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I thought it looked remarkably similar to Nokia's design, and i see that it may dilute Nokia's marketshare for WP. Despite so, i still thought Nokia's devices are more impressive feature-wise. I was pleasantly surprised at the direction HTC took with their WP8 devices, giving them unique designs instead of just recycling their designs for Android devices. The striking hardware does seem to suit the WP8 UI pretty nicely.
Though ultimately, i think the best looking WP is still the Lumia 800. The best size too. 3.7" is frankly a really usable size with one hand.
In terms of thoughts regarding how it will affect BB10, nope. I think nothing at this point could make a huge difference anymore. BB10 has been said to be coming for such a long time already, that people already have made a decision. Whether to wait and buying it for sure. To wait till they see more before deciding. Or, gave up waiting, and going with other recently launched handsets. And people who are really waiting for BB10 are a minority. No matter how awesome BB10 might be, it will take some time for it to pick up as well.
Even RIM themselves have said that BB10's initial target audience is toward BB fans, these are the people that will be buying it. Then when that happens and BB10 is on the street, friends of BB fans are bound to be intrigued. If the product is really impressive, RIM will start to have themselves a word of mouth advertising going on, which imo is the best type of advertising.
Unless RIM has something really interesting and impressive to show about BB10 next week that could sway people who are still undecided over, I think that eventually when WP8 devices hit the market towards the end of this year, they may just make a decision then to go with either of the 3 other platform.
I know clearly what I love about BB devices that isn't on other platforms, so there's a 90% chance of me going with BB10 (10% for "you'd never know, RIM may c0cked it up"). But still my overall thoughts on the 8X and 8S is extremely positive, the same as my thoughts on the Nokia 920/820, the iPhone 5, and S3. They are all good devices in their own rights. So RIM really does have a difficult task ahead of them, as BB10 will be a brand new platform, with brand new user paradigm and UI. But if they pull it off, its going to be a spectacular comeback.
09-19-12 11:43 AM - Agree! i very much prefer the matte surfaces on the HTCs. They look cleaner. On videos of the Lumia 920, most of them have fingerprints, smudges on the back of the phone. I would go for the matte black lumia 920 as well (as i have a matte black Lumia 800 as well and it looks damn fine).
09-19-12 11:46 AM - I agree with you that the Lumia 800 is the nicest looking Windows Phone to date. It's wonderful with the matte finish and curved glass. I wish that Nokia hadn't felt the need to go humungous with all of its American WP flagships. The Lumia 900 looks nice (particularly in cyan), but it's gigantic, and the 920 is basically the same.Agree! i very much prefer the matte surfaces on the HTCs. They look cleaner. On videos of the Lumia 920, most of them have fingerprints, smudges on the back of the phone. I would go for the matte black lumia 920 as well (as i have a matte black Lumia 800 as well and it looks damn fine).09-19-12 12:04 PM
- If I were a RIM executive, I would have scheduled the BB10 Jam session the week after the investor report.
You're right!When i saw the ATIV S, i thought that it was what the SGIII would have been if they had decided not to "design it for humans". hahaha. The ATIV looks more like the SGII, instead of the SIII. The ATIV S does look more like the SGII.09-19-12 12:30 PM
