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Mashable Poll Shows WP7 Favored Over BlackBerry

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 06:07 PM PST

As a political science student in college, I learned not to be such a firm believer in polls because not only are polls wrong very often, but polls are only as reliable as the demographic being polled and in this case it’s Mashable’s readers, a well-known Apple-leaning tech blog.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with running a tech blog that’s biased toward one company or product. I mean, this is a Windows news website, but I just wanted to put the poll and it’s findings into some context. Based on a holiday poll that Mashable recently ran among its readers, the results show that Windows Phone is beginning to make a dent in the the minds of smartphone users.

Based on their poll results below, Mashable readers prefer Windows Phone by a little under a percentage point. It’s not a huge margin, but being that Windows Phone is a version 1.0 and has only been in the market for less than two months, this could be telling.

While Windows Phone certainly isn’t as ubiquitous as the iPhone, Android or even BlackBerry for that matter, I have noticed an increase in Windows Phone sighting’s while I’m around town. I think the increased exposure to the market and developer concentration has put Windows Phone out there, now it’s up to Microsoft to support their devices and catch up to the leaders in terms of features.

Here are some of the other polls they’ve posted. The first chart should speak volumes about which users tend to read Mashable: