I apologize if my curt comment seemed baseless fanboyism.
I just lack the patience at this point of dealing with Microsoft's crap (IT admin, 20 years in the field).
Microsoft is always "me too!" to every successful technology or device, but the only solution they bring to the table is to cram Windows itself or the "Windows mentality" into it.
The problem is, Microsoft thinks Windows' market share is because Windows itself is good, liked, or the best solution for the job. It's not. The truth is, Windows' market share is because of historical events, traction, and inertia/habit. When you have a new device/technology, you can't just clone those advantages into a new field and expect it to carry over.
Remember the Zune?
Unfortunately, Microsoft has a bottomless pit of money from their desktop/server/office empire to pour into something, even to the tune of billions over the years, just on the off chance that maybe it'll be moderately successful someday. Even if it means playing dirty (money can buy you friends, and big money can buy you big friends).
At the end of the day, though, Windows Mobile (aka "Pocket PC" and now as "Windows Phone") is still just the Windows mentality and "experienced" crammed onto a handheld. You have to ask yourself: how much do you
really love Windows, how much of your use of it on your desktop is just because that's what you're used to or that's what most people use, and why not take the opportunity to break free of that when you have a whole new realm to use as a "clean slate"?
Remember: when you establish a relationship with your portable device, you're entrenching yourself with an entire "school of thought" and mentality. There's Apple's. There's Android's. And then there's Microsoft's. Which is heading most in the direction
you want to go? Which is closest to what
you want in the long-run? Which is most-likely, in its next version, to provide you with more of what
you want, versus more of what the corporations/advertisers/media companies want?
When you hop on a train, the route and destination are more-important that the color of the seats or the shape of the... windows.
Microsoft has to turn this into a viable retail product that can hang with the fiercest competition in the history of the cellphone in just a few months' time, and there are some serious issues that need to be addressed. Frankly, it's a little scary. ... the industry has already proven that it won't wait around for companies to play catch-up. It's not about lapping the competition at this point, it's about just being in the race -- and if Microsoft doesn't know that by now, it may already be too late."
From:
Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview -- Engadget
the experience for us felt a little too much like our time using the Microsoft KIN 2. The tiled homescreen seems a little too constrained and boxed in for us, and the non-frills design approach actually left the handset menus and navigational elements feeling bare and unfinished, rather than pure and unaltered. Not having any sort of menu for hoping back and forth between applications hampers your every day usage, and the animated transitions also start to feel old pretty fast. For a phone that was made from scratch and started on after the first iPhone was introduced, and for a phone that