From watching the videos, it does do some things very very nicely, but it was somewhat irritating to watch them pretend that a lot of stuff that Android (or at least Droid) does already is new and groundbreaking.
"Phone numbers and addresses in web pages will be touchable to help you dial or take you somewhere on the map"
"Wow, really?"
...also...
"When you search, search does a contextual search and provides you local results, say, 'pizza' for instance"
"Wow!"
C'mon, seriously? Is the general viewing public *that* stupid? This phone's potentially a year away and the Droid's been doing that for nearly five months now - I think the novelty will have worn off by then.
Still, though, it looks leaps and bounds better than my last (and only WinMo) phone, the Samsung Omnia. My biggest gripe is that if this is their new interface for Zune and Win7Pho and all, why did it take so long to implement, when it's almost exactly like the Media Center edition of XP they started putting out in 2005 (or earlier - I bought a laptop in 2006 that had Media Center that this is eerily reminiscent of)?
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