Reviews For Windows Phone 7 Are Out: Consensus Is Good First Attempt

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series Unveiled at MWC 2010

The reviews are out for the upcoming slew of Windows Phone 7 devices that are ready to hit the market in November, and the key takeaway is this: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has built an attractive new platform, but it’s in its first iteration and therefore missing some of the key ingredients that people have come to expect from fully baked smartphones today. A round-up of the reviews after the jump…

WSJ’s Walt Mossberg: The UI is nice, but the phone is missing key features, like “copy and paste, visual voicemail, multitasking of third-party apps, and the ability to do video calling and to use the phone to connect other devices to the Internet.” The app market place is also a little light with only an expected 1,000 at launch. [Read more.]

PCMag’s Sascha Seagan: Seagan writes “buying into Windows Phone 7 is taking a gamble that Microsoft will sand away the rough edges quickly.” [Read more.]

SlashGear’s Vincent Nguyen: In his review of the Samsung Focus, he characterized the flow of the UI “satisfying, with menus, dialogs and apps all loading and transitioning quickly…It

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