Faster Windows Phone! Kill! Kill!

I can't imagine iPhone or most Android phones ever being so slow -- on a device/system level -- that I would not use Twitter, for example, or Facebook, or not check the weather.

So this Windows Phone "challenge" is inherently bogus.

But, I think, effective. Windows Phone leverages a rather obvious, capable, step-by-step usability construct that I think makes it a solid OS. In fact, in case I've not mentioned this before, Windows Phone strikes me as the best version of the Blackberry OS ported to a touchscreen.

Which is kinda why I think Blackberry may truly be doomed.

Anyway, "Windows Phone challenge" silliness aside, this video and Microsoft's efforts at CES certainly should help, and they need all the help they can get. Although I must say, hoping to pick off some iPhone customer with a Nokia Windows Phone phone probably isn't going to accomplish much.

That iPhone user base is pretty damn solid, and unlike Apple, neither Microsoft nor Nokia can live comfortably off a market share of 20%, for example. 

Okay, enough with the caveats. On a superficial level, this works. Good for Microsoft.