I have been very excited about the prospects of Windows Phone 7 since it was first talked about my Microsoft. With the OS coming to Verizon very soon, I now have to decide to try or wait.
In the Smartphone OS battle, no other company is better prepared than MSFT for the greater market forces which will begin to shift the landscape as corporations shift away from Blackberry toward better integrated OSes. Throw Nokia’s footprint into the mix, and you have a pretty compelling story for why MS will carve out a good sized chunk of the smartphone market.
While I am on AT&T currently with my iPhone 4, I have moved partially to Verizon since my wife and daughter have tons of trouble with dropped calls on AT&T (I don’t have as many problems, but maybe I have just gotten used to it). They love their iPhone 4s. So I am now considering a Verizon phone, and definitely wanted to move from iOS to WP7 (moving to Android gives me nothing since I don’t use Google Apps, Gmail, Google*, etc., I am a business user who cares about music and movies).
Now I hear the HTC Trophy is coming to Verizon May 26; I may just try one out to see how well it works and maybe keep one, although I am sure about the validity of the limitations I have read:
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- Does it really only have 8 GB of memory and is upgradeable?
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- No front facing camera…in fact, does WP7 even support front facing cameras yet?
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- Is Verizon’s data network fast enough (my iPad 2 is on Verizon and it is definitely slower than AT&T)
