More Windows Mobile 7 beta rumors

I'm sure OS leaks will appear on XDA shortly after it goes out to OEMs for testing. We had development builds of WM 6.5 for about a year before it was released to the general public.

in some things more people/developers does not help. however in quality assurance and use testing, it can.

but as we all already know, the real problem is not functionality - it's branding. when the iphone first came out, all the techie winmo bloggers were scoffing at its lack of features. it did a few things great (user interface, upgrades via itunes, visual voicemail). but those features were capitalized on and on and on.... and on.

r weekends ago, i spent 20 minutes with a team hired via mosaic by msft and htc to promote windows mobile and htc devices in att stores. and they didn't know about voice command, about where to buy apps for winmo phones, about google maps on winmo phones. remember, these guys were trained on winmo (really badly it seems). but they knew that all these things are available on an iphone!! why is that? because apple is telling them every night on tv.

by the way, this team shared some interesting insight: the folk who are most attracted to winmo phones? - males, 35-40+. and who is walking out with iphones? teens and twenty-somethings. that tells me the issue is increasingly a branding problem.

i hope that helps someone somewhere.