What About the Microsoft SmartPhone?

Spat asks why Microsoft doesn't make a bigger deal about the SmartPhones when it comes to the iPod. I love my SmartPhone as much as the next guy, but you can't compare that to the iPod. Here's why: my son will not consider buying one. A cell phone has a monthly service charge. An iPod doesn't. Also, an iPod is "cool" but a SmartPhone isn't. There's a variety of reasons for that. By the way, I really dislike it when Microsoft employees post blogs but don't put their names on their blogs (or their email aliases). Why? Cause I wanted to email Spat something internally, and I can't. Please, please, please use your real name on your blogs and put your email address out there. Or don't blog. To make things even worse, I used the contact link on Robert Scoble is the founder of the PodTech.net's Vice President of Media Development.

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