The little devil in me would like to see Microsoft burn. The little angel in me knows that a third big mobile OS will be good for competition. I guess I hope Windows Phone does well, but not too well :)
If someone can suggest a handset that has better navigation with zero cost, has a battery life like the 720 (2 days EASILY), is silky smooth, has an IMAP client that isn't a piece of shit, is available SIM free for under £200, has perfect Exchange integration, never crashes and can withstand being dropped hundreds of times then I'll switch.
Oh and Nokia build quality: these things are like Nokia 3310s - you can throw them across the room, drop them from full head height and they still work flawlessly with no breaks (I've tried it).
Not one single Android, BB, Firefox or iOS device can actually do all that, which is my problem.
You stand corrected :)
well that's certainly more original than having an apple sticker on your car
I'm not for reference.
Right now, we will be able to install Ubuntu in Android phones, but with less hardware for the same task.
I love the UX of Windows Phone but what has kept me from getting a WP8 device for myself is the lack of an SSH client as configurable as JuiceSSH for Android or PuTTY for Symbian (as far as I'm aware). Is there one fit for a UNIX die-hard? The killer feature of JuiceSSH for me (which was a major reason why I decided to stay on Android) is transparent SSH hopping.
Another, lesser, concern is the lack text reflow in IE but I think we can expect that to be addressed soon. It's one of the top feature requests.
I switch on the WiFi hotspot on the device and use PuTTY on my ThinkPad instead.
As I've said in a previous HN thread on WP8 (edit: [1]), now that Android devices with QWERTY keyboards are being phased out it could be a real opportunity for Windows Phone if Microsoft encouraged vendors to ship devices with physical keyboards. How viable a market this is, I wonder? I imagine past Nokia Eseries users (like myself) would appreciate it, as should at least some of the enterprise Blackberry users Microsoft seems after.
Edit: As for running an SSH server on a phone, I run one on a Palm Pre Plus that I've set up for use exclusively as a portable wireless flash drive / file server with a Debian chroot. It's also convenient to have on a Pre because much of UI in webOS consists of regular HTML and JavaScript files you can edit with vim/nano to do things like adding extra settings for how long the phone stays running when not given user input (you want to be able to set this value high on a server).
I had the Lumia 920 but sold it when Microsoft betrayed my trust. Installed Mint Linux and phasing out the godawful Windows 8 too.
Goes nice with a tinfoil hat.