[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
It's very simple. And you will understand once you've owned a WP7 device for about a month. People who love WP7 in the beginning and think it is the best system yet, turn against it because there just isn't any customization with it. The current crop of WP7 phones don't have the features you have with phones like the Infuse. And worst of all, the "system-on-a-chip" architecture of WP7 prevents it from having superior sound quality. There is no dedicated audio chip in the works to provide good SQ. The Infuse is believed to have an audio chip from Yamaha. And I can confirm, with my high-end IEMs, it is a superior sounding phone. The best I've ever heard on a smartphone. And on par with the Wolfson-equipped Cowons.

If you want to play with a WP7 phone for a while and experience for yourself how boring and useless it currently is, find one from a store that has a good return policy like Best Buy. Play with it for 20 days and see for yourself. Then return it once you see what we all mean.

Mango is not out yet and there is no date for it to be released. It could come anywhere from Sep. 23 to Dec. 21....maybe. And Mango won't give you better hardware. What you buy today is all you have...no FFC, no NFC, no good audio chip, poor battery life. Mango won't give you any of those. You'll need to wait till better WP7 hardware is released with those features. And your guess is as good as anyone's as to when MS will release better hardware. MS doesn't give out firm dates. And they allow the public to speculate wildly with rumors of new releases and don't even bother to take 1 minute to tweet about the facts.

That's why I say WP7 will be dead...because the company ignores what they need to do and are way too slow about doing anything. They act like they don't care about the system. They released a system without the common features of today. WP7 will go the way of the Kin. MS won't find the necessary support and cooperation they need from the carriers because the carriers have no confidence in MS...especially after the Kin fiasco. MS introduced WP7 as a system they would have control of, providing all of the updates and controlling implementation. They devised the hardware specs so that they could provide updates to all WP7 phones at the same time safely. That has no happened and it is understood MS is allowing the carriers to control the updates.

I have a Samsung Focus with NoDo and another device with Mango on it. They rarely get used because there just isn't anything I can do with them unlike what I can with my Androids...especially my glorious and overwhelmingly awesome Infuse. The base foundation of WP7 is excellent. It's super smooth and elegant. But there's nothing there once your get tired of it. With other systems, there is always something you can do to alleviate boredom. Not so with WP7. I suppose you could satisfy yourself with going to the games directory of the Marketplace to see what new games came...WP7 does have some very fine games from time to time. And this is basically the extent of my WP7 usage. But I'm glad I have other phones. I can't even use my WP7 phones for voice-guided navigation because there isn't any.

Go ahead, find out for yourself...buy one from Best Buy. You'll have about 20 days to return it.