Dilbert creator, Scott Adams and CNET’s Molly Wood accepts challenge: Try Windows Phone, if unhappy – $1000 to charity.
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A few days ago, Brandon Watson, Director at Windows Phone responsible for its development, left a comment at Scott Adams’ (creator of Dilbert) blog where Scott was complaining about the new fangled smartphones that isn’t helping him get things done. Core things, make a phone call, let you write on it properly, send out a text message, have a browser that wont spaz and possibly a decent battery life. After trying out all platforms (except Symbian lol) Scott was left simply frustrated.
In comes Brandon Watson with a challenge. Try Windows Phone. He’ll provide on of the Mango handsets reserved for developers for Scott to play with. If he’s not happy with it, Brandon will give $1000 to charity (incentive there already not to). Androids dreaming of iSheep hahaha.
“Scott – My name is Brandon Watson and I am responsible for the developer platform on Windows Phone. Since your readership has a high probability of cross over with our developer base, how about I make you a deal with one of the phones we reserve for developers.
Take Windows Phone for a spin. I’ll send you a developer phone with the new Mango OS on it. Give it an honest run, and if you don’t love it more than either of your iPhone or Android experiences, I’ll make a $1000 donation to the charity of your choice. You can’t really lose on this deal.
Do we have 500K apps? No. Do we have 25K, growing as fast as iPhone did, and 2x as fast as Android? Yes. Do developers love the dev environment? Uh huh. Do we have the only phone that puts people and communications first? You bet.
If Androids dream of electronic iSheep, people dream about people – and that’s what you will get with Windows Phone. Keep in constant contact with those most important to you with Live Tiles, groups, messaging threads, and native Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. And no special instructions on how to hold the phone to make calls. Oh, and the battery lasts a long time. I can be reached at ThePhone [at] microsoft. You can call me if you want – 425-985-5568. Windows Phone devs will tell you that’s the right contact info, because it’s shared with every one of them. I hope you take me up on this one…there’s no reason to hate your phone.”
Response? Game on. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/windows_phone_challenge/
Scott warns that he makes his living criticizing things (in a witty matter), but says Windows Phone just has to “make phone calls, handle email, have battery life that lasts half a day, do a little web browsing without locking up and it will win.”
You can watch animated dilbert episodes on YouTube (season one airing all the way back in 1999 
): http://www.youtube.com/show?p=SykhnvSXWB8&tracker=show_av
MollyWood – video host at CNET was also given the same challenge and accepted.
This challenge is open to other ‘Android-Celebs’ unhappy with their devices. “We got @mollywood & Dilbert accepted too! #wp7dev coming soon to an unhappy Android-user internet celebrity near you. Anyone other takers?” tweets @BrandonWatson.
If you want a FREE windows phone, Brandon says you can get one too – if you’re a developer, contact @benlower if you’re willing to make apps. If not, you may be able to o other things. Brandon said:
“@MissDestructo @NikitaP My phones are for developers – are you building apps? If not, what are you willing to do for a Windows Phone?
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Cheers for the tip, Matt.
Category: Windows Phone
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Symbian users and developers are not invited?
And I love the cartoon which you posted above saying “for cod3rror” lol
Made my day
love letter “for cod3rror”sweet ….
“Symbian users and developers are not invited?” Possibly anyone, though developers would have to be making apps for Windows Phone. Contact @benlower, maybe he’ll point you in the right direction if you fancy making WP apps.
Symbian developers moving onto wp7 development will get a free Nokia device once its out.
Nokia Meego team should also challenge them to use N9…
Perhaps not, unless the email app has been improved/fixed.. hearing that in earlier builds it was still not working too well.
Really? Not MeeGo too! This was one of the things that absolutely drove me away from the Symbian^3 platform. Nokia better get this fixed or it’s bye bye birdie for me.
Well, it worked fairly badly on Maemo 5, so not terribly surprised if there are still some issues. HOWEVER, let’s wait and see, I am sure its atleast significantly better than on N900, and likely better than S^3 too.
You mean Maemo development team?
What?! Now people are satisfied if their phone last half a day?
