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Reviewers, LG and Dell Show No Love for Vista Phony 7 Just Yet

Summary: Vista Phony 7 [sic] does not get the channel quite so excited rather than reluctant about everything (LG and Dell are the examples named in the news)

Vista Phony 7 is a poor product. One British review says that "Windows Phone 7 can't yet hold a candle to iOS or Android for polish or content." In response to this, a reader of ours wrote in Identi.ca: "Good, at least one Microsoft product doesn't hold a candle. Tired to hear Linux doesn't hold candles..."



Here are some more reviews of the platform, bearing headlines like "Early Reviews Peg Windows Phone 7 As Still Lagging Behind iOS"; "Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Is OK, but Has Holes, Reviews Say"; "Top 5 things I dislike about Windows Phone 7"; "Windows Phone 7: Microsoft's Disaster"; "Microsoft Windows 7 phone: Poor cousin of iPhone for the money conscious Indian market?" and "Confessions of an iPhone User: Why I Don't Like Windows Phone 7",. Watch the MSNBC spin and mind Dell's delays [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], which we interpret as Dell putting this under a low priority amidst other problems it has given Microsoft:

A batch of court documents The New York Times pressed to unseal has more details about a flood of faulty computers the company sold in 2003 to 2005.


Dell also develops some devices with Android, preinstalls GNU/Linux on servers, and sells PCs with Ubuntu on them.

For those who believe that only Dell is a Microsoft partner that gets cold feet, well... how about LG? As Microsoft's Bright booster puts it, based on this new report, "LG [is] disappointed by Windows Phone 7 launch" (more reasons for Dell to call the whole thing off).

LG has gone on record saying that Windows Phone 7 hasn’t performed as well as it thought it would, following the launch of the mobile OS in October.

“From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected”, James Choi, marketing strategy and planning team director of LG Electronics global told Pocket-lint in a one-to-one interview.


In light of many problems that may or may not have culminated in Vista Phony 7's failure, more and more people call for Steve Ballmer's resignation/ousting and the latest such call comes from ZDNet's main blog:

At the time, I wrote that it may be time to yank Microsoft off of the keynote stage. But maybe it’s not Microsoft that needs to go. Maybe it’s Ballmer.


Times are getting interesting now that Windows becomes rather extinct in the mobile arena, which is one of the fastest-growing markets.

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