[HTC 7 Pro] afstefan:
Disappointed (to say the least)

My take on the whole Windows Phone anticipation experience

I have had several windows mobile phones (Verizon XV6700, AT&T Tilt (for a short period the palm whatever that ran windows 6.1) and now Tilt 2) I have always liked the full slide out keyboard capability along with all of the other features. I always loved knowing that my "not as sophisticated" windows phone could do all of the same things and more than the iphones that everyone was flashing around. But I was frustrated at times because with the great flexibilty came same unstability. But I knew how to fix it myself or I knew where to go (xda-developers) to find a solution. I always knew that if it didn't do what I wanted, all I had to do was come here and viola.. now it did!!

Then I heard that Microsoft was going to put the attention needed to build these phones the right way. I couldn't have been happier. I tried to make sure to hold off so that my contract would be up by the time the phones came out so that whoever had one I could switch to without penalty. Then when details began rolling out about the Windows Phone 7 I signed up for Microsofts Insider newsletter and couldn't wait to see the new details.... but as I kept reading the details I was like wtf?????

I have been waiting for Windows Phone 7 for a long time waiting to see that Microsoft was going to make a great operating system even better by making it more stable.. Instead I get this chewed up regurgitated version of the Iphone.

I have never been more disappointed in a new product.

Yes the hardware is great...yes the operating system looks nice.. until you look under the hood... No cut and paste, no multitasking, no flash support - Apple already made all these mistakes and corrected almost all of them... I hate that Apple forces you to use itunes app store whatever to get all of your apps... a dollar here and a dollar there... I love being able to go out to the web to places like XDA and download cab files and keep them on my storage card to use whenever I want to. I have all of my data backed up and all of my sioftware on both the SD card and on a hard drive so that if anyhting happens to my phone I am back up and ruinning in no time..

I read an review and they said there is no on phone encryption with email so for most people that means that you can't sync with Micorsoft Exchange (iphone can)..well in the old days no problem just plug in your sync cable... oh wait now you can only sync using the zune software (another cue from apple) so that means you can't directly sync with outlook either.. correct me if I am wrong but aren't those both microsofts own programs but other phones can now sync with them better!!! WTF!!!! well they did supply a work around... you can install a free app from GOOGLE on your computer to sync your outlook to googles calendar and then sync your phone to your gooogle account???? Why not just switch to Google (Android) If they don't fix Windows Phone 7 and my Tilt2 dies I may be forced to switch...

Sad.. I liked the old system... and with a good device such as the TP2 (Tilt2) it is amazingly capable

sorry for such a run on but gawd I can't believe I waited all this time for THIS!!!