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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PieOfJustice:
You failed to mention what your current iOS device is. If your running the iPhone4 then there is little reason to switch. However anything older and your good to go.

When it comes to peoples opinions on here, take them with a grain of salt. Users like "Purple11" have no insight to what a Windows Phone is. They are usually blinded by marketing ploys and what their best friend has to say.

Windows Phone is great if you need a phone that allows you to accomplish things fast. I can do things much faster on a WP7 then Android or iOS. And yes, I have owned them all.

Does that mean they suck? Of course not. Each cater to a different demographic. iPhones are excellent media phones. Great for music and movies, as well as excelling in the games department. WP7 is about communication. You interact with people and services in greater detail as well as getting the speed boost I mentioned before hand. This includes the very well working Facebook and Twitter integration as well as the "needs improvement" LIVE.

WP is young and needs time to develop. Hopefully not to much time considering we are all ridiculously impatient. Try each phone extensively. If a friend has one, give it a go. Just make sure the phone is up to date.

Oh and last I checked a phone was meant to be a communication device. Just saying.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovenokia:
well that is what people said before mango was out now same story again wait till wp8 i agree with your points to a certain degree but mango is quite polished and with all these new mango devices coming out that will sure get some developer attention and pour in more apps. Nokia will flood the low range markets with some cheap wp devices which will sure expose developers apps to alot more people. But if your looking for games like infinity blade then i say the iphone 4s for now but i find wp more productive for actual phone applications calling messaging checking facebook etc.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aphasaic2002:
I've been a full time WP7 user since June. I take issue with this statement; I'm not biased in any way, I just have a lot of issues with the phone.

Just to point out; Facebook integration (people hub, contacts) is broken even in Mango; around 1/4 of my contacts don't show up due to their FB privacy settings. This has been an issue since the phone came out, but still no resolution in sight:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...=1&msgId=4211565e-f8aa-441a-9017-3b55a93a4384

http://www.wpcentral.com/facebook-f...e-not-alone?utm_source=wpc&utm_medium=twitter
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
You have got to be kidding me, their are stats and facts right in front of you.. and you think its a marketing ploy?

A5 processor, 8 MP camera with that 5 lens thing.. option to have more memory than just 16 GB, Siri and not just sms reply, exhaustive apps choice and tons of QUALITY games.. you are giving him wrong guidance.. their is no reason to switch to ANY existing WP or announced upcoming overpriced 'Mango' shi*, provided he can easily get Iphone 4S for a cheaper/same price. Just to be 'different', dosent mean getting a face tattoo.. buying any WP7 device right now is like buying Motorola Razor, looks good but does nothing..

Lets all agree, we all got caught up with initial excitement of Metro interface first, and than waited two months for NODO, than six months for MANGO and the so called 'API' release or whatever.. and now we are waiting for NOKIA to release their phones.. and than we will wait for W8 tablets..

So instead of waiting, why not let him fuc*ing enjoy his life on Iphone 4S all this while, while we keep waiting?? Because he will be different from others if he uses WP? Yeah right, I can carry a women's vibrator and pretend its a phone if thats what it is called being different.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feygor:
I'll be honest, I've had my Mozart for almost a year, and I can't say I've ever been disappointed or bored with it, apart from HTC Pro envy (the physical keyboard) I've been really content and happy with the two major updates that have arrived.

I think WP7 is still young, and with the exciting developments into windows 8, who knows where it is heading. I know many reviewers that don't like windows, have flamed wp7, but have announced windows 8 to be the ipad killer, i really don't know myself.

As for the phone itself, its document, capabilities are second to none, I use office nearly everyday, and though excel and powerpoint are quite limited, they also get me through. The email support is simply unrivaled, by default, wp7 integrates more email accounts seamlessly than any other phone i've seen.

For gaming you've got xbox live, from day 1 we had great releases like assassins creed, you also have achievement points in case you are an xbox fan.

I think it's fair to say that wp7 is better than the original androids and iphones, but it still feels like they've entered the game late and are playing catchup at this point. But let me assure you, they are catching up.

I'd like to think that in a years time, wp7 will be a strong contender and people will think seriously about buying one, but i all realism, at this point a decent wp7 is more expensive than the new iphone 4s. It's not a smart decision to back an OS that is currently behind and more expensive, but without this support wp7 will never achieve it's full potential.

