|America seems to have more carrier locked and subsidised phones. Now we can |buy them like that here, but it seems to work out better buying the phone |separate from carrier.
Really ? What price is the latest smart phone outright, about $600 ? Over 24 months, that's about $25 a month. The carriers generally only charge about half that with a package, so a saving of about $300 or more. |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith |Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 2:41 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: Windows Phone 8 announced | |On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:13 PM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com> |wrote: | | | (This is my own opinion, please do not confuse it with Microsoft's, or as |representing Microsoft's. While I contribute code to Phone 8, I don't work on the |team, and am not privy to why behind their marketing/engineering decisions) | | | | |:) | |I'd comment on a gmail account were I you... If I was commenting officially on |HP matters I work with, I'd use my HP domained email. | | | Take a step back, how many years do you really think it will actually take |for Phone 8 apps to become more prevalent than the Phone 7 apps? How many |of you will have already replaced your phone by then? | | It's been a while since I've owned a phone in Australia so I don't know |how it works there, but in the US everyone gets a new phone every 18 - 24 |months (depending on if the carrier lets you upgrade early), by the time Phone 8 |has released, and has enough apps to worry you, you'll already be at the start of |a new upgrade cycle. | | | |America seems to have more carrier locked and subsidised phones. Now we can |buy them like that here, but it seems to work out better buying the phone |separate from carrier. | | | | -----Original Message----- | From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy | Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:03 PM | To: 'ozDotNet' | Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced | | Seriously ? Is that the new Microsoft policy, just dump old customers ? I | see they said 18 months of updates in regards to windows 8. | | For me, I see Windows Phone as something that's evolving, and thought, |and expected it, just like the iphone does, bring customers along with them, not |just abandon them every three years or so (well last time it was three years | ago) | | The sad part is I can't honestly tell people they should buy a windows |phone today. And it's a paint to have to tell them, yes last week when I said to |buy a windows phone that was all we knew, now we know your phone will be |obsolete come September. | | | |-----Original Message----- | |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- | |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean | |Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 1:45 PM | |To: ozDotNet | |Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced | | | |I don't why the unhappiness, clearly you were happy with the device | |when | you | |bought it, why do you care that a newer device sometime in the future | |is | coming | |out? | | | |-----Original Message----- | |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- | |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy | |Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:48 PM | |To: 'ozDotNet' | |Subject: RE: Windows Phone 8 announced | | | |Now I'm really grumpy... My lumia 800 isn't that old, but now | |apparently | it is :( | | | | | ||-----Original Message----- | ||From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- | ||boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burela | ||Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 4:52 AM | ||To: ozDotNet | ||Subject: Windows Phone 8 announced | || | ||For anyone interested, I put my rough notes online of the Windows | ||Phone | ||8 announcement. | || | ||http://bit.ly/MrWEze | ||Some highlights: | || | ||* Shared core between Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8. | ||* New user definable tile sizes (like Windows 8). Can now have 1/4 | |sized | ||mini tiles to give it more flavour. | ||* A new "company hub" that corporate IT can display apps and |deploy | |from | ||their internal servers. | ||* Support for new high resolution screens (720p) | ||* Existing device aren't upgradeable to 8.0, but existing devices will | |get a | ||7.8 update that will give some of the features, such as the new tiles. | || | ||http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/my-notes-from-the- |windows- | ||phone-8-announcement/ |<http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/my-notes-from-the-windows- |||phone-8-announcement/> | || | ||-David Burela | ||Regional Technical Evangelist | ||Infragistics | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-- |Meski | | | http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv | |"Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, |but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
