T-Mobile moving from Windows Mobile to Android?

[Matt]

T-Mobile moving from WM to Android worldwide? Unwired View


Could start in Europe, as the initial comment was made by someone from DT's T-Systems.

[SteveW]

I read this, as well as the original article on msmobiles.com. It's hard to say what it really means, partly because the English is so bad. The quote (supposedly) is "Android will be a Windows of future". Since this is not English, we are left to speculate whether it means that he sees Android replacing WinMobile in the T-Mo lineup, or just becoming as important as WinMobile. Even the latter would probably be counted as an amazing success, if it comes to pass. Also, how far in the future we are talking about is not specified. Whatever he meant, it's likely that this is just the opinion of a board member, who almost certainly isn't articulating an official company strategy. When they get around to doing that, you would hope they would get help from their US publicists.


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[AnthroMatt]

I don't see how dumping Windows Mobile could ever be considered a bad thing.

[SmArTeStChIlD421]

Originally Posted by AnthroMatt I don't see how dumping Windows Mobile could ever be considered a bad thing.

hey hey hey......just like Sprint you have to admit that Microsoft is putting forth a lot of effort to make WM better and they're doing a good job so far....i saw performance improvements even in the move from WM6 to WM6.1 even.......which btw there is 6.1 for all the Sprint phones that are still running 6

[SteveW]

Originally Posted by SmArTeStChIlD421 you have to admit that Microsoft is putting forth a lot of effort to make WM better and they're doing a good job so far....i saw performance improvements even in the move from WM6 to WM6.1...

That's true. By the sixth or seventh version of something, MS can make it fairly decent. Then all you have to worry about is bloat and all their anti-competitive tie-ins. But functionally, it will be OK.


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[Mobile Mike]

Originally Posted by SteveW That's true. By the sixth or seventh version of something, MS can make it fairly decent. Then all you have to worry about is bloat and all their anti-competitive tie-ins. But functionally, it will be OK. SW Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.1; en-us; dream) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2

Bloat is the biggest problem with Vista. At least MS is taking the issues with WM seriously and really trying to make a good mobile OS.

I haven't used an MS OS since what was found on the T-Mobile MDA, which I believe was WM 5. It was OK, but it could have been better. It's nice to know it IS getting better.

[tmobileman]

I think until developers come up with a way to mirror WM programs for android fully you will still see some WM devices out there with Tmobile, just the Synch with Outlook feature alone is a cluster on android, and hasn't been perfected yet.

[SteveW]

Originally Posted by tmobileman I think until developers come up with a way to mirror WM programs for android fully you will still see some WM devices out there with Tmobile, just the Synch with Outlook feature alone is a cluster on android, and hasn't been perfected yet.

Thanks for bringing us back to the topic. As you say, T-Mo will do whatever makes money. They're not going to drop WinMobile if they have lots of customers that want it. Obviously, businesses aren't going to give up their Blackberrys or WinMobile overnight. Syncing to Exchange is probably the overriding feature on both of those platforms. Google/Android has a totally different sync strategy, which MS will try to copy, while retaining their traditional base. As I said before, I think this speculation about T-Mobile's strategy is just that. It's not based on real information.



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