>the Metro UI on Window Phone 7 and the Zune HD was handsdown the best and smoothest smartphone UI I've used yet. In the face of no cut/copy/paste, no multitas

>the Metro UI on Window Phone 7 and the Zune HD was handsdown the best and smoothest smartphone UI I've used yet. In the face of no cut/copy/paste, no multitasking, no sdcard support and only MS store apps allowed - you could have made do with wallpaper of the Phone7 GUI for all the functionality you got out of it. Zune on the other hand was absolutely as good as you say. Maybe the mistake was trying to make that perfect Zune OS work on a smartphone.