This is the most positive review I've read, in fact, the only positive review I've seen for Windows Phone 7 (all the others were scathingly negative). The shortcomings and missing features are squeezed into one small section at the end of the review.
I list the Windows Phone 7 shortcomings as follows:
?Only one web browser (IE)
?No sockets (for networking)
?No Voice-over-IP (eg no Skype / no Fring)
?No tethering
?LiveSync doesn't work
?Apps can't access compass
?Apps can't access video camera
?Software SDK unfinished, so developers can only write simple apps
?Plus the usual no multitasking or copy-paste.
Microsoft says you don't need apps. That can be translated to mean it's a walled-garden. A closed platform. Much more closed than iPHone, as Microsoft hampers 3rd party developers by denying apps access to faster native code.
The clunky interface combined with missing features will make Windows Phone 7 fail, just like its cousin Kin.
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