Anyone excited for windows phone 7?

I've been on WinMo for years and 7 leaves me cold. I was happily enough putting up with WinMo's horrible interface (which was less of a problem due to my phone's awesome 6-row physical keyboard), it's ridiculous slowness and its lack of customizability, because in exchange I was getting full multitasking, a decent mobile version of Office included free in the ROM, and a decent developer community (not as huge as the Android and iPhone dev communities, but I'm more interested in mobile ports of Nethack and SCUMMvm than in a new flashy Twitter app, which seems to be what the Android market is mostly populated with:p).

7 takes away the multitasking, takes away the ability to run native code (so lots of developers have fled in disgust), and will probably be locked down tighter than an iPhone so you won't be able to install all the cool little homebrew apps that those people used to make. It feels like Microsoft is abandoning people like me and going after all the bleating, screaming, tweeting, facebooking teenagers, all because they're a cooler and hipper demographic.

Joke's on them though, cause they're basically trying to steal iOS's core audience, but iOS has moved on from being the paranoically locked-shut OS it started out as: they're allowing limited multitasking, and have opened up lots more APIs for developers to use that they previously only kept for internal Apple coders. WP7 is like iOS 2 versions ago, and I reckon they're gonna fall flat on their face when all the screaming teenagers fail to be wooed by it, and then they'll wish they hadn't abandoned their small but loyal demographic of more serious users. People like me will move to Android, RIM (and, eventually, Meego and WebOS 2.0 if Nokia and HP pull their thumbs out).
 
haroon said:
It's been confirmed in a trustedreview article that windows mobiel 7 will have tethering from the start.
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Did you not read my pst and link, the one above the post you quoted?:p

Unless MS have changed their mind in the last 24 hours tethering won't be available at least from launch.
 
Amp34 said:
Did you not read my pst and link, the one above the post you quoted?:p

Unless MS have changed their mind in the last 24 hours tethering won't be available at least from launch.
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http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/news/2010/09/24/Windows-Phone-7-To-Natively-Support-Tethering/p1

Explains here that it doe's support it and trutedreviews is very reliable for information so i think your wrong on this.

But like the other guy said it's not like even if it is in there that your network will support it,at least without a high price and a low usage policy.
 
There was a post about 6 hours before stating what Trusted Reviews said, then the post I linked to above was posted. TR obviously did what Engadget did and post that tethering would be supported (dependent on carrier) but TR don't seem to have got wind of the backtrack.

In other words the latest news is that engadget post I linked to.:)

So apparently no possibllity of teathering at launch, even if the providers would allow it.


EDIT: Posted on 23rd at 5pm

Windows Phone 7 has tethering support, up to carriers whether to enable it
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/23/...ther-to?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_engadget

(essentially the TR article)

Posted on 24th at 1pm

Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 actually doesn't support tethering
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/24/microsoft-windows-phone-7-actually-doesnt-support-tethering/
 
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Some key points from the GSM Arena review:

Key features:

* Premium mobile OS (high minimum hardware requirements)
* Clean, uncluttered interface with distinctive design language
* Easy and thumbable user interface
* Smooth operation with cool animations and transition effects
* A fresh start with no legacy support needed
* Backed up and developed by one of the largest software companies in the world
* Excellent MS Office mobile implementation
* Top-notch social integration
* Excellent cloud services integration (SkyDrive, Windows Live, Xbox Live)
* Wireless syncing of multimedia content

Main disadvantages:

* No system-wide file manager
* No videocalling
* Limited third-party apps
* No Bluetooth file transfers
* No USB mass storage mode
* No memory card support
* No multitasking
* No copy paste
* Too dependent on Zune software for computer file management and syncing
* No music player equalisers
* No Flash or Silverlight support in the web browser
* No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
* No DivX/XviD video support
* No tethering over USB/Bluetooth

How often did Microsoft release updates for WinMo?
 
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