Ask a wp7 user, tehy will tell you to switch to wp7, we need more users to create a better future. Ask any android user, and they will tell you to go android, its open source and has better apps, has worse apps too. Ask an average iphone fanboy and they will say stick with iphone, it's done you well so far so why switch?

Personally I like a bit of risk and variation ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z33dev33l:
Just another troll, I got wp7 within a week of its release and have never enjoyed another OS near this much and I do currently have them all. IOS has better games and that's about it but if my phone decision was based purely on games then I'd likely just get rid of all my game systems and computer. Not to mention gaming on those things is dismal, yeah infinity blade looks awesome but that's about where it ends, the control scheme in battles is about as interesting as fruit ninja and outside of battles its like one of those click to find detective games that I played in the mid-nineties. Wrap a turd in gold foil and its still a turd. You may be unhappy with your wp7 device, but many of us couldn't be happier. No phone needs crazy hardware to run aside from android and that's because it's so poorly optimized that it cannot run smoothly on even the best hardware so yes, the A5 chip is a ploy, most of the graphic intensive games on ios still dont utilize even half of the processing power of the iPhone 4 and do well on the iPhone 3gs because they're well optimized. For the time being, A5 is a ploy.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sylau90:
+1 to your statement....

Once I stepped into the land of WP7, then everything is wait....So,why not give the OP a true and fair view,instead of ask him come into this land and wait with us together?

Honestly,I have used my mozart as my secondary device for months...Love my HP pre 3 now.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z33dev33l:
wait, you're putting wp7 on the back burner for a discontinued OS on crappy hardware that never had any dev support. The trolling in this thread is just sad.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sylau90:
Seriously,I'm trolling? just to let you know...hp pre 3 has the same processor as HTC titan and also the screen DPI is higher.

FYI, I love to read news through tweets and normally i open multiple internet links from tweets..therefore webOS card and stack suit me well.Therefore, I can switch between cards back and forth. Furthermore, it has a better notification system and skype intergration (which is everyone with windows phone craving for,and yes,I have it on a discontinued OS). Lastly,of course I love the form factor.

Again,just my personal preference,I love to read news from tweets. That's why I use HP pre 3. can WP7 do the things I listed? answer is no.

Back to the topic, I insist to give a fair and true view to OP...WP7 is not worth the switch right now...the future is unclear. Wait....wait...therefore,why don't just get anything which already confirmed and launched..iphone 4 s
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z33dev33l:
Perhaps because the screen is too small for a lot of people, or the fact that the UI is nearly as much a train wreck as android's, or because the fact that despite all of it's functionality, it still can't do basic phone tasks as well as WP7. Windows phone 7 is a communication device and for that it is unrivaled. As of yesterday I've received a radar 4g and now have every U.S. Released wp7 device again and there is no device that is more user friendly, no better keyboard, no better user experience, no better social integration. (I swear apple wants iPhone users to only talk to other iPhone users), and no other system that can offer as many cross-platform benefits.

I don't believe that WP7 will reach full potential until the integration with windows 8 is made largely known, i for one got a windows 8 beta tab and while it's an area that's not quite complete, I'm amazed at what it can do.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
You are basically just admitting that its not a smartphone, but just a phone.. you call it 'communication device'.. I call it phone..

And than you are suggesting to wait till W8 tabs come out, without which its incomplete..

Now just replace W8 tab with MANGO and you will get a deja vu feeling...

"I don't believe that WP7 will reach full potential until the MANGO when APIs is made available to developers, i for one got MANGO and while it's an area that's not quite complete, I'm amazed at what it can do."
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z33dev33l:
Somehow I get the impression that you don't even know what a smartphone is. I can assure you that it has nothing to do with a game catalogue. Windows phone 7 is fine and on par with iOS and supercedes android tenfold, that's as a stand-alone. With the introduction of windows 8 it will just greatly beat out the competition, it's in no way incomplete. It just hasn't exceeded the competition drastically just yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weijoon:
My replies are in blue colors. =)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z33dev33l:
Oh, and yes there are apps to both use your phone as a mouse and control your music remotely.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Over8ted:
I'd say just go to the AT&T store or something and ask to try one out. Best thing you can do. Asking XDA is a hassle because you either get biased opinions towards either Android or WP7. Some people are too butthurt to admit that the WP7 applist isn't wonderful but then again, Android users will come to this forum and absolutely rip on anything that isn't open source.

