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roguemat

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Well, yesterday I read this blog post: http://deanvmc.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/consumers-and-windows-phone-7/#more-4
And it really is true. I then made this comment on it:
Great article.
The situation is the same here in South Africa, except to a further degree. We have only two devices on sale here (the Mozart and Trophy) and none of the sales clerks even know what you are talking about until you point at their catalog – to which they tell you that they will probably have to put a special order in for it so you should rather get an iPhone/Android device.

As a developer and lover of all things awesome I WANT people to have these phones, or at least to be given the option to make the decision themselves.
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And then today I go onto MyAdsl's front page and see this:
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/themes/mbb/img/mtn-wallpaper.jpg - notice the WM6.5 device?

This is BS. If MTN themselves don't even know they sell the next version, then how are consumers meant to?
Or are they just trying to push old stock before they are left with a bunch of phones they can't sell?
 
roguemat said:
Well, yesterday I read this blog post: http://deanvmc.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/consumers-and-windows-phone-7/#more-4
And it really is true. I then made this comment on it:


And then today I go onto MyAdsl's front page and see this:
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/themes/mbb/img/mtn-wallpaper.jpg - notice the WM6.5 device?

This is BS. If MTN themselves don't even know they sell the next version, then how are consumers meant to?
Or are they just trying to push old stock before they are left with a bunch of phones they can't sell?
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Yep, the awareness is shocking in retailers.
Half of the stores in the US tell you flat out that it sucks and that you must buy and Android or iPhone.
They'll then go on listing all the 'missing' features of it. Unless you know that you want it, you're not going to have it 'sold' to you.
 
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I thought with the new consumer protection act, the clerks are no longer allowed to tell you which device you should choose/consider.
 
Every MTN store I go to either dont know about WP 7 phones or the few sales people that do, tell me its totally crap and I should go for android (specifically the galaxy tab and s) or iphones.... one salesperson even made me feel like im soooo stupid to even consider such a stupid phone, telling me its "windows" and "windows" crashes all the time, n then i asked purposely if its even windows phone 7? he looked confused for a sec before ranting on "whether windows 7 or windows 8 even, it will STILL crash, coz windows files are just made to crash".... i was dumbfounded (of course didnt want to show him I know more than I am asking) at his lack of knowledge and the fact that he was badmouthing the phones and basically forcing Android on me.....
 
sameer78 said:
Every MTN store I go to either dont know about WP 7 phones or the few sales people that do, tell me its totally crap and I should go for android (specifically the galaxy tab and s) or iphones.... one salesperson even made me feel like im soooo stupid to even consider such a stupid phone, telling me its "windows" and "windows" crashes all the time, n then i asked purposely if its even windows phone 7? he looked confused for a sec before ranting on "whether windows 7 or windows 8 even, it will STILL crash, coz windows files are just made to crash".... i was dumbfounded (of course didnt want to show him I know more than I am asking) at his lack of knowledge and the fact that he was badmouthing the phones and basically forcing Android on me.....
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Wow, seriously, what kind of idiots do these guys employ?!?
Yeah, Windows crashes all the time - it was designed to do so... Hopeless.
 
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Some people are shocking. Am waiting though for the nokia wp7 phones. I want to see a sales clerk who badmouths windows and praises nokia, have his/her brain explode.

Never EVER trust a sales clerk!
 
I spoke with a TECHNICAL SPECIALIST at a 8ta in canal walk. That is the title he was referred to in the store.
I asked him about the version of Android an HTC fone had installed His response was "Just give me a minute, i want to to check the catalogue and will let you know if the ANDROID APP WAS INSTALLED ON THAT FONE.
He came back a few minutes later and said YES, THAT FONE HAS THE ANDROID APP INSTALLED... WTF????
 
You have got to love sales people. I wish they knew more than what I could learn by searching Google for 10 minutes. I can most times tell them more about the product they are selling.
 
I have given up on WM7 for the moment. The carriers are not interested. Possibly with Nokia moving to WM7 things will change in the future.

I will have a look again in a year or so.
 
Yeah i skipped the whole getting the phone from carrier thing. Ordered a phone online and then just getting an iPhone 4 for my upgrade which i can sell to pay off the phone i ordered.
 
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