Windows Phone 7

Having had a phone 7 for a few days now and I thought I would share some thoughts on the platform, My overall feeling is 99% good, the office integration is great and the UI is delightful. The developer experience is fantastic.

The LG offer of free applications is amazing and Flowers is just a great game.

but as ever with a new device some nice to have features or oddities.

For Reference here they are, but honestly the phone is worth it

The MAC address for WiFi needs to be shown so it can easily be added to a locked down network

Certificate Management – none to be had as far as I can see, bad if you are sat behind Threat Management Gateway on WiFi.

The app store should show you which apps you already have, I know I should know, but I have jet lag

Lack of tethering

The lack of good ring tones (customisable) is just weird, i know it is old fashioned but I like a phone to sound like one. When I hear a nursery rhyme being sick in the corner of the room I know my phone is ringing is not the experience I was expecting.

Would like to be able to have multiple front panels to organise things more

Don’t like the fact that all my people have been imported and I can’t remove them (without deleting them) from Live. This must be a bug. Alternatively the ability to hide or categorise contacts would solve the problem.

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