Interesting listen, and closely mirrors my own experience. * The UI is very responsive on pre-release hardware. I've been told that the released version will b

Interesting listen, and closely mirrors my own experience. * The UI is very responsive on pre-release hardware. I've been told that the released version will be faster. * The keyboard is very nice. One feature that I noticed is that if you hold down the letter key, you get accented versions of that same key. Makes it much easier to type résumé instead of resume. I can't compare it in over-all usability to other smart phones as I haven't lived day in day out with a smart phone. * The way applications are organized is interesting. Instead of merely having a mongo huge list of apps, apps can also register themselves in app hubs. So applications that manipulate photos will show up under your photos, applications that deal with music show up there, etc. I'm not totally sold on this, but it seems like a good idea. * Development for WP7 in silverlight is shockingly easy. And silverlight on WP7 runs super fast. Actually runs faster on the device than on my beefy desktop in emulator. * There isn't yet an easy way to handle deploying WP7 phones in an enterprise, but I was told that this will be addressed later. There was only so much they could do before this launch though. I'm in the market for a smart phone, and after handling the WP7 phones I am sold. It is better than Android, and in my opinion at least as good as the iPhone.