Several Windows Phones now just 1¢ direct from Microsoft

By on Jun 8, 2011 at 9:10 PM
mobile June 8, 2011

Microsoft is currently offering Windows Phone handsets from three major U.S. carriers for just a penny each. Through the company’s online Microsoft Store, users can now purchase either Verizon Wireless’ HTC Trophy, Sprint’s HTC Arrive or T-Mobile’s HTC HD7 for just $0.01 alongside a 2-year contract with a smartphone data plan. While the HD7 is the oldest of the bunch, it’s still a wonderfully capable supersized smartphone that we enjoyed very much when we reviewed it last November. The Trophy is Verizon’s first Windows Phone, featuring HD video capture and SRS WOW HD sound, and the HTC Arrive is easily our favorite Windows Phone to date. Microsoft’s penny offers are only good through July 2nd, 2011.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/eric.martin09 Eric Martin

    If you give it away, they will come…If you give it away, they will come…If you give it away, they will come… This does wonders for brand perception. Typical of a imitating company.

    • Anonymous

      You have to give MS props for making something different, actually.

      I don’t particularly like their different UI, but at least they’re unique.

      • Anonymous

        I am an iPhone user and I honestly wouldn’t mind checking windows phone for a while just for the sake of a different kind of UI. I’m just getting bored with the iPhone right now. 

    • Anonymous

      Yes they will example any android phone. You get what you pay for.

  • Anonymous

    “I need to compare:
    HD7 has Live Tiles and outlook mobile;   but ..
    Arrive has Full touch screen and innovative tilt design;    on the other hand..
    Trophy has xBoxlive integration…”

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, I wouldn’t take one even if it cost 0.001¢…

    • Guest

      That’s because your a fandroid sheep. Pap you and norm need to get your heads out of your asses

      • sirpaul

        You mean iNorm?

      • Anonymous

        You know, I tried that. But, it seems that my head fairs much better up my a$$, hence, I would rather keep it right where it is. And, just so you know, I used Windows Mobile from 2002 to June 4, 2010, otherwise known as EVOOOOO Day. Also, just last Thursday, I checked out the HTC Trophy at Verizon and all I can say is what a mangled mess of an OS; Windows Mobile has certainly devolved since their entrée into the Mobile Smartphone race. You couldn’t pay me to sport those hideous home screen tiles.

      • Anonymous

        I call BS. I say pull your head out

  • Jonathan Lu

    Let’s see, I love WP7, but Microsoft is just prompting the Apple fanboys to start trolling about how its cheap because its “bad”…

    • Anonymous

      I think they care about stock prices, not the opinion of pimple-faced kids whose biggest asset is the phone their mom bought them.

  • Raygun

    They are dumping these because the next gen phones due out by nokia are going to make everything in the market look lame.

    • Anonymous

      How?

    • Anonymous

      They’re dumping them because their marketshare has actually gone DOWN since releasing WP7 to replace Windows Mobile.

  • Anonymous

    “ just $0.01 alongside a 2-year contract ”

    How much is it WITHOUT the contract Microsoft?

  • http://www.callboxlive.com Stan Winstone

    Not even if you paid me…

  • Anonymous

    If Microsoft keeps this up then they will be as popular as the droids. Nothing like making people like you by being cheap!

  • htatc

    Still like the Dell Venue Pro better.

    • Michale11111

      Dell is still in business?

      • Anonymous

        ?? Dell produces over a fifth of the computers sold in the US (about one in eight globally). They are very much still in business. You might want to read the business news sometimes :-)

  • http://twitter.com/seanKELLEHER Sean Kelleher

    still way overpriced.

  • Booboolala2000

    Good solid phones, but I will stick with Android. I really don’t like that UI and it lacks total customization. Really hate that long black strip on the left. Wasted space on a big screen.

    • Booboolala2000

      I mean on the right. LOL

  • http://twitter.com/Ballastatuz Joseph egbule

    that’s exactly how much wp7 is worth

  • Juan Barinas

    People love to hate. Times have obviously changed. A phone’s OS is now just as important as the hardware now, and we choose based on our taste.

    Whether it’s iOS, Android, Windows Phone, webOS or something else, it’s great to have choices, and good choices they all are. We’ve become so demanding about phones that up until four years ago only had about 20% of the features our phones now have, with the exception of Windows Mobile.

    Windows Phone OS certainly won’t appeal to everyone, but it works very well and offers a different take on the way we interact with a smartphone. Having spent a month using one, I personally love the new OS experience, but I also really like the iOS UI and experience, and although I think Android’s UI could look more polished, it’s a great OS and I use it every day.

    As a side note, I also feel the Window Phone 7 OS is especially great for the non tech-savvy, with nice big tiles of the 3 most important reasons they might use a phone, calling, texting and email.

  • Anonymous

    Fuck that, the HD7 was like 560.00 without contract.

  • Anonymous

    Can you imagine what would happen if Apple suddenly did this with the iPhone?

  • Michale11111

    There is nothing as fugly as a desperate company or a desperate human being.

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