Over at CES Ben The PC Guy is giving away $100 if your device can beat a Windows Phone. Of course, the tasks as going to be skewed to things that Windows Phones are particularly fast at but so far the Windows Phones are 2-0 defeating an iPhone 4s and a Galaxy Nexus. Another Android blogger walked away before trying to battle.
Great way to make noise though and show off that there are some things that the OS excels at.
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I have been giving a challenge like this (without the money though!) for months to all my android/ios friends. They are allowed to choose any super-phone they want and they can even pick the tasks, as long as the tasks are native smartphone tasks. I will use my 1 year old omnia-7.
Until now no one is up to it and we still don’t know which phone is the fastest – at least we don’t have the proof
David K obviously didn’t read the THE FINE PRINT:
1) The great news for you as a challenger is that I’m not going to force you into a specific scenario; we’ll make the call together based on the things that you do every day on your smartphone.
From: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/01/10/i-ve-got-100-that-says-your-smartphone-will-get-smokedbywindowsphone.aspx
Obviously, not scewed toward windows phone…
@WindowsPhoneWillSmokeYourPhone The first comment on your blog from SilverRubicon:
“Seems to me that if an iPhone user pulled out their iPhone 4S and said “Remind me to call mom when I get home” they would immediately win the challenge. Triggers a reminder when in proximity of your home with a single sentence. Don’t see how Windows Phone can top that, and I’m the owner of a Samsung Focus.”
$100 to him I’d say.
I use feature that on my iPhone 4S all the time. Grocery list at the store, stuff at work, things to do at home, reminders for when I get to friend’s houses… etc..
And I counter that Siri with a simple open “Random App Name”. Thats an everyday task that everyone does. Yes Siri is beta but you brought it up. Its like bringing a knife to a gun fight, bad idea.
This seems like a stupid challenge anyway. And what was the one loss? That was a big hole in this post!
As far as I am concerned, my device wins any challenge. It works, has a great screen, and I know how to use it. That is the result of being an informed buyer, not from buying the “latest and greatest” as posted by some other possibly biased blogger.
I don’t understand why, but I want to Love Windows Phone again too.
Just waiting for the right device for me.
Have fun at CES!
Peace