Windows Phone 7 "an ad-serving machine"

[Simon]

Microsoft has branded its Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform an "ad-serving machine" during a briefing to show off new features.

"For marketers this is actually turning out to be an ad-serving machine," said Kostas Mallios, general manager at Microsoft's Live Labs, at an advertising industry conference. "It lets advertisers connect with consumers over time."

Microsoft showed off three tools in the sales-blitz portfolio – Apps, Tiles and Toast – which give brand owners access to the front pages of handsets if consumers download apps from third parties.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359020/windows-phone-7-an-ad-serving-machine

  I thought Google was bad enough!  There won't be many phones to choose from soon. 

[Lance]

Not exactly the best way to market a OS to consumers is it!

[Simon]

Perhaps Steve Jobs wrote it? 

[Steve]

No way far too verbose for Jobs

[Simon]

[pctech]

Symbian is the only way to go.

[Glenn]

But Nokia are starting to drop it in favour of MeeGo, for their higher end devices.

http://www.mobile-computing-news.co.uk/nokia/5401/nokia-meego-for-high-end-symbian-for-everything-else.html

[zappaDPJ]

I think I'll stick with my 5 year old Nokia Oki-Koki 2000 or whatever. There's no chance of being served anything but a phone call on that handset 

[pctech]

But Nokia are starting to drop it in favour of MeeGo, for their higher end devices.

http://www.mobile-computing-news.co.uk/nokia/5401/nokia-meego-for-high-end-symbian-for-everything-else.html

That's why I'll stick to their lower end.

[Gary]

Symbian is the only way to go.

Symbian is clunky even symbian ^3 is outmoded by Nokia before the N8 is released and the OVI store is a joke. Symbian is like going pot holing through an OS. I think Symbian was crossed with Alice's adventures in wonderland as a concept and out came an OS, just open a file, then open another, then another, and you may find eight settings or four maybe even the one you are looking for, who knows, its magic. 

[pctech]

I decided to stay on an S40 handset in the end.

Symbain seemed to do the job on Psion palmtops though.