I'm so excited for the new Windows Phone 7s this fall!!

These phones are way cool, better than android and way way better than the iphone!

Discover Windows Phone 7 | Newest Cell Phones | Windows Phone 7

This here is the site to discover said phone device, but keep in mind, you need a 32 bit browser with Silverlight installed to use it unfortunately. But it's well worth it.

And on another side note, oh gosh, it's getting me stoked for the new user interface of Windows 8!

I love that eye candy.....

Dinesh said:

Better than Android? I don't think so.

WP7-specific limitations

• No system-wide file manager
• No Bluetooth file transfers
• No USB mass storage mode
• Limited third-party apps availability
• No Flash (nor Silverlight) support in the browser
• Too dependent on Zune software for file management and syncing
• No video calls
• New ringtones available only through the Marketplace
• Music player lacks equalizer presets
• No multitasking
• No copy/paste
• No DivX/XviD video support (automatic transcoding provided by Zune software)
• No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
• No internet tethering support
• No handwriting recognition support.

Kind regards,
Dinesh.


Edit: Copy paste and few negligible feature were added in the WP7 Mango update.

USB mode can be used on the computer that is used for syncing through a reg edit, a little inconvenient but I've rarely used or heard of using the phone as a USB drive.

Multi-tasking is coming in as the biggest update for WP7 with the Mango update.

Internet tethering I've seen is done through a backend enabling, but Mango I believe is going to provide that without going through the back end....

I don't know for sure about musical equalizer though, I've never really used it since paired with decent headphones and good speakers, it doesn't seem necessary.

Third-party apps are still getting there. It's like how when apple introduced the app store, it didn't have a 100,000 apps the first day or a million the first year or so. But a lot of the apps are actually quite decent.

Microsoft seems to be ditching some bluetooth in recent years so that is a con for some.

I think custom ringtones are accomplished through jailbreaking, which Microsoft fully allows. But again, the Mango update might allow that natively.

The Mango update doesn't have a few negligible updates, it's more along the lines of over 500 different updates. Service pack? Probably.

And for the Zune dependency, I don't care that much about it since the Zune Software is simply amazing to look at and use. I love me some eye candy.....:)

Dinesh said:

Here's the official Mango update: