Round-Up of Windows Phone 7 Reviews

With the announcement of Windows Phone 7 on Monday, I compiled a few reviews and selected quotes from the articles that have review the new platform.  It appears Windows Phone 7 has a lot of positive potential.  

Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview — Engadget:

What we’ve been presented with here doesn’t exactly feel like a complete mobile operating system in many ways. Some parts of Windows Phone 7 are more like a wireframe — an interesting design study, an example of what a next-gen phone platform could be. That’s both good and bad. On one side, we’re still really excited by the prospect of Metro as a viable, clean-slate approach to the mobile user experience, and there are lots of smart moves being made that could lead to greatness. On the other side, Microsoft has to turn this into a viable retail product that can hang with the fiercest competition in the history of the cellphone in just a few months’ time, and there are some serious issues that need to be addressed. Frankly, it’s a little scary.

Windows Phone 7: first review – Telegraph:

Windows Phone 7 is the slickest, most impressive version of Windows on a mobile phone that Microsoft has yet produced. But that’s not saying much – and even if the actual quality of the operating system has much to recommend it, it offers little that will revolutionise the very crowded smartphone market.

Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything Is Different Now – Gizmodo:

Windows Phone 7 is also something completely new for Microsoft: A total break from the past. Windows Mobile isn’t just dead, the body’s been dumped, buried and paved over by a rainbow brick road.

Windows Phone 7: An In-depth Look at the Features and Interface – PCWorld:

If you’re familiar with the Zune HD‘s user interface, you’ll feel right at home with Windows 7. Microsoft hinted that the Zune and Windows Mobile teams were working closely and you can definitely see this relationship in Series 7. The menus and interface have the same fluid animations and clean typeface as the Zune HD’s.