I have only one real issue with the phone and it deals with the qwerty keyboard. The phone needs to rotate to use the slider keyboard on the LG Quantum. Quite a few applications do not support the rotation of the screen when the phone is rotated for keyboard usage. I'm sure it is a simple fix and the developers of Windows 7 Mobile have to address this small but non-deal breaker problem. For the most part, the screen for texting rotates when the keyboard is out and that is good. My wife is the texting queen of the US. She needs a qwerty keyboard.

I have a a lot of apps on my Android operating system and truthfully I use only less than a handful with any regularity. These same apps are offered with Windows Mobile 7. I think the OS is solid and will grow.

I think WM7 is good as well. Its some very good comments so far. Too bad its not widely available here in Denmark...hopefully Nokia can fix that ;)

With Nokia in the picture I'm believing there will be a big push from both Nokia and Microsoft in getting the OS on the phones. The apps market is not as big as Android or Apple but in due time it will be. There are fans of Windows and those that are just not wanting to jump on the Apple band wagon. It is nice to have a choice in OS available though.

Yup...the world is big enough for 3 :D

They're still standing still, despite their best efforts to appear otherwise. As someone who has spent a good chunk of the past two weeks writing software for Blackberry, I must plead with you to buy another phone. I will celebrate the day their market share drops to the point where developers can ignore them.

PD

Can somebody explain why Blackberry is so popular in the US? I guy I know got one for work and hated it - it just didnt work. Bad reception among other things

Meh, I recently got an iphone 4 and am very happy with it-first Apple product since the Apple II we had when I was a teenager. Been with M$ ever since though including my upgrade last fall to a new HP desktop with windows 7 which I am very happy with too. But hey, don't let your personal dislike of personalities like Gates and Jobs or larger corporate entities like Google prevent you from possibly enjoying some great products.

I do think competition is a good thing and have always liked Nokia phones-except the last model I had before I got the iphone last month. I may pick one up as a secondary phone-a simple model with prepaid card-for emergencies or for when family etc. come to visit to avoid roaming.

Blackberry was really introduced as a 'business phone' and was marketed as such. No one else had attempted to do this. To follow up on the idea of a business phone Blackberry loaded it with business type applications. It was at the time of inception a tool to conduct business as well as a 'status' type thing because you owned a Blackberry phone(these handsets were expensive if I remember correctly). Over time it really did become a business phone and I still see it as a business phone. The market has grown for Blackberry in the non-business types who want a phone for facebook and texting. Anyway, those that started with Blackberry have tended to stay with Blackberry over the years because they understand how it works, etc. I have a coworker who was a Blackberry user. He was switched to a Windows based phone and utterly hated it. Complained at any given moment about it. We switched him back to Blackberry. He was happy again.

This is what Blackberry basically replaced:

http://www.pocket-lint.com/images/mR...get-geek-0.jpg

God Lord I think Gordon Gekko is picking up noise from the nebula Orion!!!

Damn I miss my 'brick'. Best phone I ever owned.

HAhahahaha....

But what does it do better than other phones? Is it better at mailing, browsing, phoning, texting?

No but it makes a great piece of toast! :DL Just kidding. It is not really better than any other phone that I'm aware of but it does run it's own OS and people just get accustomed to the way things work and in doing so they stick with what they know. For my coworker navigating a new OS to just send an email was enough for him to know Blackberry was it for him. He could not stand the Windows Mobile. I like Android myself and WM7 was something I had to learn so I could show my wife how to operate it. After a day I know it inside and out. The basic concept is there with every OS truth be told.

Range !
That old phone was notorious for working where others could only dream of operating. Now that the system is digital you're tied to about 20 miles from the nearest tower.