Luxury Android Phone Maker: Win Phone 8 is 'Too Complex'
Vertu says Windows Phone 8 was too difficult to work with.
Luxury Android phone maker Vertu, which recently announced a $9,600 to $19,900 smartphone, has said that Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform is too complex.
Android handset Vertu Ti was intended to have a Windows Phone 8 counterpart, but plans to make such a device were abandoned due to "the complexity of building for Windows Phone," according to the head of concept and design, Hutch Hutchinson.
Vertu will be using Android "for the foreseeable future," Hutchinson said. Vertu's former parent company was Nokia, which uses Windows Phone for its mobile platform.
Despite its high price tag, the Vertu Ti runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich instead of 4.1 Jelly Bean. Other specifications include a 1.7 GHz dual-core processor, an 8-megapixel camera and NFC.
The last stats I could find show "Windows phone" with ~2.5% market share, vs. nearly 70% for Android.
Obvious business decision is obvious.
Yes, MS always relied on its industry partners for feedback. But now that they are going it on their own with their own echo-system it is a steep learning curve. I think MS will eventually get it.... but I'm not sure if they will succeed even then due to the cost. Win phones are not competitive for people who do not buy without a contract. If they had offered a good solid phone for 300 bucks, they would be looking better, but trying to sell a W8 phone for almost twice the price of the Nexus 4 (without a contract) just isn't working out for them.
Every few years it will be "completely redesigned from the ground up", irritating the living $h!t out of everyone who is just used to everything "working"
So is your wise and well thought-out comment made from personal experience, or are you just regurgitating other people's opinions? I made the switch from Android to WP8 about a month ago, and so for I'm loving every minute of it.
Vertu is just crazy.
Of course it has SMS delivery reports! Settings->applications->messaging->SMS delivery confirmation. You are either trolling or haven't bothered to try and look for it.
Well, I guess your phone is WP7. WP8 does not have it.
Using an HTC 8S, fully updated with latest version of WP8. Look again, you must have missed it.