Naughty by Nature real, honest to goodness Windows Mobile Power Users

July 7, 2009 | By Surur

nbn I must admit when I first heard about naughty by Nature doing a Windows Mobile promotion I had assumed the group was just being paid to represent the device and the company. It seems I could not have been more wrong.

"First and foremost, I am a Windows Mobile power-user," began Vin. "I’ve had these devices since the Treo and the iPhone and all of that, but once I got introduced to the Windows Mobile platform, I realized those were mini-PCs. For the past four years or so, I’ve just been riding with Windows Mobile devices – even before the iPhone came out."

Apparently Vin had a long list of Windows Mobile devices. "After the Tilt came out two years ago. I got that and I got one for my niece; we both gave the iPhone back because we were so used to all of the features and a physical keyboard on the Tilt."

Vin is even an XDA-Developer user “… I started going onto underground blog sites and saw that there were basically developers that hacked into that interface with custom themes for them.” He hooked up with master TouchFlo3D skinner Probex, and independently developing a Windows Mobile app when fate struck when he ran into a Microsoft executive, who, as usual it seems, seemed to know less about Windows Mobile than the enthusiastic end users.

"He wasn’t even really aware of the Touch Pro 2."

The chance meeting led to a cross-promotional deal with Microsoft, currently involving a Facebook campaign, a HTC Touch Pro 2 give away and also a trip to see the band. If all goes well it may just be the start.

“… Naughty By Nature will be the first group to do a major campaign with Microsoft and Windows Mobile."

Showing a good understanding for Windows Mobile’s current place in the market, Vin said: “It’s not just for businessmen with the white shirt and the tie. It’s a lot of kids out here. That’s particularly where Windows Mobile is getting out-marketed by the Sidekicks and the iPhones of the world. So it’s kind of a blessing in disguise that we found each other.”

Finally Vin again reinforced his Windows Mobile cred. “There’s a real artist – it’s not just a check for me, ’cause I’m a real user of this product, and I’d throw every other device out, ’cause that’s how passionate I am about it."

Read the full interview at HiphopDX here.

Thanks Craig S for the tip.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged promotion, windows mobile

dr g

Bravo, I like this. Of course I’m old enough to remember when Naughty By Nature was more relevant, but hey …
aleis

i use to LOVE NN!
now…not so much
but to be honest, the kids in my city (philadelphia, pa) mainly are winmo people.
ONLY because they want keyboards or cool looking phones but cannot get on AT&T. so windows in the”hood” is VERY popular!
plus everyone in the hood likes microsoft cause the coolest rappers are always doing commercials for them (jay z, common, afrika bamboda (sp.) )
its “a good look” as we say
the undude

good stuff.

the pr team working on windows mobile is ABISMAL.
the branding team working on winmo is also doing ABISMAL work.

for proof, look at all the articles on smartphones that mention the iphone, pre, google phone and blackberries and that DON’T mention windows mobile.

again, this is a branding problem.
rubi

didn’t know about the touch pro2…. wtf kina wm fan is this cat again?

rubi

ah, yea, read it wrong. Thats what I get for not reading an article, but skimming through it, this guy passes, WM fan fosho… I wonder if he’ll still get the touch pro2 knowing htc is going to have standard headphone jacks on future phones??…. he might wanna dust of that tilt!

http://www.plantesjardinsnature.com/ plantesjardinsnature

And what they are not paid they just doing it for fun?? come on i refuse to believe this