[jerryyyyy]

Well, I cannot avoid a bit of a rant here as I have been following Windows Phone 7 carefully via Paul Thurott and Windows Weekley. I just got a new laptop so started exploring the various options of synching my mail, calendar and music.

I have come to the conclusions that synching is a whole lot easier on Android and iPhone that what is being proposed with WP7. As far as I can tell your only option with WP7 is to have your Calender on Live and synch from that (does not go in the opposite direction). Also I guess you have to buy into Zune and somehow synch your music collections via that.

How does all this cloud stuff work when you are say in an airplane and offline?

I guess my next phone will have to be android. I refuse to get stuck in the manipulations of either Apple or MS. For the time being, I'll keep going with my TP2, which is giving me basically no trouble with WM 6.5.

Rant, rant, rant....