[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Even Windows phones charge $100 more for 16GB more space. Android phones as well (see Galaxy S, which came in 16 or 32 GB Variants).

Mango can display Outlook Tasks, but you cannot properly edit them because the To-Do system in WP7 is designed for Windows Live, which isn't even close to being on par with Outlook's Task system. Google Tasks are similarly crippled. For example, there is no way to Create or Make Changes to a Recurring Task. You can easily create a task that recurs every week on Mon-Wed-Fri on an iPhone. Tell me how to do it on WP7. Tasks are To-Dos aren't synonymous. It only really displays them and gives alerts. It's a "quarter implementation" when you get down to it.

Windows Mobile did have full Exchange Task synchronization that actually included all of the Outlook fields. /mourn/ Android does not support Outlook Tasks at all without third party applications.

http://juliankay.com/organisation/task-management-in-windows-phone-mango/

The lack of Outlook Synching (through Zune or whatever) is a sore point for WP7 on the consumer side.

Don't tell me not to reply, if you're going to mention it. It's not there yet. That's what matters to people buying phones NOW that need those apps NOW. If you depend on Skype for communications, WP7 is out for you. That's the simple fact of the matter.

There are HSPA+ Windows Phones. You get HSPA+ on any GSM carrier (that has HSPA+ deployed) with the iPhone. It has a Pentaband HSPA+ 14.4 MBps radio in it. An unlocked iPhone will work on any GSM Carrier and get 3G/HSPA+.

I won't repeat myself about this... There are two threads going on with this discussion and I've already given my opinions and some facts about it.

The OSes are different. For example, WP7 tends to render a lot of things very quick because the UI elements are not as graphically intensive. When you're rending mostly just text on a canvas of course the app will launch fast. There's a reason why so many WP7 apps are < 5 MB but tons of iOS apps are 5-20 MB. Look at the size of the Netflix apps on both platforms, for example. Skype on iOS is twice the size of the Android app, as well. Caveat - Some of those are "Universal Binaries" with iPad support built-in as well, but that's only for the UI layer, for the most part.

The need to rely on Social Platforms for contact data is not as high on the iPhone, because it can Sync all PIM data with Outlook and iCloud.

A lot of times Facebook contact integration is only useful for getting Contact pictures, because people have their FB accounts locked down in a way that the other stuff can't be pulled down, or they haven't put that stuff in Facebook. I know I don't have my Address, Phone Number, and work contact information in Facebook... LinkedIn integration *may* be able to help with some of that, if you use yet another social network.

While we're talking about contacts. I just want to say I do not like the way Windows Live Handles contacts, separating Live Messenger contacts from everything else, sometimes with no decent information. They just show up as email addresses.

Pandora said they have no plans to release a WP7 app.

Also, you only touched on one of the apps I mentioned. There's a whole string of apps and types of apps that are available on other platforms that aren't there on WP7. I won't bore you with a list, but if you want one feel free to PM me. I'll be happy to provide.

Not everyone wants to pay $9.99 a month for Zune Pass. The same way everyone won't want to pay for iTunes Match or to upgrade iCloud or Picasa Web Albums storage.

Some people I know don't have texting Plans, they IM and they don't want to switch IM networks just to talk to me. That's why great multi-protocol IM clients are a must have for a ton of people. If you chat with people in other countries the costs are too excessive. Not everyone has Facebook, and a lot of people don't want one - period.

It's not important to have EVERY chat program. It's important to have one decent multi-protocol chat app because I like to consolidate IM notifications to one app and WP7 does not have native support for protocols like Google Talk.

Also, the built-in IM client breaks because due to bad MPOP support. It becomes useless when people like me migrate conversations from devices to PCs often, because why would I type on a phone when I'm in front of a computer (but I need to still communicate when I'm not, you know...).

IM+ is pretty bad, and the laggy push notifications on WP7 doesn't help anything. 3rd party apps are pretty bad for PUSH notification times compared to the other major platforms (BB > iOS > Android).

IM+ on WP7 is not a viable alternative to BeejiveIM or Trillian on Android/iOS. It's rubbish by comparison. To their credit, however, they are supporting it super well. A lot of the issues are not their fault, the platform just isn't working too well for some types of apps.

Please tell me how to run a Navigation app in the background the way you can. For example, Background Glimpse and still have it track your location for the person you sent the Glimpse to.