A couple weeks ago I bought the new Windows Phone 7 and I have to say I am loving it. The WP7 operaring system (OS) comes on many different phones. The one I picked up is the Samsung Focus. It's very thin and light weight with a super-AMOLED screen, which is very high contrast. When the phone show true black, the pixels are actually turned off, so the blacks are totally black. It saves battery life and looks amazing.
Now, this new Phone 7 OS was just released in November, so there are some features that are missing (like copy & paste and a few other things), and not all of my favorite apps have been released for WP7 either (like Pandora and Angry Birds), but there is a HUGE OS update coming in Janurary and it's just a matter of time til there's more apps.
In the mean time, the things that I really like are
1) the interface is way sexy - the fonts, graphics, and subtle movements and just the whole experience of navigating around
2) the voice control is really good - you just say what you're looking for and the phone figures it out
3) it has "live tile" on the start page, which are constantly updated with new info (like weather conditions, photos of the band i'm listening to, new craigslist items i'm looking for)
4) you can also pin your own tiles to the start screen and you can pin pretty much anything - a map location, a contact, a song, a web page
5) this model has a 5 Megapixel camera w/ flash and shoots 720p HD video
6) last but not least, cuz this might be the coolest feature of them all.... the apps are built in Silverlight and I, ladies and gentlemen, am a Silverlight designer at a Silverlight agency. So I can build my own apps and load them on my own phone! right now I'm working on 2 apps w/ a couple guys from work. I'll share a demo when they're done.
7) whoops, i spoke too soon... the coolest thing is NO MORE ITUNES!!!
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