[ugh]

Emphasizing speed misses qualities people actually love about Windows Phone 7 by miles. Only someone who is disconnected from or unfamiliar with the product will come up with stuff like that.

There is the stark and fresh design that (independently of whatever merits it might have) makes other mobile operating systems look old. There is the cohesiveness of the experience that even makes iOS look like it doesn’t know what it wants to be. There is the integration with Facebook that makes the phone personal without having to do anything†.

All those are things actual people praised about Windows Phone 7. Not speed in some highly constrained scenarios.

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† If you use Facebook a lot. This might shock some people on HN, but most people who also can buy a smartphone do.

[onemoreact]

Can you be more specific? I found Windows Phone 7 to be terrible as in worse than Android, iPhone, and Blackberry bad. The tile interface falls down vary quickly and the app store is a ghost town.

[Yhippa]

How is WP7 worse than the others? How does the tile interface "fall down"?