Deutsche Telekom says Windows Phone 7 sales are ‘excellent’

By on Jan 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM
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An LG exec was recently heard voicing concerns surrounding the Windows Phone 7 platform, basically saying that the new OS has potential but sales aren’t meeting expectations. He also reportedly said that savvy smartphone users might find the platform “boring.” Lucky for Microsoft, Europe’s largest cellular carrier doesn’t appear to share LG’s opinion. Deutsche Telekom, owner of the massive European network T-Mobile, is hardly bored with the emerging mobile operating system, having told German Press Agency dpa that Windows Phone 7 sales to date have been excellent. “We are ahead of budget, Microsoft is very pleased,” Deutsche Telekom’s head of consumer marketing Ingo Hofacker said at a CeBIT preview in Munich. As huge as the European market is, it’s great to see a wholehearted endorsement issued based on sales from the region’s leading carrier. A second wave of new Windows Phone 7 devices is expected to be unveiled by multiple cell phone makers at the Mobile World Congress show next month.

[Via Windows Phone Central]

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  • MobileWorld

    It is a simple interface which makes it a good transition device for users coming from a basic cellular phone. It removes the intimidation a lot of them feel when trying to use the more advanced ‘Smart phones’ from Nokia, Android and Apple.

    • Anonymous

      ‘more advanced smart phones?’ When it comes to idiot proof usage, nothing beats the iphone with its bubby interface, big shiny named buttons, and simple to open apps. Id say metro is a little more opaque in some ways.. sometimes the buttons on the bottom arent exactly clear, or you might have to tap and hold to figure out what to do next to something. Yeah its alot simpler and straight forward than android, but its also way more polished and smooth.

    • knarf

      Apple is advance?! Please….

    • Matt

      bahahahaha you think people are intimidated moving to a nokia/android/apple smartphone? if people know how to text, they can already handle the phones.

      what a laugh and misinformative statement, mobileworld.

    • Skull with Cigarette

      Wow.
      “It is a simple interface which makes it a good transition device for users coming from a basic cellular phone.”

      So you’ve COMPLETEY and UTTERLY missed the EXACT reason why iPhone is #1, didn’t you?
      What a Fanboy b!+ch.

  • 1jaxstate1

    It’s just a great phone…period. I’m enjoying it so far. Missing some basic features, but I’m hoping for a update soon.

  • ga3

    2 million Windows Phone 7 handsets were sold worldwide in first 80 days, is it even worth mentioning. 2 million Android devices are sold every 5 days.

    • Anonymous

      how many androids were sold in the first two months on that shity G1 phone. You are obvisouly a complete idiot if you are trying to compare a phone that has been out and developed for over two years and a phone that is limited to certain carriers and been on the market for three months.

  • keymaker

    At the end of the day it will be Apple and Microsoft all over again. Every Android user i have come upon are really dissapointed on how the updates are handle. This is how it goes, Google releases update, OEMs spend 3 months messing around with it then it get’s passed to the carrier, carriers spend 3 more months and by the time you get the updated it’s already outdated and google has move on. Rooting should not even be a option since it’s a open platform.

    • Petey

      That why I hope T-Mobile gets the iPhone cus I’m done with android. It may be a better OS but with how the handle things… that pretty much unacceptable in my case.

  • Anonymous

    Microsoft is a few light years behind Apple in the smart phone space. They’re four years late to the party and they’re losing ground at an rapid rate.

    Sure they can design a cute phone. So can Palm/HP, Nokia, and Research in Motion. But the Apple user experience is better in so many ways. The gap is widening, not closing.

  • http://twitter.com/j_nathaniel Jason

    DT is right…

  • Anonymous

    Agree with 1jax, WP7 is a great OS. MS knows it can’t skip out on updates if they want to stay in the phone business.
    As far as ga3′s comment, 2 millions phones a week, because 99% of them are junk like optimus/Eris/ etc that are free and out of the 2 million, 500 of those phones actually get an update before a new phone of the week comes out. People shouldn’t have to root devices to get updates.
    Funny how phones with JUST android on them, G1, G2, Nexus are all flops. i.e the OS isn’t good enough unless its flavored / prettied up with some lousy UI enhancement.

    • todd

      True. Android is good but it is not consistent. Some phones have 2.1, 2.2, 2.3. Samsung takes a long time to roll out 2.2 except for nexus s. No 1 knew what android was until droid incredible came out. LG is not happy with wp7 sales because LG dont know how to design a good phone. MS are software makers not hardware makers. LG sucks and they always have problems with their phones.

  • Mr8820

    Coming from an HD2, I thought I’d miss winmo…I haven’t taken the sim card out the HD7 yet!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1601985454 Hassan ‘Deejay’ Faridi
  • Miro

    I really hated everything about Windows Phone 7 when they first announced it. Just the whole look, the tiles, I thought it was the dumbest looking OS ever. Then Tmobile had a buy-one-get-one free deal so I got a whole new line of service and had the HD7 for over a week and got hooked. I didn’t like the HD7 from a hardware standpoint so I returned everything and got Vibrants for me and the Mr. but as soon as Tmobile USA gets better hardware I am jumping ship.

    Contrast that with going to a Tmobile store and seeing the G1 after weeks and months of reading people gushing about how awesome it was! I couldn’t believe what POS the device was, it was cheap looking and feeling, tacky and the OS was terrible… that coming from a RAZR phone. I almost walked across the street to the Apple store to buy an iPhone

    Windows Phone 7 has great potential if Microsoft doesn’t screw it up royally. They need to get off their asses and push updates out quicker for one thing. I can’t believe they don’t have the manpower to do it. But their internal politics and general way of handling things give me a little bit of doubt, tho with Android and iPhone they should be on their toes – hopefully

  • Anonymous

    WM7 is so far very cooland the upcoming updates will be welcome..i see no problem with WM7 ,loving it so far ..still not a big fan of touch screen keyboards though…i need another WM7 phone and right noe the dell venue looks good ,so when att gets their version…who knows

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