford mid or high end WPA7.5 devices. Microsoft hopes to compete with Android in those markets, since Android does have low end phones that do not get updated to the newest OS, anyway. Also, this gives prepaid carriers an option to carry WP7.5 devices, without customers having to come out of pocket with so much money.

On the flip side, the update foes add some features to the mid and high end devices, that admittedly, should have been in the Mango update. With that said, MS has a very solid OS and this update theoretically will run even more efficiently on the higher end devices. This move is also hoped to get MS devices into more hands, since companies like Verizon and Sprin...
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T Bone

Mar 9, 2012, 9:16 PM
It might work if they gave the Tango phones a distinct name....like 'Windows Phone Lite' or something to clearly distinguish it in the market place....without that, this move risks diminishing the brand, which was already tarnished due to the well documented problems with Windows Mobile....
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Vmac39

Mar 9, 2012, 10:16 PM
I agree with you there. When MS came out with the Kin, it had people excited about it. Mainly, because people didn't associate it with MS right away. This is most likely why Verizon will not support WP7, at this time. They got burned by MS, with the Kin so, instead of having three of the top carriers supporting WP7, they only have two, barely. Tmobile hasn't really been a big supporter of WP7, either. Not until Nokia came aboard, anyway.

Microsoft has a lot of bad history to get past before people really begin to except this new OS. Ot is very solid and does what it sets out to do quite well, in my opinion. The problem I've noticed also, too many basic phone features missing from the start. Most of these features were fixed with the Mango...
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T Bone

Mar 9, 2012, 11:27 PM
I think the main problem is simply the name.....in its time (roughly 2001-2005) Windows Mobile was innovative and on the cutting edge of mobile technology, and it had all sorts of great stuff like Office Mobile and such that no other phone had...and Windows Mobile had 'thousands of apps' years before the iPhone App Store...and the Windows Mobile OEM's, particularly Samsung, produced some incredibly innovative hardware.

But it also had rather severe problems, and Windows Mobile declined because its problems, including its rather serious stability problem, became bigger than its benefits....and then other mobile platforms came along which offered the same benefits without the problems of Windows Mobile...

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