07-08-2003, 01:00 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Smartphone Thoughts Launched
I'd like to officially announce the second member of the Thoughts Media family, Smartphone Thoughts! We quietly opened our doors on the 30th of June, and have been in "build" mode since then. There's a lot of work left to do (heck, the ad server isn't even working yet!), largely because the combination of Pocket PC 2003 launch, subscriber services, and Smartphone Thoughts template design was just too much work in too short a time period for my team. The forums are up though, and we expect to start posting the style of news & views you all know and love sometime in the next couple of days.
Smartphone Thoughts is dedicated to covering the Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphone platform. No Symbian phones, no Palm OS phones - just Smartphones. There are already some great sites out there for alternative platforms, and I'm a big believer in what Microsoft is doing with their Smartphone platform. I want to foster those efforts and grow up a community around them. Those looking to start platform flame wars should look elsewhere - there are excellent platform neutral sites like howardchui.com that you can get your fix from if you want an unbiased view of the phone market. That's not our focus - we'll leave it to others.
Smartphone Thoughts (SPT) will be every bit as gloriously biased and platform-preferred as Pocket PC Thought (PPCT) is. :mrgreen: That said, you can expect the same candid tough love for the platform that you've come to expect here are Pocket PC Thoughts. We've made our platform choice, but that doesn't mean we love everything about it (damn that one email account limit! :evil . I'll be leading the team at SPT, along with a mostly-new team of passionate Smartphone users. They're all creative, experienced, and thoughtful people who will do every bit as well as the PPCT team you enjoy.
I welcome you to all visit and register at Smartphone Thoughts! Yes, that's right, you'll have to re-register in the forums, so come grab your preferred username while you can. We technically had the abiility to port over our entire user database, but we felt it would be a violation of privacy to move personal information (name, email address, etc.) to a new site without permission to do so.
Lastly, for those who were hoping it was Digital Media Thoughts we were launching, sorry to have disappointed you - the timing for Smartphone Thoughts was important (and we had some financial help from Microsoft to get things started), but DMT is next on my list. :wink:
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07-08-2003, 01:07 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 115
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I'll be looking forward to every site, especially Digital Media Thoughts. 
I'm looking forward to the same quality content as we get from PPC Thoughts.
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07-08-2003, 01:31 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 864
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She's up..... she's down.... no wait she's up again!!!:lol:
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07-08-2003, 01:31 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 95
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Yay!!! The site finally works . However, it doesn't look like the usernames transfer over.
Suhit
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07-08-2003, 01:35 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,616
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07-08-2003, 01:40 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 95
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Are you sure, because I haven't had any problem, and most of the other people seem to have their avatars correctly. What's the error you are getting?
Suhit
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07-08-2003, 01:42 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 38
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Great site Jason!
Hi hope it becomes THE authority on smartphones as PPCT has on PPCs.
Good luck, keep up the good work.
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07-08-2003, 01:44 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 541
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Ahh! My eyes! I think the colours need to be toned down a bit, but otherwise, good luck!
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07-08-2003, 01:45 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,639
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Jason, I'm somewhat sorry to see that you did not include forums for all the various Smartphones on the market, Kyocera (the real Smartphone - how come MS hijacked the name?), Handspring, Samsung, SE, Nokia and the rest.
You mention in your intro that MS has a 0% market share. The main reason for this is that compared to it's competition it is el crapo! My son had an Orange SVP for a couple of weeks, before sending it back, and had nothing but trouble with it. So far, MS can't even pay the carriers to sell it.
Seems to me that anyone wanting a full featured "smartphone" is going to buy a PPCPE or one of the Palm offerings. Anyone wanting an intelligent cellphone has a bunch of potential offerings such as the Nokia 3650 and the various Japanese products. The MS product seems to sit in the middle with no real market focus. Heck, you can't even use an MS phone to get your laptop or PPC online because there is no Bluetooth. That would have been a useful application although others do it with a nicer form factor.
I fully understand that you make your living as a (kind of) MS marketing guy, so you are hardly going to agree with me that MS Smartphone sucks but I believe that if you had forums for the competing products this is where most of the activity would be. Maybe Andy is right when he thinks that the mobile market will be a battle between Symbian and Linux, although POS is doing ok in that market at the moment.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti Microsoft at all, heck I am typing this on my Win 2000 laptop and I love my Axim. But, if I was going to buy a Smartphone today it would be a Treo 600 (if it was available today). There is no way I'd buy one of those Orange things or it's clones.
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07-08-2003, 01:59 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 309
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Originally Posted by dh
You mention in your intro that MS has a 0% market share. The main reason for this is that compared to it's competition it is el crapo! My son had an Orange SVP for a couple of weeks, before sending it back, and had nothing but trouble with it. So far, MS can't even pay the carriers to sell it.
Seems to me that anyone wanting a full featured "smartphone" is going to buy a PPCPE or one of the Palm offerings. Anyone wanting an intelligent cellphone has a bunch of potential offerings such as the Nokia 3650 and the various Japanese products. The MS product seems to sit in the middle with no real market focus. Heck, you can't even use an MS phone to get your laptop or PPC online because there is no Bluetooth.
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That�s why MS smartphones don�t make any sence: BT should be in every phone, laptop, and PDA. I have a sonyericcson, and i love it. It goes well with my iPAQ, too. I also like pocket pc, but one microsoft product in my pocket is enougt. If i want a smartphone i�ll go for a SE P800, or a Treo 600.
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This site should go the way of msmobiles.com. Forget WM and start talking android. Androidthoughts.com
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