My buddy Andy from Microsoft showed me how it works. Very cool. Much prettier than iPhone. And astonishingly different than iPhone.

Kudos.

Normally infamously slow to market, with this software, Microsoft is early.

Microsoft has locked up Nokia. The two mega-corporations will partner starting with a handset codenamed ‘Sea Ray‘.

Click PLAY or watch a Mango promo on YouTube.

… On the other hand, the Molly Rant Mango review was lukewarm, at best:

… it’s the end of my second week of life with Windows Phone 7 Mango, and it’s time to render a verdict. I should say at the outset that two weeks doesn’t sound a lot of time to live with an entirely new platform, and I might have lasted longer but for serious problems with the HTC Trophy I’ve been using (one-day record for spontaneous reboots: 15, including three in 15 minutes). …

So, what’s the verdict? It’s like, but it’s not love. This is not going to be my next smartphone. …

Read more: Cnet

I still think the phone market will shake down to 3 strong options in this order:

1) Android
2) Apple
3) Windows

Google bought Motorola mobile for $12.5 billion. This way they’ll have more control over the hardware, as Apple does.

Blackberry may hold on to some niche business market.

HP has killed their webOS Phones and TouchPad. Too bad. … That platform could a bin a contendah.