But with no multi-tasking, backwards compatibility or COPY AND PASTE they're going the Dumbphone route, which it appears everyone wants these days, but most people are saying they've bought their last WM device.

no copy paste? My dumbphone does that lol.

Apparently it rules at PIM and Exchange support, so who knows, this could be a niche OS mainly for the corporates.

think i will stick with ma n900 lol

what a disapointment

One thing that makes no sense is that Microsoft will NOT allow ANY of the WP7 manufacturers (HTC, SAMSUNG, Sony Ericsson, LG etc...) to add custom UI on top of WP7, so now this means EVERY WP7 will be the same thing, it will be interesting to see what happens, as there will be virtualy no product differentiation. 0.o

Copy and paste seems to have been the real dealbreaker for most current WM users. They've seen people queueing up in their millions to get their hands on the liephone which is similarly dumb, and presumably want a slice of such a deliciously lucrative pie, but who on earth's going to want one? No third-party apps either apparently. Not sure where to go next now, all phones are getting stupid.

Which to a large extent mirrors society I suppose. People watch the X Factor and buy its output from iTunes, I give up.

Lol i just had to comment. d*mn garion your funny lmao you all know the phone is going to eventually have copy and past maybe in an update or much early in some hack as for third party apps..hacked..so there you go guys. You know you shouldnt worry about those stuff

Though it would be nice to have all those things preload (copy n paste, third party apps) since there coming from WiMo onwards to WP7. Seems like there trying some iphone stunt here. Would of been nice if it was open source and to tell you the truth how much of the smartphone market are they really going to get by doing this little stunt

As for the PIM thing thats apart of what there focusing on but i dont know how come you guys didnt mention GAMES. I read that there trying to make it big with a combination; WP7+ games, maybe reaching a majority of xbox user. I swear they better have something good up there sleeves but lets wait and see

Over at xda, its said there will be copy/paste. Also, rumor has it that Sense UI will be on HTC devices.

I cant really see them releasing it without the copy n paste feature, esp as nearly every phone has this feature implemented somehow already, thats just too backwards or maybe just an oversight??

Nah, it's kinda deliberate, they're banging on about some spanky new system they've got for copying phone numbers internally, 'cos that's all people REALLY WANNA DO.. connect to smegging Twitter and Facebook - 'boyfriends and ponies and myspace dot com..' terrifying. Search for Windows Phone Copy and Paste and you'll see what I mean.

But that's a good point @jclarks - there was no copy and paste on early WM models, but there was a third-party app developed (Vito copy and paste) so it might not be as awful as it sounds at first.

blood Opera Mini - even the .cab version has some of the quirks of it's java progenitors - I've just accidentally sent you a bud request @jclarks, please ignore it, I've never done the bud thing and never will, I do apologise.

copy and paste will come with future updates.the guys over at mobinauts reckon the UI is breathtaking.do you guys think windows phone 7 will fail?(given time).....a lot tells me it can't and won't

Its too early to say as there are some highly impressive things being said and others not so great. If they do this right it maybe a huge success, and that XBOX part will surely excite gaming enthusiasts, MS have the resources, lets hope implementation is done correctly.

I do hope you're right photon - hi by the way, haven't seen you for a while perhaps I've been reading too much doom-mongering. I really want there to be a genuinely SMART OS out there - I'm constantly staggered by the stuff my humble Touch Dual can do, the ludicrous simplicity of push email via Activesync, the near Photoshop performance of Pocket Artist, the 80 or so excellent .cab games.. I want this to continue.

i think your correct in presuming wp7 have little appeal to you...and me as it happens. Ms are going with the flow. A nice ui, good browser and thousands of not very functional apps is all most users seem to want. I'm enjoying android but winmo was very good...apps were sterile in comparsion with androids but bizarrely more functional..still nothing to rival pocket artist,softmaker office etc.copy and paste isn't as good either.strange world