Editorial: Engadget on Windows Phone 7 Series — Engadget.
The phone geek at Engadget are really excited about MS getting up on their hind legs and actually releasing what looks like an interesting mobile OS. They rewrote the whole thing from the ground up. It’s about time.
My last taste of a MS mobile OS was WinMo 6.1 on a T-Mo Shadow I got for the wife. The hardware platform was OK, nothing spectacular. The OS managed to both suck and blow at the same time. It was annoying, obtuse and ugly. When I got my first iPhone shortly thereafter it was like night and day, in terms of ease of use and polish.
It’s likened to the Motorola WebOS release, where a long time player totally jettisons an aging OS. It’s a big risk, but they really didn’t have a choice. Another incremental upgrade would have relegated them to irrelevance in the mobile market. Android, WebOS and iPhone OS X hasd truly left them in the dust.
