Windows Phone 7

I've always been a fan of my iPhone. It's done everything well, and when tethering was enabled, I was able to do my job from anywhere (as long as my 15lb boat anchor of a dell vostro could be hiked along with me). I've found myself working from under a tree near the river or in a secluded park while doing some code reviews.

Regardless, the iPhone and I have gotten along splendidly. But looking at the CTP release and Mix10 videos of WP7, I'm stoked. It's the first phone to come along since August 2008 (the month my iPhone and I met!) that really gets me excited.

Android never excited me, it was cool, it was well engineered, but there was no emotional response. This is where I think big ol' Microsoft has their $hit together. The WP7 looks amazing. It's clean, simple, elegant and well integrated. Having started to build a WP7 application with my team, and finding out it's easy as heck to develop on (to a certain degree, the CTP is still missing some key elements to really make life simple) but C# and WPF (Silverlight subset) are a breeze compared to the obtuse and almost confusing objective C iPhone approach.

Anyways, I'll put the technical details into our team's blog the mobile experience.

Final thought: WP7 is cool, I'm excited to see it, and if the price is right, features good enough, you might just find my iPhone going on Ebay... She's been a good friend. But you know what they say: "When the love is gone..." buy a new phone ;)

Things are getting Nutty!

My day job is getting kinda busy. But good busy.

Right now I'm just starting to run three concurrent projects all building the same application on three different mobile platforms. It's an experiment, and it's fun.

Android (Java), iPhone (Objective C) and Windows Phone 7 (C# and Silverlight).

Each of them are unique, have their own craziness but also their challenges. I'll post some updates soon. But We'll be talking about it, and talking about it lots. I'll post some links to the new blog ASAP for anyone out there listening.