Windows 7 taking over iOS ?

Is Windows 7 mobile taking over iPhone

For sometime now, i have been hearing rave reviews about devices running on Windows 7 mobile. Its since the launch of iPhone 4S, the number of reviews in favour of Windows Phone 7 have been increasing day after day. Just recently, i read an article describing the same.

In a column by Nick Wingfield in the HT, the writer states that the software from the digital giant has already started shaking Apple's domination. He furthur continues to write that a professor at University of Washington Axel Roesler finds Windows phone OS packed with Nokia's hardware as 'striking different' and sets one apart.

Thouth the article by Nick Wingfield was not a good piece of reading material, but it still makes one think over. Nokia's Lumia 900 which runs on Windows 7 mobile is sold in the US on AT&T network - the same network on which the iphone is sold. Just add good looking hardware to the Windows Phone 7 OS, and here's a device comparable to the iPhone. This example only shows that even AT&T finds Windows Mobile 7 packed phone poses a stiff competition to the Apple iPhone. Another thing that affects is that Apple has been more or less repeating products over the same central idea - flawless touch experience and hasn't done much changes to the UI design. Microsoft, on the other hand, after being rejected completely on Windows mobile 6.5 and Windows Vista , reworked its whole UI on both desktop and mobile platforms, and has been trying to establish Windows 7 as a big label , just like Windows XP was.

And apart from all the factors is the pricing. Windows 7 devices are way cheaper than iPhone 4S (i can buy five basic BlackBerry's, or two-three Windows 7 handsets at the price of one iPhone 7). And everyone knows that Siri maybe the first assistant in mobile devices, but it was Microsoft who first introduced speech translator for Word and the subsequent speech recognition softwares(some Lauren-Housie program as far as i remember, was bundled with office XP).