[Windows Phone 7 General] mikroland:
Since the thread was closed, I'm opening a new one to respond to Marty K and N8ter and the others that think just because something looks better on paper it must be better.

My coworker had a Samsung Infuse but she we having issues with the battery not lasting through a work day. She had installed several utilities to to deal with the situation but it didn't get a lot better. Then I showed her my Samsung Focus (running a developer build of mango) and we ran the HTML5 mobile speed test on the microsoft website.

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/mobile/Performance/FishIETank/Default.html

Her phone got 10 fps and mine gets 30 fps. Plus my screen looks a hell of a lot better than hers did, even she admitted that. In fact, her's looked like ass. Maybe because the screen is so giant that the pixels get pix-elated due to the same resolution? Whatever the reason, my focus screen looks superior to hers. So just because it has a Super Amoled + doesn't automatically make it a better screen.

BTW, she returned her infuse after this comparison and went back to an iphone4 (which she had before). She didn't get a WP because Mango was far from RTM at the time, much less carrier released. This must have been back in June.

Next, the CPU. I read several users talking about the Infuse 1.2 humming bird. Well a side by side comparison of scrolling through photos revealed her superior processor showed no signs of being faster. In fact, the scrolling of photos revealed sluggishness. Compared to my little 1ghz snapdragon, my photos zoomed through a lot smoother.

It also didn't seem to help with the html5 fishbowl test. BTW, I don't think her faster processor helped with her short battery life either.

Finally, the OS. IMO, Android is garbage. The OS and the applications aren't stable (compared to other platforms - [except WinMo which was probably more unstable]), it's laggy, and it has a terrible UI that is not consistent from device to device.

Think about this. An average user, would they want an OS that can do a 1000 different things they'll actually never use, but that crashes more than it should, that's laggy and has a clumsy interface? Or would they want an OS that does much less things, things they actually need, but does them flawlessly, does them quickly, and with a streamlined simple intuitive interface that is the same amongst all WP devices?

If you truly answer that question objectively, you would say WP. No doubt the RTM of WP had a lot missing, but Mango compared to Android is no competition for AN AVERAGE USER.

You can't look at things on paper and say well that phone has this so it's automatically better. That just doesn't work. It's a shame that the majority of consumers have been duped into thinking that way because Android is currently by far the market SHARE leader in mobile OS. But I do believe that is going to change, and soon.

Finally with MartyK's belief that WP will be a dead system before long is ridiculous. Mango proves that isn't the case. If it were dying, Mango wouldn't have been released. If that's not enough evidence, look at Windows 8. They're using basically the same interface, Metro, from WP to Windows 8. That will make it far from dead, because once Win8 is released, that interface is on millions of devices. So that makes WP Apollo all the more relevant when it's released around the same time as Windows 8 in about a year from now.

Not only that, the WP apps are probably going to run on Windows8 and vice versa. Enough said.