[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
1. Google Music is not a subscription service. It is not comparable with ZunePass. It's just a way to stream the music you own from one place without duplicating it everywhere. Apple is doing something similar by matching your music with tracks from iTunes.

2. Android has a user accessible File System and File Manager applications. There are ways to get the music to Google Music from the phone considering the web browser can display it just like on a desktop /wink

3. What invite? Download the app from the App Market. You can set it up from within the app. It's pretty simple. Like setting up you YouTube or Google Docs in Android.

4. Android has equal integation with Google Services - Superior actually. I actually think many of Microsoft's service are superior, but their integration within their OS is weak. They seem to be focusing more on third parties when they should just be pushing for those people to code decept apps while providing good hooks into the system the way Google does.

Only difference is that it's here NOW and you're talking about an unreleased OS update. Oh lookie... See what I did there?

The only difference between the two from my vantage point is that in WP7 you get the integration from Microsoft baked into the OS.

In Android Apps are able to integrate deeper with the system and can provide similar experiences (i.e. photo/video to Facebook and stuff like that), and top OEMs like HTC and Samsung have already implemented the People Hub concept since 2008 or before on both WM6.5 and Android.

The biggest thing WP7 has going for it right now is that it's different. I think Microsoft waited too long because there was a span of time when they could really capitalize on the sluggishness of top selling Android devices like the Galaxy S (RFS-induced lag on the device - the T-Mobile Vibrant FroYo Update debacle, etc.), but since it took them so long to get Mango out (the platform is not usable for a lot of people without that update) many of those people got higher-spec'd Android devices and simply aren't seeing the issues you people are ravin about in this thread.

There are lots of top end Android devices that don't lag like those I mentioned, and there Android OEMs have started putting better batteries in their phones so that issue is being mitigated.

I think the Galaxy S II haslike an 1800 mAh battery or something like that in it. The HTC I used today had better battery life than my WP7 device, easily. I didn't check the battery size but I'm almost certain it's not an embarassing 1230 mAh battery (why didn't T-Mobile push for a bigger battery, I'll never understand).

Another big issue is that the WP7 launch devices have - compared to current top end Android phones - terrible hardware and are missing many capabilities (FFC, NFC, 1080p recording, HDMI-out, etc.) yet cost the same as a top end android phone off contract. It's like paying $500 for a mini-fridge. Consumers do see value in extras, even if they never use them. Telling them it's virtually useless and YOU don't care about it doesn't matter.

The Samsung Focus is saved by the S-AMOLED screen until the burn-in kicks in :P I'll never get a phone with a S-AMOLED screen again, ever.