I've been a .NET developer for 8 years and currently do all my work in Silverlight and WPF. I've started messing around with the the final build of the WP7 dev tools and since they're fully integrated into Visual Studio 2010, they're an absolute joy. My Verizon contract isn't up until April which seems to be perfect…

@zelannii: People said the same thing about Android when it first came out (that it would fail miserably). Like with any technology, major players hold off on "support" until a critical mass is achieved. I saw this with DVD and Blu-Ray. Some of the best content (movies) didn't exist until years after the technology…

@zelannii: of course, the big FAIL here is Microsoft should have allowed for external storage. I'm still not sure why they didn't, unless it had to do with application security.

@zelannii: you somewhat validate my point though. I think Microsoft's perspective is you could eliminate 9GB of music, all of your podcasts and your photo albums since all that stuff would exist "in the cloud" and could be streamed "on demand". True, apps take up space and recording video will chew up space until…

Folks are saying that 8GB isn't much for a multimedia phone, but if most of the content played is received via streaming, 8 GB seems like overkill to me (a current ZunePass subscriber).