[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
1. Everything gets boring after a certain amount of time, no matter how many times you try to change it up, it's still the same thing. TBQH, phones aren't supposed to be super fun (barrings the apps and games ON THEM), they're supposed to just work and be reliable devices. Windows isn't fun, but Crysis 2 is... Dunno what the obsession with one OS being boring compared to anything else is. They're not supposed to be fun, they're supposed to "just work."

2. The Captivate's GPS issue is not an Android issue. It's a Captivate/Samsung issue. My Vibrant's GPS works a lot better since the FroYo update, to the point where I can consider it reliable. The Fascinate and Captivate are the two bad US Galaxy S devices, AFAIK. Be glad you don't own a Fascinate, though :P

3. Everyone likes change. That's why this site exists - a lot of people like change. It was founded primarily for modding Windows Mobile.

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1. Tiles are Icons. They're no different than iOS' icons with number tickers on them. They're just organized differently. They're like an inbetween Icons and widgets. I think the biggest let-down about them is that the sizes are inconfigurable, so you end up scrolling to hell and back to find stuff if you try to put a significant amount of them on the home screen.

2. It really depends on which Android phone you use. Even with all its problems, I do not notice that much difference in performance between my Vibrant and HD7. The biggest difference comes when the phone is writing to storage - there is a bottleneck there (RFS). But in general operation, there isn't really a factorable difference outside of the browser (but IE 7.5 doesn't support HTML5/Flash, and I can always just use Opera Mobile 11 :P ). WP7's UI is faster, but Android's isn't laggy to the point where it's unusable or even a pain to use.

3. Live Tiles, TBQH, really don't give more information than an icon with a ticker in the Android Notification bar does, or an Android Widget. Why do people always mention live tiles and then compare it to a screen of icons, when Android has Widgets that can be updated via Push Notifications, just like Live Tiles?

4. A lot of the menus in Android aren't Android's issue, but the developers' issues. If a developer implements a ChompSMS-style Options Screen/Menu System, then that is what you get. Some applications have good menu systems, some don't. That being said, WP7 is devoid of options and really needs more to be added to the system - put them under advanced if you want to keep the base options screens clean...

5. Android has this in TouchWiz UI, and maybe even Sense. Samsung Calls it Social Hub. It's been there for like over a year - before WP7 was released. It does basically the same thing, and a bit more (it had Twitter and MySpace Integration on release). The UI is just different. It updates in the background as well. People Hub doesn't. People Hub is a bit of a gimmick. Hopefully Microsoft improves it in Mango.

6. Agreed.

7. Andorid has DoubleTwist for Wireless Sync. They also have WinAmp for Wireless Sync. There is also Amazon CloudSync. WP7 only Wirelessly Syncs if it's connected to a power source, and I don't think you can force it otherwise...

8. Android can do this with Picasa. It can also automatically Sync Albulms from about 10 other services (TouchWiz).

9. That's untrue. Tons of high quality apps don't even exist for WP7, and many that exist for both are superior on those other platforms.

Social Networking apps are superior on Android and iOS compared to WP7: Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Seesmic are all clearly superior on Android/iOS.

YouTube is much better unless you wanna pay (owning an HTC device helps a lot here :P) for a 3rd party app. That's not necessary on Android.

Browsers are better. IE7 is faster than the Chrome browser, but you can use Firefox, Opera, Dolphin, Opera Mini, etc. on Android (Opera Mobile has Flash Support now).

IM Applications are wildly superior on the other platforms and almost non-existent on WP7.

Online Radio Applications are superior on iOS/Android - Pandora doesn't even exist on WP7, yet.

Amazon MP3 doesn't exist on WP7.

There is no DLNA functionality unless you own an LG device.

No WiFi Calling App. No Visual Voicemail. No IE Equivalent to Chrome to Phone...

Furthermore, a lot of WP7 apps are buggy. Fandango crashes all over the place, as does the Foursquare App. The Seesmic Facebook integration goes MIA constantly (I've never gotten it to work, and it wasn't a Facebook connect issue because it works perfectly on my Vibrant). This has a lot to do with the fact that WP7 gets 3rd place focus from app developers. They have more users on Android and iOS, so they put most of their resources towards those versions. They're on WP7 to ride the wave if/when it happens.

Lot of Banking and Retailer apps are not on WP7, as well. With Android I can deposit a check by taking pictures of it. I cannot do that on WP7 (yet).

It's currently impossible to port Augmented Reality apps to WP7.

10. Battery Life is comparable and we've already gone over that in the other thread...

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1. Multitasking and Sockets should not be in the same bulletpoint. Multitasking is okay not to have when your method of backgrounding and resuming is good. WP7's current method is not good. It's time wasting and slow. Sockets is not something you cannot have in an OS - mobile or not... Unless you're marketing something like ChromeOS that runs only WebApps. It was stupid not to have Sockets APIs ready for developers and it really made it impossible for a ton of apps to be ported over.

2. Live Tile doesn't upgrade in the background, either, and doesn't support Push Notifications for anything as a result (not to mention it only supports downloading your News Feed and displaying it). Android and iOS Facebook Apps support Push Notifications and Facebook Chat. How long it took them to get it is not a factor. Facebook didn't develop the Microsoft Facebook App (like they do for Android/iOS) - Microsoft outsourced it's development...

3. Notifications are miles better than the iPHone. Toast Notifications are superior to Android's "scroll the text in a bar." The failure is in not allowing the system to cache notifications you miss because while a Live Tile may have a ticker, it often doesn't have any useful/digestable information on it. It's easier to look in a Notification bar and go through everything than hop into 5+ different applications to check a bunch of notifications - ESPECIALLY with the way so few WP7 apps cache data and the fact that you often have to wait for it to load everything before you see anything...

4. Agree. Their MMS Client is only 1/2 done as well. Can't send Videos by any means from the phone...

5. You mean 4G? Cause HSPA is considered 3.5G. They will support 4G technologies like LTE and HSPA+ most likely in the next hardware iteration. I don't really see a need to rush to support those, especially with the current hardware specs. You'll just end up with terrible battery life and with the way Microsoft is doing things, you'd prolly be unable to lock the phone to only use HSPA+/CDMA 3G by editing the registry and hacking the phone...