For those of you who have been following the Smoked by Windows Phone Challenge this week at CES, Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph, the Windows Phone / PC guy, has been going around finding random people to participate in the #smokedbywindowsphone challenge, where other phones compete with the speeds of Nokia’s Lumia 900. If another device happens to beat out the Windows Phone, winner gets $100.
The results have been surprisingly good for Microsoft, as they seem to have every device beat thus far, for the most part—there was an incident where an iPhone 4S beat the Windows phone to opening a Twitter app by a hair. But even the winner was willing to admit he’d save his $100 winnings “for a Nokia Lumia 900.”
CNET predicts that the Lumia 900 Nokia-Microsoft partnership could only benefit them in the end, and “[t]he Lumia 900 is a strong smartphone entry. It’s big, thin, and supports Long Term Evolution 4G service, which is a necessity of Nokia and Microsoft are going to compete.”
Bloomberg talked to Steve Ballmer in regards to Microsoft’s “reboot” back into the market—the Chief Executive made a good point in saying, “[f]our years ago, you know, I can remember statistically when we would have looked far maore like the overdog in everything[.] [...] Now we’ve got battles where we’re big and strong and powerful, and we’ve got battles where other guys are moving, and it’s fun to work both from the front of the pack and from the back of the pack sometimes. They’re different kinds of competition, but they both drive you, push you.”
Is the Lumia 900 the push Microsoft needs? Or will Android and iOS continue to rule the market?
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