[racedog]

I don't know if Windows Phone 7 is doomed or not but I think even if it does manage to survive its going to be a very rocky road ahead for it and MS is going to have to be willing to support and subsidize it for years.

I was an avid WinMo fan and user for years, starting way back when XDA (now HTC) put out their first phones. I lived with it because alternatives really didn't exist that could do what it could do.

Finally, in 2009 I switched to an iPhone. It was a nice phone but not really for me and I hated the ATT service so I switched to VZW and bought an HTC Imagio. The minute I started working with it I remembered why I was tired of the whole WinMO deal and replaced it with my first Android, an HTC Incredible. Android was just maturing and it had its share of niggling little issues but the phone was fast, usable and did 99 percent of what I needed it to do.

I won't say that I will never return to Windows Phone but its not going to happen with WinPhone 7 unless they make major additions and changes to it that make it better than what I'm running now which is the Moto Droid X, a really sweet, fast, nice device.

I didn't find the switch to droid all that difficult. Is it as intuitive as the iphone? No, it isn't but in the bargain it is also NOT a walled off device like the iphone and now WinPhone 7.

In the future I will do just as I have in the past, I will buy whatever suits my needs best and still provides a little techno fun and right now that doesn't include Windows Phone 7 - not even a little bit.

R