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Microsoft's Smartphone


Tue Jan 6, 2004 - 12:44 AM EST - By Michael Ducker

Microsoft�s Market?

What Microsoft has really created, in my opinion, is not a smartphone but a modern phone. Their device has all the features that one would expect of high-end phone in 2004 e. The Sony Ericsson t68 had many of these features 3 years ago, including sync-ability.

But, their smartphone isnt a smartphone in the way the Treo is. It is not made to be an out of office replacement for email. It is not data-centric in any way, and its features are limited. Microsoft seems to understand some parts of the wireless world, and to that effect they have introduced some innovations to the market. When you buy a MPx200, for example, you do all the setup (including setting up email and choosing your theme) in an online wizard. This wizard than sends a self installing package to your phone which sets it up.

While I do not feel that Microsoft did a particularly bad job with their first generation of smartphone software, I was not impressed by the total package of hardware and software. The Smartphone OS felt immature and slow, and as I said before I did not fall in love with the user interface. In launching a device that is not data centric, Microsoft chose to go after the much larger cell phone market. While that choice may be more profitable for Microsoft, the devices that we like to see at this site are in the real smartphone market, which I may add PalmOne is doing an excellent job at.

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