“Microsoft has posted its first teaser video advertisement for the upcoming Windows Phone 7,” Josh Ong reports for AppleInsider. “The one-minute ad, posted on the official Windows Phone UK YouTube channel, was created for a Secret Cinema showing of ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ and spoofs the iconic mirage scene from the film.”
Ong reports, “Microsoft is expected to spend over $500 million on marketing [Windows Phone 7] at launch.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Way too little, way too late. Where’s cut, copy, and paste? Where’s the multitasking? Where’s the compass API? Where’s the VPN support? Where’s the unified inbox for email? Where’s the HTML5 support? What is this, 2007?
Android Microsoft. Never do with one button that which you can do with four three.™
Stupid looking trailer.
As the ad suggests, Windows Phone 7 will be nothing but a mirage… with a really awkward name.
Windows Foam?
If I’m ever stuck out in the desert..that’s not the phone I want
So slow and boring
The poor, red-headed step-child version of Apple’s iconic ‘1984’ commercial about 35 years too late.
And considering that it’s only 3 months away, there are no details.
No originality. Oooppss…it is MS afterall.
Oh, so Pathetic.
Hey Microsoft, how about fixing the problems with windows 7 OS on computers before moving the problem child to phones? Crappy software makes for crappy hardware………. Oh, and the commercial…….. not even CLOSE to stirring up any excitement. Except for us iPhone owners who need a laugh!!!!!
Ok, this is marketing for very old people that watched Lawrence of Arabia or for an Arabian market share. Wasn’t the turd brown Zune marketed to the off road bikealists? Did they not learn anything?