Has anyone been following or even used a 'windows phone 7' yet? I'm kinda curious to get my hands on it. I've always been a fan of windows mobile and was quite an addict up until I finally switched to an android phone this year. My biggest though after watching videos was that the phone was to picture oriented.. all those icons are Dependant on photos... I don't exactly want to see pictures of my friends all the time! I have my android phonebook synced with my facebook contacts... it's useful and all but at least it's restricted to just the contact list and sms. I would start unfriending my ugly friends if there pictures appeared everytime I turned my phone on.
Also, worse yet... no backwards compatibility. There are some really killer applications from former versions of windows mobile such as TomTom Navigator.... not quite a google maps but it worked pretty darn well without cell signal. It's going to be a bit slow to start all over again with all new applications.
... and even worse, having to use a browser labeled as Internet explorer would suck... aleast until opera mobile or something comes out... as a web designer and geek, I would rather not have the Internet than use IE :-)
Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on and impressions (updated with video) -- Engadget
