Well put, I too purchased the phone and I am very happy with it so far. I will admitt that I did not own any sort of smart phone prior to my purchase, but I did have a very 'smart' dumb phone and I have friends and family who do have iOS and Android devices, so they are not compleaty forign. Also, I am a computer science student, so a know at least a little bit about software development and can speek that Win Phone 7 is very polished, quick and functional.
Office integration is great! I can open all those.doc and.docx as well as excel attachments in my email directly on my phone.
A grip I have is that the call log is not the most clear at a glance, but the live tile compensates for this I guess.
The app store is still in its infantancy, but I expect it will grow.
I purchased the phone on day one not because I am a fanboy to Microsoft, but because I liked demos of the OS, especially the UI. I am noticing that alot of people are hung up about the lack of a few features that Apple and Google currently offer, and to these points I want to reiterate that Microsoft as psomised that they will be coming in the form of updates. Before buying, I read ALOT of the early reviews of the phone, and most everyone was pleasently surprized as they all expected Windows Mobile 7 a successor to 6.5, but rather they got Windows Phone 7, a compleatly different OS. One last point, it does bring several new things to the table, and I think my favorite is the integration of Microsoft Word and Excel (I have not used the one note app yet). As a college student I am constantly getting emails with attachments of these very kind, and it is super useful to beable to open and edit them on my phone (when they are not too long).
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Well put, I too purchased the phone and I am very happy with it so far. I will admitt that I did not own any sort of smart phone prior to my purchase, but I did have a very 'smart' dumb phone and I have friends and family who do have iOS and Android devices, so they are not compleaty forign. Also, I am a computer science student, so a know at least a little bit about software development and can speek that Win Phone 7 is very polished, quick and functional. Office integration is great! I can open all those .doc and .docx as well as excel attachments in my email directly on my phone.
A grip I have is that the call log is not the most clear at a glance, but the live tile compensates for this I guess.
The app store is still in its infantancy, but I expect it will grow.
I purchased the phone on day one not because I am a fanboy to Microsoft, but because I liked demos of the OS, especially the UI. I am noticing that alot of people are hung up about the lack of a few features that Apple and Google currently offer, and to these points I want to reiterate that Microsoft as psomised that they will be coming in the form of updates. Before buying, I read ALOT of the early reviews of the phone, and most everyone was pleasently surprized as they all expected Windows Mobile 7 a successor to 6.5, but rather they got Windows Phone 7, a compleatly different OS. One last point, it does bring several new things to the table, and I think my favorite is the integration of Microsoft Word and Excel (I have not used the one note app yet). As a college student I am constantly getting emails with attachments of these very kind, and it is super useful to beable to open and edit them on my phone (when they are not too long).