[General Topics] quicksite:
Okay, I'll bite... Why did you bump this thread, #1?

#2, spiffy new "business card" sig image, I like it!

#3, damn, I'm embarrassed, I must have killed this thread the first time, i had about 6 posts in a row -- so eager with my new worldly knowledge of the HTC Hero!

Well, now we know many new things: We know what Windows Phone 7 IS and is not. And I was partially right re Zune interface but partially wrong, so I'll go with wrong. But as to the battle of Windows Mobile vs Android, that battle is over now. Windows Mobile is about to be a dead OS, with WindowsPhone 7 a completely new OS, new user experience. And the issue of WM vs WP7 has been debated for so many months here I have no juice left on that one.

I will only say that I stand by my earlier prediction that whatever it ends up doing in the marketplace, ANdroid has become not only more robust, but more mainstream, it's bursting out everywhere, on all carriers now, and the HTC Desire (Europe), Droid Incredible (USA/Verizon), and Sprint Evo (HTC Desire for CDMA, 4G) has been a huge hit, adding to the popularity of the Motorola droid -- which really became the first mainstream buzz phone for Android. Nexus One, arguably the better phone, who knows, maybe it's sold more units, maybe not, but it sort of doesn't matter because in marketing and sales perception trumps reality everyday and ALWAYS. ANd Nexus One, with its "Google is so cool it's breaking all rules devising new ways of selling phones", was never even seen in a retail store across the whole USA... because of Google arrogance. So they can claim claim claim all they like, but people know the droid as a household word -- the mainstream does not know the N1 as a household word.

Doesn't matter anymore, because it's brother, the HTC Desire, in all its flavors, is being marketed very well, and people are loving it, all over the world. I use that phone series as just ONE EXAMPLE of how ordinary people are buying a great phone from their carrier -- and it has great features and easy to use -- they aren't buying it because it's running Android (not mainstreamers).... And that's the acid test, and it's passing with flying colors. No one really needs to be buying a phone based on its OS... that just shows how still infantile the industry is... For most people that should just be invisible and SHUT UP and perform without needing to be marketed. THE PHONE itself is already being marketed and that's hard enough for consumers to keep up with. (Probably why Apple chose to make it essentialy one model: it's "Apple's mobile phone", named the iphone.... not Apple's 25 models of phones to choose from. CHoice is good. Too much choice confuses consumers.

Anyway, to close my stream of consciousness, I just got my Froyo update to Android last night (June 7 2010) over the air, without a hitch, all very easy, all very elegant, everything works, nothing broke, my HTC Desire is a beautiful device -- my browser works just great even with 2G Edge connections, and lightning fast on wifi (*I recommend the newer Xscope browser; Dolphin has some better features for sure, but Xscope is cleaner UI, and to my eye, loads faster, handles multiple tabs way easier, way more intuitively, swiping the screen left right up down to display and hide)

The reason why it is "GAME OVER" for me is: There really is no reason at all why i ever need to return to Windows Mobile / Phone. And once i'm invested in a $550 phone, and am happy, i'm not looking to go windows shopping any time soon if at all.