{"id":1738,"date":"2008-07-11T21:21:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2008\/07\/11\/stats-show-windows-mobile-the-winner-vs-iphone-for-now\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T21:21:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:21:25","slug":"stats-show-windows-mobile-the-winner-vs-iphone%e2%80%a6-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"Stats Show Windows Mobile the Winner vs. iPhone\u2026 For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">WindowsForDevices has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsfordevices.com\/news\/NS5789306772.html\">interesting article<\/a> comparing the number of iPhones and Windows Mobile devices sold in Q1 2008, and the numbers prove Windows Mobile the winner by a mile. Windows Mobile, with approximately 4.5 million units sold in Q1, clearly beat the iPhone, which sold 1.7 million. In fact, WinMo sales grew by a larger number in Q1 2008 over 2007\u2019s first quarter (selling about 1.8 million more units) than the total number of iPhones sold between January and March \u201808.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"230\" alt=\"winmo_v_iphone3\" src=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/winmo-v-iphone3.jpg\" width=\"257\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/> This is certainly interesting, given the relentless iPhone hype we\u2019ve seen since the handheld was announced in early 2007.&#160; Of course, one must consider that all major wireless service providers have at least one Windows Mobile offering, while the iPhone has been limited to a dedicated carrier wherever it\u2019s sold.&#160; And there are other considerations which have benefited WinMo including third-party software support, Exchange syncing, hardware keyboards, lower prices, etc.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But most of these advantages have been rendered obsolete with this morning\u2019s release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/iphone\/products\/3g_iphone.htm\">iPhone 3G<\/a>, and Apple is moving quickly to address each disadvantage of its hatchling phone when compared to Windows Mobile, RIM and Palm.&#160; Windows Mobile still has advantages over the iPhone, but they aren\u2019t significant enough to save Windows Mobile on a large scale.&#160; Microsoft must deliver wide, sweeping changes to the way the OS looks, works and interoperates with the Cloud in order to survive the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Microsoft can breathe a sigh of relief for now, but it had better not last long.&#160; Windows Mobile 7, it\u2019s game time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WindowsForDevices has posted an interesting article comparing the number of iPhones and Windows Mobile devices sold in Q1 2008, and the numbers prove Windows Mobile the winner by a mile. Windows Mobile, with approximately 4.5 million units sold in Q1, clearly beat the iPhone, which sold 1.7 million. In fact, WinMo sales grew by a [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}