Microsoft may lower the minimum hardware specs for WP, more Mango details coming during MIX 2011
0. phoneArena posted on 12 Apr 2011, 09:55
Today is the opening day of MIX 2011, and plenty of rumors are in full swing, suggesting what we are to see and hear in Las Vegas between April 12 and April 14...
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1. JeffdaBeat posted on 12 Apr 2011, 12:20 2 2
I don't like this at all. Right now you can get a WP7 at $50. Lowering the specs puts us, again, in line with Android (nothing wrong with Android, but again the fragmentation). The minimum should stay where it is and we should build up from there.
4. Lucas777 posted on 12 Apr 2011, 20:36 2 2
No. I don't agree. Putting wp7 at a lower price point will open them up to a huge market of people who want a nice phone but dont want the data plan. This is how android gets the majority of its people--they want the niceness but not the data. Wp7 can deliver on this. It is an extremely appealing os and is just the thing for people described above. There will be no fragmentation with wp7 because microsoft doesnt allow any customization of its software-this solves the issue for the majority of the time.
6. PhoneLuver posted on 13 Apr 2011, 02:55 0 0
It all seems like a step backwards to Windows Mobile... And who wants that??
3. downphoenix posted on 12 Apr 2011, 18:52 0 0
not just that, but the fact that the 1 ghz processors and the other bits of required hardware will be cheaper to manufacturer later than now, and are cheaper now than when they were introduced about a year ago. I mean, fine, if they can do so without alienating the software they have developed for the platform now, but otherwise leave the requirements as is.
5. simpleleong posted on 12 Apr 2011, 20:58 0 0
Simply said, they need to make a few lower end models to attract more users. Start with high end alone would't help.
7. MrKNOWitAll (unregistered) posted on 13 Apr 2011, 09:48 0 0
"Finnish firm is to be allowed to target "a very low price point" for its future WP phones. " well it a time to set this price for 1GHz
not everyone is buying his phone with the contract
