{"id":324241,"date":"2010-02-15T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/988e399c3ca4cf42c47495b79255b7af"},"modified":"2010-02-15T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:50:00","slug":"article-video-windows-phone-7-series-places-other-smartphones-in-a-sea-of-sameness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/324241","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Video: Windows Phone 7 Series places other smartphones in a &#8216;sea of sameness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is hitting, and they&#8217;re hitting hard.&nbsp; Shortly after announcing Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress, the company showed an advertisement criticizing every other manufacturer for launching devices that are relatively similar.&nbsp; Billed as phones in a &#8220;sea of sameness,&#8221; Microsoft points out Apple&#8217;s App Store as a &#8220;focus on apps over the phone experience itself&#8221; and quickly discusses the device&#8217;s inability to multitask.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, Apple holds the smartphone reins at the moment, and it&#8217;s easy to bash the leader (when you think about it, most of the manufacturers do).&nbsp; But Microsoft actually has a chance to bring up their market share here.&nbsp; An aggressive advertising campaign is just the beginning of the puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>{Widget type=&#8221;youtube&#8221; id=&#8221;5MoVc6NLMDU&amp;&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/15\/video-windows-phone-trashes-iphone\/\" >MobileCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TLOQN9W0GJWH9Vi3a4EPVPneUP8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TLOQN9W0GJWH9Vi3a4EPVPneUP8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TLOQN9W0GJWH9Vi3a4EPVPneUP8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TLOQN9W0GJWH9Vi3a4EPVPneUP8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/ws1J3PoRWVc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is hitting, and they&#8217;re hitting hard.&nbsp; Shortly after announcing Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress, the company showed an advertisement criticizing every other manufacturer for launching devices that are relatively similar.&nbsp; Billed as phones in a &#8220;sea of sameness,&#8221; Microsoft points out Apple&#8217;s App Store as a &#8220;focus on apps over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}