Monday, July 7, 2003
Smartphone Thoughts Launched
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 05:00 PM
I'd like to officially announce the second member of the Thoughts Media family, Smartphone Thoughts! We quietly opened our doors on the 30th of June, and have been in "build" mode since then. There's a lot of work left to do (heck, the ad server isn't even working yet!), largely because the combination of Pocket PC 2003 launch, subscriber services, and Smartphone Thoughts template design was just too much work in too short a time period for my team. The forums are up though, and we expect to start posting the style of news & views you all know and love sometime in the next couple of days.
Smartphone Thoughts is dedicated to covering the Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphone platform. No Symbian phones, no Palm OS phones - just Smartphones. There are already some great sites out there for alternative platforms, and I'm a big believer in what Microsoft is doing with their Smartphone platform. I want to foster those efforts and grow up a community around them. Those looking to start platform flame wars should look elsewhere - there are excellent platform neutral sites like howardchui.com that you can get your fix from if you want an unbiased view of the phone market. That's not our focus - we'll leave it to others.
Smartphone Thoughts (SPT) will be every bit as gloriously biased and platform-preferred as Pocket PC Thought (PPCT) is. :mrgreen: That said, you can expect the same candid tough love for the platform that you've come to expect here are Pocket PC Thoughts. We've made our platform choice, but that doesn't mean we love everything about it (damn that one email account limit! :evil:). I'll be leading the team at SPT, along with a mostly-new team of passionate Smartphone users. They're all creative, experienced, and thoughtful people who will do every bit as well as the PPCT team you enjoy.
I welcome you to all visit and register at Smartphone Thoughts! Yes, that's right, you'll have to re-register in the forums, so come grab your preferred username while you can. We technically had the abiility to port over our entire user database, but we felt it would be a violation of privacy to move personal information (name, email address, etc.) to a new site without permission to do so.
Lastly, for those who were hoping it was Digital Media Thoughts we were launching, sorry to have disappointed you - the timing for Smartphone Thoughts was important (and we had some financial help from Microsoft to get things started), but DMT is next on my list. :wink:
