Windows Phone 7: When will it be here?

Can anyone explain to me why there is this fascination with cell phone OS's? If it is important why is it never mentioned in any of the promotional material?
 
Microsoft has messed up the previous mobile phone OS releases. There desire to "take over the world" is a mistake. If the stick to cocking up one platform (desktop/sever) and do that right but NO windows must be every freaking where. I personally will not touch a M$ OS mobile phone.
 
Agreed bex.cpt .. though the window isn't closing fast. Its closed full stop. Besides a few MS loyalists I don't see this device even competing.
 
Mobile phones aren't like the desktop. The average contract user gets a new one every 24 months. Microsoft has the money to sweeten the deal for mobile manufacturers and more than enough bucks for a huge marketing campaign. If it is decent then people will buy it. The average person will buy anything that looks cool and has no idea whether his/her phone is running Android, Symbian, WinMo etc. They only know it looks cool, is easy to use etc.
 
When Mobile 7 was talked about at the World Mobile Conference in Barcelona it was designed to compete with Apple, Android & Blackberry. Smartphones are generally expensive but like alot of technology in South Africa it is becoming affordable to the consumer in the South Africa market. There are applications which run on these smartphones with different operating systems that are really amazing and make life easier. Whilst mobile phones are not desktops they do help us when we are not in front of a desktop to execute different functions.
 
Windows Phone 7 will be a success.

If you are using Microsoft Windows 7 as your laptop/desktop operating system, you want your phone to work/sync seamlessly with your pc - and Microsoft will make sure of that. Even with the crappy Windows Vista, I was impressed with the sync tool Microsoft provided for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. It just worked and worked really well.

Same goes for users with iPhones - Apple said most of their new Mac customers are people who bought iPhones and then moved over from PCs to Macbooks/iMacs.

Android OS = Any OS and definitely a move to Linux. I actually saw a YouTube video of a dude that plugged his HTC Evo 4G into his Ubuntu 10.04 pc, the OS picked up the phone perfectly and then it was just a case of drag-and-drop to move files between his pc and his phone. Not sure how the contacts/address book sync works between Evolution/Thunderbird and the Android phones.
 
Are we "well and truly into the second half of the year" as the article states?
Kingrob: Your logic is a little flawed any phone can be plugged into Ubuntu and files can be transferred (surely you've heard of mass storage mode?). Also most phones can work as modems on Ubuntu without any drivers or setup. It has nothing to do with android.
 
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I sync my iphone with my Windows 7 pc - no problem, and no intentions of replacing my pc with a mac.

Windows phone 7 has ALOT to live up to. After M$'s BIG FAIL with 6.5 I doubt M$ will see my support again.
 
I would not call it a fail at all. People call Symbian a failure all the time but is still has the biggest market share and it is still on the majority of handsets being sold. It is reached perfection and is now going open. Windows Phone 7 looks promising and it does have more years of experience than Android.
 
Android outclasses the win 7 fone any day, the fone never needs a restart, with 2.2 Froyo comming out the HTC is going to rock the world once again. Android does everything, but windows...but then again when you got an Android who needs windows, esp with their reputation. :D
 
Win 7 hasn't been released. Saying Android outclasses it is groundless speculation.

Nokia may still have the greatest marketshare but their share is shrinking.
 
Sure Nokia's share is shrinking, but not by as much as many people predicted and not because it is a weaker offering than other options.
 
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