I'd say just give it a look. I'm very happy with my HD7S and the features it bestows but I sometimes wish I could've just gone with an iPhone 4 and not have to deal with manually updating my phone, buying a new phone every 2 months, so on and so forth.

That Purple11 douche isn't educated as to what features are in WP7.....there's not a huge number of features and by all means it isn't cutting edge, but the way they implement features in WP7 is great and they're executed perfectly. Everything works, and it's fast. You can run WP7 on last year's hardware and not have a single problem with it. The UI is slick too, but this is all subjective, keep that in mind.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weijoon:
Agreed with you for the first part. ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morpheuszg:
Man I miss the times where this forum was Microsoft only. With introduction of Android and all the other OS's, XDA turned into a mess of fanboyism. This is a WP7 section and some of you have the need to bash WP7 all the way down. Most of you guys seem to be against it. WP7 cannot flourish if nobody is supporting it. Just give it a damn chance. Android for example had the best start ever because it has the entire handset alliance on it's back which WP7 obviously does not have.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magicsquid:
I'd suggest reading the '30 days with Windows Phone 7' articles from PC World. The author is a long-time iPhone user.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239405/30_days_with_windows_phone_7.html

He's up to day 25 out of 30 and is using a Mango phone. I think the articles are generally well-written.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vash_h:
Basically, iPhone lovers and android fanboys should stay out from WP forum.

Android and iPhone requires better specs Bcoz it uses much more resources.. IPhone 5 have been delayed so many times due to design problems, including battery that cannot support its hardware.

Games, apps, is itself runs smoothly on an old processor.. It doesn't need such great hardware, which will only hurt battery life.

I came from win mo, symbian, blackberry and finally wp7. All I can say is, wp7 puts together what i love in all these systems together and leaves what I hate behind.

Social and email integration from BlackBerry (the only other smartphone that did it flawlessly).

On board express, well, I'm still using it on mango.. So what it is not updated? It works well..

Sent from my LG-E900
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vash_h:
Oh, would like to add, just by comparing Zune and iTunes, function wise its similar, Zune can't burn cds, but who uses iTunes to do that anyway ?

On my PC, iTunes just takes up too much system resource than what it is required. It will b similar to iPhone.. The os itself uses too much resources.

Few of my colleagues are not getting iPhone 4s or 5, just Bcoz they are sick of d interface that nvrchanges. They are attracted to my wo7.

Sent from my LG-E900
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayonical:
uh Zune can and does burn cds lol
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovenokia:
i have burned cds on zune so i dont know wat your talking about
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vash_h:
How do u burn cds?

Sent from my LG-E900
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ronsard:
It's a little disappointing to see the responses to this. The OP wasn't asking for opinions about WP7 vs iOS. Can we focus on answering his specific questions rather than letting the thread devolve into another iOS vs WP7 battle? Especially doing so without even addressing his questions? There are plenty of other, more appropriate places where we can continue to duke this out.

As for me, here's my take. Please note that I haven't owned an iPhone. I can answer questions from the WP7 side, but I'm ill-suited to contrast how things are done between the two. I hope this is still somewhat useful.

Hope this helps! And feel free to ask if you have more questions.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TANKFARM:
Thanks for the answers.

I probably should have clarified that I don't game much on my phone and really need the following from a mobile device:

Good web browsing for reading articles

Ability to read pdf files and other documents (why I am interested in the skydrive functionality.

Nice screen, mostly for reading. Not videos or gaming (will have to compare 4.3 480X800 to a 3.5 640x960 screen)

Email and messaging. These are definitely very important to me.

I don't care too much about apps, although I am in the medical field and iOS does have a phenomenal set of medical applications.

Lastly, syncing music and photos.

It may be that the hardware is the big factor for me. Because I use my device so much now to read documents, I really have started to care more about the ability of a device in this regard.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diablosblizz:
Oh no?

http://www.gameloft.com/windows-phone-7-games/

Earth Worm Jim isn't reputable enough for you? Why are you even posting here? You clearly don't use a WP7 device, so why are you reading these forums? Stop trolling, and leave.

Windows Phone 7 has an application that will load PDF files for you (Adobe Reader, of course) so you can read all of your PDF files from your email or the web. Unlike the iPhone, your phone can read out text messages to you while driving or during crunch time, and you can easily reply back by saying "reply" followed by your message. The phone will do it all for you, Siri will text for you but as far as I know it won't read messages back to you. If you've ever used Outlook on your computer, it's just a simpler version for the phone. If you read a lot of documents online, there is Office. OneNote stores all of your notes for the day, and you can even read and edit PowerPoint presentations on your phone.

