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Look at the pseudo-win-phone interface on that X2. It looks what it is: an imitation of another phone.. also it's blatantly confusing for users who will now see

Look at the pseudo-win-phone interface on that X2. It looks what it is: an imitation of another phone.. also it's blatantly confusing for users who will now see what appears to be a windows phone interface but be unable to use windows phone apps. Odd strategy.

vezycash 12y ago
This confusing is indeed real. Just last week, a friend told me that he wanted to get a windows phone. It turns out he thought the predecessor of this phone was a windows phone.
LoneWolf 12y ago
That pseudo-win-phone interface was my first thought too, a really bad idea IMHO, as you pointed out it will only confuse users. Something I also thought was that the idea is to create a better opinion of the windows phone, and to confuse users to buy windows phones in the future. I also wonder how nice this pseudo-win-phone will play with all the other android apps. (Disclaimer: I have used a WP7.8 phone and hated it, since then I developed a hate for the windows phone, I feel so limited when compared to android)
- HenryMc 12y ago
  WP8.1 is so far ahead of 7.8. Don't write WP off just yet.
jpalomaki 12y ago
The strategy makes more sense when you consider this originated from Nokia. Nokia had three lines of products: feature phones, the mid range and then Lumia. The mid range was problematic. The phones could not compete with low end Android phones, because the operating system was getting outdated. On the other hand Nokia's Linux projects (Maemo/Meego and then Meltemi) had failed or were driven down to save money. Windows Phone had it's limitations on hardware support and probably Microsoft did not want to take it to low end devices. So they needed something and they ended up on Android. Skinning the phone to look like Windows Phone made it feel like part of the larger product family. In future it would have then been easier to get the users to migrate to low end Windows Phones. Maybe there was also a "political" twist. Nokia was negotiating with Microsoft about the sale of the mobile phones unit. Maybe it put more pressure on Microsoft when they saw that Nokia was moving towards Android.

vezycash 12y ago

This confusing is indeed real. Just last week, a friend told me that he wanted to get a windows phone. It turns out he thought the predecessor of this phone was a windows phone.

LoneWolf 12y ago

That pseudo-win-phone interface was my first thought too, a really bad idea IMHO, as you pointed out it will only confuse users. Something I also thought was that the idea is to create a better opinion of the windows phone, and to confuse users to buy windows phones in the future. I also wonder how nice this pseudo-win-phone will play with all the other android apps. (Disclaimer: I have used a WP7.8 phone and hated it, since then I developed a hate for the windows phone, I feel so limited when compared to android)

HenryMc 12y ago
WP8.1 is so far ahead of 7.8. Don't write WP off just yet.

jpalomaki 12y ago

The strategy makes more sense when you consider this originated from Nokia. Nokia had three lines of products: feature phones, the mid range and then Lumia. The mid range was problematic. The phones could not compete with low end Android phones, because the operating system was getting outdated. On the other hand Nokia's Linux projects (Maemo/Meego and then Meltemi) had failed or were driven down to save money. Windows Phone had it's limitations on hardware support and probably Microsoft did not want to take it to low end devices. So they needed something and they ended up on Android. Skinning the phone to look like Windows Phone made it feel like part of the larger product family. In future it would have then been easier to get the users to migrate to low end Windows Phones. Maybe there was also a "political" twist. Nokia was negotiating with Microsoft about the sale of the mobile phones unit. Maybe it put more pressure on Microsoft when they saw that Nokia was moving towards Android.