6 weeks in, my #windowsphone update

24 December 2010 #

It is about 6 weeks and here is my update on my windows phone.

Two most common questions/gaps first: have not missed multitasking yet
because of most of the apps being able to tombstone while inactive,
and have missed copy/paste once when I wanted to tweet a link.

Having said that, I am really happy with the rate at which apps are
being added, and am hopeful that the bigger missing properties like
ESPN and Amazon will come soon with their version of the WP7 apps.

In the past ten days, I have walked through this phone with about 20
people who had never seen a Windows Phone before, some of whom had
heard about it, and some of whom are already heavy Blackberry users.
It was unanimous that the phone rocks. All of them were impressed with
the Focus' screen, and how snappy the phone was. Not too many "got"
Metro but all of them appreciated the aggregation (hubs) idea and how
Facebook is deeply integrated into the phone.

Cherry on top was the Zune Pass, unlimited, on-demand streaming of music.

Here is a list of the apps I have on the phone as of today:

Adobe Reader
AP Mobile
App Reviews
AT&T My Wireless
AT&T U-Verse Mobile
Beezz
Bollywood Beats
Breaking News
Cocktail Flow
Color Sprouts
Craigs7 Pro
Cricket World Cup
Directv
Facebook
Fandango
Flickr Manager
Flixster
FML
Foursquare
GasBuddy
Graphic.ly
gReadie
History Here
HollywoodsHottest
HSN Shop App
Huffington Post
Iheartradio
IMDb
KAYAK
Last.fm
Lyrics
Metro Web Browser
Mira TV
MSN Money Stocks
MSN Movies
MyChannel9
Netflix
Now (Samsung app)
Photo Sharing (Samsung app)
Photogram (Samsung app)
Piano 7
PODCASTS!
Project Emporia
Retrevo
Scores
Seesmic
Send to WP7
Shazam
ShopSavvy
Slacker
Sound Recorder
Tag Reader
TED
Top Cities 2011
Travelocity
TWiT
Twitter
UStream Viewer
Valpak
weather
Weatherbug
Where
Wipolo
Wordpress
Xkcd
Yelp
YouTube
Lazy YouTube
National Geographic Atlas