(keitai-l) Re: Symbian drops the ball; Microsoft kicks a field goal

From: Kyle Barrow <kyle_at_pukupi.com>
Date: 01/29/07
Message-Id: <B769ABD6-3E2F-4571-9F04-097411490E84@pukupi.com>
I think user perception will keep Softbank from ever locking down a  
Windows mobile: it's Windows so I should be able to install my own  
apps on it. S60 unfortunately isn't perceived the same in Japan as it  
is elsewhere.

Kyle

On Jan 28, 2007, at 01:08, Craig Kovatch wrote:

> Perhaps SoftBank just didn't spend as much time trying to lock down
> the X01HT, since it's the first generation of such a product in Japan.
> The locks on Vodafone's Nokia models from a year or two ago are easily
> worked around or defeated, but nobody has figured out the newer models
> yet. Perhaps things will similarly get more locked for WM5 as time
> goes.
Received on Mon Jan 29 13:08:27 2007