The new windows phone has been described as having many setbacks like poor market share and difficulties in the wake of notice towards ios and Androids competitors?What other challenges does this phone face?
This Windows phone since its launch,it has already suffered a data cut-off bug which will put off a vast percent of the consumer market, and business customers especially, where data is the lifeblood of mission-critical operations. It’s struggling with poor market share and hampered by an image problem in the wake of attention towards iOS and Android rivals.
Another challenge to windows phone is how to improved their app store according to the blog, 67 percent of the apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace are free, 10 percent are paid with a free trial, and 22 percent are paid.”
Developers will not write apps or games for a platform deemed unsafe or unlikely to generate revenue from a lack of users.
Windows phone lack the cutting edge hardware,carrier support,lack of apps available compared with iOS and android phones,and lastly have a solid hardware partners that can make windows phone competitive against iphone and android phones.
At the moment, one of the latest Windows phone Microsoft launched this year is the Microsoft Lumia 650. Microsoft Lumia 650 is a 4G Smartphone operating on 2G, 3G, and 4G network bands using GSM, HSPA, and LTE technologies. It was announced to the public and released at the same time on February 2016. It measures 142 x 70.9 x 6.9 millimeters and weighs 122 grams.
It supports dual nano-SIM card. It has OLED capacitive touchscreen display with 16M colors at 720 x 1280 pixels screen resolution. It supports multi-touch protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 with ClearBlack display. It runs on Microsoft Windows 10 powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 chipset, Quad Core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7 processor, and Adreno 304 GPU. It supports microSD expandable up to 256 GB.
It runs on 1 GB RAM with 16 GB internal storage. The primary camera supports 8 megapixels with f/2.2, 28mm, LED flash, and autofocus. The primary camera features 1/4″ sensor size and can record video in 720p at 30 fps. The secondary camera supports 5 megapixels with f/2.2 and can record video in 720p.
It supports 3.5-millimeter jack with active noise cancellation and dedicated mic support; Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with DLNA and hotspot support; Bluetooth 4.1 with A2DP and LE support; GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, and BDS support; NFC; FM radio; and microUSB 2.0. It has built-in proximity and accelerometer sensors. The pre-installed web browser supports HTML5. Java is not supported.
It runs on removable Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery with standby time up to 624 hours on 3G and talk time up to 16 hours on 2G and 13 hours on 3G. It is available in black and white colors. Though Microsoft has been around since 1975 and known for its popular Microsoft Windows operating system, Android was launched few years ahead of Windows Phone.
The very first version of the Android mobile operating system was released in September 2008 while Microsoft launched its first ever Windows Phone in 2010 almost at the same time with iOS. The first ever version of iOS, iOS 3.1.3, was released in February 2010.
