Hello,
Great news!
Now I have a really awesome smartphone. I used to have a Motorola smartphone with Android 2.1, but my user experience was not so good with that device+OS. Not because Android is a bad OS, but I had Android 2.1 installed and the device from Motorola was really bad. I think if I had a newer Android version in a better smartphone my user experience would be better, but now it is too late! :)
My wife gave me for Christmas a HTC Ultimate smartphone with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and this device+OS is really GOOD. Let me tell why. I have been working with Microsoft technologies since 2001 and I know a lot about .NET development so it makes sense to have this OS. This is a Microsoft OS using .NET as its development platform, so my learning curve is shorter. (I also know Java so I think I could write apps for Android, but Windows Phone is better! And if you compare with iPhone the learning curve, at least for me, is bigger than WP because I would have to learn Objective-C, and right now I do not want that).
I think in the long run Microsoft will be the second smartphone vendor because the following reasons:
- They did it before with Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer;
- Its development platform is .NET;