You should check out my other ZuneHD smartphone thread I just posted. I don't think it's likely but could the Zunehd smartphone be MSs' answer to the Iphone and the 'pink' be the professional answer to everything else?
The pink if real, will undoubtedly run on windows mobile 7 providing convinience, as sleek a browser as the Iphone's and all the buisness perks to contend with the RIMM products.
However all this could be rendered moot if the zuneHD and the 'pink' are one in the same.
I have owned the original Iphone and have recently upgraded to the 3gs. I absolutely love it and am very spoiled with it. Most other smartphones feel like an irritating hunk of plastic to me now.
I definitely agree that any true challenger to the Iphone needs a competitive comparable app store of it's own. The Iphone's greatest strength is not it's hardware but its UI and software. The hardware from other companies is already catching up and MS i think is one of the better candidates to surpass it in hardware. Yet, the Iphone remains undeterred.
The palm pre for instance, is an amazing phone. The best phone besides the Iphone in my mind hands down. It's certainly doing well but the Iphone has seen no slow down, just records. This is because even though the pre compares to and at times matches the iphone in functionality (ive tried and compared, the pre is excellent) it's app store pales in comparison. No app store is supported like apples app store.
