Originally Posted by Vallhund:
“How are you liking it?”
Really loving it.
Initially there was enough to interest me as I explored the device. Then started looking to marketplace apps a bit through slight boredom. But, I realised, this is a phone for people who just want to get stuff done and put the phone away again. If you want a phone you can be constantly playing with, get Android. iPhone is in between by offering flexibility and polish.
I bought an Xbox recently too. Having Zune Pass across my PC, phone and Xbox (which is plugged up to the excellent Panny P42G20B) is my favourite feature. I can stop listening on one device and pick up where I left off on the next. Other features such as Smart DJ etc helping me explore music.
Recently had to work on a powerpoint as a team. The powerpoint (in the 2007, pptx format) displayed with perfect fidelity on my phone compared to my friend who had to use a third-party office solution on his iPhone. Looking forward to better skydrive support in office hub in the Mango update.
Xbox - there's no crossover games at present. But I like the quality of the games I've downloaded so far and having my gamerscore and achievements sync'd across xbox and phone. This area will develop a lot over the year.
Facebook integration in people hub is super, I like pinning artists, individual songs and favourite web pages to my start screen.
Partly wish I had a hardware keyboard but wouldn't want the extra thickness so settled for touch one and the WP7 one is good.
Long list menu is getting a bit tedious now. But all they need to do is add alphabetical jumping to help solve that one.
Originally Posted by
Pencil:
“Android is a much better mobile OS. 
Android is more like Windows 7 than Windows Phone 7.
A) You will get bored with Windows Phone 7 very quickly.
B) The apps are very expensive.
C) No folders.
D) No widgets.
E) No multi-tasking.
F) No copy and paste.
G) Annoying animations you can't turn off.
H) Barely any customisation options.
I) Updates are few and far between.”
:yawn: The constantly repeated saying - there is no "better" just devices that more closely match personal preferences seems to be needed to be repeated again.
A) Good. Android is better if you want a phone to constantly be fiddling with. If you want a phone that let's you do stuff quickly and easily and then put it away again then WP7 is great. Get back to real life. If you do get bored however, there's plenty of great games to try out.
B) The marketplace is expanding all the time. It will probably be the third-biggest app store by year end. MS have changed policy on free apps very recently so start to expect a lot more of these. Also, it has to be said - I'd rather pay money for 5 great apps then have 20 low-quality free apps.
C) Don't need folders as much. iPhone and Android have an "app everything" model so need folder to organise apps. WP7 tries to use hubs to reduce need for apps and get you straight to your content, bypassing the app layer. Good example - dive straight into people's statuses - no need to go into facebook app first. Same with pictures - hit the pictures hub and see the photos straight away, not the photos apps.
D) No widgets - hello, Live Tiles?
E) No multi-tasking. This is incorrect. First-party apps (e.g. Zune player) already have multitasking so you can listen to music whilst doing other stuff. Third-party multitasking is coming this year in the Mango update. Besides, you really want to do ten things at once on a small screen and limited interface of a mobile device? Want to hit your battery life and slow things down through allocation processor time and RAM to hundred things at once? Or do one thing, smoothly, and then go on to the next.
F) Copy & paste. Should be here within two weeks.
G) Animations are blended in, I don't notice them, they don't bug me.
H) Yup. They want a consistent UI across all devices - you know what you're getting. It's targeted more at current featurephone users and more technophobe people who would otherwise be like "aah! what did I do? how do I change it back?". If you want extensive customisability - Android is the way forward (Symbian was customisable too).
I) Platform launched end of last year, the updates are coming. How long did HTC Hero owners have to wait to go from 1.6 to 2.1? Over a year?