I guess we should tell you he makes his living out of humor.
That’s sweet Jay, thank you!
But let me explain how the real world works to you guys, these “challenges” are a farce! Instead of donating $1K to charity, they’ll be donating $10K to her bank account for her to suddenly like WF7.
Besides, I’ve said it before WF7 is a feminine OS, she might like it. Microsoft knows it, that’s why they chose a woman for this “challenge”.
WF7 team is desperate, simply desperate, so desperate that they are openly buying a reviewer. But it won’t make a difference to WF7 sales… they’ll bomb even further.
This is nothing, this is WF7 just making some small news and getting some small attention while everyone is waiting for iOS and Android…
When iPhone 5 and Android Ice Cream Sandwich get released, WF7 will be more forgotten than Soviet WWII heroes… and that’s pretty forgotten.
Everyone is moving to buttonless front phones, WF7 still requires 3 hardware buttons, or software, whatever they are fundamentally needed.
Mango update will only catch up to iOS 4 and Google Froyo feature set, and it won’t fix the fundamental problem with WF7… INTERFACE!
iOS users will not go to WF7
Android users will not go to WF7
Symbian users will go Android/MeeGo
No one wants WF7.
Did you mean ?
WF7 == Windows Fone 7
WF7 = whadda f*ck 7
INTERFACE!
this is good post
wp7 seems for girlies
i allready symbian user almost to turn for n9 or samsung galaxy 2
i just wait for n9 price and apps if any
Scott Adams is a girl? Who knew…
hahah.. I was just about to point that out.. Symbian troll finding every good reason to bash wp7
you saying symbian are trolls that supported nokia so long (so and mr elop perhaps thinking the same to so many symbian and meego users after so many years supporting nokia
the trolls made number 1 nokia…
by call us trolls it means you seems fanatic with wp7 which i respect that platform, but if sales will not go well in future, will not do the same when perhaps nokia will go more down
(I hope not)
yes nokia may need change (perhaps only few wp7 phones for the funs of wp7 lovers like you) but for me not to wp7 as primary phones but android or meego (2-3 devices of each platform should be for them as well)and keep symbian as lower price device
that how i belive nokia will stay up and running now days
of course wp7 will sale some (after so many millions are going to spent for marketing)but (i hope it will) personal i dont belive this will save nokia
Time will show up very soon
also dont mean adam is girl but the os is for girlies because it seems they adverts more the social part of it and where to do your shopping
I call them trolls because thats what they are.. they complain just for the sake of complaining without anything constructive to say.. you don’t like wp7 or Nokia decision to go wp7 fair enough .. but bashing wp7 just because you dont like it isn’t good enough.. Saying things like wp7 is for girls is one of them
In the past i owned Nokia devices myself. at least 4 of them so its like am an outsider. I just stopped using Nokia because Symbian was behind competition. There was times when Symbina was really good. I remember my N-Gage. I used a friends n8 for up to a week so I know compared to what available on other platforms its really lacking.. the phone is of good hardware but Symbian seems to be behind the curve.
The thing is those who owe Nokia.. I mean the actual people who have their investments in the company gave Elop the chance to run the company.. So far he hasn’t even released a product yet and yet people are bashing him and blaming hi for the decline of Nokia whiles they forget the main reason he was brought on the first place.
if you want girly phones you should no no further than Nokia .. they make full fledged pink phones !!
Scott isn’t a girl, however the reviewer they(Scott) are buying is.
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WOW !!! calling Windows Phone a girlie OS some Symbian fanboys are getting really desperate out there now aren’t they, thats really really…..really sad.
Come on people you are so much cleverer than that to call different OS’s names now, seriously if normal people read these comment they would laugh their heads at us right now.
Exactly what criticisms does Adams have for Android with regards to his list of priorities because it looks like that list is very well served by just about any Android handset?
WP7 certainly won’t do any of those things any better.
well dial a phone number is actually a pain to figure out in wp7, the simple numbers buttons are hidden, the os works with numbers you have stored in memory to easy find, but not to dial not saved numbers.