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Windows Phone 7: An End-User’s Loves and Loathes by Brie Stampe 10 Loves Loathes 3 for renewal, and each employee had a choice to make — iPhone or BlackBerry (Torch or Curve). Most folks were ready to turn in their old beat- up BlackBerry device for anything new and shiny, but I had already been testing the iPhone 3GS for more than 10 months by then. As much as I loved the cool apps and games, I was constantly struggling with the iPhone’s business and productivity limitations — particularly with the keyboard, phone quality and battery life. F As a typical end-user, I’m a mobile worker: • I read and edit documents on the road. • I take important calls from just about anywhere I can get a signal. • My inbox and calendars are critical to my daily success, both personally and professionally. • I collaborate with no fewer than four people at any given time and often many more. • I live in a Microsoft world by day and a Facebook world by night. • I have contacts scattered across Outlook, LinkedIn, Facebook and various spreadsheets. Whatever smartphone I use needs to be smart enough to allow me to bring all the functionality and accessibility I have in the office with me when I’m on the road. I wasn’t crazy about the iPhone, but I couldn’t bring myself to go back to a BlackBerry, so with Microsoft’s grand promises of Office and SharePoint integration in mind, I asked to trade in my iPhone 3GS for the Samsung Focus model with the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. Knowing that others at the firm and in the legal industry may eventually go in the same direction, I started to keep a list of personal “loves and loathes.” Note that at the time I was writing this article, I was on first generation software and eagerly awaiting Microsoft’s upgrade, promised in March, which will include functionality such as Copy and Paste. 66 www.iltanet.org Peer to Peer our months ago, I traded in my company iPhone for the brand new Windows Phone 7 on a leap of faith (with a 30-day return safety net). Our company’s mobile contract was up