iPhone Killer

It seems all the big boys of cell phone guys have their own OS. Research In Motion was the first with their own OS on all their Blackberries, while others used Windows Mobile. Nokia used Symbian, and later purchased the company. Apple, of course, makes their own Apple OS to run on all their iPhones. [...]

With losing market share to Blackberry, iPhone, and Google Android, Microsoft is not sitting still with their Windows Mobile OS. At the MWC, they have introduced a brand new OS called Windows Phone 7 Series.
Check out the video for some of the neat features this new OS has to offer.

(Toshiba TG02)
(Toshiba K01)
It was Toshiba who first brought the 1Ghz Snapdragon powered and the biggest touchscreen phone 4.1inch) to the market last year. Now, they are following it up with 2 new models running on the same processor and  a new 3D interface on top of the Windows Mobile 6.5.
TG02 is the one without the [...]

Take a look at this survey over 3 months (from Sep 2009 to Dec 2009) and you’ll see the big jump in percentage of people who would buy Android based phone from 6% to 21%. It’s also interesting to note during the same period, people who would buy Apple iPhone dropped from 32% to 28%.

It appears Microsoft is falling behind on keeping up with the Mobile OS war as they are now saying that the Windows Mobile 7 will not launch until late 2010 at best. Not much details on its features yet but let’s hope it can stay toe to toe with Symbian, Android, and Apple’s own OS.

Here is very detailed video review of the latest Windows Mobile running iPhone Killer from Samsung for the Verizon Wireless.