It seems you are more into the business part of the phone rather than the gaming part of the phone, and that is where Windows Phone wins over iPhones. You really don't see businessmen walking around with iPhones, you see them with Windows Mobile phones or BlackBerries. iPhone is not meant for business, thus why they focus on gaming more than anything. Give Windows Phone a try, it has Office built in and will do everything your iPhone does, plus more.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aphasaic2002:
Yes Siri does text-to-speech; would be quite useless to have voice and dictation controls without it. It's the first thing shown in the Apple demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4D4kRbEdJw

You don't see business-men with WP7 phones either, because unlike all the other major smartphone OS's, it still doesn't support full device encryption. This means it's not suitable for use on many corporate networks, especially in healthcare (which are extra secure).

You should check with your IT department to make sure this is not an issue before buying a WP7 device, as you may find you can't use it with their Exchange email server:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...n/039a14f6-1d91-4a99-82e5-3d7c8965fa3b?page=1
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wyn6:
Trust me when I say WP7 covers 90% of what most users need. The geeks and nerds here will certainly miss that other 10%. Based on what you've written, WP7 will suit you just fine. You can ignore a lot of the nonsense that goes on here. Most of the people here in this Windows Phone 7 forum actually like the OS and like it a lot and they relegate their posts to just the WP forums. And, when they do have a concern or negative about the OS they manage to do in a constructive manner.

It's funny how this same thread, different OP, different rival OS keeps popping up. And, it's even funnier how this battle is incited/rehashed by the same people over and over again. The funniest thing of all is it always gets to a point where the people involved almost completely ignore the OP's questions or concerns and just go off on whatever tangent they choose.

Heh. Nerds.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
I have never touched a android phone.. I have no clue whats in there.. I have only seen pics of it outside Atnt stores.. neither I have owned an Iphone before, not even once.. I have zero experience in both of these OS. I have been using WM 5, WM 6 than WM 6.5 and than a flip phone for one year before switching to WP7.. and of all the phones I have used, WP7 has been the least productive after the flip phone I used for a year.

Critisizing the lack of customization, lack of any Application, lack of any games, lack of anything productive out of this phone dosent automatically make me Android or Iphone fanboy. I have no opinion on them, but I have a opinion on WP, that it is worthless eye-candy.

I have also never posted or used any Android section on this Forum, you can look up my past posts and I have been always loyal to Microsoft when it comes to Smartphone. But it just dies and siezed to be a smartphone anymore ever since they announce the launching plan of WP7, because thats when all developers stop making apps for WM 6.5 and they never returned to WP7 as Microsoft had hoped.. instead everyone moved to Android or Iphone developing scene.. Eg: SPB Software House, one of the biggest names in WM 6.5, WEBIS INC. of Pocket Informant fame, Illium Software Inc. and many many more such large dedicate app developing companies ...

These developers have not came back to WP7.. and Microoft is going after school students now to develop apps for them using that dev tool.. and all we get from them is pin a tile here, make this ringtone, use this flashlight and bullshi* crap like that. Unless the professional developers and companies who used to make apps for WM 6.5 return and develop apps for WP7, their is no hope.. no matter how good the metro interface might look.. its still a horse dump wraped inside a gift wrapper..

Lets not forget that Mango didnt just came out last week, it was released to developers MONTHS before.. where are the app? Anything? Nothing.. zero. Joe Bilfore or whatever his name is can keep begging on twitter for developers to submit their MANGO apps, but the truth is there are no MANGO apps, noone has developed any, nor is anyone interested to develop any in near future. MP is completely DEAD with the same existing apps rotating on the Microsoft 'Featured App' list.. heck I have seen that FB official app in feature list like every third week.. and the same existing games just keep rotating. No quality..
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoboDad:
This isn't entirely accurate. It is also possible to attach PDF files to EverNote notes (from anywhere that you can use EverNote), and then read them on your phone using the EverNote app. I do this fairly often. It is still not an ideal solution, but it is much better than having to email the PDF files to yourself, and the PDF files can be organized using EverNote's notebooks for easy repeat access if needed.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sylau90:
Thanks for correct me buddy.

Because I did use evernote on my device,but seldom use it on my laptop. Therefore, I find it easier for me to attach to my own email.