Smartphones a-go-go

[Lemur]

I got smartphones on the brain. Ars Technica just did a three-month perspective on using the Windows 7 phone; the iPhone just moved (in a crippled CDMA form) to Verizon; and we should be seeing Android 3 sometime this year (which is mostly for tablets, but still). Much motion and commotion. Oh, and I hear there's another major phone OS called Elderberry or Cranberry or something.

Anyway, here's my thoughts:

• My brother (bona fide geek) and several friends are on iPhone and loving it. No complaints.
• Several geek buddies are on Android and loving it. A non-techie neighbor, however, has an Android and "can't figure it out." Hmmm.
• I don't know anybody with a Windows 7 phone, and I'd be curious to hear how non-geeks are taking to it.

What's your experience, your thoughts? Where is this headed? I'm kind of Google's catamite, so I'm very pro-Android, but I'm interested to hear where Orgahs stand.

I also believe today is the two-year anniversary of an Orgah who shall remain unnamed (couhg whacker cough) declaring in this forum that netbooks would never find a niche because they serve no purpose, and the one-year anniversary of another Orgah declaring that nobody would want a tablet. You know who you are, both of you. I would like to take this moment to say, in my most authoritative voice, "Nanny-nanny boo-boo."

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And for the record, I do not own a fancy phone. I use whatever they can spare from work. I loves me them phones, but I can't stomach the monthly plans. Now if someone would invent a portable wifi Skype phone that would do everything I like for free, that would be a different kettle of silicon.